Imagine if people you met in life embodied the audio characteristics found in popular music recordings of the time they were born.

My mom, born in the mid 50s, would have a constant slap-back delay on her voice that couldn't be turned off.
Someone born a few years later would probably only be heard on either your left or right side, never both ears at once.
I would probably be in a wash of reverb and chorus.
Someone born in 1996 would have way too many highs and sound kind of brittle.

Someone born before 1925 would have a relatively limited frequency response, with the characteristics of acoustic recording.

It would be almost the inverse of going back in time and recording old voices with accents that don't exist anymore with modern, high-end equipment.

The matrix booth is crowded! Plenty of interesting questions and conversations.

If you want to try something new, we also have the famous sour Swedish sweets that our community member Magnus brings every year. They’re worth a try!

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Habt ihr eine Idee, welche deutschsprachigen allg. übergeordeten Begriffe man für #Messenger/ Chatsysteme benutzen könnte?

Es geht um die Gestaltung eines Formulars, auf dem Personen ihr Handle/ Account/ ID o.ä. für digitale Kommunikation angeben sollen, unter dem/ der sie erreichbar sind.

Die Abfrage nach der ID/Account für Messenger (dienste), unter der die Nutzer erreichbar sind, führte zu totaler Überforderung. Sie konnten gar nichts mit den Begriffen Chat, Messenger, ID, Account oder Benutzername anfangen, hatten aber alle WA auf dem Phone und wussten nicht, dass ihre TelNr. die ID ihres genutzten Messengerdienstes ist ...

Im Prinzip wäre das praktisch wohl so, als würde man z.B. einen Opel fahren und wüsste nicht, dass das ein Auto ist. 😶

We have swag at #FOSDEM

Drop by our usual table for stickers and keychains!

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- I'm Erin from @turris and this is my first talk. (Applause)

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As much as I loathe LLM "AI" built from hoards of stolen data, machine learning "AI" has become terrifically useful.

This past week I had 10 audio recorders set out in the forest and nearby grassland, all recording non-stop from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. That was on our recent university field ecology field trip.

Today I downloaded all the files to a hard drive (156 GB of data) and then I set my little M1 Macbook Air to work, using the offline desktop BirdNet app to identify all of the birds in the recordings.

It took most of the day, and now I have a 42,284 row spreadsheet of birds detected.

It really feels like magic.

Here's a quick sorted lists of all the bird detections with species IDs with a confidence score >0.9.

Together with the students in the course, we'll laterl compare how birds have changed since we started doing this in 2020, and how the birds in the grassland differ from the forest.)

#birds #BirdNet #ecology #nz #MachineLearning

At some point last evening, most of the lights off, I was coming up the stairs, and was meowing at the cat. The cat meowed back, and we were having "a conversation", as you do.

I became aware that the cat was in front of me, but the meowing was coming from further up the stairs.

That's when I realized the cat wasn't saying anything, but my wife and I were meowing at each other, each of us thinking the other was the cat.

Meanwhile, the cat was sitting between us, wondering what these two idiots were talking about.

#cat #cats

🎥 Streamujeme FOSDEM 2026 live!

Sledujte konferenci přes náš PeerTube:
📺 vhsky.cz

3 paralelní místnosti:
- Janson (hlavní sál) - JIŽ BĚŽĺ ✅
- K1105 (La Fontaine) - od 10:00
- H2215 (Social Web) - od 10:30

Sobota 31.1. + Neděle 1.2.
Program: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube #LiveStream #OpenSource #FOSS

FOSDEM 2026 - Schedule

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FOSDEM is waking up, and our fabulous team is already ready at the booth!

Come grab your free matrix t-shirt, stickers, or one of the very few caps left from our one-time edition!

⬇️⬇️⬇️ How to find us

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#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

Come by, meet XMPP enthusiasts and grab some merch at the XMPP & #Realtime Lounge!
--> ULB, AW Building, Level 1

XMPP - choose & build your own #chat #infrastructure (and much more)!

#jabber #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging