I’m surprised that’s what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.

I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don’t exactly know which parts.

For those curious about how this fork came to be, KnowYourMeme had a decent rundown: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/godot-engine-user-blocking-controversy-wokot

All the talks are supposed to be livestreamed and recorded, so the choice is thankfully more just which one(s) do you want to attend in person. Which is great, because in my experience half of the fun of FOSDEM is chatting with other attendees outside of any talk at all!

Quite a few! And so many overlap! Thankfully they’re all supposed to be live streamed and recorded. An excerpt of my personal schedule:

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LHANGM-open_source_in_public_utilities_-collaboration_with_diy_communities_for_better/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/UQUCFW-the_buyout_how_the_open_source_community_liberated_its_own_platform/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FXLB7M-outside_the_beaten_path_of_css/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3EEZZB-open-source-batteries/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WQBBR9-map-your-grid/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GTZSA8-docspec/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/K7YXFT-gotweb/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SK3Z3Q-epaper-driving-waveforms-explained/

This is just Saturday…

I guess it only makes sense that after Liquid Ass UI, we’d get Fuzzy Toilet Seat UI

I hesitate to bring this up because you’ve clearly already done most of the hard work, but I’m planning on attending the following conference talk this weekend that might be of interest to you: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VEQTLH-infrastructure-as-python/

ehehehehe thanks for that mental image

Of course, one can always reclaim that space if the data truly is inaccessible. Makes me want to write a joke program for “cleaning up” after ransomware that just removes the data from the partition table (or whatever the equivalent for files is - would that just be rm?)

shred -f -u

Nitpick:

For instance, the terms ‘a community with a shared future for mankind’ and ‘Xi Jinping thought on ecological civilisation’ have been repeatedly found in different texts.

Just “appearing” in different texts is almost meaningless - the context could very well have been “Xi Jinping thought on ecological civilisation found lacking when confronted with local context of such-and-such impoverished community”. If you’re going to accuse something of being propaganda you really need to be more precise than that, else you’re mostly providing the CCP (in this case) with further reason to claim this is just US-leaning, anti-China propaganda.

I recently went from 0 to 1. Reinstalled my VPS under debian, and decided to run my forgejo instance with their rootless container. Mostly as a learning experience, but also to easily decouple the forgejo version from whichever version my distro packages.

I want to agree, but knowing Trump it would be a national flavor of socialism :/

closely followed by Omarchy (I’d argue it’s not a distro, but it presents itself as one, so it gets to be judged as one)

Guess they didn’t get Nadella’s memo about AI use needing to benefit all of humanity…

When you’re coming back from the rave and it snowed

To add on to your points on getting involved with community and managing online presence, here’s an article that describes some of how the residents of Minneapolis have been organizing neighborhood watches to keep track of ICE’s actions using Signal: https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model

I daydream of #16

I’ve worked on a reverse #10 before (i.e. vertical monitor in the middle, surrounded by two landscape monitors)

Apparently Linux Torvalds works on dual 6k monitors

“At the time of the alleged offences an offline purchase would cost the purchaser about £2.70 for the same number of gold pieces as would be generated by a £6 bond purchased from Jagex,” the court adds. It also amusingly notes that “the number of gold pieces generated by a bond might take some 15 hours to earn by completing in-game tasks.” Get grinding, gamers.

That “15 hours” number seems misleading, I highly doubt a fresh account can make enough money on it’s own in 15 hours to buy a bond (that gives it ~14 days of membership status). I’m no expert at Old School Runescape, but I’ve tried my hand at some moneymaking and most decent methods require a prior investment of many hours just to make them accessible. I wouldn’t be surprised if the average bond grinder has been playing for so many hours that the amortized cost of a bond indeed works out to be around 15 hours of game-play time - though this still only works out as long as at least some people are purchasing bonds from Jagex and then selling them, in-game, to other players for gold.

Huh. I have XM3s but am running latest Arch, so maybe it’s something weird with my headphones?

Out of the 4 comments other than yours, there are exactly 2 that recommend using a different distro.

I don’t have the connection drop in/out problem(s), but something like nine times out of ten I, too, need to bluetoothctl connect <MAC address> twice for my headphones to actually connect. It’s all the more frustrating because bluetoothctl’s prompt will adjust after the first connection (*attempt) - if it weren’t for the headphones themselves not acknowledging the connection I’d have no idea why no sound would be coming from them.