FEDIDEVS

25 years of #FOSDEM. Staff is searching for anecdotes, for instance, if you get married with someone met at FOSDEM. (Judging from the room, it will have a to be a same-sex marriage.)

Good morning, Brussels! This is the first day of #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/ The introduction talk will start soon.

If you are not interested in free software, better to mute the hashtag this week-end :-)

(Also #FOSDEM25 or #FOSDEM2025, which are used by some persons.)

Marketing: Bayes classification is now listed under "AI".

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"Is big DNS taking over?" by Farzaneh Badiei (Digital Medusa)

Will the big US-based public #DNS resolvers replace everything?

Preliminary report at https://digitalmedusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Upload-DNS-Resolvers-First-Draft-October.pdf

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Email servers: Stalwart claims to replace the different programs (Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, OpenDKIM, etc) by one program.

"Installing is simple'" (curl | sudo bash…)

Bonus: there is an integrated analysis of #DMARC reports :-)

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Another all-in-one email server, mox.

Includes EAI (internationalized email addresss)

The speaker has a Go t-shirt (mox is written in Go)

Unlike the previous talk, he emphasizes the problems that are outside of the control of the server (reverse IP, for instance)

https://www.xmox.nl

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#DNS devroom at #FOSDEM. Already almost full.

"getaddrinfo sucks, everything else is much worse"

And to end the day at the #DNS devroom, "Honey, I shrunk DNSdist" by @habbie (replacing @rgacogne, the maintainer who is sick without even the fault of the FOSDEM)

Disclaimer: #dnsdist is used by the public DNS resolver {doh,dot,doq}.bortzmeyer.fr

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So, to move away from tabs vs. spaces, emacs vs. vi or rust vs. go, what about a thread mutt vs. aerc?

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Very good talk about the synchronization of the all-in-one email server with #DNS: no standard, many custom APIs.

Solution; a dedicated proxy, dnsclay (receives DNS dyn. update from mox and talks many custom APIs).

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