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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 3d

Bianca Lewis, Exec Dir of the #OpenSearch Foundation, landed a highlight in Forbes. RAG is reshaping AI systems that retrieve, contextualize, and tailor outputs. OpenSearch provides the #opensource, vendor-neutral engine for search, analytics, and vector-powered AI.

www.forbes.com/sites/adrian...

How RAG Continues To ‘Tailor’ Well-Suited AI

As AI evolves from general-purpose tools to specialized copilots and assistants, the combination of RAG and vector search has, for many, seen it become foundational.

www.forbes.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 29d

Great talk by Jonathan Corbet from OSS EU - Three Decades in Kernelland - a great history showing the mistakes and threats to #Linux and #opensource - and the learnings and resiliency.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2L...

Three Decades in Kernelland - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

YouTube video by The Linux Foundation

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 28

What's new in #Valkey 9? Ridiculously fast innovation from the #opensource community incl Multiple DBs in clusters, atomic slot migration, and expiration on hash field items.

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Keyspace, the #valkey #opensource event

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 28

CERN experiments generate 1PB/s of data! They filter that data using ML and AI and manage it all with #opensource software. You may recognize some of these logos.

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Patch, patch, patch even with #opensource. "CISA warns of actively exploited Git code execution flaw"
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

CISA warns of actively exploited Git code execution flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of hackers exploiting an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Git distributed version control system.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today we announce DocumentDB has joined the LF with support from Microsoft, AWS and many more. Check it out.

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Aug 15

In the midst of COVID I decided to fill my travel-free time by starting a Masters in #Cybersecurity at Harvard. I'm working on a final capstone project and my team is looking at building a risk scoring sytem for AI models. If you care about #AI model risk, please participate:

lnkd.in/gZYMeeDE

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jul 22

The US really needs national data privacy regulation.

www.pcworld.com/article/2854...

A U.S. startup is selling your hacked, stolen data to anyone with $50 | PCWorld

An exposé details how anyone with a credit card can get easy access to a huge database of stolen personal information, sold in the open.

www.pcworld.com

Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jul 21

SJVN's original article leading me down this path is at www.zdnet.com/article/linu...

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

www.zdnet.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jul 21

What is the #Linux -based client operating system market share? I was reading SJVN's write up on ZDNET and noticed that if you look beyond "desktop" in the US data at analytics.usa.gov, Linux-based operating sytems are actually over 25% of the clients accessing US federal websites.

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jul 3

A Higgs-bugson in the #Linux Kernel #NFS implementation.

blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugs... #opensource

Jane Street Blog - A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...

blog.janestreet.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jul 3

A big welcome to Agent2Agent as the community shifts to open governance.

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cl...

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation - Google Developers Blog

Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

developers.googleblog.com

Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jun 23

A big welcome to Agent2Agent as the community shifts to open governance.

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cl...

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation - Google Developers Blog

Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

developers.googleblog.com

Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jun 20

Mikeal was an expert collaborator. When we would discuss something, he'd throw out an "impossible idea" and then talk himself into a path by working with a few of the right people. And then he'd set off and do it. Mikeal was a force that defied Newton's 3rd law. He will be missed by many.

OpenJS Foundation @openjsf.org · Jun 20

We’re deeply saddened to mark the passing of Mikeal Rogers after a courageous fight with cancer.

Mikeal wasn’t just a leader in the open source world. He was a connector, a builder of community, and someone who showed up for others in meaningful ways.

Thank you, Mikeal 💚 hubs.la/Q03s_C7G0

In Memory of Mikeal Rogers: A Builder of Communities | OpenJS Foundation

It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Mikeal Rogers, a leader, builder, and advocate for open source communities and for the people who power them.

hubs.la

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jun 6

"The #opensource community" demands contributors step up and lead through tough times and chart a path forward. I'm so excited to see the #WordPress community has passionate leadership who today unveiled the FAIR.pm package manager. Watch the exciting announce here:

www.youtube.com/live/IOsOAsb...

fairpm

fairpm has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

FAIR.pm

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jun 6

"The #opensource community" demands contributors step up and lead through tough times and chart a path forward. I'm so excited to see the #WordPress community has passionate leadership who today unveiled the FAIR.pm package manager. Watch the exciting announce here:

www.youtube.com/live/IOsOAsb...

YouTube

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is very impressive, and disruptive of current #AI architectures. It feels like the disruption timescale is not years, but weeks. Secure enclaves on a cloud hosted GPU system with local LLM processing is a huge opportunity. I'm also a huge user+fan of Ollama

ollama.com/blog/securem...

Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models · Ollama Blog

Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.

ollama.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · May 23

This is a great interview with GregKH on corporate involvement in the #Linux kernel and #opensource. He goes in depth on justifying working upstream and how it made him a better engineer.

youtu.be/DZzFG_zhFnY?...

Greg Kroah-Hartman - Corporate Involvement in the Linux Kernel | My Open Source Experience Podcast

YouTube video by My Open Source Experience

youtu.be

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · May 22

Redis relicensed (under AGPL, which many cannot use). Valkey project, a Redis fork and still under an #opensource BSD license, continues to thrive in adoption and community at @linuxfoundation.org. Read more about what's next for Valkey:

www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/a... @valkeyio.bsky.social

A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis

Interview: Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

www.theregister.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · May 13

"The Microsoft #opensource #SBOM Tool now supports hashtag #SPDX 3.0!"

www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian... #cybersecurity

GitHub - microsoft/sbom-tool: The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and… | Adrian Diglio

The #Microsoft #opensource #SBOM Tool now supports #SPDX 3.0! Huge kudos to John Wade and team for the work they've done to make this possible. Today, the tool still produces SPDX 2.2 by default ...

www.linkedin.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Apr 12

Great interview with Linus by Taylor Blau at @[email protected] on the history of #opensource git.

github.blog/open-source/...

Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds

To celebrate two decades of Git, we sat down with Linus Torvalds—the creator of Git and Linux—to discuss how it forever changed software development.

github.blog

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Apr 11

www.zdnet.com/article/linu... #opensource

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years | ZDNET

Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.

www.zdnet.com

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · Apr 3

The penguins of the uninhabited (by humans) Heard and McDonald Islands have issued a short statement denouncing tariffs imposed on them today and advocating for #opensource software and open markets.

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