#FOSDEM was absolutely AMAZING!
We appreciate all of you for giving us your time at our impromptu booth and testing out the new Comet units; we have a ton of updates enroute!
"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 โ 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?
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.
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.
Day 2 of #FOSDEM2026 and we're back ready to show our project! If you still want a t-shirt come by quick as they're running out fast!
The recording of my talk is already available ๐
postmarketOS: Reliability in 2026
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QUYXW7-postmarketos-reliability-2026/
Thank you FOSDEM video team!
Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. โAIโ
https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226
German police (Sachsen, not even the infamous Berlin police) is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.
The German union of police officers (GdP, which is also the source of this image) condemn violence โฆ against police officers. ๐ก
They are the ones who beat up anyone who protests against fossil fuels or genocide, and then they fake their propaganda using GenAI to incite against "violent radical leftists".
Hey folks! The PINE64 community will be at FOSDEM this year. Our location will be K1-A-11, Sunday only! We'll be showing off some new and old hardware along with some demos.
Community members Ralim (IronOS), JF (InfiniTime), Gamiee (PineVoice), Caffeine (Community Manager), Shymega (OpenPineBuds), TL Lim (PineStore founder) and others will be in attendance this year!
See you there!