Collectieve ArbeidsOvereenkomst!
(collective work agreement, a Belgian legal term for a particular type of agreement between unions and employers)
No, but only because I spent most of today in a tin can kilometres high up in the air.
To clarify.
The date of FOSDEM depends on the academic calendar of the ULB (which has been graciously hosting FOSDEM since before it was called that). The organisation team has approximately zero influence over that decision.
FOSDEM must wait on the ULB to plan its calendar and communicate to it before it can announce anything.
@Karelt @fosdem @me
Ukraine blows up two key Russian bridges using Moscow’s own mines and $600 drones
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/world/ukraine-blows-up-russian-bridges-own-mines-cheap-drones-intl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-CNN
Gently nudge them towards https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/sreview? 😉
(You know it from fosdem)
"100% effectieve"
Followed by
"Almost 100% protection"
Followed by
"Around 99% protection"
Not that this isn't good news, but sometimes I wish journalists would not do such obvious things to improve click bait...
Yeah, it definitely might be a bit much. Just thought I'd offer, they're just lying there gathering dust. 🤷
Good luck with the search!
Difference between a literalist and a kleptomaniac?
a Literalist takes things literally
a kleptomaniac takes things, literally
What is 'high capacity'?
I have 5 2TB NAS HDDs in storage. Identical models. Previously in my home server, they were decommissioned when I replaced them with 4 6TB ones.
Note, 5, not 4, because smartctl started warning and I replaced it as a precaution. Others are fine.
If you're interested and happy to pay for shipping from Cape Town, they're yours. Alternatively, I'm leaving for Belgium on Thursday. I could take them and ship from there if you confirm soon.
Regarding the situation w/ #LLM-training bots DDoS'ing #Codeberg, I was quoted in *The Register*:
> “We see today another dark side of the abusive use of computing resources brought to us by the LLM and #AI ballyhoo. These bots, in the insatiable greed for more and more training data, are actually launching DDoS attacks against the kindest and most giving people in our community. Any company running bots for the purpose of training LLMs should be ashamed of themselves.”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/
Fair. That's context which I didn't have, and in that context it's indeed more complicated.
Theoretically it's still possible to set up a shim and grub from somewhere else and then sign your own kernels, but that's way more involved than just to disable secure boot.
@mjg59
Current laptop has never had secure boot turned off, and also has not run Windows not-virtualized since I got my grubby fingers on it 🤷. It just works, and turning off secure boot is too much effort.
@mjg59
What I found most 'interesting' in this article is that you don't need to reprogram your keyboard to send out a copy or paste key code. You can just use xmodmap or similar to reprogram your keys, no difference in your hardware required!
Oh yes, he keeps churning those out at an alarming rate. Easy to miss one.
