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

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.

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…

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

image originally found at https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-in-danger-im-in-danger

A version of this story originally published on Fortune.com on July 20, 2025.

Nevermind, I guess…

This study is over 6 months old, why is Fortune.com only writing about it now?

Yeah, it’s weird. In cases like this I’m tempted to send a message to each downvoter asking them why they downvoted.

Salesforce also recently admitted they were too hasty when they tried to replace humans with ais: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/salesforce-now-admits-its-ai-agents-were-unreliable-after-cutting-4000-jobs/

GlaDOS, eat your heart out

We might finally get a triumvirate of generalist, centrist instances!

…or .world will crash, burn, and implode

Speaking of which, nice username

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though I’m not sure I get the “train” bit

The author showed up in the hackernews comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475 for the post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060 for the author’s comment.

Apparently their corporate context is inside kubernetes and prevents UDP. Personally I don’t know enough to say whether they’re just ignorant, lazy, or they have “valid” constraints.

But yeah, didn’t tmux solve this problem a few decades ago, already?

Good for them! I’m not surprised yet still disappointed by the spokesperson’s comments.

That’s such a great riff on the original xkcd

Do you remember where you found it?