Dear #FOSDEM people. There is a massive #pixelfed server now in Europe: https://pixelfed.com open for everyone (just people, no organsations).
Hosted from the Netherlands under Dutch law and funded by the @fediversity project.
Please enter a human reason when onboarding (due to AI slop we must do that).
Do join and boost please. 🙏🏻
At #FOSDEM, 40% of attendees at the opening talk (in a full room with 1200 seats) raised their hand to signal this is the first time they attend.
This is super exciting for an old fart like me, who has been attending for 25 years.
There is hope for the future!
Welcome fellow hackers, and have a blast.
Imagine how silly I felt when I realised I'd forgotten to bring my #fosdem earrings from @grafana with me. But these LED earrings running #tinygo made by @ayke have saved the day!
Spontaneous one day trip to Brussels for #fosdem #fosdem2026 to meet #PHP community, and also releasing a small part of the herd. Who is there?
I have seen a number of people at #FOSDEM with their laptops out. A small number of them have little covers on their cameras as a sort way of protecting privacy.
None so far have privacy shields on their laptop screens, and anyone sitting beside or behind them had pretty good views of what may have been happening on those screens.
Generic privacy shields are available for about 40€. If your laptop screen has magnets in it (eg MacBooks) then they will attach with those. If not, it’s fairly easy to apply, and they can be taken off at will.
If you travel, or regularly go to conferences or work in public, then please invest in one.