Thib

Chronic enthusiast. Technology should be about improving people's lives. Automation is a double edged sword.

 Broken English, existential crises, Helix propaganda.

Website: https://ergaster.org

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2026-03-29 08:16:22 GMT

I’m looking for a mobile app / PWA that could let me create a new branch on a git repo, and create commits to that branch as I update a markdown draft based on an @npub1d33…yg52 content collection.
Does such a thing exist? I’d like to avoid hosting a fully fledged CMS.
#smallWeb #CMS

2026-02-08 16:02:23 GMT

I quite liked shooting portraits of speakers at FOSDEM, and I wish I had had the time to go to other devrooms and shoot more.
I wonder what conference to go to next, to shoot more of those.
#fosdem #conference #portrait
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2026-01-27 08:43:30 GMT

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
If you consider going to the US, whatever the reason, don’t, for your own safety.
If you consider organizing an event to the US for an international community, you’re putting people’s lives at risk.
If you want an English-speaking environment for an international event, pick Canada or the UK. Heck, even in Scandinavian countries everyone speaks English.
#note187g…wv22

2026-01-12 09:06:06 GMT

If you’re going by train to @npub1yau…atjv, heads-up that there are strikes announced between Jan 25 and Jan 30.
https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-11-travel-transportation-advisories/
#fosdem #train #strike

2026-01-11 09:27:09 GMT

Woo, I ran a 10K under one hour 🥳
I can already feel I’ve pushed too hard on my calves, but I won’t run for the next two days anyway!
#running #runnersOfMastodon
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2026-01-09 20:28:17 GMT

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explicitly say they are not consumer-ready.
https://postmarketos.org/state/
I am not advocating for people to install postmarketOS now as a daily driver, I'm advocating for people to support a project that doesn't depend on Android because it is not a viable route for Europeans.
I am happy that @npub1kwa…e0nj exists and that it can serve an overlapping audience today.
I'm asking you to please be respectful of other projects, and I will not engage further.

2026-01-08 20:53:35 GMT

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dope, I love your style of composition

2026-01-06 22:43:46 GMT

RE: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/115849772521760098
It’s worth repeating. Android is not a viable base for an independent or even just collaborative operating system. Android is Google and only Google’s project.
If you want to see an actually transparent, international, and collaborative system on phones, support [@postmarketOS](https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS )
#android #opensource
#note1p0s…4gcx

2026-01-06 07:44:08 GMT

Me: *successfully spends the past year recovering from depression and existential dread*
The world: hold my beer

2026-01-05 13:39:53 GMT

So you know the International Criminal Court judges who just did their job got cut off from the international banking system because it’s American-centric? And got cut off from virtually any American service?
Cloudflare, GitHub, AWS, Azure are also US companies. They can be forced to boot you or your company out too.
We need better European services. But we’re talking about an existential risk here. Org leaders must create the demand for such services.
#europe #eu #sovereignty

2026-01-02 21:19:23 GMT

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"Powerful allies are joining our side in the War on General Purpose Computation. [...] National security hawks are worried about Trump bricking their ministries or their tractors, and [...] about Xi Jinping bricking all their solar inverters and batteries.
After all, the post-American internet is also a post-Chinese internet!
Nothing should be designed to be field updatable without the user's permission. Nothing critical should be a black box."
Banger upon banger in this talk!
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-01-02 20:59:25 GMT

"We don't have dueling western and Chinese principles of structural engineering. [...]
We wouldn't tolerate secrecy in the calculations used to keep our buildings upright, and we shouldn't tolerate opacity in the software that keeps our tractors, hearing aids, ventilators, pacemakers, trains, games consoles, phones, CCTVs, door locks, and government ministries working."
@npub1fdr…lvhs hitting the nail on the head once again at #39c3
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

2025-12-29 15:24:23 GMT

Pretty cool work from @npub13cx…8wv9 to see @npub1dug…kxeq in numbers
https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/
#linux #gnome #data

2025-12-24 18:18:41 GMT

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I don’t go as far as buying tapes, but owning and sorting my music already changed my relationship to it.
One of the most notable changes: I listen to whole albums. An artist is more than a single fashionable song.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/

2025-12-16 13:38:14 GMT

The biggest missing piece in my collection of local-first apps is a simple, decluttered, epub library manager.
I don't even need it to sync with my Kobo, although it would be a nice addition.

2025-12-13 06:52:15 GMT

This one hits way too close to home. I have backed up my pictures on devices that are in my office precisely for this reason.
This can happen to anyone.
I don’t trust Apple with my memories or my digital identity anymore, and Cook accelerated that by bending the knee.
https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/115710491106723110

2025-12-11 20:46:17 GMT

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and because what is happening in the US can happen in Europe (or has happened in some countries, even), as a citizen I want to use international, transparent, open tech.
I don’t want tech nationalism.

2025-12-05 12:52:36 GMT

What do you mean the closing sequence of a markdown codeblock can be longer that the opening one?!?
This… this… this doesn’t feel right!
https://mastodon.social/@timokoesters/115660404547593866

2025-12-03 20:13:02 GMT

The replies in this thread are so heartwarming. I love seeing that @npub1dug…kxeq solves real people’s problems in their everyday life.
I love that it’s more than a project for computer enthusiasts. It has a massive positive impact on people’s lives.
https://floss.social/@gnome/115656841072336977

2025-12-03 18:00:28 GMT

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consistent and responsive apps.
I use Niri to organize my windows, and GNOME apps integrate so well.
They adapt to the screen size they have, and they have a consistent look and feel. I feel at home.

2025-11-28 19:43:43 GMT

Really love Allan’s weekly updates! They’re good insights of what the @npub1dug…kxeq foundation is about!
It’s a welcome breath of fresh air and transparency 💙
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/11/28/gnome-foundation-update-2025-11-28/

2025-11-20 13:17:55 GMT

They blame TikTok for brain rot, but have you seen LinkedIn? Have you seen the billionaire owned newspapers?

2025-11-18 07:41:02 GMT

@npub1dug…kxeq is cozy computing.
Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.
Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.
GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.
https://circle.gnome.org/
#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux

2025-11-14 15:41:51 GMT

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
#firefox #ai #privacy

2025-11-07 10:11:45 GMT

I see a lot of reporting about the Louvre theft and that the French people are "relieved" that thieves got caught or that we feel "humiliated" that it happened in the first place.
Absolutely not. Nobody around me cares one bit about it. We care about the public service disappearing, we care about the rampant corruption in the political spheres, we care about the pensions they're trying to steal from us.
We're more than ready to trade stupid jewels for transparent democracy that works.

2025-11-06 21:39:20 GMT

I’m glad @npub1nvf…cpws exists, is hosted by the European arm of the Linux Foundation, has excellent engineers from @npub12wy…lm9d paid to work on it, and is funded by @npub1n8y…l96n.
Web browsers are a crucial component of how we access to (and share) information. The status quo is not okay, and it’s likely to deteriorate further.

2025-10-31 08:54:40 GMT

In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.
I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.
I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.
Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!
https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem/
#homelab #selfHosting #sre

2025-10-29 12:33:37 GMT

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the problem is a bit more complex than releasing a binary of the OSS code :)
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

2025-10-29 07:56:19 GMT

People are slowly realizing that Android only weaponized open source licenses but was always meant to be a captive platform, like people are slowly realizing that VS Code has open source code but is a captive platform.
Open source licences are not enough. They’re regularly weaponized as a tech enthusiast trap.

2025-10-26 16:19:54 GMT

Are there good reasons to hard wrap lines in a markdown file?
It looks satisfying, but it feels like adding complexity to a document to solve non-problems. Since editors support soft wrap nowadays, what problem does hard wrapping solve?

2025-10-21 15:24:14 GMT

Me in 2021: everything must have a nice GUI or I won't touch it, tiling WMs are overrated, let me be just normal people.
Me in 2025: I thrive in TUIs, use Amethyst on my mac and would love to use Niri, and I'll edit everything I can in Helix. I only use a mouse when I'm in a browser. I know that setup only works for nerds, but I guess I am one of them now.
What have you done to me, colleagues, what have you done to me.

2025-10-21 06:41:29 GMT

How I picture employees in big tech that are forced to use AI not to be fired
#ai #work #management
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2025-10-19 20:15:11 GMT

I need to find a Spezi importer in France
#MatrixConf2025 #SpeziConf2025

2025-10-19 15:54:16 GMT

I know @npub12r3…zz58 is good people because they’re actively working on abuse management, and stripping EXIF metadata from pictures so people don’t dox themselves.
You can tell this project is led by its users, not by salespeople.
https://forgejo.org/2025-10-release-v13-0/

2025-10-19 13:38:35 GMT

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nice stickers you have here

2025-10-18 16:23:16 GMT

Aaaaand thats a wrap! Thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors and attendees who made #matrixConference2025 possible!
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2025-10-17 08:36:33 GMT

Matrix Foundation Governing Board update
#matrixConf2025 #backstage
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2025-10-17 08:19:52 GMT

You may wonder why the pride flags are so prominent at Matrix Conf. It’s a statement of safety.
The flag means “who you are is not our business.” The flag means “you belong” and “you’re safe here.” It means “we care” and it means “those who don’t want you around won’t be around.”
#MatrixConf2025
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2025-10-17 08:04:08 GMT

Kicking off The Matrix Conference 2025 with the @npub1tcc…4342 keynote, and still a packed room!
#matrixConf2025
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2025-10-16 21:00:26 GMT

If you’re enjoying the Matrix Conference, we owe the organization to the two people on the right!
@npub1k5t…4gfp and @npub1s6a…v33c are the most organized troublemakers I could find (or who found me?)
10/10 team, would recommend, would do it again.
#matrixConf2025
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2025-10-16 10:31:08 GMT

Room overflow, too many people passionate about Matrix, Water, Oil & Mayonnaise
(Or they just like @npub1jkp…wndz)
#matrixConf2025
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2025-10-16 08:07:04 GMT

Fully packed room for the opening session at The Matrix Conference!!
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2025-10-15 15:49:37 GMT

Volunteers in training!
#matrixConf2025
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2025-10-15 07:41:30 GMT

It wouldn’t be the @npub1m9z…whzq Conference without our signature chalk spray mark!
Buildup going well 💪
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2025-10-08 20:27:50 GMT

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That's https://mntre.com/

2025-10-08 20:08:59 GMT

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I'm very glad I didn't buy the Framework 12 a few days ago.
I'd rather buy a laptop that comes in a vegan sleeve from a company led by a trans person than buy fashtech.

2025-10-01 19:47:46 GMT

I don’t need a framework laptop, I don’t need one, I really don’t need one. I don’t.
Nonono, not those lovely little Framework 12 that are super cute, nah. The sage color is not going to make me change my mind, no chance.

2025-10-01 18:35:21 GMT

Ok screw it, that's my new profile picture. How do I look?

2025-10-01 09:05:48 GMT

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Not fair @npub1lhk…apve, I fell into too many rabbit holes already, I can’t afford another one.
(Also thanks @npub1vlu…8k6x for sharp!)

2025-09-23 09:34:14 GMT

Do I know people who use Bluefin on their @npub15f7…m7wr 12? How does it feel? How's the battery life? What doesn't work?
I'm particularly interested in Bluefin, more than Aurora or Bazzite, but happy to learn more about either.
#bluefin #framework

2025-09-14 13:59:30 GMT

Fedifriends, do you have recommendations for compact, travel-friendly beard trimmers? Ideally usb-c powered so I don’t have to carry a huge charger with it.
More interested in first hand recommendations than in people googling reviews for me :)
#travel #beard

2025-09-10 19:16:13 GMT

Probably going with Ministry of The Future in the short term, but I think I’d like a shorter book first.
Recommendations for a sci-fi lover? Something that’s not too bleak ideally?
#scifi #reading #books

2025-08-31 13:09:10 GMT

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Zola has been veeeeeery low maintenance for the matrix website. It’s released once every other glacial age, which is absolutely fantastic in terms of maintainability.
https://www.getzola.org/

2025-08-27 07:18:07 GMT

To be usable by the less savvy, the Linux desktop lacks stability. Not software stability, but organizational and human stability.
I want maintainers to have a stable income. I want apps to last a decade, instead of having to chase the next rewrite of an abandoned project.
The Linux desktop is a beautiful accident that only exists because people devote part of their lives to it, for better or worse. We ought to support it financially, as a public service.
#linux #publicGood

2025-08-22 18:56:29 GMT

Me: let's move my services to my homelab so I can shave off VPS costs
Plausible: oops, your blog posts got too many views, upgrade your subscription
Nice problems to have I guess 🙃

2025-08-05 05:48:58 GMT

Gang, when you want to send to a friend a link to a book so they can see the cover, author, summary, ISBN etc, what service do you use?
I’m not too keen on sending links to Goodreads because I don’t like being part of the Amazon funnel.
I’d like to link to a stable service to avoid link rot too. Any recommendations?
#books #reading

2025-08-04 11:57:51 GMT

Me: I need to work out more. This calisthenics program seems to be a good fit to keep me motivated and not ruin me with equipment!
Also me: Hej I could create a Svelte app to keep track of progress and see when I need to step up to the next exercise! It can be a PWA with local storage only and…
…and I would spend my evenings developing it instead of working out.

2025-08-03 19:51:02 GMT

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Here I write about why I want to own my music and play it locally without depending on a service provider that could take it away from me, and how I do it
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/
#music #privacy #sovereignty

2025-08-03 19:51:01 GMT

I didn't expect the last post to get this much attention! A lot of support, but also a few surprising takes. Here are a few posts where I expand on our relationship with technology.
In January 2024 I talked about why technical solutions are not enough to escape surveillance capitalism
https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/
#selfHosting #surveillance #privacy

2025-08-03 19:51:01 GMT

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In this post I list the things I pay attention to when self-hosting, why I self-host, and why I don't host services for others in my free time
https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-services-but-i-do/
#selfHosting #surveillance #privacy

2025-08-03 07:55:14 GMT

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”
It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.
Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.
#sovereignty #selfHosting #gardening

2025-08-01 11:09:55 GMT

I wish companies didn’t ask me to rate things and especially not people. This is indecent, dehumanizing, and not my job.
Give me an easy way to report that something is/went wrong and leave me alone if I don’t complain.

2025-08-01 08:28:17 GMT

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I’m incredibly good at forgetting things! All the write up I’m doing about my infra also acts as Disaster Recovery Plan for future Thib 😄

2025-08-01 06:37:28 GMT

I don’t earn any money from writing on my blog, despite it taking significant time and energy. But it still feels like the right thing to do.
- I write to save others the trouble I’ve been through.
- I write to structure my thought and self-review my work from a different perspective.
- I write as a social activity, to get something others can criticize and help me improve.
- I write because that’s how we humans share ideas.
I write to connect with others.
#blog #writing

2025-07-29 21:26:22 GMT

On one hand I would want everyone to be able to enjoy what the fediverse has to offer
On another, being a less crowded place that is not attractive to brands also means we don’t see those awful fake science/content farm accounts or ads like on other platforms.
The fediverse is a tea house in a world of malls

2025-07-23 20:17:20 GMT

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several colleagues highly praised Kagi, although I haven’t tried it myself.
I’m not fond of their extreme centrism, but I might have to try it out.

2025-07-21 11:49:00 GMT

I reluctantly have an O365 subscription that was costly enough at €69/year, and now Microsoft tells me they raise it to €99/year to reflect "the added value from last year" and "help support their operating costs."
They want me to pay for their investments in AI, that I explicitly don't want to use. So I go to the subscription management page to cancel, and an option magically appears to let me keep my €69/year subscription without AI.
Disgusting dark pattern to force AI on people. I'm out.

2025-07-17 19:23:30 GMT

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Aw, timing doesn't work for me but I've meant to meet the broader team and get a nextcloud t-shirt for a long time!
Who knows what the future holds :)

2025-07-10 14:47:00 GMT

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And that’s a follow! Thanks being a positive influence in the world :)

2025-07-10 09:13:21 GMT

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I played with it and it does what’s written on the tin. Love it so far. Thanks for sharing the joy with me 😄

2025-07-10 09:07:51 GMT

I just received my @npub1lfv…ta74 ! I’m 6 years old and it’s Christmas!
#selfHosting #kvm #jetkvm
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2025-07-08 21:54:49 GMT

Fediverse, I need you! I could do with more positivity in my timeline.
Do you follow and can you recommend accounts who motivate you (because they inspire you, not out of outrage)?
I’m particularly after tinkerers, or people who break things down and explain how they work 🤗

2025-07-07 15:18:42 GMT

Woo, the new @npub1m9z…whzq Conference website is out, and I'm very happy with the result 🥳
https://conference.matrix.org

2025-05-22 13:01:51 GMT

Sometimes Strasbourg feels like it's bringing you back to a simpler past. There's some quiet and enchanting beauty into it. I also love that the city center is pedestrian and cyclist centric.
If I was looking for an excuse to visit, I'd definitely submit a proposal to the @npub1m9z…whzq Conference Call for Proposals!
#strasbourg #matrixConf2025
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2025-05-21 09:52:22 GMT

Really love the vibe of the venue for @npub1m9z…whzq Conference 2025
#MatrixConf2025
#Strasbourg
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2025-04-09 07:55:54 GMT

Fediverse, I consider giving Kagi a go. What do I need to know about them?
Anything bad below the nice veneer?

2025-03-04 13:56:26 GMT

I wrote this post about welcoming feedback a little while ago. Most of it still stands, but I have come to a realization.
Friction is a friend, not an enemy.
I do welcome feedback about my posts. I even actively look for it before publishing.
But not all feedback is equal. A snarky comment on reddit can be cheap and demoralizing. A thoughtful email can bring me a new perspective.
Friction to comment is actually a good thing.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/06-welcoming-feedback/

2025-03-04 09:04:32 GMT

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Truly impressed by the @npub1vnu…8mqn core team and wider community.
I love how you move intentionally and thoughtfully. Thanks for your work but also for being a great organization 💚

2025-02-28 06:19:30 GMT

You can't do anything without your phone or laptop, and your phone wouldn't run without American companies. But the current American administration is going wild.
We have everything at our disposal to make an international, transparent operating system that respects people's rights, and it wouldn't make a dent in the EU's budget.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/28-prosthetics-that-dont-betray
#ethical #eu #computing

2025-02-27 09:13:11 GMT

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it's been a major source of frustration of mine.
I'm looking forward to @npub1hxz…r8sj on iOS but I'd be surprised if it was released this year.

2025-02-18 13:31:18 GMT

I have been part of the industry producing them in the past, but gosh.
Slideshows (PowerPoints) are so unpleasant to read as a document. Everything looks cramped, small, unreadable on small screens, and not accessible.
My hunch is that there's a real industry need for a "portable website" file format, that wouldn't be much more than a tarball/zip file that only contains html and css.

2025-02-14 08:08:41 GMT

I used to subscribe to Apple Music and then stopped. When I subscribed again, I had lost all my hand-curated playlists that I had carefully crafted over the years.
I’m done with this subscription-based life where everything you cherish can and will be taken away from you. So I took the radical decision to own my music, like we used to when iPods were fashionable.
And you can too.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/
#music #subscription #ipod

2025-02-10 21:34:56 GMT

The more I look at the geopolitical situation, the more I think the cheapest, most robust and realistic option for Europe to reclaim its digital independence is to massively support @npub1vnu…8mqn and its upstreams.
No need to mine or buy rare earths, tons of jobs created along the way, countless devices saved from the landfill where they would have poisoned the soil, and even the possibility to monetize other countries’ waste.
It’s just what makes the most sense.

2025-02-10 08:22:42 GMT

Kept nodding as I read through this
https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/

2025-02-09 16:49:52 GMT

The @npub1vnu…8mqn team added a whole section about contributing upstream in https://postmarketos.org/contribute/
These folks are humble, and they have their heart in the right place.

2025-02-06 07:43:38 GMT

If you keep hearing about FOSDEM but never got a chance to go there, here is how it looks like as seen by an attendee, fringe event organizer, stand organizer, and devroom organizer.
Also, trains 🚄
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/fosdem-work-fun/
#fosdem #conference #trains
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2025-02-02 19:22:07 GMT

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And massive thanks again to the sponsors of the Fringe event who kept us fed and refreshed!
Thanks Workadventure, Nordeck and Famedly!

2025-02-02 19:20:46 GMT

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Special shout-out to @npub1jaj…hu86, who almost made it to FOSDEM, for opening up the Foundation 👏
We could see the result of a lot of that invisible work here at FOSDEM!

2025-02-02 19:18:42 GMT

FOSDEM is over, and I’m feeling grateful again for the incredible FOSS and Matrix communities.
🍕60 pizzas and an uncountable amount of drinks at the Fringe event
👕 100 t-shirts sold on the first day!!
🧑‍🏫 A completely packed devroom
🤝 Many great conversations at the booth
That, many photos and videos to process, and a wrap-up post to write.
I’m leaving FOSDEM with a sense that we are doing the right thing, going in the right direction, and that people notice 💪

2025-02-02 12:21:21 GMT

Someone (probably not part of the XMPP booth crew) placed XMPP stickers at the bottom of our Matrix stickers stashes.
No need for that kind of petty strategy, the friends of XMPP are right next to us and they’re pretty cool folks!
Matrix enthusiasts should definitely go talk to them too 🤝
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2025-02-02 12:18:26 GMT

Fully packed room for the Matrix devroom this year again!
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2025-02-02 11:43:41 GMT

Getting back to Janson and looking for the Matrix devroom after the Road to Mainstream Matrix talk?
Head to the main entrance of the K building and take the stairs
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Rest of the instructions below
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2025-02-02 11:16:05 GMT

The Road to Mainstream Matrix talk has started!
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2025-02-02 10:18:04 GMT

If you plan to attend the “Roadmap to Mainstream Matrix” in Janson at 12:00 CET, you can take this path from the FOSDEM building K
⬇️⬇️⬇️ More instructions on next toot
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2025-02-02 09:33:35 GMT

The @npub1m9z…whzq booth is still going strong today!
Lots of enthusiasm around the tiny and mighty team fighting for the sovereignty of your conversations 💪
#fosdem
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2025-02-02 09:23:38 GMT

The @npub1ncy…3x0q and @npub1dug…kxeq booth are in one of the fanciest buildings of FOSDEM this year!
That’s the AW building for you
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/933/560/786/611/706/original/bf21340aa51986f9.jpeg

2025-02-01 14:42:15 GMT

One of the latest t-shirts, they have been particularly popular this year!
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2025-02-01 11:49:26 GMT

Large t-shirts are sold out!
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/928/471/324/425/294/original/38eca2f2feae5919.jpeg

2025-02-01 09:44:48 GMT

So many people at the @npub1m9z…whzq booth at FOSDEM!
The stickers will arrive later today, but we already have plenty of t-shirts and they’re going FAST!
#fosdem #booth
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2025-01-31 19:30:43 GMT

Second batch of pizzas, and progressively working our way to empty @npub156e…e36v’s fridges!
Thanks a bunch Workadventure, Famedly and Nordeck!
#matrixFringe
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