Oo boy. Can't login to my bank website, as it wants to know the last six digits of my account number. I only remember the last four. Seem to have lost my debit card, which would be another verification method. Can't get it replaced until I can login... or call, I guess. Fun stuff.
This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:
We have a petition borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-f… running in Denmark on the "official" petition website. If it reaches 50k signatures, the parliament is required to discuss it.
Can someone fork Enafore and keep it going? I love Enafore so much more than the regular Mastodon interface but I haven't seen updates on it for a while now! github.com/enafore/enafore #Mastodon #Fediverse #Enafore
@kaveinthran Ah yeah thank you! I may go back to that because this one has a very annoying bug where sometimes, the timeline will just utterly refuse to load.
Hello! We are the European Rail Passengers Union. We believe that the voices of rail passengers are key to improving cross border rail in Europe. That’s why we are starting a group to make them heard.
Join us at erpu.eu, and we’re looking forward to connecting with everyone here on the fediverse!
#FOSDEM was exhausting but amazing. Was lovely to see so many #IzzyOnDroid users and to hear how much people love #Droidify and #NeoStore!
Learning more about #SHIFT and #BlissLabs was great too, what great projects to share our stand with!
And y'all are sticker monsters, I started running out of #Catima stickers so much faster than expected but it was lovely to hear how many people love the project :)
Thank you all for making #FOSDEM2026 this fun and memorable! :)
@semitones I've used it to get to #FOSDEM – Catima supports PkPass, so I was able to store my boarding pass there. No paper wasted 🥰 @SylvieLorxu
And yes, all that Sylvia said: it was great, definitely need to repeat, together with our great partners and the wonderful attendees!!! Big thanks also to @ShinIce and his team for all the organizational work, MUCH appreciated! Looking forward to meet all of you (again)!
The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026. As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably a lot of the remaining people were quite tired and ready to call it a day.
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This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:
https://www.openpetition.
Wegen kurzfristiger Sparmaßnahmen des Bundes können wir unser Tool für virtuelle Ausstellungen #DDBstudio ab sofort nicht mehr für neue Projekte zur Verfügung stellen. Die bisher veröffentlichten ~300 Ausstellungen bleiben vorerst online. Wir sind traurig. Ein Abschiedsnewsletter: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.d… --- @DNB_Aktuelles @kulturSPK @fiz_karlsruhe @archivportal @digiSberlin --- 1/2
S celkovym pristupom, ako tito ceski CRQ (Cyber Risk Quantification) chalani pristupuju k osvete nie vzdy suhlasim. To vsak neznamena, ze v principe nemaju pravdu. Tiez sa im obcas podari trafit klincek po hlavicke tak, ze to mozem iba podpisat. Napr. dnes: cleverandsmart.cz/proc-tolik-c…
Re last boost: It should not be possible for posts to make you feel sick and, before 2025, I didn't think it was, but it is, and that post was the latest in a growing line to do so for me.
“Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good”
Interestingly Palantir's booming revenue & profits are being driven primarily by US business... the CEO Alex Karp told investors that there is a 'real reticence' among European countries to adopt their technology (except in the UK?) & often countries were keen to develop their own versions of Palantir's tools.
A low-key recognition that Palantir's connections with the Far Right in the USA are not doing so much for their European business?
Israel has entered a new phase of territorial expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a shift in strategic goals, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 have loosened.
Israel has entered a new phase of expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a strategic shift, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 are now too weak to hold it back.
Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status | US immigration | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…
'Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case and that she found it “substantially likely” that Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants”.'
"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
I found this funny enough to shair, so here it is. As some of you might know, I have the weather announced a few minutes after the top of the hour. this weather is genorated by I believe Gemini, and I have it set to be rather sarcastic, and I told it that it is for an adult radio station, so swairing is aloud. Well here is what it came up with for the 4:00 hour this morning. This is what the listeners got to hear.
How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype).
Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't).
Product engineering and…
Anyone needs a European Sleeper night train ticket from Brussels to Berlin for tomorrow Wednesday the 4th of February? I cannot take the train, I can't cancel the ticket but it's transferable.
"European Sleeper Night Train" sounds like something you'd put into the USA for it to behave as if it was a huge pick-up truck. Then, when the time has come, you send them the activation message and the train will immediately start infiltrating american highways and replacing them with rails.
And now I ask myself if I should perhaps reduce the cannabis intake just a tiny bit.
Something something tells me there's this rule on fedi: new account, new #introduction post. So here it is.
I'm Mimi/小秋 (You can call me anything you like, really.) Physicist by day (and night in practice), doing research on some of the most useless and abstract topics. #danmei writer by night, rotten to the core for nearly 30 years.
What's up with this funny display name, you ask? It's a play on an exercise problem ("is Tolkien's middle earth flat"), which I came across in a textbook on general relativity. And Reverse London is from the Bleach franchise.
I'm here mostly to relax, talk about my mundane life, generate highly unpopular opinions about things I read/watch/listen to, and emoji react to cute, funny, and silly stuffs that show up on my timeline.
Follow requests and #boosts are both welcome, although I do prefer to have a bit of vibe checking.
I have this still unspecific idea in my head about somehow applying a coordinate system on the ULB campus and #FOSDEM maps (or something) to help us deal with "let's meet at..." problems once and for all.
@kytta @Tenzer In addition to what3words you would at least also need the floor level when inside a building. Also GNSS do not work that well inside buildings for navigation. Something like "in front of room X" usually works way better than coordinates.
@raimue @kytta @Tenzer several rooms have multiple doors and there are many hundred persons. "outside a room" is not very precise. You need to find a small enough room for that to work decently fine. Which is somewhat hard and annoying, especially if you are a newbie and aren't quite aware of this.
If you have any feedback about #fosdem please do send it our way using feedback@fosdem.org
The more feedback we have (can def be positive as well obv) the better we can make the next edition!
Please :boost_ok:
@ShinIce @mmu_man @RichiH I would not mind some added internal details; for example to help us mark a place within Chez Theo. Just take it as a wishlist. I appreciate the existence and functionality already.
I support Matt Dinniman, author of the dungeon Crawler Carl books. I'm super conflicted. The author drops chapters for patreon supporters to read on the regular. For this book and the previous one, I read some chapters to get a bead on what the story will be about, and then I figure “ well crap, I should wait for audio because the audiobooks are truly amazing in there own right”. I also get confused as with most serials, before publication, there's a ton of edits and rework. Am I the only one that supports authors sometimes but you don't read the prepublished chapters?
Yes, I read all author Patrion or Royal Road chapters the second they drop. (0%, 0 votes)
Yes, I read chapters as they drop because an alternate form doesn't do it for me. Author support is a plus.K (0%, 0 votes)
No, i am just a supporter, I like the finished product or an alternate form like a human narrated audiobook. (100%, 1 vote)
Neither, i sometimes read chapters as they drop and then re-read the book, but sometimes I wait (0%, 0 votes)
DCC I read up to chapter 15 of book 8 I think? And then I decided to just wait for the audio to drop. The only things I read on Patreon immediately are TWI and HWFWM.
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