OMG, I'm so glad FOSDEM never fell into the trap of doing corporate booths...
Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations.
But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no longer have to pay eye watering roaming fees for calls and data when you travel to other EU countries, as it was common until 5-10 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if big tech has at least some constraints onto what it can do with your data and how much choice you have as a customer.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you, as a EU citizen, can benefit from the services of any other embassy of any other EU country if stranded abroad.
Those who try to depict the EU as a bureaucratic hell worth dismantling are those who hate the impact that its laws have on their freedom of exploiting markets, exploiting customers or living out of rent money.
Or those who hate the combined economic and political power of a united Europe with a single market because it threatens their national interests, and they’d rather exert their leverage with a bunch of divided and weaker countries instead.
Europe isn’t perfect and a lot can be improved. But those who call for its demise DO NOT talk in your interests.
Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.
If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.
And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.
And, as always, #retoot appreciated!
With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:
We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.
6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.
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Just skimmed through it.
I would have loved a book like that growing up. As it is, some of the stuff covered in it I only learned about when going to college, years later.
I would have been of the right age to get this book! Alas, it doesn't seem to be available in Dutch though. Plus, I only got my first computer (a C-128 hand me down) in the mid 90s... 🤷
Remember though that kids also need exposure to pathogens in order for them to build a healthy immune system that has been exposed to them and therefore knows how to fight them.
Masking all the time makes that difficult.
@0h00000000
Even if there isn't that big conspiracy, the technology has the potential to make the happen anyway
You can generate 'good enough' code using AI tools that can get you 95% of the way there. Why would you use open source if you can build stuff that way for ~free? And if you don't use open source, why would you support it?
@mgorny
Is a video recording foreseen? I would love to see the talk, but Southern California is a bit too far from my bed 😉
@bkuhn @socallinuxexpo
I didn't mean to offend, but "sqlite can't be as fast as LMDB because of its design choices" is the statement *I* was trying (but perhaps failing) to make.
That doesn't make those design choices invalid -- in most cases I prefer SQL for ease of debugging -- but if performance *really* matters, LMDB is really the only option.
That doesn't mean 'everything else is slow', just that LMDB is faster
@hyc @Archivist
You mean like https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-blob/, correct?
Your SQL engine would still be involved, and needs to do string parsing just to understand what it is you want to store in binary. Yes it's faster than converting to base64 and back, but not as fast as a memcpy ala LMDB.
I said "*really*" for a reason 😉
@hyc @Archivist
To be completely fair, SQL requires you to convert to and from string representation the whole time. If performance *really* matters, anything SQL-based is a mistake
@Archivist
😂🤣
Nothing, it's probably not a very common name in the English speaking world ('Walter' would be the English cognate), but then I was born and raised in an area where you only get to learn that language when you turn 14.
@foone @emily @azonenberg
Reading is, indeed, not copying, and you are allowed to do that within copyright (hence the name; it's not 'readingright')
But reading and then writing something similar, while not exactly copying, is close enough that it's usually considered 'plagiarism'.
@ahltorp @tbortels @lcamtuf @bgalehouse @kevinr
Well I hear the straight of Hormuz has mountains around it and those don't really let wind through 😂
You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Solar and wind energy
Birthday paradox... I don't know whether you measure 'time since transition' in days or years but if it's the latter, six is not too bad. In my almost 48 years, I've met more Wouters than I remember, and I know that there are *at least* 4 people that I share a first *and* last name with.
@azonenberg @gloriouscow @foone
The way to make it work is not to use a web interface, but instead to use a tool like https://opencode.ai/ to
- generate the code
- generate the tests
- run the tests
- have it loop over 'fix any failures and try again'
- test the code yourself
By themselves, they will get things about 80% right. That's not perfect, but with that feedback loop, enough to get something that works.
@PaulM @mjg59