Crypto is a SCAM, AI is a bubble.
Solving NP-complete travelling programmer problem of staying afloat, learning new stuff and visiting places.
Presented opinions reflect my temporary state of mind, hash them with a byte of salt.
Stackoverflow bans LLMs: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/1708801
I missed this but still important news.
There is nothing shocking in the rationale, the quality is just not high enough and the content just sounds right enough that the effort to review swamps out good content.
Crevette (Theo) and Gambas (Tino). Hard to believe they are twins:)
white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected
"Technocracy" was a movement in the early 20th century ...
... that insisted that democracy was terrible ...
... and society should be run by elite engineers, scientists and businesspeople
A major figure in that movement?
step forward, Joshua Haldeman ...
.... grandfather of Elon Musk
When you read the list of stuff that Technocracy folks believed and wanted, you can see a *direct* line to Musk and DOGE
Twitter, as foretold by Hieronymus Bosch
Today marks the 20th anniversary of me arriving in Germany with my parents. If they hadn't abandoned their jobs, friends and family and taken me out of Russia, I might very well have perished by now.
@fosdem yesterday, we had our post mortem meeting. Blown up to seven hours straight, and we only got through everything by aggressively skipping and timeboxing -- after(!) moving half of it to the kick-off... Almost twenty people on site in Brussels with half a dozen more calling in.
There's a LOT of details and discussions to running a successful #FOSDEM
Afterwards, we had dinner together
Two weeks after FOSDEM 80% of videos are on-line. You can watch them all on the official website, or in my webapp:
Saw a fantastic talk at #FOSDEM or in one of the videos? Let the presenter know by clicking the feedback link on the schedule. Saw a fantastic speaker or talk that you think should belong on the main track next year? Submit it via https://fosdem.org/suggest/ #fosdem2025 #fosdem2026
Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure 😉
Another #FOSDEM ask/offer:
We are actively interested in loaning our video boxes to other conferences. If you want an easy, #opensource, and #openhardware way to record video and laptop, do let me know.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/ for details.
And yes, they frickeled the microphones just before the talk, normally the sound quality is good. We're aware of the irony :)
Retoots appreciated, as always.
@solimanhindy Wow, that's super fast. I see that already ~20% of all videos were uploaded.
@fosdem And then, I closed #FOSDEM out with the closing keynote: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6713-closing-fosdem-2025/
Second time in a row that I couldn't do the closing dance for health reasons, hopefully 2026 is better.
But no matter if kidney stone, car accident, or whatever. I'd attend #FOSDEM in a wheelchair if need be.
"Github is free. Free as in free cocaine."
Great energy at Lightning Lightning Talks ⚡ (K.1.105 La Fontaine), 13:00-13:50. Super idea, I hope it'll be back next year!
Cool, already 10k bookmarks and over 300 active users on Sojourner FOSDEM conference companion PWA:
https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks
More stats:
https://bo.sojourner.rocks/conferences/fosdem-2025
