Had a look at "multi-agent coding" today.

Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.

A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.

Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.

This is racism. (And also, the World Cross-Country Championships this year are clearly being rigged.)

"According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted"

(That's the national team with the 44-year winning streak. Other countries, including Eritrea, are also excluded due to Trump's racist travel bans.)

runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/u…

U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships - Canadian Running Magazine

^{Marley Dickinson (Canadian Running Magazine)}

Hi folks,
So my sister is a zookeeper and takes care of the birds. She often sends pictures.

This is Baked Beans. He is a baby screech owl and is being raised for the zoo's ambassador bird program.
I would die for Beans.

#BakedBeansOwl #owls #screechowls #zoo

SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives

“Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive.”

I haven’t bought a cheap flash drive for quite a while, so did not rea ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/ssd-thumb-driv…

#storage #technology

SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives

^{Danie (GadgeteerZA)}

• I regularly click video or song links (9%, 8 votes)
• Only if the person indicated what the link was (40%, 33 votes)
• Only if it's from specific people (23%, 19 votes)
• I rarely or never click video or song links (21%, 17 votes)
• Something else, put in replies (4%, 4 votes)

Watching someone explain to a FOSS developer that they've never donated to their project "because it's FOSS" and that, unless the developer implements features X, Y, and Z *immediately*, they will continue not to donate in the future.

Yeah, really convincing.

And this is part of why we can't always have nice things.

#FOSS

#fosdem preparation list:

* Noise cancellation headphones
* Public transport app
* Add the hotel and the campus to favorites
* FOSDEM schedule app
* Bookmark the sessions of interest

Still open: what to take for a snack, to avoid the crowd at the food court.

Also, do I need EUR cash for the merchandise? Or everyone's accepting cards and Paypal?

#fosdem2026

In order to collect some feedback:
Any recommendations for a privacy friendly software for a poll that's self-hostable, simple enough to set up and uses only at most a few 100MB of RAM?

Thanks in advance (Alternatively, I think I will just use beta.framaforms.org/)
#fedihelp #web #polls

Framaforms BETA

Des formulaires éthiques avec LiberaForms LiberaForms est un outil logiciel libre développé comme une infrastructure communautaire, libre et éthique qui...

^{beta.framaforms.org}

Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?

I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.

If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.

Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a

#fedihelp #foss #privacy #decentralization #p2p

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-…

The Gist: The Abuse Factory

X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

^{Simon McGarr (The Gist)}

Posting media without any kind of alt text makes kitty sad.

You wouldn't want kitty to be sad, would you?

When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

Dotaz do pléna:

Co kdyby tooty přemiklíkované z tweetů vypadaly např. takto?

Reagujte, boostujte…

#zpravobot

Australia and Canada are considering joining the UK in a total ban on Twitter, over the Grok AI image generator being used to make non-consensual sexual images of women, as well as CSA images.

This would be huge if it happens. And could lead to further countries implementing bans.

Musk of course is claiming that he's the real victim.
He responded to the initial condemnation by Downing Street and news that Ofcom would be investigating, by posting a picture of Keir Starmer in a bikini.

RE: zpravobot.news/@novinkycz/1158…

Ach jo, to jsou zase zprávy 😥