Cornelius Schumacher

Creating software since 1982 and still loving it.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

@natfriedman I fondly remember the manual of my first computer, the Sinclair ZX 81, from which I learned programming as well as English.

[DHH @dhh]

People joke about The Year of Linux because it's been twenty years. Twenty years?? That's nothing. Most prophesies worth their name are measured in centuries or millenia. Decades are of no consequence. Keep pushing for the future. Don't give up.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

Thought-provoking talk: https://t.co/YuIriU0TLy

[Kentskooking @kentskooking]

Can't let go

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

Sitting in a packed beer garden at 15 degrees celsius, drinking locally brewed craft beer, surrounded by the weirdest bunch of people, I'm sure now: Berlin is the most relaxed city in the world.

[Erik Bjäreholt @ErikBjare]

Redis is no longer open source?
I guess they gave up on their key values 🥁

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

On my way to Brussels now.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

Is this still punk rock?

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

@d_koppenhagen @robertSPD It's not open source, because it has usage restrictions. Many companies won't touch it because these restrictions are hard to interpret. Ethical use of software is important, but the license is the wrong place to address this in my opinion.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Be an Open Source Absolutist!

It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is.

Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the most powerful companies in the world are the exact same ones available to hospitals, students, and everyone else. For free. And not just to use, but to inspect, modify, extend, and redistribute.

Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share.

It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better.

Open Source AI is in many people’s crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public can’t be entrusted with a research model that wasn’t hammered into a box of their designated dimensions. “As a large language model, I cannot…”

Unfortunately, this is actually inside the Overton Window of possibilities right now.

Let’s push it out.

In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

@derPUPE Die Begeisterung steckt an 💖

[Justin Hutchings @jhutchings0]

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[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

@mibi61 Ich glaube, das Originalzitat ist von Walter Gropius: "The mind is like an umbrella. It functions best when open."

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

@RalfDMueller @mibi61 @Bergwanderer251 Der Grundsatz aus der CCC-Hackerethik trifft es ganz gut: "Öffentliche Daten nützen, private Daten schützen"

[@[email protected] @Fossbckstg]

At FOSS Backstage last year, @thomasfricke, Cornelius Schumacher and Yadira Sánchez Benítez joined @richlitt on our podcast stage. Listen to the recording now at https://t.co/EQMzRT5jpy #fossback

[michael binzen🏡 🇺🇦 @mibi61]

@SimonClavier @GroupeSNCF @FrancoisN0 @bbilloud @Hove_KDigital @SNCFNumerique @SNCFVoyageurs @SNCFConnectTech @SNCFConnect And tomorrow together we will be present at FOSDEM 2023 https://t.co/w6AzJzuvma.

@cschum --> Railways and Open Transport Devroom with a number of interesting presentations.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

AI assisted coding is nice, but has anyone made tools for AI assisted debugging yet?

[Max Mehl ➡ @[email protected] @mxmehl]

#Railways #Transport #FOSDEM

If at least one of these words amazes you, you should check out the CfP for the "Railways and Open Transport Devroom" at FOSDEM:

https://t.co/BFOm3ZRLo8

Deadline is this Saturday, 10 December, so be quick as a (undelayed) highspeed train 🚅.

[Cornelius Schumacher @cschum]

Working with open source in the area of railways and open transport? You are invited to show what you are doing at FOSDEM: https://t.co/XIRIIt3c2n