[HN Gopher] FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
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       FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
        
       Author : rwmj
       Score  : 171 points
       Date   : 2024-02-03 09:05 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (fosdem.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (fosdem.org)
        
       | justinclift wrote:
       | Awesome. The stream about Genode on the Pinephone approaching
       | real world usability sounds hopeful. :)
       | 
       | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3017-geno...
       | 
       | There was a session about Genode on the Pinephone last year too,
       | but apparently the recording didn't work properly so it never
       | made it online.
        
       | nickstinemates wrote:
       | The streams are a great addition. Being here in person is chaos
       | and the well attended sessions are almost impossible to see.
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | Note that some video streams are only available via Matrix chat,
       | eg to watch the Virtualization devroom talks you have to use the
       | Chat link on this page:
       | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/room/ub2147/ (anyone know why
       | this is?)
        
       | s_Hogg wrote:
       | kind of miss n-gate coverage of FOSDEM to be honest, it was great
       | for putting stuff in (sarcastic) perspective. More conferences
       | should have a treatment like that.
       | 
       | Does anyone know what happened to them?
        
         | woolion wrote:
         | In true n-gate fashion I believe the n-gate collapsed under the
         | increasingly worse takes he had to come up with to counter the
         | bad takes the n-gate witnessed from an hackernews. The parody
         | indistinguishable from the idea of the original that was lost
         | years ago, in a blurry confusion of what was and what the
         | thought of what it was was. Having lost the meaning of its
         | existence, it merely ceased to exist.
        
       | NeutralForest wrote:
       | Thanks, having the talks accessible will be helpful as well since
       | some of them are either too full or with terrible mics/sound.
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | I've definitely been to many FOSDEM talks where the room was
         | too full and they weren't letting any more people enter.
        
           | NeutralForest wrote:
           | Today the JS devroom if way too full and the sound in the
           | container devroom makes it very hard to understand the
           | speakers :/ Everyone is very nice and helpful though
        
           | ghaff wrote:
           | I haven't been to FOSDEM since pre-COVID but the last once or
           | twice I went I pretty much came to the conclusion that the
           | only sensible strategy (especially given the availability of
           | recordings) was to pick a devroom with talks/people you were
           | mostly interested in and hang there.
           | 
           | Trying to hop from session to session was just a recipe for
           | frustration. At the end of the day, there are probably twice
           | the number of people than the various facilities can really
           | support.
        
         | dfc wrote:
         | How does a livestream help make something accessible when the
         | microphone is terrible?
        
           | NeutralForest wrote:
           | I was mostly thinking about when rooms are too full but if
           | the audio is recorded properly, it's still better than
           | nothing and also I'm not sure if the sound was bad in some
           | rooms because of the mic or because of the loud speakers; a
           | recording might be better in the second case I suppose.
        
       | charcircuit wrote:
       | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-...
       | 
       | >"Okay, this Linux on Phones thing ... but it has no apps,
       | right?"
       | 
       | The Play Store has millions of apps for Linux on phones. People
       | who think this more likely don't realize that Android uses the
       | Linux kernel than those who are unaware that Sailfish OS and
       | Ubuntu Touch have dedicated app stores.
        
         | ekianjo wrote:
         | Ubuntu Touch has nothing of value in its app store. Even the
         | mail client sucks completely.
        
         | zerreh50 wrote:
         | When it comes to applications, Android is very different from
         | any Linux distro. Android apps rely almost entirely on Google
         | made additions on top. Something like waydroid could bridge the
         | gap but I don't have first hand experience how good it is.
        
           | charcircuit wrote:
           | Linux is just a kernel which means that someone needs to
           | develop the userspace. There are plenty of distributions of
           | Android, but it will be pretty different if you swap out the
           | user space with something else entirely.
        
         | enormousness wrote:
         | It's very difficult to find Linux apps that work well with
         | touch controls.
        
           | charcircuit wrote:
           | Apps on the Play Store are almost all designed with touch
           | controls in mind.
        
         | maeln wrote:
         | > People who think this more likely don't realize that Android
         | uses the Linux kernel
         | 
         | Do you really think people at the FOSDEM don't know this? And
         | saying that android use the linux kernel is honestly close to
         | saying that mac os use Unix... Plus the userland and systems
         | api are fully google proprietary, you couldn't just make a
         | android app work "on linux".
        
           | charcircuit wrote:
           | >Do you really think people at the FOSDEM don't know this?
           | 
           | Yes, as such a comment wouldn't make sense if they did as
           | Android is the consumer operating system with the highest
           | market share.
           | 
           | >And saying that android use the linux kernel is honestly
           | close to saying that mac os use Unix
           | 
           | It's no different than saying that Ubuntu uses the Linux
           | kernel.
           | 
           | >Plus the userland and systems api are fully google
           | proprietary
           | 
           | No, you can find open source code for userland and system
           | apis at https://cs.android.com/
           | 
           | >you couldn't just make a android app work "on linux".
           | 
           | They already do as Linux is the kernel for Android.
        
       | nakedneuron wrote:
       | https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/beer/
        
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