Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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...

I've done a zine with a friend, it's called punk é amor (punk is love), if somebody around around here is interested let me know. Its free price.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/117477912226740310

A must read thread by the amazing @Gina 🔥

@onepict @Gina @fosdem
Yes OFFDEM is happening this year, and indeed Equity is at the heart of what we do, and we do have rooms.
The topics that interest you are discussed in the bonds workgroup, you might want to join it on OFFDEM forum: https://oxygen.offdem.net/g/bonds.wg

@Gina Expected to get coffee? What the actual fuck? That's terrible. I hope your former coworkers read this and are deeply ashamed. FFS.

Without this DEI program, I wouldn't have worked in IT. Again, grateful to Capgemini ❤️

Unfortunately I now worked in corporate IT. I was the only woman in every team. A self taught junior dev. The micro aggressions that I had to deal were _insane_.

Daily:
- expected to get coffee and take notes
- ignored, side eyed or talked over
- expected to write CSS as a Java dev because "girls are good at that"
- SO MANY weird and inappropriate jokes and comments
- weird invites to a senior devs house

In honor of #FOSDEM rejecting our Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Belonging (DEIB) track, and time permitting, I will be posting numbers about diversity in tech and my personal experiences in IT today.

Feel encouraged to share numbers and experiences as well ❤️

I was interviewed a couple weeks ago by a grad student working on a paper about attitudes towards AI in the maker/creative communities. We had a good long discussion and in talking, we realized the divide between pro-AI people and anti-AI people mostly comes down to whether people value the process or the product.

My friend only values the product, so she doesn't understand why someone would want to spend time on the process.