@GrapheneOS @Prometheus @nyovaya hmm that's news to me

@strypey Pretty sure IBM still finances genocides like this to this day ...

"GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in an internal letter on Tuesday that the company plans to renew a contract worth $200,000 with ICE to license its GitHub Enterprise Server — an amount that Friedman called 'not financially material' for the company."

#ShirinGhaffary, 2019

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/9/20906605/github-ice-contract-immigration-ice-dan-friedman

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This reminds me of IBM supplying the Nazis with admin systems that helped them murder millions of people. Am I the only one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

#GitHub #ICE #TechnoFascism #IBM

@mechasystems Alt text:

1: a few people at the mecha systems (FOSS United) booth, looking at a table with some papers (specs?) and a mecha comet device
2: someone at that table showing a mecha comet running Plasma Mobile
3: a person trying out mecha comet (plasma mobile apps view), another person is holding a fairphone 5 running plasma mobile

feel free to improve on those ^^

@RichiH @fosdem I mean, it's hard to be a conf about Free and Open Source software and not be political, given FOSS is a political movement.

@RichiH @fosdem Wasn't FOSDEM already political?

still real

@GrapheneOS @nyovaya @Prometheus Don't iPhones specifically prevent you from repairing your phone yourself?

We had a great FOSDEM yet again, thanks everybody for stopping by! It was fun hearing appreciation of our project by existing users, but also to explain our project to people that have never heard of us.
We can't wait to be back next year!

Our hackathon is starting now and we'll report about what happened there later this week.

it's still here #FOSDEMMeatLocker

Notepad++ have today confirmed their auto process was compromised by Chinese nation state threat actors, in a supply chain hack: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

This backs up my blog from late last year, with #GAYINT threat actor mapping to Funky Stamen.

The infrastructure and update mechanisms have since been tightened. For what it’s worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China. Notepad++ dev did a great job treating issue seriously.

@jsparber @tommi @modal @xpub I used to have a QEMU macOS VM at one time, it was hacky but it worked. In case that helps...

Sadly don't have any actual Mac apart from a MacBook from 17 years ago.

@tommi @fizzo I can absolutely relate to this :)

Porting postmarketOS is an addiction

cit. @fizzo

#postmarketOS @ #FOSDEM

#kde reference at #postmarketos #fosdem booth?? More likely than you think!

1990: i bet they will have flying cars in the future

2026: the world is ending but i can use a game console to charge my toothbrush

@snow alt text: electrical toothbrush docked in a bathroom, the dock is connected to a steam deck which is showing the plasma desktop

Blogged about running Linux on my phone, the user experience, and the ecosystem that comes with it. Extremely excited about this!

https://blog.allpurposem.at/linux-on-my-phone
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #GnomeMobile #fairphone

Just a regular #FOSDEM experience:

Waiting for dinner, looking at the awesome #postmarketOS hardware CI board.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

Anthropic's own fucking study lmao

"Yeah AI coding makes you worse at it"

like
significantly so

This tracks with my personal experience in my previous job.

Rapid deskilling when they started using llm "prompt engineering" for the code they pushed.

Within weeks they basically had stopped being able to explain what they were pushing during code review.