Flow –the animated sensation of the year– was created in Blender! Francesco had a chat with director Gints Zilbalodis to discuss his experience working on the film. The interview covers topics such as learning Blender, working with a team (actually multiple small teams), using add-ons, and single-handedly lighting and rendering the film. Enjoy: https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/ #b3d

I have feelings about AI & the web & my experience being trans "in tech" in 2025 - so I screamed some thoughts onto my personal web log.

I hope for all of us a more queer & humane future. Keep building communities & dreaming better paths.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Finland’s Left Is Outmaneuvering the Far Right https://jacobin.com/2025/02/li-andersson-finland-left-alliance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism

Tomorrow, March 7th, the #DMA enters into effect. This post by @verge provides a great overview of the #compliance #policies chosen by the #Designated #Gatekeepers in the #EU 👇

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/6/24091592/eu-dma-competition-compliance-deadline-big-tech-policy-changes

Will we have #operational #interoperability? Enhanced #competition & #innovation? choice over the #processing of our #data (especially for #TargettedAdvertisement?

I think that, at least in some cases, not without #Enforcement from @EU_Commission

Wow. I follow news about Free and open source software quite a bit – but where do I learn that a movie made with @Blender actually won a freaking Golden Globe!?

On @europeanspodcast!

Congratulations to the creators of the movie Flow – and to all contributors to Blender throughout the years, who made this possible! What an achievement!

Here's an interview with the director, with focus on the use of Blender https://www.fastcompany.com/91232740/flow-movie-turned-a-4-million-budget-into-an-animated-work-of-art

#FOSS #animation #Blender #GoldenGlobes

It was about time we interviewed a drag cow on the podcast. Don’t miss this week’s interview with Swiss artist and animal rights campaigner Daniel Hellmann, making the case for joyful activism

Almost a full house in Janson learning the power of DMA’s Article 6(7) to litigate against gatekeepers #FOSDEM
Enforcement is critical to securing human rights, digital rights, and a fairer open Digital Future.

#DMA gatekeepers as awkward neighbours, @fsfe lawyer Lucas Lasota presents case T-1080/23 against Apple to the #FOSDEM crowd.
There are more and more talks in FOSDEM about enforcement, it’s great to see how the law can support free and neutral devices.

When elephants meet. #postgres #mastodon #fosdem

@floord

Great talk by Thomas Stoerk on models for economic tipping points analysis. A free model to define economic harms and forecasting tipping points of climate disasters (simply put).#fosdem

FOSDEM Treasure Hunt Update – Signs Stolen, But the Hunt Continues! https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-02-01-update-treasure-hunt/

@elricofmelnibone @avocadoom exactly, this is one of my favourite things about fosdem you can just safely be introverted on occasion when you have a conversation it’s really great

@gyptazy @overunderlay I was disappointed to be in a room earlier today, with free seats, but the sign was up. Hopefully people count all seats before shutting the door

The Mozilla truck asked if I accept cookies and they didn’t even process any part of my personal data, they just gave me a cookie! #FOSDEM #DataProtection #cookies

Also, "Kein Bier fuer Nazis"
(no beer for nazis)

When it snowed in Nurenberg last November, it gave ample opportunity to write 'punch nazis' in the snow next many of the buildings. Being winter, the sun set early and this is the only non-blurry pic I have.
It's not enough to speak against facism, but to unite against it to resist it.

One analytical lens I love for interactions is "consent vs control". Here you see a Gmail pop-up for their GenAI "assistant". Do I want this? No. But my choices are "Learn more" and "Continue". My consent is assumed, making it a controlling interaction. You see this a lot these days, like where you choices aren't yes and no, but yes and "ask me later". It always makes me wonder what kind of personal relationships the people who do this have.

#EUAgriFoodDays

I quite like mastodons and do think blue skies may be an urban legend, but I am also found there.

“I don’t need to explain to you that at this very moment a government is being formed to serve private interests”. @mireillemoret at #FARIai conference delivering a worthy critique of the fallacies in the draghi report