At #FOSDEM, 40% of attendees at the opening talk (in a full room with 1200 seats) raised their hand to signal this is the first time they attend.
This is super exciting for an old fart like me, who has been attending for 25 years.
There is hope for the future!
Welcome fellow hackers, and have a blast.
Mastodon server admins, important news!
The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".
Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.
If your server matches these:
- General public server
- Running vanilla Mastodon
- Mastodon Covenant compliant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans
...then see this post for details: mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1159âŠ
If youâre interested in participating in this experiment, please let us know by filling out this form. (sorry itâs in Google docs) https://forms.gle/7uRui5VnMPfEYAgq8 5/6Mastodon
Why OpenStax Changed My Entire SemesterMaria Reyes (Access Interrupted)
Broke: "spineless coward"
Woke: "Exo and endo skeleton-less coward"
(angry annelid fans incoming, brace yourselves, folks. Anyways all the cool worms have a tube or something, or some plates. Come on.)
Talk:
@Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP - Timothée Jaussoin
Sun, 13:45, AW1.126
Visit the XMPP #Realtime Lounge in #ULB, AW Building, Level 1!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee #europe
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Gerade #recable entdeckt. Finde das nachhaltige Konzept schon cool đ
Mit recable holst du dir reparierbare Ladekabel, fair in Deutschland produziert, ans Smartphone oder an den Laptop. USB-A, USB-C, Micro-USB, Lightning â wir haben sie alle!recable.eu â das faire und nachhaltige USB Kabel made in Germany
Talk:
#UnifiedPush - #Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source - Daniel Gultsch, s1m
Sat, 16:00, UB4.132
Visit the XMPP Realtime Lounge in #ULB, AW Building, Level 1!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee
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I am still amazed that these super polished "simple" apps exist in the oss world. The likes of Fragments, Decibels and other apps with a completely different approach to the "mission control" UX, here's Ear Tag. A super simple music metadata editor that is a godsend for occasional music producers like myself. Thank you, @knuxify:postmarketos.org. It is a joy to use.
flathub.org/en/apps/app.drey.EâŠ
Now in the #FOSDEM live stream: Holger introducing #autocrypt2, a mechanism to protect against store-now-decrypt-later attacks, to be introduced in Delta!
More details about the talk:
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eventâŠ
#DeltaChat #forwardsecrey #reliabledeletion
Our second #FOSDEM talk is about to start: Hocuri talks about the upcoming #multirelay profiles, which use more than one address to exchange messages!
Live Stream is here:
live.fosdem.org/watch/ud2218a
Recording will be available here later: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eventâŠ
@qyahxm yes, but I don't know the timeline of deployment. The goal is always backwards compatibility for a reasonable amount of time so there needs to be a release of a client that supports it in the wild for a while before they push a release with it enabled
PQC has been in rpgp since last summer: github.com/rpgp/rpgp/releases/âŠ
â°ïž Features Update to draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc-10 (#565) - (01a9643) đ Refactor Cleanup the interface of crypto::*::SecretKey - (45e1ea8)GitHub
I canât remember where I saw it, but I feel like today is a good time to revisit the concept of âVegan + baconâ.
People often avoid making small positive changes because they get caught up in trying to go all the way. For example, âI could never go vegan. I love bacon too muchâ.
So then go vegan plus bacon. Or vegetarian plus bacon. Or just switch to oat milk and eat more vegetables. Whatever small change you can make is good
Next @benjaminbellamy spricht ĂŒber das Fediverse und das Zusammenspiel verschiedener Dienste wie z.B. die Integration von @Castopod als Podcast-Plattform mit Mastodon oder Pixelfed.
Auch gut gefallen hat mir die Folie âDu bist keine Zahlâ.
Our booth is so well-crowed we cannot find it anymore đŹ
Be brave and keep trying to find us at #ULB, AW, Building, Level 1!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee #decentralisation
I'm at #FOSDEM. If you want to chat with me about #Conversations_im or #XMPP come by our Jabber/XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW 1.124. We also have lots of stickers and other merch!
If you want to learn about #UnifiedPush, my talk is today (Saturday) at 16:00 in the FOSS on Mobile dev room.
#FOSDEM tell the EU why #OpenSource matters. Before Tuesday fill in the input opportunity for the:
European Open Digital Ecosystems
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-râŠ
We ran out of t-shirts for today but will have some more tomorrow!
Weâre grateful for all the positive interactions and discussions weâre having so far, the FOSDEM attendees are as nice as ever đ„ł
"In late 2025, Alex started going massively viral on Bilibili, a Chinese video platform, for videos where he described poverty in America. He coined the term âkill lineâ (âæ©æçșżâ) - an expression borrowed from gaming describing when a game character's health is so low one hit will finish them. In Alexâs framing, the concept describes how a single shock (illness, job loss, accident) can push middle-class Americans into irreversible poverty.
Itâs hard to overstate the cultural impact heâs had in China. In barely a few weeks, âkill lineâ became part of everyday lexicon. So much so that even Qiushi - the core theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China - published a (...) analysis using "kill line" as its central framework (qstheory.cn/20260104/0a0919465âŠ).
This never happens. Gaming slang coined by a 22-year-old streamer based in the U.S. does not become the analytical framework for Qiushi, the CPCâs core theoretical journal, in just a handful of weeks. Thatâs normally not how Communist Party theory gets crafted, to put it mildly đ. And yet here we are - which goes to show just how powerfully Alex resonated.
It didnât take long for America to notice - and for Alexâs problems to start.
Due to the staggering resonance his content was having in China, Alex became the target of an extremely vicious doxxing campaign by Chinese dissidents.
He also got targeted by Western media with the New York Times, among others, publishing a piece (nytimes.com/2026/01/13/businesâŠ) identifying him as the origin of the phenomenon which they described - unsurprisingly - as Communist propaganda meant to âdeflect criticism of [Chinese] leaders.â
I just wrote an article telling the full story. It ends with Alex escaping to China in an extraction worthy of a Cold War spy novel. Think about how extraordinary this is: a Chinese student fleeing to China for safety, because he feared for his life after being harassed for describing poverty in America."
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If you have a tool that takes a build directory as the target for generating a bunch of files, make it automatically generate a gitignore file inside the same target directory. A simple:
echo "*" > ${builddir}/.gitignore
will do, and save a lot of time.
XMPP @ #FOSDEM
Talk:
Engineering #XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects - JérÎme Sautret & Timothée Jaussoin
Sun, 13:15, AW1.126
Visit the XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW Building, Level 1!
#jabber #interoperability #opensource #federation #messaging
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