Post Aqi9XiNsFtJIQL37nE by ericfreyss@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AqhYBj7P9DsQ1hzwC8 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T07:47:38Z
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Good morning, Brussels! Second day of #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/Today, retrocomputing for me.
(DIR) Post #AqhYThweFWmnbEXajI by usul@piaille.fr
2025-02-02T07:50:51Z
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@bortzmeyer will you revive cnam's FTP server and the atari stuff that was there ?Cc @tdjfr
(DIR) Post #AqhrOCPrwXf9UpINjU by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T11:22:45Z
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Very interesting chat with the people of QubesOS. (I was not aware of what happened with this project after Joanna Rutkowska left).I like the fact they emphasizes "reasonable security" ("perfect security is when the computer is turned off"), security which still allows people to do stuff with computers.And they also pay a lot of attention to #UX (a security product without concern for UX won'be used).#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhrSatirbA0aBM41o by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T11:23:35Z
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And we agreed to rant against NIS 2 and its bureaucratic approach to security.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqhrq5mgC8Fb2GGVpg by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T11:27:50Z
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Another interesting project: Genode. I was not even aware of it, despite its age. (The great thing about #FOSDEM is that you discover that you know nothing, #JohnSnow.)Genode is a kernel written from scratch, which can run Linux drivers in headspace (to support a lot of hardware) and run unmodified applications with limited privileges (for instance a Firefox without write access to storage).
(DIR) Post #AqhvlKWqLZRv8LqJPs by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:11:47Z
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Retrocomputing devroom. Live tooting will be replaced by IRC during this devroom.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhvrdqXRAWqmf43to by f4grx@chaos.social
2025-02-02T12:12:46Z
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@bortzmeyer IRC is not retro!! it's still alive!
(DIR) Post #AqhwRKr5WUtWJDLFUu by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:19:23Z
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In a very retrocomputing style, we start with a talk about breaking passwords typed in a japanese script in an old video game.(With Rust)#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqhwzuv7wM3K0bikSG by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:25:37Z
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"This [decoding] program is very important if you want to play Dragon Quest in japanese."#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhxGkIagTYNzPiiKe by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:28:39Z
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"Bildschirmtext - Reeenacting an ancient communication system using Javascript and Common Lisp" by Hans Hübner (for the French people: Bildschirmtext ~= MInitel)#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqhxcbqom3389x9gIq by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:32:36Z
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Bildschirmtext was invented the same year as the DNS :-) It as not a complete terminal, it required a TV screen. Network capacity was asymmetrical (you were a consumer, not a producer) Content creators needed to use a special keyboard.Software was not free and seems lost.The speaker started with a XML description of the keyboard.("If you don't know XML, it's a bit like JSON")#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhxyVC0D5IhscVGDo by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:36:32Z
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SVG picture of the keyboard produced from the XML description through a XSLT program…Font created by taking screenshots of the screen… (ChatGPT gave a good way to do that)#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqhy2vkBR1RrNybQXY by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:37:23Z
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"I wanted to bring the official specification of Bildschirmtext to show you but I couldn't, it's too heavy."#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhyVxXfpOyDMQaqwa by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:42:37Z
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CommonLisp was used for the server part of the reconstruction.https://btx.vaxbusters.org/(home page of the CCC in 1987)#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhydutLZAErSPWcfg by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:44:04Z
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Many thanks to @hanshuebner #FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqhzERsyNAlMD9lo36 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T12:50:40Z
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Now, a #UX talk about the history of hand controls for computers (trackballs, mice, etc) like the old "rollkugel" of 1966.And how to plug them in modern computers.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqi0JbdLeoRNqWU7ns by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T13:02:47Z
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A lot of nice mouses pictures in this talk at #fosdem https://mouses.info/#mousesAreCuterThanCats
(DIR) Post #Aqi1irgxBrqsqLmOWG by OdyX@framapiaf.org
2025-02-02T13:18:31Z
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@bortzmeyer nice "mice" ? #englishplurals ?
(DIR) Post #Aqi1mR4g5x8xRvZxgG by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T13:19:13Z
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@OdyX Unlike french, english is not a serious language.
(DIR) Post #Aqi2FO3gO5uAUdv0q0 by usul@piaille.fr
2025-02-02T13:24:25Z
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@bortzmeyer we want rats cc @mwl
(DIR) Post #Aqi4CArZBv2ubkqaBc by Tacitus@masto.bike
2025-02-02T13:46:13Z
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@bortzmeyer agingbis realizing I almost used them all...
(DIR) Post #Aqi6YB2BR24vPzQsT2 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:12:40Z
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"The Growing Body of Proprietary Infrastructure for FOSS Development: Repeating Bad History" Karen Sandler and Benver Gingerich (Bradley M. Kuhn is sick, which is trendy)Survey of the room ("but we still loive you if you rise your hand"): who uses Github? Teams? Slack? Confluence? Jira? All these proprietary tools are massively used to develop free software.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqi6bNTJeHQirTeLFQ by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:13:15Z
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Remembrance of the Sourceforge debacle.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqi7SUjTNtzsjBXF7A by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:22:51Z
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"Github is free. Free as in free cocaine."#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqi81hjz0oVPCvYyUC by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:29:10Z
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@ndw @jimfuller For hosting, the speakers recommended a Forgejo-based solution such as Codeberg.
(DIR) Post #Aqi84zUnSJZT8u1j8a by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:29:48Z
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@ndw @jimfuller But I myself use a gitlab (hosted by a local association).
(DIR) Post #Aqi9LtZYpa7feJsbk8 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:44:04Z
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Discussion about ActivityPub. Is there even ONE forge software with proper ActivityPub support, allowing, for instance, to open an issue without creating an account (the number one problem reported by people about my projects hosted on a gitlab).#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #Aqi9XiNsFtJIQL37nE by ericfreyss@mastodon.social
2025-02-02T14:46:10Z
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@bortzmeyer Found this project https://forgefed.org/
(DIR) Post #Aqi9b6j4D32amsa0yu by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:46:48Z
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@ericfreyss There are several but it seems all are "under development".
(DIR) Post #AqiAQxhozVLDs1iutU by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:56:10Z
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Now, I'm going to try to address the environmental fingerprint of the digital world: "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing" devroom.I just learned that awk (declarative but not minimalistic) was created in 1977. Are there people here using it?#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqiAacobW5gLyWVI80 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T14:57:56Z
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The Minimalistic devroom is half-empty, which is very minimalistic, specially at #FOSDEM.
(DIR) Post #AqiBkOpWT4WrS19rNI by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:10:54Z
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"Resurrecting the minimalistic Dillo web browser" by Rodrigo Arias MalloIf you're serious about saving the planet, this is the Web browser you must use. (But not for Mastodon, which requires a heavyweight browser.)The slides are in HTML, and are displayed with #Dillo, of course.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqiBn40YLAONk0aUyW by nono@pleroma.oook.fr
2025-02-02T15:10:19.620228Z
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@bortzmeyer Are there people not using it? :-)
(DIR) Post #AqiBn5HbbFcvhBZdC4 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:11:20Z
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@nono People under 60?
(DIR) Post #AqiC4D4XtOCamDdCHQ by Sw0rdDooM@chaos.social
2025-02-02T15:14:25Z
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@bortzmeyer one is https://docs.radicle.xyz/
(DIR) Post #AqiC5aMCnzplHbY06i by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:14:36Z
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Dillo was created in 1999. It supports HTML and CSS (at least some part) but of course no Javascript. And no cookies by default.The project had a long eclipse (2017 to 2024), the domain dillo.org was even lost.#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqiCP51mzqrxuOIGdU by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:18:15Z
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Now that it is resurrected, new Web site https://dillo-browser.github.io/Can now display math formulas on WIkipedia.Live demo on a 15-years old computer, with 2 GB of RAM.#FOSDE
(DIR) Post #AqiCbhhf1p0tKhtkTA by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:20:32Z
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Dillo can have plugins, in any language, for instance to access to Gemini capsules but also man pages or local files (this plugin is written in shell).#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqiCgaoY4JYnPoS1lw by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:21:25Z
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List of Web sites that work with Dillo: Brutaldon (because Mastodon is on the other list, the bloated broken sites).#FOSDEM
(DIR) Post #AqiChpMtRWBsqL6WrA by tdr@masto.nu
2025-02-02T15:21:29Z
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@bortzmeyer Yes, @dillo is doing a great job. It‘s my goto browser for anything normal that does not need Librefox.
(DIR) Post #AqiCizguY2z59H1X3Q by daffyduke@mamot.fr
2025-02-02T15:21:39Z
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@bortzmeyer merci pour cette transcription ! J'espère que tu en profites bien aussi @jomonbre. Désolé je n'ai pas pu me joindre à vous.Dis, tu unroll ça @mastoreaderio ?
(DIR) Post #AqiCu7g3CEHX6PvaVc by lieter@mastodon.lieter.nl
2025-02-02T15:23:46Z
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@bortzmeyer I believe there is a plan for @forgejo to do that... but there seems to be little movement: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
(DIR) Post #AqiCw3fV4X8xFSaqJM by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T15:24:14Z
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@lieter @forgejo There are plans for every forge software. But always half-done.
(DIR) Post #AqiFz3NEvJAR4AAiiO by gregr@mamot.fr
2025-02-02T15:58:21Z
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@bortzmeyer reminds me Amaya... @karlcow > Amaya 11.4.4 (18 January 2012).https://www.w3.org/Amaya/
(DIR) Post #AqiLIqjC9KylPMhTBw by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T16:57:56Z
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Now, closing talk of #FOSDEM.25 years of FOSDEMThis year:2064 speaker proposals1109 rejected3.5 Gb/s of streaming
(DIR) Post #AqiLVHdruRpiM78bQm by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T17:00:13Z
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2500 T-shirts (not enough).#FOSDEM950 kg fries8846 machines seen on the network
(DIR) Post #AqiMKLKrw7oia0b8Mq by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-02T17:09:26Z
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End of #FOSDEM you can unmute the hashtag.
(DIR) Post #AqiTrTGgAFBAPvNjlo by gregr@mamot.fr
2025-02-02T18:33:51Z
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@bortzmeyer I had a dream :950kg of ~~french~~ free fries !
(DIR) Post #AqigxpB8udLXVu9Uh6 by jlecour@mastodon.evolix.org
2025-02-02T21:00:38Z
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@bortzmeyer I hear @forgejo (forked from Gitea) is actively working on something like that.
(DIR) Post #AqjWC12qgbVU24nTfc by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2025-02-03T06:34:42Z
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@jlecour @forgejo I heard many rumors about every forge software working on ActivityPub support (or any federated identity) but nothing released.
(DIR) Post #AqnwfspFBXKmfVAxAe by x_cli@infosec.exchange
2025-02-05T09:49:42Z
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@bortzmeyer Some people lock themselves up in these forges so they don't have to face their community. I registered on many "open-source/free" Gitlab instances and never got my account approved.I am pretty sure these people would also block federation on their forge...The best federated forge is the email infrastructure. I just send my issues and pull requests to the poor soul who authored the most commits on the project 👀