This history of Return / Enter / whatever it is on your keyboard is more fascinating and surprising than I expected. Worth reading:
https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/
(via https://twostopbits.com/ which will be of interest to some of you, via https://tilde.zone/@movq/115124813215685011 via @rk because Attribution Damnit™ as I was indoctrinated long ago and feel like indulging tonight.)
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/