I started a documentation repo for #FOSDEM advise - for new and old visitors, attendees and speakers. I figure we can crowdsource it so bring your pull-requests. I will greatly appreciate help.

If not, I will populate it myself slowly over time but it won't be as good.

github.com/bagder/FOSDEM

GitHub - bagder/FOSDEM: Advise for FOSDEM attendees

Advise for FOSDEM attendees. Contribute to bagder/FOSDEM development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Как выглядел лондонский диалект на бумаге 1000 лет назад?

#лингвистика #английскийЯзык

Воззвание Генриха III на среднеанглийском языке от 18 октября 1258 года.

Этот текст считается самым ранним свидетельством лондонского диалекта. Оригинальная орфография сохранена.

Henri, þurȝ Godes fultume King on Engleneloande, Lhoauerd on Yrloande, Duk on Normandi, on Aquitaine, and Eorl on Aniow, send igretinge to alle hise holde, ilærde and ileawede on Huntendoneschire.
Þæt witen ȝe wel alle þæt we willen and vnnen þæt þæt vre rædesmen, alle oþer þe moare dæl of heom, þæt beoþ ichosen þurȝ us and þurȝ þæt loandes folk on vre kuneriche, habbeþ idon and schullen don in þe worþnesse of Gode and on vre treowþe, for þe freme of þe loande, þurȝ þe besiȝte of þan toforen iseide redesmen, beo stedefæst and ilestinde in alle þinge a buten ænde.

The #curl GitHub repository surpassed 40K stars

github.com/curl/curl

GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub

RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1…

I'm glad I visited the U.S. a year ago because I won't be able to anytime soon.

BrianKrebs

2026-01-26 17:10:54

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

privacyinternational.org/news-…

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.

Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…

The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media

^{Privacy International}

We are planning another #curl distro meeting this year, after the previous years' successful and productive gatherings.

It is a video meeting with peeps from the curl project meeting and talking with curl maintainers from "distros" shipping curl. And we don't specify what a distro is - as everyone is welcome.

This is very much work in progress - if you have ideas and proposals for agenda items, add them!

github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…

curl distro discussion 2026

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub

Today in 1948, 78 years ago: the first magnetic tape recorder goes on sale in the United States.

#OnThisDay

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy empiezo el día enterándome de que el tejado del edificio de Boiro ha volado.

De puta madre.

Things I have learned to do to a guitar either via an instructor or sheet music:

Golpe: tapping the soundboard with your fingernail
Slap harmonic: Literally hammering the 12th fret with your picking hand
Bending the neck forward or backward
Scraping the string lengthwise
Capirote: flicking the edge of the sound hole
Rapping the soundboard or side with a knuckle

They’re like, here is your precious musical instrument, now go beat the shit out of it

Hello @MewProjects. Continuing from earlier, just for laughs, tried to load an xm file and got this.

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FastPlay
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Cannot play file:
stranglehold.xm

Unsupported file format.
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OK
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I know your intention isn't/wasn't to make this a foobar or winamp replacement, but damn, I could almost use this cute little thing as one! Plugin support would be hard, though. meep!

The internet connection here has been somewhat flaky the last couple of days, possibly weather-related, so I've been pretty much exclusively using AT&T mobile data, as it's more reliable than the fiber ISP. Go figure.

With two bars of signal, I'm getting around 450 Mb/sec down, anywhere between 7 and 22 Mb/sec up.

Tonight, I connected my iPhone 16 Pro to one of the USB-C ports of my Mac to use my phone as a wired hotspot, and I noticed lots of jitter, packet loss, and very high latency that I wasn't seeing either on the device itself, or when using it as a WiFi hotspot.
I'd think a direct connection would be better, but apparently not.