openSUSE, SUSE, Tumbleweed, and Open Build Service

CFA (Config Files API) at a glance

Open Build Service: Frontend dev-team sprint report

Open Build Service: Creating Your Own Image Template

Enterprise Beta Sources Added to openSUSE Leap 42.3 Build

GNU Compiler Collection 7 Now openSUSE Tumbleweed Default

Tumbleweed Review of the week 2017/20

Tumbleweed Review of the weeks 2017/21 & 22

Kernel 4.11 Arrives in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Highlights of YaST development sprint 35

Is doing nothing evil?

Last weekend I attended the openSUSE conference in Nürnberg. This is a really nice conference. Awesome location, great people, and an overall very relaxed atmosphere. I gave a talk about Nextcloud Security and what we plan to do in the future to make hosting a Nextcloud instance even easier and more secure.

I attended the Saturday keynote which triggered a reaction on my side that I wanted to share. This is only my personal opinion and I’m sure a lot of people think differently. But I can’t help my self.

The talk was about management of infrastructure and automation. It was a really good talk from a technical perspective. Very informative and detailed. But in the middle of the talk, the presenter mentioned that he was involved in building autonomous military submarines. This is of course controversial. I personally wouldn’t get involved in actual weapon development, building things which sole purpose is to kill people. But I understand that people have different opinions here and I can live with such a disagreement.