Today is Digital Independence Day! 🎉 ❤️
The perfect day to share your story of how you got rid of Big Tech!
⚡Let us know in the comments how you #DID it for a chance to win one year of LEGEND for FREE.⚡🔒
Day 2 of FOSDEM! We've had our coffee and waffles, and we're in Building F to keep answering questions and sharing what's new (and stickers).
And be sure to watch @bogo talk about localizing Thunderbird in K.3.401 today at 14:50 CET!
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Now in the Decentralised Communication devroom: @cassidy and Anne presenting how Roost helps orgs mutualise their Trust & Safety efforts to keep people safe
Ich glaube, ich muss mal wieder über DRM ranten.
Kann es sein, dass eine jüngere Generation Autoren sich noch nie wirklich mit den negativen Auswirkungen von DRM beschäftigt hat und den Behauptungen von Veröffentlichungsplattformen einfach unbesehen Glauben schenkt?
Unwissend der Tatsache, dass diese ebensowenig das Beste der Autoren oder Creators im Sinne haben, wie das Beste der Konsumenten?
I’m one ally with a tiny voice.
TurtleIsland.social, an Indigenous‑run server, has a bigger one, yet it’s invisible on Join Mastodon. It meets the covenant and supports safe Indigenous spaces. Help amplify this so it can be found. Boosts appreciated!
@Yehuda @joinmastodon @Mastodon @Gargron @fediverse
#Fediverse #Indigenous #InclusiveTech
Heute ist #DiDay
Der Digital Independence Day ist eine tolle Initiative, deren Werte wir zu 100% teilen. Die Empfehlung für Signal ist allerdings ein Schritt in die falsche Richtung und treibt Nutzer von einem geschlossenen System in ein anderes.
Zum Glück gibt es auch Wechselrezepte für die Independent Messaging Apps #Quicksy, #Monal und #Conversations_im, die wirkliche Souveränität bieten.
Ein Wechsel zu Quicksy ist genauso einfach wie ein Wechsel zu Signal.
Jetzt kommt leider das aber. In meinem sozialen Umfeld bin ich wahrscheinlich die Person, welche sich bisher am meisten mit diesen thematiken auseinander gesetzt hat. Ich habe noch nie etwas von den anderen messengern gehört. Bei der Debatte um Meta geht es auch nur noch zweitrangig um Datenschutz, der Verein unterstützt ein faschistischen Staat. Jeder wechsel ist somit am besten, oder?
Currently in the devroom: Travis giving us on update on Trust & Safety in Matrix, and policyserver
Come by, meet XMPP enthusiasts and grab some merch at the XMPP #Realtime Lounge!
#ULB, AW, Level 1
XMPP - choose & build your own #chat #infrastructure (and many more other solutions)!
#jabber #interoperability #opensource #decentralization #messaging #europe #Brussels
UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source (FOSDEM26)
To understand how we can replace Google push notifications (FCM) with something open source and decentralized, we need to understand how they work and why they are needed in the first place. This talk explains the mechanics of push notifications and why, despite their potentially bad reputation, they are a more elegant solution than having every app maintain its own persistent server connection.
While open-source tools like microG can remove proprietary Google software from your Android phone, the actual notifications are still sent via Google's servers (Firebase Cloud Messaging).
UnifiedPush is a framework that allows push notifications to be delivered in a decentralized manner or through self-hosted servers. Numerous open-source Android apps already support UnifiedPush, including Tusky, Ltt.rs, Fedilab, DAVx⁵, Fennec, Element, and many more.
The presentation ends with a short demo on how to use UnifiedPush on Android.
Talk given at FOSDEM 2026 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
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FOSDEM Day 2, we’re back at the booth! Even better? It’s right next to the Decentralised Communication devroom
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Devroom details
🎥 FOSDEM 2026 - Den 2 live!
Sledujte finální den konference přes náš PeerTube:
📺 vhsky.cz
3 paralelní místnosti běží:
- Janson (hlavní sál) ✅
- K1105 (La Fontaine) ✅
- H2215 (/dev/random) ✅
Neděle 1.2. | 9:00-18:00
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube #LiveStream #OpenSource
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Protože někteří nemáme to "štěstí" na demonstraci #MilionChvilek být, napadl mě takovej (možná blbej) nápad.
Není tu nějakej (amatérskej) reportér, co by nám natočil reportáž na #VHSky, pokecal tam s lidma a poslal nějakej vzkaz? Takováhle #demonstrace bude plná pozitivně naladěných lidí a může to bejt i hezká zkušenost :)
github.com/bagder/FOSDEM
GitHub - bagder/FOSDEM: Advise for FOSDEM attendees
Advise for FOSDEM attendees. Contribute to bagder/FOSDEM development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Have you ever tried to parse an 80 gigabyte JSON file?
That's a thing my team had to figure out when I, regrettably, worked for an American health insurance payor. This was as a direct result of malicious compliance on the part of other insurance companies, in reaction to attempts to use market-oriented regulation to improve healthcare costs in the American system.
Anyway, I can't recommend trying to handle 80 GB of JSON.
I also can't recommend market-oriented regulation of healthcare costs.
I proposed an approach where #FOSDEM can provide better support for #accessibility
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…
I will try to demo it in my session later today, but speech to text isn't that hard to add in these days. We should be encouraging text transcripts.
Start supporting (or encouraging) the Speech to Text for sessions
We should explore adopting or integrating the MidCamp Live Captioning project as part of FOSDEM’s accessibility efforts. https://github.com/MidCamp/live-captioning?tab=readme-ov-file#live-captionin...mgifford (GitHub)
I caught the last few minutes of your speech.
This is one of the best communities connecting disabled users and software/hardware engineers
From the Internet (not my words):
“The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that will be produced was promised to be paid with yet to exist money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been made, to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy AI demand that does not actually exist to obtain mathematically impossible profit.”
I would like the @fosdem community to embrace #accessibility
In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…
This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. #FOSDEM needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.
25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.
We need to make FOSDEM more accessible
25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...mgifford (GitHub)
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Here's everything coming to Perspective Intelligence in version 1.4
- Standard On-device AI - IOS Now, everyone can experience Perspective Intelligence even if you do not have an Apple Intelligence capable device.
- Web search for All Access subscribers - Perspective Intelligence can now search the web to get more up-to-date information
- RSS Feeds - You can now add RSS feeds to Perspective Intelligence to get the latest news. (1/2)
Looking for a record of #accessibility issues left on @fosdem website issue queue I wasn't too surprised to see @Edent had beat me to it github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…
We can do better.
Can I update the HTML & CSS on the website?
I've notice that the HTML & CSS for https://fosdem.org/2025/ is a little out of date. Wrong doctype Use of obsolete elements like Metadata not compliant with modern standards Repeated use ...edent (GitHub)


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