Wouter Verhelst

As my account has been removed, it's now official: I am no longer a FOSDEM organiser.

This was my choice. I wish the organisation all the best for the future, and if time and money allow, might come again as a mere visitor, for the first time in 22 (!) years.

I have now officially passed #StarTrekAge.

#itsmybirthday #48

@lzg I mean, "AI broke prod" is the modern version of "computer says no"...

@starsider@valenciapa.ws Not related. I get a vacation from my day job too, and no matter how much money I get I'll still want that. Paying more for 'not taking a holiday' is kind of a hot take. @bagder@mastodon.social

@trib Enshittification doesn't work if there isn't a single party controlling (almost) everything. You try to provide a shit service, I will move to a different instance (or roll my own).

Finished a second read of @scalzi@mastodon.social 's 'the shattering peace', and only now do I realise that the colony actually *isn't* locked away in a separate universe forever...

@mattskala@mstdn.io Oh no. That was discussed in a bug report that this thread links to, but that's a terrible idea. This is about adding an *option* to ls to swap the symlink and what that points to around in the ls output. @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @vagrantc@floss.social @mjw@mastodon.nl

@mattskala@mstdn.io Anyone who tries to parse the ls output for symlink status rather than using https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/coreutils/stat.1.en.html (and doesn't do so in a shell with potential output-changing environment variables cleared) deserves for their scripts to be broken. ls is an interactive program, its output should not be considered parseable. @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @vagrantc@floss.social @mjw@mastodon.nl

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I agree with the message, but I read "masking" first as the type involving ffp2 etc things and so I was very confused when it started talking about autism 😂 @autistics@fedigroups.social @ashiel@eldritch.cafe

@b0rk To demonstrate how far this goes: Debian's policy document (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy) explains the technical requirements of a Debian package. The first 5 chapters explain the technical details of the packaging system; the next 2 explain how the packaging-specific bits should act. The 5 remaining chapters explain how the packaged software should behave. @bookwar

@fosdem On a side note, if your favourite talk is still listed as "preview" on https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview please reach out to the speaker or devroom manager. They can review the talk and release it for viewing.

@tiikerikani@dice.camp +1. Soooo agree. I had a bot yesterday going 'if this answered your question, you can just hang up', which I thought implied I'd get an actual human on the line afterwards if I stuck around, but no! The bot just hung up on me. So I had to call back and choose a random different option in the menu. At least that did give me a human and the problem was resolved...

@notthebee @danslimmon

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Not quite at your level yet, but went pretty well I'd say. 0.0045 https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AcYlKP___9e_ #WhatsMyJND

@slomo Yeah, you'd think so. But I don't know if the kernel community would care much about 'science reasons', and also I thought the process document about assistant tools was talking a lot about maintainers time, but now that I review it I seem to have misremembered. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst Quite confused now 🤷

@slomo Linux kernel policy requires that. Allows reviewers to go in with an understanding that the quality might not be great, I think? At the same time, Linux kernel also requires that you understand the patch you send. So I'm also not quite sure why that policy exists.

@992jo I sincerely hope that was a write-off, otherwise it is now 😂 @Error @karotte @nor4

@maarten@techpolicy.social The dispatcher does a HEAD request for a single file of every talk that is in the publishing state, then inspects the returned data. If that indicates that the video is public, it moves to the next state. Exact code at https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/sreview/-/blob/main/scripts/sreview-dispatch?ref_type=heads#L182-219 @fosdem@fosstodon.org

@starsider@valenciapa.ws So you are, in fact, asking someone to be available on holiday for pay. That's a big no to me. Holiday is holiday, no matter how much the customer pays. It can wait. Or they can fix things themselves, it's open source after all. @bagder@mastodon.social

@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io Amen. The second is a special case of the first though?

@cstross They'll do what they did after the dot com bubble burst: GTFO, wait a decade or so, come back and do it all over again 🙄 @cap_ybarra

And the prize for the first talk to successfully go through the FOSDEM review system goes to... "Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server api", by "Django Doucet", in H.2215 at 13:10 today! #FOSDEM cc @fosdem@fosstodon.org

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange Don't forget the -y to force overwriting the existing certificate. @gsuberland@chaos.social

@navi@social.vlhl.dev Encoding a date of birth is so generic, and will be at the base of literally anything that tries to do any type of age related stuff that it's quite the stretch to call it "premature"... What you do with that encoded date of birth and how you expose that, sure. But storing it? Come now. @cas@social.treehouse.systems

@misty@digipres.club I did a bit of creative searching on DuckDuckGo and came across this: https://pastebin.com/3gsjdbwp Interview with her (not by her husband) moments after the attempt. @jessamyn@glammr.us

@hyc@mastodon.social To be completely fair, SQL requires you to convert to and from string representation the whole time. If performance *really* matters, anything SQL-based is a mistake @Archivist@social.linux.pizza

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social Depending on what the issues with the audio are, cleaning up can be doable and may be surprisingly effective. I'm still offering, but don't want to pressure you, so if you're uncomfortable sharing the recording, no worries.

@ShovelTrouble@pone.social Correct, but (a) the ends do not justify the means, and (b) deport first then ask questions is not justice. @eff@mastodon.social

@foone@digipres.club Real programmers make music on a dot matrix 😉 https://youtu.be/pX4tBIwhOqY

@collinfunk@mastodon.social That bug fails to notice that it is using confusing language in the documentation. ln TARGET LINK_NAME the target can reasonably be assumed to be the file that is created. But in the case of ln, it's the target *of* the file that is created. I think that is where my confusion stems from, and I think this language should be updated. I can't quite think of a good replacement for TARGET, though. @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @mjw@mastodon.nl

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social You mean like https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-blob/ correct? Your SQL engine would still be involved, and needs to do string parsing just to understand what it is you want to store in binary. Yes it's faster than converting to base64 and back, but not as fast as a memcpy ala LMDB. I said "*really*" for a reason 😉 @hyc@mastodon.social @Archivist@social.linux.pizza

@tiikerikani@dice.camp Oh my. In my case the problem was "your prepaid data bundle was supposed to be activated but it wasn't and now my 50-something megabytes of data usage was charged by the megabyte which cost me nearly 30 euros". It took only a few minutes to get an actual human on the line, then a further few minutes for her to confirm and fix on their side and refund me 30 euros, so at least there was *some* competence there...

@conservancy Is a video recording foreseen? I would love to see the talk, but Southern California is a bit too far from my bed 😉 @bkuhn @socallinuxexpo

@b0rk These improvements are usually pushed back upstream, because distributions don't want to have to maintain things like that in a branch long term. But these are shared interests, and for those, distributions are the ideal point to implement them. @bookwar

Hopefully https://github.com/docsible/docsible/issues/129 will help...

@ariadne Drama is overrated. Lead pipes, however, are not. @agowa338

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social I didn't mean to offend, but "sqlite can't be as fast as LMDB because of its design choices" is the statement *I* was trying (but perhaps failing) to make. That doesn't make those design choices invalid -- in most cases I prefer SQL for ease of debugging -- but if performance *really* matters, LMDB is really the only option. That doesn't mean 'everything else is slow', just that LMDB is faster @hyc@mastodon.social @Archivist@social.linux.pizza

@ajroach42 Today. And it's not even 9 am yet 🙂

@mattskala@mstdn.io Oops, yes, that was a typo. Sorry. @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @vagrantc@floss.social @mjw@mastodon.nl

@revk@toot.me.uk Reading is, indeed, not copying, and you are allowed to do that within copyright (hence the name; it's not 'readingright') But reading and then writing something similar, while not exactly copying, is close enough that it's usually considered 'plagiarism'. @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @tbortels@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com

@xgranade@wandering.shop Not trying to be obtuse here, but: Why does this feel like betrayal to you? I understand the desire to not use llm-generated code (though I don't share that desire). I don't understand your use of the term 'betrayal' here though. Not to say that your opinion is invalid! Just... I feel like I must be missing something here.

@b0rk In other words, almost half the standard is about standards for upstream, rather than for the packaging-specific bits. That comparison is a bit skewed though, because a lot of the last part of the document includes other standards, such as FHS or XDG, by reference. @bookwar

@maarten@techpolicy.social The FOSDEM server team runs mirrorbrainz on video.fosdem.org, I don't know how that decides that the video is available on at least one mirror, but what causes the spikes in availability of videos must be in there somewhere. @fosdem@fosstodon.org

@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org Well it could be an option to ln, and I for one would love it and make it the default in mine. Please submit that patch to coreutils upstream as non default behaviour. You can make it a per user default using environment variables and/or shell aliases. @mjw@mastodon.nl @vagrantc@floss.social

@drsimevans@mastodon.energy If we keep doing this, it will eventually make the power plant companies go out of business!! Scandalous!!!1eleven!

@cfgmgmtcamp Pity. My colleague sighed up for that and is wondering if there is space in another workshop that he could still attend instead?