• I regularly click video or song links (9%, 8 votes)
• Only if the person indicated what the link was (40%, 33 votes)
• Only if it's from specific people (23%, 19 votes)
• I rarely or never click video or song links (21%, 17 votes)
• Something else, put in replies (4%, 4 votes)

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?

#fosdem2026

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

Framaforms BETA

Des formulaires éthiques avec LiberaForms LiberaForms est un outil logiciel libre développé comme une infrastructure communautaire, libre et éthique qui...

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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

#fedihelp #foss #privacy #decentralization #p2p

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-…

The Gist: The Abuse Factory

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…

#zpravobot

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 😥

[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/

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.)

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!