Among all rooms I was in, somehow people in D.perl and D.declarative.minimalistic just refuses to leave after the conference. Guess I'll stick around to find out why (-;
RT @garrett@twitter.com
#FOSDEM scales a lot better when it's remote & allows so many more people to attend who otherwise couldn't make it.
(For so many reasons too: location, travel cost, accessibility issues of the venue, family, etc.)
Any chance future @FOSDEM@twitter.com might become hybrid in-person/online? https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign/status/1358399865957580802
I just heard this definition at #fosdem, and I think it's about perfect:
> type inference: when you don't have to type the types of the types.
(if Ambrose Bierce cat been a programmer, that's how he would have put it...)
I should have learned Zig *before* crashing a Zig #FOSDEM
"Masks and vaults: how anonymity overshadows real online privacy"
My latest opinion article projects my concerns about the fundamentally different concepts of privacy and anonymity being used interchangeably in many contexts. Slightly longer and more intense read than usual, but in the hope you will find it helpful.
https://tuxphones.com/opinion-when-privacy-overlaps-anonymity/ #linux #privacy #anonymity
I'm already excited about working full-time on Fractal for the coming months.
https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/2021/02/01/nlnet-grant-for-fractal/
nope, not a fool at all: sit together with others talking to a bot is much worse, I got a bot kicked out of #FOSDEM generic room today
One of the biggest benefit of participating in #GSoC'20 for me was to get to know the #Python #packaging people. They are still those I look up to for their way of raising problems in the most respecting way possible: https://discuss.python.org/t/nobody-is-following-the-metadata-directory-promise-in-pep-517/6964
I think it would be VERY healthy for us to IMMEDIATELY dismantle all of this thinly-veiled phrenology hiding being machine learning. https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monitoring-users-speech-to-recommend-music/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
For those who can read German here is what I am talking about. It's a law that to my knowledge currently the European conservative coalition will push for and that will force providers of encrypted chatting services to generate two keys. One for the receiver and one for law enforcement and everyone who the Police thinks posted something "hateful" could be effected. There is the hope for E-Privacy but it's blocked for multiple years by now so who knows when we will get it.
https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/
Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.
So #imadethis
In the last few months I and some of my classmates have been working on a project management system that focuses on school projects.
The system backend is written in #python with an async #asgi framework #quart-trio. It uses #rethinkdb as its main database, with #ipfs for file hosting.
Any testing and feedback is highly appreciated.
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/acanban/
Live demo: https://acanban.ga/
the fact that win10 actually refuses to let you shut off the computer *right now* without installing the updates first is perhaps one of the most user-hostile and consent-violating things i've ever seen in software. instead i hard power off, potentially corrupting the filesystem. fuck yourself, microsoft, and i hope i never learn the names of the devs who implemented this malware.
I'm a Vietnamese undergrad student and a free software enthusiast.