Notices by Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)

@DrHyde
That's the first thing she did.

They said: If you finish the course in three weeks, it's the best 28 Euros you ever spent.

They didn't seem to care about grasp the idea of freedom/free software.

"You just need to pass on a few beers this summer."

"I don't drink."

I really doubt if they even got the irony of free as in freedom, not as in beer.

My daughter was advised/encouraged by their teacher to take a Linux (sic) command line course.

She was enjoying it until she unexpectedly hit a paywall at chapter 4 (of 6).

Can you recommend a free as in freedom GNU/Linux command-line course or tutorial?

#askfedi #dtv

@ShinIce @tdose @wynke @fosdem
Look, I'm not complaining!

Please, no need to get defensive! I'm well aware that it's all volunteer work, so I am truly grateful for all you do, and for the fact that I, as a #vegan, can get a decent lunch.

However...

I would hope, that the free and open source software community would care about our planet. And animal cruelty feasts are not helping.

What I said is how happy and grateful I am with how the @tdose volunteers made an amazing shift here.

They didn't do what was necessary, they went waaay beyond.

I'm just hoping that there's some #fosdem volunteer somewhere out there who finds this inspiring, and decides to follow suit.

@janneke @tdose @wynke

We (as @fosdem ) are listening to the community and have learnt from it. At least one food truck has #vegan stuff and there are other #vegetarian options too.
Looking at the numbers of what get sold, even if there are meat less options, is the other side of the medal.

We care about the #community, #attendees, #volunteers and will act accordingly.

@civodul @gvwilson

Great bloggery, especially with all the references. (Although I'm a bit puzzled that the LOC is not productivity reference is from 2019 and not from, say, 1963.)

There's one statement that I frown upon:

"Early adopters differ from late adopters and non-adopters in ways that directly predict productivity: they are more motivated to experiment, more comfortable with new tooling, and more likely to already be high performers."

It's just a personal nitpick, as I do acknowledge the fact that we're looking at different populations.

@hans_zelf @koen @bert_hubert sommigen geloven dat het rustgevend zal zijn.

@mrjre
Tja. Als ik een talig probleem heb, in casu bv een taalkundige zou moeten interviewen, dan neem ik een talige mee die ik vertrouw/met wie ik kan praten.

Misschien lijd ik aan een traumatisch tekort Dunning-Kruger?

"Waarom rekent u in uw modellen met een effectieve naleving van 100%, dat is toch niet reëel?"

[Voor tiende keer]: We presenteren altijd een effectieve range, beter dan 100% wordt het niet, at noemen wij de bovengrens.

#coronaenquete

Een stelletje alfas, gammas, en praktisch opgeleiden interviewen medici en bèta wetenschappers.

"Ik vraag het u nog een keer, en dat is dan ook echt de laatste keer, want ik begrijp niet wat u zegt."

Heb nog niet scherp of het lachen is of huilen. Probably a little bit of both.

Wie stelt dit soort commissies samen, en waarom denken deze mensen zelf dat ze hier iets te zoeken hebben?

#coronaenquete

@ekaitz_zarraga @nlnet
Addendum: Mes will become faster in any case.

The question is, will MesCC become faster.

Details, details.

#GNU #Mes #MesCC #popsyntax

@ekaitz_zarraga @nlnet
So, will Mes become faster, or more powerful, or both?

And if both, then when? First more powerful, or first faster?

And there's a third, possibly even more important angle: readability. That will improve a lot either way!

Exciting times!

In @protonprivacy news today:

1. #Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tzbizh/proton_is_funding_the_french_far_right_on_youtube/

2. Proton is deeply sorry and promises to do better

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/

They probably vet their sponsorships using AI, so this shouldn't have had happened in the first place. So keep an eye on them folks.

#FarRight

@joenepraat
To me, (permanent) blocking is a non-feature that we should try to get rid of, if we can. Of course I acknowledge that everyone should be empowered to protect themselves, so we should be careful.

However, I wonder if there are any statistics on how often a block is the result of a tragic misunderstanding.

Also, I wonder why there isn't some kind of appeal, possibly after a period of time.

@tdose
For quite a while I took pride in making source tarballs reproducible. First, I did it for Dezyne (https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dezyne.git/commit/?id=7db1b91b65499464ed9829d17b808453f5f6e5e4) then (a bit harder) for GNU Guix (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70169/).

In Guix, it has always been a puzzle: Do we prefer tarballs, or do we prefer Git? Well, thanks to the xz-utils fiasco, that problem has been solved: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/milestone/66679.

We now know what to do, we only have to do it.

On the tarball front, I believe it would be good to remove pre-built artifacts, and only include true sources from Git.

Thoughts?

@suzanneterhuurne
Gelukkig heb ik dit soort dingen nou echt nooit! /S

@suzanneterhuurne
Dank je; weer uitstekend gelukt! Was leuk je te ontmoeten en fijn met je te praten!
#tdose

Another great---can I say somewhat daring?--- non-technical talk by @JeroenBaten "From terminal to table -- Communication skills for geeks and nerds" at @tdose on his personal lessons about communication; ever so helpful, possibly also for non-geeks?

#tdose

Kris van Rens at @tdose "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"

After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.
#tdose

Smooth, polished and clear talk by @GeekoOnTour with some fun interactions today at @tdose
#tdose

On the way to @tdos, day two.
#tdose