@mirabilos
Audio transcription is not an LLM. I don't know how much power OpenAI spent training whisper models, because honestly I don't care. That said, this type of thing was possible with the state of the art 20 years ago, so I can't imagine it needed that much.

Thanks for the feedback (I know I did ask), but EOT for me.
@fosdem

@mirabilos
Maybe do some research before assuming 'AI' == power wastage? The tiny model is small enough that you can use it to transcribe live audio on a raspberry pi.
@fosdem

This year, as an experiment, we're also generating vtt subtitles of all released videos at @fosdem. These are generated after publishing of the video using OpenAI whisper.

I would love to get feedback about these subtitles. Are people using them? Are they useful?

As they're plain text files, it should also be possible to perform some analysis at scale on the contents of all the talks that were performed at FOSDEM. If anyone is doing something like this, please let me know!

@sylvestre
@RichiH

It's not a bug. This is covered in our FAQ:

https://video.fosdem.org/2025/FAQ.txt

Anyway, review.video.fosdem.org is busily processing files now, things will be available soon (I hope).

#tfw you spend four hours tracking down a bug in prod and you end up finding https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/sreview/-/commit/9e080ee6464b4da264ad9fb279ca055e294aaee8 ... 🤦

Campus Solbosch I am in you. #FOSDEM

@stroobl
Wij hebben een logeerkamer ja... Je bent zeker welkom!
@kamme

@stroobl
Beter dan in België 😉 als het hier 10° is dan is het verschrikkelijk koud...
@kamme

@jpmens
This is *insane*.

I tried it on my 'random replies to what I found in my referer logs' blog post from way back when, which contains a crap load of random junk, including one recipe for waffles.

It got it out perfectly.

@markd
I use cut and sort all the time, join I used exactly once in 20+ years of being in computers...
@b0rk

@stroobl
Correctie: 28° gisteren 🙂
@kamme

@stroobl
Je mag wat van onze 27° hebben 😉
@kamme

@bagder
I mean, personally, I'm happy with people sitting there holding placards or some such.

Trying to block a scheduled talk from happening? Not so much.
@opensuse @piyuv

@bagder

@piyuv @opensuse

@nik
Silent majority and all that 🤷
@chebra @fosdem

@doctormo
There are different amounts of disruption though. This sounded like they were going to try to drown out the talk, even for people who were interested in what was going to be said, which, speaking only for myself, would be crossing the line.
@mattcen @fosdem

@delroth
The programme team (that decides what gets on the schedule) wasn't even aware they were a sponsor (who communicate with a different team) until this shitstorm, so yes, that's absolutely what happened.

You may not like the talk, but that's a different matter.
@fosdem