We will be participating at #fosdem in Bruxelles (31.1. / 1.2.). 🚀 Well, at least kind of...
Our @bene64 will join the Free Android World stand together with @BlissLabs and @shiftphones as part of the @IzzyOnDroid team.
His focus there will be primarily the IoD project, but he will be happy to discuss #BrewMemo as well ;)
Please come by and drop a hello, when you're also visiting.
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
— @pluralistic, pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100…
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
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Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*
That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.Fosstodon
Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora - vojtapolasek/vojtuxGitHub
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"Desde los años 90, existen tecnologías que permiten que una persona con discapacidad visual pueda acceder a un ordenador y usarlo con total normalidad.lodosa (Constelación de los Comunes)
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.)
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
Beans on a hand, for scale reference. He is just too darn cute.
#BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl
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
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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
Not everyone can donate.
Not everyone can donate to every project.
Some developers do not want (or want, but cannot receive) donations.
Donations (as opposed to support contracts, or specific agreements) are not conditional; a donation does not guarantee a feature implementation unless specifically agreed.
But honestly, the entitlement of some people...
#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?
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
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
it's in french, but here was my answer
hachyderm.io/@dolanor/11556533…
TL;DR : Create a group which gives value to people, and tell them you need Signal for that.
My biggest success so far.
I must have around 400 contacts on Signal. But I use it for more than 10 years.
@prunelier@mastodon.social @ploum@mamot.fr Moi, ce qu'on m'a souvent dit, c'est qu'il n'y a personne sur Signal. Et ce sont des personnes qui avait plusieurs dizaines de personnes sur Signal qui disaient ça.Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann (Hachyderm.io)
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-…
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…
You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?
This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.
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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 😥
Zemřel švýcarský spisovatel a záhadolog Erich von Däniken, který svůj život zasvětil pátrání po stopách mimozemšťanů na Zemi. Bylo mu 90 let. O úmrtí autora, který se proslavil již prvotinou… https://www.novinky.novinkycz :bot: (Zprávobot.news)
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Die Optimierungen an Conexizan wurden adaptiert, die Wartungsarbeiten sind nun beendet. Die Übersetzung der Seite auf Englisch ist nun verfügbar und einige Verbesserungen sichtbar.
Ein #XMPP-Server durch Elan!
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@daniel Oh je, wirklich? Ich dachte, monocles chat wäre da im Vergleich zu anderen Forks noch sorgfältig näher am Upstream von Conversations.
Ich werde dem nachgehen und die Liste entsprechend anpassen sowie meine Nutzer informieren. Vielen Dank dir für den Hinweis.
Gibt es einen Verweis, wo diese Sicherheitslücken aufgelistet werden?
A ten vzrůst efektivity! Osoba A prostrednictvím LLM vybleje dlouhý (jako skutečně desítky markdownů) text, což by ji jinak trvalo strasně dlouho, a osoba B prostřednictvím LLM text zkrátí (na jiný, než měla A, ale to zanedbejme), což by ji jinak trvalo také strašně dlouho.
A jak A, tak B jsou diky LLM výrazně efektivnější, zvládli více za méně.
Ale Horste!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!
(Následně asi team C kód oignoruje a implementuje si to sám. Např. protože osoba A oignorovala jejich potřeby, ale jen vygenerovala desítky markdownů. Ale možná ne, tahle část příběhu je stále otevřená.)
| To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck.
Jake prostredi to je? Ja jsem nikdy nezazil technologicke prostredi kde by prave "psani kodu" nebylo bottleneck. Spousta mid-level infrastruktury a komunikace vetsich organizaci vznika prave proto, ze psani kodu je bottleneck a je potreba ho nejak™ managovat.
Dokonce bych se nebal tvrdit, ze struktura vetsich organizaci vznika prave kolem bottlenecku psani kodu => bottleneck psani kodu je definuje.
Když píšeš kód, co nemá být psán, tak jsou neefektivity v samotnem procesu psani úplně šumák.
Jako když není dobře řešené sváření kapoty tohohle
when anna's archive drops their thing we should lowkey pool some money and build a server (only 300tb) that would litterally just... allow a simple and fast api access to the entire db for anyone to use. why? because why not.
information deserves to be ducking free!
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in reply to Zechy • • •dělal na tom před pár lety kolega. Ve skutečnosti první najede obrazovka UEFI a pak se zobrazí bootovací obrazovka systému, díky kolegovi si to dokáže vzít to logo z UEFI a zdánlivě to vypadá, že to je ta samá obrazovka, jen tam přibude logo systému.
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