Oooh, when you hit a software bug where your plane goes into "automated ground-operation mode"... while flying.

CNN: F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska

"...After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said. ..."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml

#aviation #f35 #software

Oooh, when you hit a software bug where your plane goes into "automated ground-operation mode"... while flying.

CNN: F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska

"...After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said. ..."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml

#aviation #f35 #software

Still on Confluence? Many teams are (already) moving away from vendor lock-in and looking at open-source alternatives.

We put together a clear comparison of XWiki vs Confluence so you can see the differences yourself:
🔗 https://xwiki.com/en/Alternatives/xwiki-vs-confluence

XWiki is European, open source, and built for flexibility, sovereignty, and long-term control of your data.

#OpenSource#XWiki#ConfluenceMigration#DigitalSovereignty#FOSS #tech #software#Alternatives

TIL: The European Union Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL#EuropeanUnion #software #license#FLOSS#OpenSource #licensing