Notices by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann (richih@chaos.social)

Hot take:

Calling it #GNU / #Linux makes about as much sense as calling yourself teeth/human. Yes it's kinda the default to have but it's not mandatory or uniquely coupled either way and it's most certainly not the defining property.

It's Linux. That's it.

It's amusing how I immediately got the expected replies of people who seem to assume I'm not deeply familiar with the space and still disagree with their interpretation of reality.

#FOSDEM service toot:

ULB usually allows us onto their premises on the last weekend before the semester. While we officially never plan another FOSDEM until next edition's kickoff (late August this year), it's reasonable to expect FOSDEM to happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02.

I wouldn't sign any contracts for that date, but in case you want a rough plan, now you know.

Edit: if something shifted, it would be earlier. Later than the start of the semester seems all but impossible.

@badnetmask I personally value privacy too much to be able to have peace of mind.

Prusa gives you the same, but with privacy.

Not trying to start an argument, just felt that context was missing. If you knew already, feel free to ignore.

@Quinnypig for what it's worth, our purchasing people are already reaching out to SlackForce to get confirmation either way.

@Quinnypig The opt-out is also weasel-wordy, as you can opt out from *Global* models -- are there non-global ones?

If you are covered under the GDPR, Article 28 allows you to audit them to a reasonable degree and request a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA/TIA) under Article 35.

`telnet mapscii.me` is the coolest thing you'll see all day, maybe all week.

#CLI

I'm doing a thing!

#CERN #particlephysics #physics

Our meeting is IN THE ORIGINAL DATA CENTER

Guess what's in the #CERN VIP visitor center.. The monitor, keyboard, and mouse of the NXT station Tim Berners-Lee created the #WWW on (the computer is in London, it seems) -- and a #Grafana dashboard.

The monitor has a large dimple on top from all the people touching it.

Just normal, everyday things you'd see walking to work at #CERN

Boring, really

#FOSDEM opening talk from the other side. It's really good to be back in person.

#FOSDEM infrastructure review talk, this time largely delegated to Basti Schubert (not on Mastodon). His first public talk!

@fosdem #FOSDEM closing talk about to start. We're letting the NASA talk run over schedule to a packed room

@fosdem Maybe I'll remember to keep all the #FOSDEM talks in in one thread? Let's see :)

#FOSDEM 2024 opening talk! We had 20-33% first timers!

As per usual, many, many people standing at the back and at the sides. (sorry for the blurry second photo, I hurried too much)

@fosdem we forgot if he lost a bet or why we ended up here...

Anyway, if you need urgent Pokemon help, come to #FOSDEM K Infodesk. All Pikachus are standing by.

@fosdem It's a bit of a #FOSDEM tradition by now.. in 2020, I put into an internal platform that I needed $something plus Gerry in a duck suit and he replied that if anything he'd only wear a moose suit.

Anyway, challenge me on those things at your own risk :)

@fosdem #FOSDEM Monitoring and Observability opening, Sunday morning are always slow; we had the room full and lines outside in no time

@fosdem #FOSDEM hack. We couldn't refill the hand towel dispensers in the toilets. So the #FreeCAD people designed a key for us, #Prusa people @3dprinting #3dprinting it for us, and the cleaning staff could refill everyone's hand towels.