Posts by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
(DIR) Post #ASLC5v15uMaGeFF8E4 by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2023-02-04T15:08:25.661925Z
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Bit of a rough ride this morning with video recordings, so any FOSDEM talks that happened before about 13:00 are on hold for video review today.All other speakers, remember to check your mailbox for talk review requests. The sooner you review, the sooner we release your video!Cc @fosdem
(DIR) Post #AXEOkbhaLAtlENu6Vs by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2023-06-30T22:43:49.260186Z
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@feld@eevee @jr Only in the 'million monkeys with typewriter' sense. Yes, eventually there will be something that, by pure chance, ends up being correct.But an LLM is just advanced statistics. It makes plausible-sounding lies, by definition.
(DIR) Post #Ai0SCSY4ElLafhQVPs by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2024-05-18T05:50:37.058583Z
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@icedquinnI think nobody *prefers* public transport, except in areas where there's large traffic jams and the public transport bypasses those. Otherwise personal transport is faster and more convenient.@sleepytako @rsf92 @pluralistic
(DIR) Post #Ai3ZJ2CHtJb07oCXXU by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2024-05-05T12:36:16.037351Z
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@jpmensxkcd 1205 told you that years ago 😉
(DIR) Post #Ai3ZJ4nwCItuD9pdVA by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2024-05-05T13:42:23.441705Z
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@jpmensThat is absolutely sad, indeed. explainxkcd.com/1205 has dated comments, which establishes an upper limit, but that's of course not the same thing...
(DIR) Post #Ai56VZWXIi2QbdDbAO by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2024-05-01T23:57:58.315788Z
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@NanoRaptorSquonky connectors FTW!
(DIR) Post #AsWHFY0eUN5SqHXyT2 by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-03-28T16:01:05.449938Z
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Norwegian car in Kirkenes, 15km from the Russian border...
(DIR) Post #AyrUnXZZCBUOJtL7Me by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-10-04T07:32:16.231487Z
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@fazalmajidGetting lawyerly is instant goodbye for me. Interacting with my open source project is a privilege, not a right. If you take up my time doing anything other than 'oh sorry' after I said that what you did is not welcome... Thanks but no thanks@ariadne @androcat
(DIR) Post #B1Ano1BewQakmn8RPs by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-12-12T12:16:30.466232Z
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@aral Don't know which part of "I don't speak for FOSDEM" is so difficult to understand, but you do you.Yes, Free Software is about politics. Which politics? Depends on who you ask. Some will say that freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy are part of that, but not everyone will, and that doesn't mean they're not part of the community.This is an important debate but I don't think one in which FOSDEM as an organization has an opinion, even though some of its members might.
(DIR) Post #B1Ano2IQojbSE5JMbw by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-12-12T12:23:04.116020Z
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@aral My absolutely personal opinion in this debate: Open Source is about methodology, Free Software is about principles.The principles in question are that everyone should have the freedom to modify software so it does what they need it to do, rather than what the author of the software wanted it to do. This does often include freedom of expression, privacy, human rights and democracy as a side benefit, but they're not why I care about free software.
(DIR) Post #B1Ano3X0E2qw3Z8Vxg by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-12-12T12:29:38.619185Z
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@aral Finally, on the specific subject of having Google as a sponsor, I have a personal opinion on that, but I'm not going to comment on that in public.
(DIR) Post #B1AnoASITwFRWzzM6C by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-12-12T12:27:54.929102Z
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@aral It also means that if you want to modify some free software so it can, say, control your military equipment, then that does not put you outside of the free software community, even though the free software community might have a larger percentage of people of people who are also pacifists than the general population.But that's not an absolute, and to claim that free software is about human rights, privacy, or democracy is inaccurate, at best.
(DIR) Post #B1AoC8k4VHQBARjX72 by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2025-12-12T13:11:48.792209Z
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@aral "I respectfully disagree with you, here's why" is absolutely not the same thing as "I'm apolitical", and it's rather arrogant (and, honestly, disgusting) of you to suggest otherwise.*plonk*
(DIR) Post #B2F3Wr4Ofg5Bhp0C7E by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2026-01-13T12:14:55.944845Z
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@GyrosGeierThis, but then awesomewm. I think a more globally useful approach would be to write something that implements the part of an X11 server that the window manager talks to, but that looks like Wayland to the applications. This way, people who really don't want to migrate away from their X11-only environment can keep using it and still use Wayland. This is probably naive and not possible, but meh, one can dream.@ignaloidas @mjg59
(DIR) Post #B2F4UzSkb0fx6v4HeS by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2026-01-13T12:26:02.191575Z
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@ignaloidasMy understanding of Wayback was that it is a way to provide an X11 implementation that uses the Wayland backend, rather than a way to shoehorn the Wayland frontend under an X11 window manager, which is what I'm suggesting. Of course my understanding can be wrong, in which case a link to more information would be welcomed by a promise for your favourite beverage at my cost if you look for me at the next FOSDEM 😉@mjg59 @GyrosGeier
(DIR) Post #B2FxsCGAg4hqwJGLmS by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2026-01-13T22:42:21.804993Z
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@ignaloidasNot quite.These are all 'I have a native Wayland application that I want to run in my X11 session'. That's a cool thing, but not what I want to do. I want to *run* a Wayland environment. Everything should be Wayland, with standard fallback to the XWayland thing for stuff that isn't supported yet.Except that I just want the UI to be a window manager that expects X11.@mjg59 @GyrosGeier
(DIR) Post #B2FxsKWlwEjsa75ilc by wouter@pleroma.debian.social
2026-01-13T22:43:50.318642Z
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@ignaloidasTo put it otherwise. I think what I want is a Wayland compositor that doesn't provide a UI, but that instead provides some sort of compatibility layer so you can hook up a window manager to do the actual UI work.@GyrosGeier @mjg59