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https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/ via https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116448188069484288 (2026-04-22) – not recent, but it's news to me. From today's post about last month's Ottawa FreeBSD Developer Summit: Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security AI has entered the chat A frame from Winser's presentation: [image: 1785197784883-9a762f41-ee1e-471a-9e56-b4100b9d01a5-image.jpeg] Daniel Stenberg on AI in security ― sentiment over time From Stenberg's blog post: … Everything is AI now Almost every security report now uses AI to various degrees. You can tell by the way they are worded, how the report is phrased and also by the fact that they now easily get very detailed duplicates in ways that can’t be done had they been written by humans. The difference now compared to before however, is that they are mostly very high quality. The reporters rarely mention exactly which AI tool or model they used (and really, we don’t care), but the evidence is strong that they used such help. We are not unique I did a quick unscientific poll on Mastodon to see if other Open Source projects see the same trends and man, do they! Friends from the following projects confirmed that they too see this trend. … Additional tag: AI ― #ai is currently not possible in (NodeBB) BSD Cafe Billboard.

The open standard would tie every agent's identity to certificates and a public transparency log nobody can edit. https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-foundation-agent-name-service-announcement/

Every single software product is dealing with the question about what to do with “AI”-generated code, but the question is particularly difficult to answer for open source operating systems like Linux distributions and the various BSDs, which often consist of a wide variety of software packages from hundreds to thousands of different developers. On top of that, they also have to ask the “AI” question for every layer of their offering, from the base install, to the official repositories, to community-run ones… https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@osnews@mstdn.social/116558432820118949