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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 16:42:19 UTC Bernie

   Flying to Bruxelles for #Fosdem2024 !

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:41:20 UTC Bernie

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     #Fosdem 2024 is about to start!

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:45:45 UTC Bernie

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     Richard Hartmann is about to give the #Fosdem opening keynote.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:09:34 UTC Bernie

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     I'm in the talk on Sound Open Firmware (SOF). Didn't know it was based on #Zephyr...

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2859-introducing-sound-open-firmware-project/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:12:37 UTC Bernie

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     Nice architecture! My laptop's speakers and microphones are in good hands...
     #alsa #sof #fosdem #linux

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:18:32 UTC Bernie

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     The speaker just said: "...Mediatek heled us (NXP), because until then we were the only ones using ARM, and when they jumped in we could discuss ARM-specific problems with them."

     This is what a healthy open source.project.looks like 👍

     #soundopenfirmware #zephyr #linux #alsa #fosdem

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:46:33 UTC Bernie

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     Oh no, the room for the gccrs talk is already full and they're kicking out anyone who is standing by the wall 😭

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2207-the-plan-for-gccrs/

     #GCC #Rust #Fosdem

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:47:39 UTC Bernie

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     #FOSDEM has grown huge and needs larger rooms at this point...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:49:30 UTC Bernie

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     The rivalry between Linux desktops is a thing of the past. Now the #KDE and #GNOME booths coexist side by side; I've seen users pass to both desks and pick up stickers for their laptops.

     #FOSDEM #LinuxDesktop #linux

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:56:01 UTC Bernie

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     The KDE booth was out of t-shirts my size, so instead I decoded.to become a supporter with a recurring donation 😇

     https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

     The upcoming #Plasma 6 release took an incredible amount of work, the #KDE foundation deserves our support and gratitude!

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 12:50:10 UTC Bernie

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     Crowded hallways at #FOSDEM...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 12:52:02 UTC Bernie

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     Crowded food trucks...

     I should have packed a sandwich and, more importantly, a bottle of water. #FOSDEM

   • Martín Abente Lahaye (tchx84@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 12:54:48 UTC Martín Abente Lahaye

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     @codewiz I wish I could have gone! I went last year, and it was an awesome experience.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 12:56:33 UTC Bernie

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     Finally got into the #Rust devroom. There are lots of interesting talks this afternoon.
     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/rust/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 13:52:49 UTC Bernie

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     My favorite #FOSDEM talk so far is "The Four Horsemen of Bad #Rust Code" 🦀

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 13:55:17 UTC Bernie

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     The 4 horsemen of bad #Rust code are: Ignorance, Excessive Abstraction, Premature Optimization and Omission.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 13:59:27 UTC Bernie

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     This entertaining talk contains useful design advice applicable to any programming language, so you should watch it even if you're not planning to learn #Rust.

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2434-the-four-horsemen-of-bad-rust-code/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 14:39:53 UTC Bernie

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     • Reimar Bauer

     @ReimarBauer A good friend brought me a bottle so I didn't lose my spot in the Rust room 😇

   • Reimar Bauer (reimarbauer@ruhr.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 14:39:54 UTC Reimar Bauer

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     @codewiz water you can get at the entrence to H2115 a bottle per €

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 15:00:45 UTC Bernie

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     • pep

     @pep I've been away from #FOSDEM for 17 years 😅

   • pep@post.lurk.org's status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 15:00:46 UTC pep

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     @codewiz ”At this point“? It's been the case for years :)

   • Miroslav Kravec (kravemir@hometech.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 15:25:38 UTC Miroslav Kravec

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     @codewiz rivalry between KDE and GNOME makes as much sense as the rivalry between apple and orange.

     It's a matter of personal taste.

     Just, some people rephrase "I love GNOME/KDE" to "GNOME/KDE is the best".

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 15:25:38 UTC Bernie

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     • Miroslav Kravec

     @kravemir Indeed. And they should be sharing perhaps 80% of desktop plumbing libs and daemons. Things like dbus, Mesa, NetworkManager, Wayland, Flatpak, etc.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 15:55:58 UTC Bernie

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     #Servo, the web rendering engine written in #Rust that was orphaned by #Mozilla in 2020, is still alive and working on its 2024 roadmap 👍

     https://servo.org/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 16:26:09 UTC Bernie

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     #Thunderbird is also embracing #Rust 🥳

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 16:30:55 UTC Bernie

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     Integrating #Rust with the huge, aging C++ codebase of #Thunderbird is not free of challenges...

     Also note the person drinking beer in the corner. Yes, that's a common sight at #FOSDEM 😂

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:00:59 UTC Bernie

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     Aha! Found the outlet that's spreading all those Belgian beers 🤩

     Of course the Free University of Bruxelles would serve beer on campus! #FOSDEM

   • Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox (thunderbird@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:01:41 UTC Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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     • Weiming Hu

     @weiming @codewiz Our new Development blog series talks about what elements are currently in Rust, and how to keep up to date on all the "Rust"-ic aspects of Thunderbird!

     https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/

   • Weiming Hu (weiming@mapstodon.space)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:01:43 UTC Weiming Hu

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     @codewiz Interesting. I'm wondering how much code currently is written in #Rust for #thunderbird ?

     Bernie repeated this.
   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:51:58 UTC Bernie

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     The campus pub has plenty of beer options. Which one should I choose? 🤔
     #FOSDEM

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 19:01:31 UTC Bernie

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     Someone who seemed knowledgeable recommended this beer 😋

   • Weiming Hu (weiming@mapstodon.space)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:01:27 UTC Weiming Hu

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     • Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

     @thunderbird @codewiz Thank you!

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:02:13 UTC Bernie

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     • Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
     • Weiming Hu

     @weiming @thunderbird Thunderbird ♥️

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:02:29 UTC Bernie

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     • Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
     • Weiming Hu

     Thunderbird ♥️ Rust
     @weiming @thunderbird

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:08:40 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer Perhaps we can convince @mre to share it?

     Otherwise, show my picture to ChatGPT and ask it to write a detailed prompt for a diffusion model, then paste it into Midjourney or DALL-E and pick the best one 😂

   • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble: (bugwhisperer@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:08:41 UTC Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

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     @codewiz I want that first slide's image as my desktop wallpaper. So cool! :blobfoxaww:

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:11:59 UTC Bernie

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     • Comral

     @Comral Yeah, today I'll stay away 🥴

   • Comral (comral@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:12:00 UTC Comral

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     @codewiz Very bad idea, this one is 10°, last time I was drunk with this I tried to convince peoples that I'm an lawyer...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:14:16 UTC Bernie

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     Good morning from #FOSDEM. Today I'm in the #RISCV room, but they're having trouble with the projector 😵💫

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:38:43 UTC Bernie

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     • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

     @bortzmeyer That's how my phone camera "interprets" purple.

     It's a Pixel 8 Pro. I wouldn't be surprised if it was some photo processing model getting confused by the unusual hue.

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:38:46 UTC Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     @codewiz Funny that it is blue on your picture while it is pink on the screen.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:42:40 UTC Bernie

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     TIL that you can just do this:

     dnf install qemu-user-static-riscv slirp4netns podman

     podman run --platform=linux/riscv64 -it docker.io/riscv64/ubuntu bash
     root@88bb76ac7391:/# uname -a
     Linux 88bb76ac7391 6.8.0-0.rc0.20240112git70d201a40823.5.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 12 16:56:17 UTC 2024 riscv64 riscv64 riscv64 GNU/Linux

     Note the weird combo of Fedora Rawhide kerneland riscv64 emulated by qemu 🤨

     #riscv #qemu #fedora #podman

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:45:59 UTC Bernie

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     slirp4netns is this weird thing for unprivileged network namespaces:

     https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns

     It's required by #podman because it runs without root privs.

     The #RISCV in #QEMU thing also works with classic #docker, but I'd rather use Podman for improved isolation.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:53:54 UTC Bernie

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     • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

     @bortzmeyer are you in the RISC-V room? I'm the guy in the back with the JAXA t-shirt.

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:53:55 UTC Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     @codewiz Same issue with my Fairphone 3. What you see is not what you get.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:57:11 UTC Bernie

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     • Milan Malfait

     @milanmlft I had *4* lambics last night as part of a "dégustation de bière" (usually called "a flight" in English).

   • Milan Malfait (milanmlft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:57:12 UTC Milan Malfait

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     @codewiz one of the lambics if you’re brave

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:03:24 UTC Bernie

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     • Milan Malfait

     @milanmlft Tonight I want to try some rare trappist.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:04:59 UTC Bernie

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     • Milan Malfait

     @milanmlft I heard that some trappists couldn't be brewed any longer after the roof was rebuilt, killing the yeast in the cellar.

     And so now, even when it's raining inside, they'd rather build a small roof on top of the hole to avoid messing too much with the environment 😂

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:10:53 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer @mre There you go!

     All I asked was: "I just watched a talk on Rust, and the opening slide was pretty cool. Could you write a prompt for DALL-E to generate a similar image?"

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:12:38 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer @mre

     Second attempt: "Looks awesome, thanks! Can you add "Rust" in a fancy medieval font, and also scale it up for a desktop background?"

     Human artists need not apply.

     #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT4 #DALLE

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:21:58 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer @mre Google #Bard is still not endangering many jobs...

     https://g.co/bard/share/56e691dcf957

     Wasn't image generation launched for Bard two days ago?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:27:38 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer @mre I tried again using a VPN endpoint in the USA, and now it's censoring the photo because it contains "people" 🤭

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:45:51 UTC Bernie

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     • Matthias Endler
     • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

     @bugwhisperer @mre I had some more success after cropping the image a bit:

     https://g.co/bard/share/9181c230a5e2

     I'm kind of embarrassed for anyone who still works at Google 🤦♂️

   • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble: (bugwhisperer@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:45:52 UTC Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

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     • Matthias Endler

     @codewiz @mre So Americans are crabs? :blobfoxcrylaugh:

   • Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble: (bugwhisperer@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 10:45:53 UTC Kevin Keller :OhNoBubble:

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     • Matthias Endler

     @codewiz @mre :blobfoxconfused:

   • Milan Malfait (milanmlft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:04:21 UTC Milan Malfait

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     @codewiz NICE! People tend to either love it or hate it

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:04:21 UTC Bernie

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     • Milan Malfait

     @milanmlft I love it as a dessert 😋

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:04:49 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc 😂

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:04:51 UTC Christian Horn

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     @codewiz Is the projector RISC-V driven?
     (I'm allowed to make the joke, I have a (well behaving) star64 board with RISC-V right here ;)

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:11:20 UTC Bernie

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     I watched #3mdeb's preso on the status of #coreboot for #AMD motherboards.

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2936-open-source-firmware-status-on-amd-platforms-2024-5th-edition/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 13:17:42 UTC Bernie

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     An #AMD engineer in the audience mentioned that #Framework will soon release proof-of-concept Coreboot firmware for their AMD laptops.

     It's not yet an end-user thing due to missing power management, which is a showstopper for a laptop.

     The only reason I haven't already switched to a nice Framework laptop was the proprietary BIOS, but with official support from AMD it won't take long... hopefully 🙏

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 14:25:22 UTC Bernie

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     I'm in the #Mozilla room for a talk on the performance of #Firefox's HTTP/3 stack.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 14:26:41 UTC Bernie

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     I don't understand why #Mozilla didn't switch to Quiche, a full QUIC + HTTP/3 stack entirely written in #Rust and actively maintained by #Cloudflare.

     I picked Quiche in 2021 to implement DNS-over-HTTP3 (DoH3) on Android, and it was small and easy to embed into the existing C++ codebase of the Android DNS resolver.

     https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 15:19:45 UTC Bernie

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     I entered the #Retrocomputing devroom too late for the talk on the PiStorm, a new CPU accelerator card for your old #Amiga 500.

     Eat your hat, John! :amiga:

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1742-pistorm-the-evolution-of-an-open-source-amiga-accelerator/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 06:39:39 UTC Bernie

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     Next, my travel mate giomba and another Italian by the handle giuliof gave a really interesting talk on their joint effort to reverse engineer the Sanco 8003, an obscure 8-bit platform. #retrocomputing

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2008-a-journey-documenting-the-sanco-8003-computer/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 08:45:17 UTC Bernie

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     • giomba

     Next, my travel mate @giomba and another Italian by the handle giuliof gave a really interesting talk on their joint effort to reverse engineer the Sanco 8003, an obscure 8-bit platform. #retrocomputing

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2008-a-journey-documenting-the-sanco-8003-computer/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 09:05:13 UTC Bernie

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     • Giulio
     • giomba

     And so #FOSDEM 2024 is over. Phew! 😌

     Kudos to the net admins who kept the WiFi mesh running smoothly across dozens of rooms and hallways packed with Linux nerds. Anyone who has experience scaling networks knows that conferences are a torture scenario for wireless infrastructure.

     @giomba @giuliof

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 09:05:14 UTC Bernie

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     • Giulio
     • giomba

     Next, my travel mate @giomba and another Italian by the handle @giuliof gave a really interesting talk on their joint effort to reverse engineer the Sanco 8003, an obscure 8-bit platform.
     #retrocomputing #fosdem

     https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2008-a-journey-documenting-the-sanco-8003-computer/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:01:37 UTC Bernie

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     • weberc2 ☕️

     @weberc2 Quiche is 2-clause BSD, and #Firefox already embeds plenty of libs developed by for-profits... so I really don't understand why they'd want to spend engineering resources maintaining their own implementation of HTTP/3. It's a complex stack which is still evolving fast.

   • weberc2 ☕️ (weberc2@stranger.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:01:43 UTC weberc2 ☕️

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     @codewiz I wonder if it’s a licensing thing, or maybe an objection to including libraries developed by for-profit companies like CloudFlare?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:38:43 UTC Bernie

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     • kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber)

     @Kowfm @whalecoiner ServOS 🦀

   • kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber) (kowfm@ruby.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:38:44 UTC kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber)

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     @codewiz @whalecoiner would be fun to write a new OS that uses Servo as the rendering engine for apps.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:41:37 UTC Bernie

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     • kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber)

     Me: Imagine an OS entirely written in Rust that uses Servo as the rendering engine for apps. Give it a cool name.

     #ChatGPT: The operating system you're envisioning could be named "FerrOS". "Ferrum" is the Latin word for iron, which alludes to Rust's emphasis on safety and performance, much like the strength and utility of iron. [...] The use of Servo as the rendering engine underscores the modern and high-performance capabilities this system aims to deliver.

     @Kowfm @whalecoiner #Rust #Servo

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:46:12 UTC Bernie

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     • kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber)

     ChatGPT: "The visual representations of the FerrOS interface have been created."

     @Kowfm @whalecoiner #Rust #Servo

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 10:58:27 UTC Bernie

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     • kowfm (Karl Oscar Weber)

     You're overthinking it! All we need is a team of GPTs that will get to coding without demanding a "feasibility study" and other excuses 😉

     @Kowfm @whalecoiner #ChatGPT