Watching someone explain to a FOSS developer that they've never donated to their project "because it's FOSS" and that, unless the developer implements features X, Y, and Z *immediately*, they will continue not to donate in the future.
Yeah, really convincing.
And this is part of why we can't always have nice things.
#FOSS
#fosdem preparation list:
* Noise cancellation headphones
* Public transport app
* Add the hotel and the campus to favorites
* FOSDEM schedule app
* Bookmark the sessions of interest
Still open: what to take for a snack, to avoid the crowd at the food court.
Also, do I need EUR cash for the merchandise? Or everyone's accepting cards and Paypal?
In order to collect some feedback:
Any recommendations for a privacy friendly software for a poll that's self-hostable, simple enough to set up and uses only at most a few 100MB of RAM?
Thanks in advance 
(Alternatively, I think I will just use beta.framaforms.org/)
#fedihelp #web #polls
Des formulaires éthiques avec LiberaForms LiberaForms est un outil logiciel libre développé comme une infrastructure communautaire, libre et éthique qui...beta.framaforms.org
Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?
I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.
Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a
it's in french, but here was my answer
hachyderm.io/@dolanor/11556533…
TL;DR : Create a group which gives value to people, and tell them you need Signal for that.
My biggest success so far.
I must have around 400 contacts on Signal. But I use it for more than 10 years.
@prunelier@mastodon.social @ploum@mamot.fr Moi, ce qu'on m'a souvent dit, c'est qu'il n'y a personne sur Signal. Et ce sont des personnes qui avait plusieurs dizaines de personnes sur Signal qui disaient ça.Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann (Hachyderm.io)
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-…
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.Simon McGarr (The Gist)
Posting media without any kind of alt text makes kitty sad.
You wouldn't want kitty to be sad, would you?
When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
Dotaz do pléna:
Co kdyby tooty přemiklíkované z tweetů vypadaly např. takto?
Reagujte, boostujte…
You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?
This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.
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Australia and Canada are considering joining the UK in a total ban on Twitter, over the Grok AI image generator being used to make non-consensual sexual images of women, as well as CSA images.
This would be huge if it happens. And could lead to further countries implementing bans.
Musk of course is claiming that he's the real victim.
He responded to the initial condemnation by Downing Street and news that Ofcom would be investigating, by posting a picture of Keir Starmer in a bikini.
RE: zpravobot.news/@novinkycz/1158…
Ach jo, to jsou zase zprávy 😥
Zemřel švýcarský spisovatel a záhadolog Erich von Däniken, který svůj život zasvětil pátrání po stopách mimozemšťanů na Zemi. Bylo mu 90 let. O úmrtí autora, který se proslavil již prvotinou… https://www.novinky.novinkycz :bot: (Zprávobot.news)
[10. Januar - Neuigkeiten]
Die Optimierungen an Conexizan wurden adaptiert, die Wartungsarbeiten sind nun beendet. Die Übersetzung der Seite auf Englisch ist nun verfügbar und einige Verbesserungen sichtbar.
Ein #XMPP-Server durch Elan!
conexizan.de/
Conexizan ist ein für die Arbeiterklasse errichteter XMPP-Server für Instant Messaging, welches mit dem Ziel begonnen wurde, eine dezentrale und quelloffene Alternative zu proprietären Kommunikationsdiensten anzubieten und für Datensicherheit sowie e…conexizan.de
@daniel Oh je, wirklich? Ich dachte, monocles chat wäre da im Vergleich zu anderen Forks noch sorgfältig näher am Upstream von Conversations.
Ich werde dem nachgehen und die Liste entsprechend anpassen sowie meine Nutzer informieren. Vielen Dank dir für den Hinweis.
Gibt es einen Verweis, wo diese Sicherheitslücken aufgelistet werden?
A ten vzrůst efektivity! Osoba A prostrednictvím LLM vybleje dlouhý (jako skutečně desítky markdownů) text, což by ji jinak trvalo strasně dlouho, a osoba B prostřednictvím LLM text zkrátí (na jiný, než měla A, ale to zanedbejme), což by ji jinak trvalo také strašně dlouho.
A jak A, tak B jsou diky LLM výrazně efektivnější, zvládli více za méně.
Ale Horste!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!
(Následně asi team C kód oignoruje a implementuje si to sám. Např. protože osoba A oignorovala jejich potřeby, ale jen vygenerovala desítky markdownů. Ale možná ne, tahle část příběhu je stále otevřená.)
| To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck.
Jake prostredi to je? Ja jsem nikdy nezazil technologicke prostredi kde by prave "psani kodu" nebylo bottleneck. Spousta mid-level infrastruktury a komunikace vetsich organizaci vznika prave proto, ze psani kodu je bottleneck a je potreba ho nejak™ managovat.
Dokonce bych se nebal tvrdit, ze struktura vetsich organizaci vznika prave kolem bottlenecku psani kodu => bottleneck psani kodu je definuje.
Když píšeš kód, co nemá být psán, tak jsou neefektivity v samotnem procesu psani úplně šumák.
Jako když není dobře řešené sváření kapoty tohohle
when anna's archive drops their thing we should lowkey pool some money and build a server (only 300tb) that would litterally just... allow a simple and fast api access to the entire db for anyone to use. why? because why not.
information deserves to be ducking free!
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"Josh" sent me an email. Pardon the language here but I decided to show the mail body unaltered: From: Josh Yanez Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:27:13 -0800 To: daniel Subject: Hey fucker I got all your fucking info either you turn yourse…daniel.haxx.se
The #blog post "Verify Arch Linux artifacts using VOA/OpenPGP" has been published:
devblog.archlinux.page/2026/ve…
#ArchLinux #SovereignTechFund #STF #devblog #OpenPGP #RustLang #DigitalSignature #Verification #VOA
A deep dive into using VOA and OpenPGP for artifact verification.Arch Linux Dev Blog
#Music:
So a Developer/Coder figured out a way to not just save, but archive and preserve 90s #MTV, 33,000 #musicvideos and various #MTVnews articles in an algorithm free format.
They’re probably on fedi. Someone find them so I can hype them up for no reason.
wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.ht…
midnightrebels.com/mtv-rewind-…
A rogue developer has done what Paramount wouldn't: preserved 33,000+ music videos in a glorious, algorithm-free digital museum.Florence Amoroso (MIDNIGHT REBELS)
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"Das generische Maskulinum fungiert als kognitiver „Flaschenhals“, der den Zugriff auf weibliche Informationen im Gehirn erschwert. Dass diese Studie über 12 Labore hinweg repliziert wurde, macht die Ergebnisse zu einem der robustesten Befunde der modernen Psycholinguistik."
Nachtrag: für Zweifel an den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen bitte die Kommentarfunktion des Autor verwenden. Typen, die hier was von "Genderideologie" faseln, werden geblocked und gemeldet.
nullhypothese.substack.com/p/w…
Gendern in der deutschen Sprache: Was 10 Jahre Forschung zeigenSebastian Tillmann (Nullhypothese)
A profound fusion of two of the most powerful peace mantras from Himalayan traditions. This chant combines the compassionate vibration of the Tibetan Buddhis...YouTube
Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. Today sounds interesting, we have an amber warning for heavy snow; a yellow for ice and a yellow for wind. I might stay in bed today! I also have a funny feeling that our heating stopped working during the night, I'll have to check that out when the house wakes up.
Hopefully, you will have a better day than us. Have fun, laughs, optional strong drink. Take care.
Today's photo is from January 2023, taken at Yeadon Tarn. Fungus on a dead tree trunk.
Indonesia today became the first country to block Grok.
"The government views non-consensual deepfake practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space."
cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-sus…
Elon Musk's platform is facing global backlash after reports emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts.CBS News
```/bin/bash``` just turned 38.
Happy birthday, bash!
To display bash shell version press `Ctrl+x Ctrl+v`
#unix #linux #opensource
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Like LLM skills, except it's me leaving .md files for myself, telling Future Me how Past Me solved this problem last time, with ramp-up context / lessons learned commentary.
(been doing this for 20+ years, for everything from file conversion to household appliances. anything that fades from memory due to infrequent access / task)
Nice work. Now...
Load all of those notes, and all the manuals for all of your appliances, into ollama with the LLM of your choice running locally and make yourself a memory bank.
I did it, and it is awesome.
Looks like someone got pushed to go into hiding. Apparently one doesn't criticise people for using an anti-human-planet-burning-bullshit-technology without feeling the abuse from its chills.
At least that's my 5 minutes extrapolation based on a few things.
I remember all the big tech worker: "we don't need a union".
500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…
UBISOFT IS ANTI-LABOUR. If you think they're NOT, then you're NOT paying attention. Or, you're a moron. #NOTSORRY
#FUCKUBISOFT #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan
Only took 12 days... gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut…See my December 29, 2025 post: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…
#UBISOFTISGARBAGE #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan
♲ @somecanuckchick@mastodon.world:
How long until #Ubisoft closes up shop in Halifax? cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia… #cdnpoli #polcan #canlab #union #unions #gaming #games
Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected
The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.Jon Hicks (GamesIndustry.biz)
Only took 12 days... gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut…
See my December 29, 2025 post: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…
#UBISOFTISGARBAGE #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan
The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.Jon Hicks (GamesIndustry.biz)
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