Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yesterday we got informed that the #DEIB devroom at #fosdem which we pitched with @Gina @_elena got rejected.

The flood of positive messages we've received on mastodon over the past 24h gives me hope for an even more inclusive & diverse future of FOSS projects. FOSDEM is not mirroring the entire FOSS scene. I'm very grateful for all the support many of you are expressing. 🧡

@dentangle summarized it in a perfect way! The devroom *is* happening here because of YOU.

https://chaos.social/@dentangle/117479063016684874

longjmp() Considered Harmful @hikari https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01M5FKSAZR531Y1PG1HHBCJ4YJ

PHP is a million or so lines of C code that pervasively used alloc functions that longjmp() on failure, so OOM bailout creates corrupted state. the fix uses fallible allocs and a global please-return-early OOM flag but requires touching Everything. completeness is impossible 😰😰😰

the PHP security bug patch is a nightmare, our server is patched but this thing looks more like a desperate attempt to patch hundreds of different leaks than a straightforward single bugfix, I do not trust that this is over…

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Every year the Values of #FOSDEM are put on display. The resistance to having a CoC. The complete lack of health policy or health precautions. The overcrowding and lack of disabled accommodations. The choice of corporate sponsors. The lack of financial transparency. The decision to platform Jack Dorsey etc.

It's not a safe space, and likely never will be for a whole bunch of reasons.

Yeah, it took me a while to see it too. Do you see it yet?

The 'AI' Software Crisis: Software Developers have been promoted into incompetence: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/07-promoted-into-incompetence/

The PHP #security issue shows once again how much our society relies on mostly volunteer work.

Look at PHP Foundation @phpc finances:
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET

- Reimbursed $67K on development work this year
- Received: $642,755 last year

Compare these numbers with the amounts companies have made with products & services built upon #PHP. Our digital foundations are built on the backs of #opensource volunteers. Governments & companies need to invest in our common digital infrastructures.

"President Trump has talked about replacing the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with an indoor swimming pool."

You can't make this stuff up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/politics/trump-white-house-media.html

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/117479275107799652

uhm

Good lord the the diff fixing one of the PHP RCEs is enormous https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/31c0ea7d7ff1d1fccb6492e52dab544011628065

That the fix is this complicated is quite the warning sign imo, there might be more bugs lurking around this

You keep touting "agentic development" and meanwhile those of us left in the trenches keep having to add stuff like this to their human-readable readme files to prevent your slop machine from colouring over the lines.

We're calling it the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise when we should be calling it The Fantastic Four.

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#comicstrip #carpediem

We have deployed the scheduled security release, the aforementioned services are up again.

3/4

My child is at that age (5 almost 6) when girls start experiencing a confidence gap. I would have been a proud mamma to show her the incredible diversity of presenters in our devroom at FOSDEM.

I’ve been showing her examples of other kinds of excellence (than stereotypical cis white men - sorry no offense) since she was an infant.

But it’s so much more powerful when you discuss people you know IRL and can show actual examples...