Tehkää itsellenne ja muille palvelus ja asentakaa Signal, vaikkette aktiivisesti käyttäisikään.

Näin mahdollistatte sen, että yhä useampi voi viestitellä Signalilla Whatsapin sijaan.

Tällä tavoin Whatsappin monopoliaseman saa helpoiten murennettua, kun yhä useampaan saakin muuta kautta yhteyden.

Laittakaa lumipallo pyörimään ja pyytäkää muita tekemään samoin!

#signal

Time for some minigolf

Maybe unpopular opinion: this isn’t sustainable

If you’ve got so many users on your instance(s) that it’s costing you $4k pcm (and however many tens of thousands of dollars he claims to have spent so far) and you need to solicit money from your users/community, this is not “decentralised”

Dan needs to stop amassing users and focus on building the software. Let other admins carry the load of actually running the service
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113887622931474663

I focus on (and this time actually mean it) to other topics #FOSDEM. You can relax now :-) I rarely trigger these days but moral and ethical dishonesty is just too much for me.

Maybe I went too far but on the other hand there was like a mass campaign with absolutely zero real argument so just wanted make sure that idiocracy gets attention.

@fosdem @fosdem_countdown

A classic text about software rasterizing. I scavenged this so that I could make something more fun than that stupid checker at some point for my test :-)

At the time made for the first gen Pentium but most of the stuff still applies:

https://www.multi.fi/~mbc/sources/fatmap2.txt

It's still a good one if you want to fill some triangles...

January 2025’s featured mix is from a long-standing Human Spectrum DJ Mörkö-Anneli. He plays our music with a twist.. Upward. A lot 🤟😎

https://soundcloud.com/humanspectrum/featured-mix-morko-anneli

#psytrance #hitech #psycore #independentmusic

Not a huge hardware synth fan (I like software and do not have space) but I do have a thing for EA-1/MS-2000/Microkorg. They are kind of like "same family".

If (actually more like when) I buy a bigger house I'll get used MS-2000 :-) It's quite limited compared to e.g. JP-8000 but has tons more character.

#synth

Gaze upon him 🧡​

Karvinen does this thing where he gets up on his little behind and puts his paws in the air when he is making considerate demands. If you put your hands close enough, he'll grasp them so he can stay sitting and firmly insist. He won't let go unless you take the hands away, and thus you can jiggle the entire cat.

#Cats #gif

Mention Pixelfed, get banned on Facebook/Instagram.

Meanwhile, we just started https://respectfulplatforms.org

Every friend you save from Meta's ecosystem is one less person whose digital life can be erased at Zuck's whim.

Spread the word.

OpenAI is terrified (there's finally a great open source LLM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9PUlqtJlM

EA-1 and BassStation are really the only legit Goa leads ;-)

303 is overrated...

#korg

Right, not a long time til 2024 edition of Rust. #rust #rustlang

I guess I'm a freedom fighter for discriminated billionaires :-)

#FOSDEM @fosdem @fosdem_countdown #JackDorsey #SaveTheBillionaires

Good morning!

Just wanted to add that:

#FOSDEM - for millionaires only

;-)

@fosdem @fosdem_countdown

Process specific ABI (psABI) specification can take dozens of pages in total. For RISC-V the spec has 95 pages. It is not ergonomic to print it all, so what to print out?

I usually print just the section enumerating the relocation's. It is the nastiest differentiatior and the part one is most likely continue to revisit forever after 🙂 For RISC-V that totals six pages.

Maybe less Nazi salutes would help with a more positive turn?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth

A random pick from this years FOSDEM keynotes.

"What FLOSS Means in the AI World"

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5495-what-floss-means-in-the-ai-world/

From description:

'"Mozilla has been doing extensive work in the AI ecosystem by defining a principled approach to AI that prioritizes transparency, ethics, and community-driven innovation."

Some highlights of Mozilla from the past year time window:

1. https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/mozilla-stands-by-its-controversial-privacy-feature-but-ready-to-clear-up-confusion
2. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus
3. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/24/mozilla_product_chief_sues_over/
4. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/


Right but I get it. Mitchell Baker is only an employee with almost eight figure (in 2022 $7 000 000), not evil billionaire, and a true contributor to the open source.

This should highlight how hypocritical the campaign against Jack Dorsey has been.

I would not put high hopes on Mozilla's AI story TBH ;-) 🍿

I cannot even imagine what kind of "best of keynote speakers" list I could collect if I enumerated every keynote speaker from every FOSDEM ever organized...

#FOSDEM #Mozilla #JackDorsey #Keynote @fosdem @fosdem_countdown

OK sorry about FOSDEM rants. I just have zero-tolerance for hypocrisy.

I would get a position that "I don't want to visit OSS conferences because they are dominated by the evil corps AND Microsoft does not actually love Linux even tho they've made a marketing campaign that says so" ;-)

In this context I would get even protesting against Jack Dorsey...

#FOSDEM #hypocrisy

o_O

These people should spent some time AWAY from computer TBH.

As far as I'm concerned I never ever want to visit at FOSDEM. I hate when people are not absolutely sound in their moral and ethical values.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/18/jack-dorsey-talk-at-fosdem-2025-may-lead-to-protest/

That said my "protest" does not really count as I dislike tech conferences anyhow ;-) Just want to emphasize to ultimate stupidity in this whole matter.

Anyone involved with this ridiculous protest: you should be ashamed of yourself.

#fosdem #hypocrisy