I started a documentation repo for #FOSDEM advise - for new and old visitors, attendees and speakers. I figure we can crowdsource it so bring your pull-requests. I will greatly appreciate help.
If not, I will populate it myself slowly over time but it won't be as good.
Advise for FOSDEM attendees. Contribute to bagder/FOSDEM development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Как выглядел лондонский диалект на бумаге 1000 лет назад?
Воззвание Генриха III на среднеанглийском языке от 18 октября 1258 года.
Этот текст считается самым ранним свидетельством лондонского диалекта. Оригинальная орфография сохранена.
Henri, þurȝ Godes fultume King on Engleneloande, Lhoauerd on Yrloande, Duk on Normandi, on Aquitaine, and Eorl on Aniow, send igretinge to alle hise holde, ilærde and ileawede on Huntendoneschire.
Þæt witen ȝe wel alle þæt we willen and vnnen þæt þæt vre rædesmen, alle oþer þe moare dæl of heom, þæt beoþ ichosen þurȝ us and þurȝ þæt loandes folk on vre kuneriche, habbeþ idon and schullen don in þe worþnesse of Gode and on vre treowþe, for þe freme of þe loande, þurȝ þe besiȝte of þan toforen iseide redesmen, beo stedefæst and ilestinde in alle þinge a buten ænde.
Воззвание Генриха III на среднеанглийском языке от 18 октября 1258 года.
Перевод:
Генрих, с Божьей помощью король Англии, лорд Ирландии, герцог Нормандии, Аквитании и граф Анжуйский, посылает приветствие всем своим верным — учёным и простым людям в Хантингдоншире.
Да будет вам всем хорошо известно, что мы желаем и признаём законным всё то, что наши советники, или большая их часть, которые были избраны нами и народом нашего королевства, сделали и будут делать во славу Божью и по нашей верности ради блага страны. По распоряжению вышеупомянутых советников это должно быть твёрдо установлено и неизменно во всём и навсегда.
The #curl GitHub repository surpassed 40K stars
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
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I'm glad I visited the U.S. a year ago because I won't be able to anytime soon.
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.privacyinternational.org/news-…
The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…
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Why collecting DNA? Am I a crime suspect?
Why installing some spying app? Can my company say "not on company mobile" due to security reasons? Or what if I have just no-smart mobile?
Visiting US sounds like visiting a prison.
Dění ve Spojených státech mě děsí s každým dnem víc a víc. Vzdáleně vím o pár lidech ze zranitelných skupin, co odtamtud během posledních dvou let odešli - pár z nich do Evropy, potažmo EU - a čím dál víc se bojím, že to někteří další už nestihnou.
Hrozně moc doufám, že Evropa zůstane sjednocená, a nebude tímhle směrem sklouzávat, jakože některé státy už mají bohužel trochu našlápnuto 🙁
We are planning another #curl distro meeting this year, after the previous years' successful and productive gatherings.
It is a video meeting with peeps from the curl project meeting and talking with curl maintainers from "distros" shipping curl. And we don't specify what a distro is - as everyone is welcome.
This is very much work in progress - if you have ideas and proposals for agenda items, add them!
github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy empiezo el día enterándome de que el tejado del edificio de Boiro ha volado.
De puta madre.
Are there any "case studies" of whole communities moving to the fediverse, similar to the Forkiverse?
I'm thinking about writing a version of my article stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediver… and aim it at community organizers.
Fediverse as a tool for government.Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)
Things I have learned to do to a guitar either via an instructor or sheet music:
Golpe: tapping the soundboard with your fingernail
Slap harmonic: Literally hammering the 12th fret with your picking hand
Bending the neck forward or backward
Scraping the string lengthwise
Capirote: flicking the edge of the sound hole
Rapping the soundboard or side with a knuckle
They’re like, here is your precious musical instrument, now go beat the shit out of it
Hello @MewProjects. Continuing from earlier, just for laughs, tried to load an xm file and got this.
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FastPlay
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Cannot play file:
stranglehold.xm
Unsupported file format.
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I know your intention isn't/wasn't to make this a foobar or winamp replacement, but damn, I could almost use this cute little thing as one! Plugin support would be hard, though. meep!
The internet connection here has been somewhat flaky the last couple of days, possibly weather-related, so I've been pretty much exclusively using AT&T mobile data, as it's more reliable than the fiber ISP. Go figure.
With two bars of signal, I'm getting around 450 Mb/sec down, anywhere between 7 and 22 Mb/sec up.
Tonight, I connected my iPhone 16 Pro to one of the USB-C ports of my Mac to use my phone as a wired hotspot, and I noticed lots of jitter, packet loss, and very high latency that I wasn't seeing either on the device itself, or when using it as a WiFi hotspot.
I'd think a direct connection would be better, but apparently not.
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Exo to cut 73 jobs as it trims spending under Quebec mandate
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ex…
Austerity in Quebec. CAQastrophe.
The student organizers who mobilized Friday's massive action are now calling for a National Shutdown this Friday, January 30.
15K likes, 253 comments - ssa.umn on January 25, 2026: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis.Instagram
Já vím, že vás asi naseru ale
“Víkend začíná!!!!”
Vyprovodím se sám.
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move "extreme punishment" for his pro-Palestinian speech.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mahmoud…
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move “extreme punishment” for his pro-Palestinian speech.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
Hey!!
Is anyone on here a Black birth worker or know one?
For my research, I am seeking to interview as many Black midwives (and other Blk birth workers, but midwifery is the central focus) as possible and get connected to birthing centers employing Black birth workers, esp. in the US South.
If you are/someone you know is interested, pls DM me! Thanks for reading!
*pls boost!!*
#BlackStudies #ReproductiveJustice #BlackWomen #BlackBirthingPeople #Midwifery #Doulas #BirthWork #MedicalAnthro
Ok so hey #Canada #GenX especially people from #Winnipeg who spent time in Eaton Place downtown in the early 80s, because that is the specific instance of what I'm certain was in many government offices and such.
Ok. It is maybe 1980 I'm late single digits and I go downtown with my gramma a lot, and we spend a fair amount of time in Eaton Place, her doing whatever she did, and me doing a circuit of Petland, a record store on the second floor, the arcade, and near the North entrance of the South building, there was a government office of some kind.
In that government office, there was a computer. Not one that #retro heads would recognize, it was large, did simple colour graphics, and had a weird nonstandard keyboard about the size of a gigantic TV remote, on a curly cable. Possibly some sort of Unix thing and I think it was networked, presumably on the Internet.
It mostly did very boring stuff and I was just a kid, I didn't care about whatever its main functions were, but I had learned that if I entered f518, there was a graphical mystery house game of some kind.
I remember that office had a fair amount of techy stuff, like, there was a kind of pushbutton video jukebox where you could watch various promotional videos, I remember one of the things it played was a Folklorama ad with the "la-lalala-la-lalalaaa" earworm, which my older California chick cousin and I laughed at one summer day that we were all downtown.
I would really love to find out what was the deal with that computer system, though.
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Pretty stoked that the feds completely misunderstand actual Americans. They especially miscalculated the willingness of white folk to stand up for marginalized members of our communities.
As with any group, we are not a monolith. They assumed it would be so and that was a bad assumption on their part.
Minneapolis showed us the way.
Let's get this done.
In this day and age, putting Dark Mode behind your app's paywall will mean I don't even try your free version.
This is especially callous for #writing and world-building apps, where a white background can literally hurt my head.
Beautiful cover of Still Into You by #Paramore: youtu.be/gsXDymTulG4?si=xgRRzI…
Stream or download “Still Into You (Amazon Music Original)” by Charley: https://charley.lnk.to/StillIntoYouamazonFollow Charley: https://Charley.lnk.to/Follo...YouTube
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May be hard for some to watch but is not extreme:
The killing of Alex Pretti: minute-by-minute analysis of video & stills from five different verified videos.
The videos show that Pretti "did not walk up to anybody from CBP in a threatening manner."
"There's nothing in the video evidence that we've seen thus far that would support" DHS's version of Pretti's intent.
~John Cohen, fmr DHS official & police trainer
abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute…
#USPol #Europol #AlexPretti #BorderPatrol #fascism .
ABC News compiled a timeline based on six verified videos of the incident.Gaby Vinick (ABC News)
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"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""
rollingstone.com/music/music-n…
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.Andy Greene (Rolling Stone)
Janneke
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •As a #barefooter, I can mostly agree with this:
"Shoes
It's good to wear the shoes that work best for a lot of standing and walking and can handle rain and some puddles (depending on the weather). These might not be the best looking shoes you have (or they might be) it just needs to be something that once you put on you won't have to think about until you take them off, which will probably be hours and hours later."
Not sure about "might not be best looking" bit, but I guess that's in the eye of the beholder, and there's also "or they might be". I guess anyone can have a bad feet day once in a while. So, fair.
#fosdem
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •How to survive FOSDEM – Marcin Juszkiewicz
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •You are free to reuse content of my "how to survive FOSDEM" post.
I have some other work to do this week so cannot contribute directly.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I am editing it every year to keep it up-to-date.
And countless people shared it in the past (and will in a future) so I consider it "shared knowledge" rather than being "only mine blog post".
Henrik Pauli
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I collected some advice last year on my blog. If someone wants to reuse some of the content and submit PRs to your repo, go ahead!
ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/06-…
FOSDEM for Work and for Fun
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