Stéphane Bortzmeyer (89)
"Github is free. Free as in free cocaine."
"The Growing Body of Proprietary Infrastructure for FOSS Development: Repeating Bad History" Karen Sandler and Benver Gingerich (Bradley M. Kuhn is sick, which is trendy)
Survey of the room ("but we still love you if you rise your hand"): who uses Github? Teams? Slack? Confluence? Jira? All these proprietary tools are massively used to develop free software.
CommonLisp was used for the server part of the reconstruction.
https://btx.vaxbusters.org/
(home page of the CCC in 1987)
Discussion about ActivityPub. Is there even ONE forge software with proper ActivityPub support, allowing, for instance, to open an issue without creating an account (the number one problem reported by people about my projects hosted on a gitlab).
Tiens, à propos d'empreinte environnementale du numérique, j'écoute le talk Let's Encrypt au #FOSDEM et l'orateur insiste sur le fait qu'ils n' économisent pas le matériel. Un problème de performance ? On achète du matériel plus gros. C'est toujours beaucoup moins cher que d'optimiser (chose qui doit être faite par des humains, qui sont rares et chers).
Remembrance of the Sourceforge debacle.
Good morning, Brussels! Second day of #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/
Today, retrocomputing for me.
Now, I'm going to try to address the environmental fingerprint of the digital world: "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing" devroom.
I just learned that awk (declarative but not minimalistic) was created in 1977. Are there people here using it?
The Minimalistic devroom is half-empty, which is very minimalistic, specially at #FOSDEM.
@LaurentChemla Il y a pîre : les gens te PARLENT. Aller du bâtiment U au bâtiment J prend une heure car des gens te parlent sur le trajet.