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!

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

#Thunderbird #fosdem

in reply to Hamish

@mishu70 yeah, I want to make a version of the NVDA driver with less of those checkboxes, they're really all exposed right now so someone can tune their language if it sounds wrong, but like, I could bet you money on it that in a few weeks I'll remove the checkboxes and only have the various voice sliders that make a difference for people to tune. Just cram all the language stuff into the list inside the panel instead, leaving only the classic pitch as checkbox.

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.

imday.de/de/

#DIDIt

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Ich kann die Argumente von beiden seiten nachvollziehen. Besonders das Signal zentralisiert ist.
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?
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Ein meiner Meinung nach viel wichtigeres Argument ist, dass Signal Telefonnummernzwang hat und auch darüber hinaus Desktop-only-Usern das Leben so schwer wie möglich macht (in einem Ausmaß bei dem ich echt keine andere Erklärung als böse Absicht habe) und damit keinesfalls (wie oft behauptet) schwellenniedriger als dezentrale Alternativen ist. Und das Smartphones generell technische Souveränität sehr viel weniger unterstützen als Desktop-Geräte.

#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

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 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 :)


#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...

Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)

#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.

#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš


it's releasable for sure. But I don't wanna draft another release right after we made the last one. So, for the rest of you, these sliders will have to wait. For those of you willing to compile from Master, they are there for you now.
Speed quotient (voice gender): slider 100
Creakiness (laryngealization): slider 0
Breathiness: slider 0
Jitter (pitch variation): slider 0
Shimmer (amplitude variation): slider 0

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.

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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.

@fosdem

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.

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A silly finding with NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof is that the more notes you enter, the slower it gets to process each one. I have no idea if this is deliberate, and wouldn't be surprised if it is, as I'm sure on some toys from days gone by this is a real thing as it keeps having to move more and more notes around to make room in memory for new notes. When playing real music this probably hardly matters, but in this example I'm deliberately keysmashing while in QWERTY and chromatic mode so what I'm composing is pure nonsense. Anyway I ended up entering 542 notes, and as you can see, at first it's really fast but then it gets slower and slower, and if I'd kept doing it, it'd get even slower. Note that I was banging on the keyboard fast during the whole recording. Unfortunately I do not have a project file or exported MIDI as I cleared the whole thing out immediately.

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.