Notices by Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)

Je n'ai pas d'autres informations mais, si vos noms de domaine sont chez BookMyName, il faudrait regarder ça de près (le site Web est en effet en carafe, empêchant les vérifications). https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80342.html

"If Shakespeare were alive today would he use AI? No. He’d hate it, and everything else. He’d be more than 450 years old and he’d be pretty cranky. You know what old people are like."

https://x.com/thewritertype/status/2047224276789444644

Piqué sur le réseau des fachonazimilliardaires mais qui vivent dans une dictature islamiste.

J'aime bien le « stop code ». Sinon, inutile d'attendre, au bout de dix minutes (Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris), il était toujours à 0 %.

Unlike the previous talk (which was purely corporate), this one talks about the limitations of ActivityPub / the fediverse and about alternatives (AT, Nostr).

#FOSDEM

#Castopod software: fediverse podcast hosting platfom.
https://castopod.org

#FOSDEM

"tags.pub - following hashtags globally" by Evan Prodromou

#HashtagsAreGreat But following hashtags is not global (you may miss toots that did not arrive on your instance)

Idea: an instance for hashtags (tags.pub) where each hashtag has its account. Instances that choose to partcipate will write to these accounts. Following a hashtag will be subscribing to these accounts.

#FOSDEM

Good morning, Brussels! First day of #FOSDEM 2026. Lots of people and lots of talks.

https://fosdem.org/2026/

And if you wake up early, you'll find seats!

#FOSDEM

Keynote starts: "FOSDEM is the center of open source" "The center of Belgium" "The center of the European Union" "The center of the free world"

#FOSDEM

First slide with "sovereignty" on it. "If we lose democracy, open source will be irrelevant"

"Open source was always about politics"

#FOSDEM

@opheliecoelho

The numbers: 1014 events, 1186 speakers, 66 track/devrooms

"Don't skip the food queue but let staff and volunteers do it."

#FOSDEM

And if the room is full, or if you are remote: https://fosdem.org/schedule/streaming/

#FOSDEM

"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI", talk by Michiel Leenaars "We need to talk about war"'

Because not everything at #FOSDEM can be fun.

[FOSS = Free / Open Source Software. AI = generating funny answers to stupid questions]

The growth of the Internet and of free software was during a time of [relative] peace and hope, after the end of the cold war [in Europe]. It was ideal and we forgot about war, dictatorship and other nasty things.

#FOSDEM

Then, we moved to hyperscalers/ GAFAM

"Cloud first strategy" means you're proud of your incompetence.

#FOSDEM

And with deliberate attacks (think supply-chain), free software is in the battleground.

And we are not ready for that.

#FOSDEM

Hey, but there are a lot of free seats in the Social Web devroom at #FOSDEM. Come and join us!

Starting "Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon"

Purely corporate speak from Mastodon official, boring and self-serving. (And insisting that new users should be directed to one specific instance, but no longer mastodon.social, but mandatory Mastodon and have to agree with the terms of use.)

#FOSDEM

Now, Benjamin Bellamy (not the artist, the other one), "Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse"

#FOSDEM