FOSDEM 2027 Call for Main Track talks
Proposals for main track talks for FOSDEM 2027 can now be submitted!
FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world.
The twenty-seventh edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of January 2027 at the usual location, ULB Campus Solbosch in ...
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https://fosdem.org/2027/news/call-for-main-track/
re: silly, unrelated
re: silly, unrelated
Holy mother of god. Some satellite images from #Gaza have been unembargoed on google. #Rafah is gone. Just gone. Khan Younis is ruins. Everything, gone. #Palestine is being ethnically cleansed so billionaires can have a new playground.
This is what #Israel has done. This is their crime, the blood of 22,637 children stains the hands of every member of the #IDF. This is #America's crime, this is everyone who has ever supported #Israel's crime. This is unforgivable. We are a terrible country, supporting one that's even worse.
Until it's taken down again, sat images of Palestine here, I've started us in Rafah's main mosque. Or where it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bilal+Mosque/@31.305079,34.2398794,490m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x14fd938fd9cce82b:0xf8056862904cb47f!2sRafah!3b1!8m2!3d31.29678!4d34.243482!16zL20vMDJzaHJ6!3m5!1s0x14fd9407c5414093:0x974c7d2ce8e05140!8m2!3d31.3056418!4d34.2401459!16s%2Fg%2F11csb1qbb3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
@neal @elly we'll have to agree to disagree. my experience working with devicetree has only reconfirmed the reasons it was adopted in the first place -- it's a very simple concept. in 2026 a lot of the earlier architectural issues have been figured out. Bringing up a new platform is not that bad actually??
we also are in a much better place to write DT in a way that allows us to make backwards compatible changes as we describe the hardware in more detail. with ACPI you're just screwed when sayyy a vendor doesn't bother to model your type-c port as dual role capable even though it is, you lose out on hardware features that your device actually has!
nevermind the hellish issues with EC quirks and all the driver workarounds that are needed due to bad firmware
it's perfectly fine to have a preference here but i don't buy this "it's so much harder" line especially from someone who afaik hasn't had to do bring up or long term development on DT platforms. I'd take it any day over ACPI if it means not having to deal with a fw blob of unknown quality that might have deranged bugs
We invite you to the webinar on copyright and LLM-generated code.
The FSFE published an informative article about the copyrightability of LLM-generated code. Those insights are now turned into a webinar.
Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, Legal Programme Manager at FSFE, will talk about copyright, a foundational pillar of the legal framework that supports Free Software, and LLMs, followed by a Q&A.
Time: October 29, 13.00-14.30 CET.
Webinar: https://nlnet.nl/events/20261029/index.html
Article: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html
RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561
Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they dropped 3 million USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution.
This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/
DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to direct it towards projects that align with his technical and ideological views.
It's hard to overstate how dangerous that is for all of us.
RT: https://tacobelllabs.net/users/astraluma/statuses/117363654848931561
The interview on the upcoming documentary #Naza. Really dark implications on seemingly simple AI can do in the hands of the reckless.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/sep/29/naza-israel-film-stateside-kai-and-carter
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate
165 years ago today (1 Oct 1861), Charles Darwin was having a rough one
Libraries are the only data centers I want.
can't believe pastagang figured this out the hard way when we could have just watched this talk
(the talk was amazing - by Linda Rising about group intelligence)
I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed from LinkedIn and only you can access it."
Big tech is more and more mask-off every day.
