Are you fucking kidding me?
Jack Dorsey is a main track speaker at FOSDEM this year:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/
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I am at a loss of words. I also owe sincere apologies to everyone flagging issues with FOSDEM over the years, whose concerns I often somewhat minimized. I am sorry, you were all right and I was wrong.
FOSDEM is now explicitly platforming AI/blockchain bro fascists. 🤬
👉 Edit: Drew DeVault is organizing a sit-in, and explains why: https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
Jack Dorsey is giving a keynote at FOSDEM 2025? He can fuck right off.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
Re-Boost plz ♻️ 📣 Check out our initiative EU OS 🇪🇺:
Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector
- https://eu-os.gitlab.io
- https://matrix.to/#/#eu-os:kde.org
- follow @eu_os
We need support to improve the idea, gather like-minded migration projects and gather political support!
I hear often the argument that we have lost the knowledge in the EU to be independent from the US. That is disinformation of big tech. All of their "innovation" is based on open source software, often written by public research institutions. When you visit #FOSDEM, you are literally at the hotspot of innovation. That knowledge is all around and open. We just need to pick it up and build our own economy around it.
Guys, I can't believe it, open source VRChat is here. It's called @overte and it's actually fast. It supports hundreds of people in a single instance and the editor is actually built into the game. You can hang out with your friends and make worlds together. This is INSANE.
The are working on support for Vulkan to make it even faster. Also VRM models so you can have anime girls, of course.
Another #FOSDEM ask/offer:
We are actively interested in loaning our video boxes to other conferences. If you want an easy, #opensource, and #openhardware way to record video and laptop, do let me know.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/ for details.
And yes, they frickeled the microphones just before the talk, normally the sound quality is good. We're aware of the irony :)
Retoots appreciated, as always.
Our #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update for January (also including #FOSDEM) is here - here's what we have been working on so far this year. Includes an update on the #Fediscovery project, and some cool projects from the broader developer ecosystem. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/trunk-tidbits-january-2025/
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