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No billionaires at FOSDEM
Update: Dorsey’s talk was cancelled! See the update here.
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.
The FOSDEM keynote stage is one of the biggest platforms in the free software community. Janson is the biggest venue in the event – its huge auditorium can accommodate over 1,500 of FOSDEM’s 8,000 odd attendees, and it is live streamed to a worldwide audience as the face of one of the free and open source software community’s biggest events of the year. We’ve platformed Red Hat, the NLNet Foundation, NASA, numerous...
Year-end donations round, 2024 edition
Just in time before the year ends, I’ve gone ahead with my round of personal donations for 2024. I highly encourage you to do something similar and support the free and open source software and organizations that make a difference to you.
This year, my personal list consisted of:
Signal as every year, because I use it daily.
Calibre eBook Management, which my wife uses a lot.
The Gnome Project, which is my desktop environment these days.
LibreOffice because I use it very frequently and I think it’s a critical piece of software for the desktop.
Pi-Hole because I have one set up in my home network...
Casting video files from Linux to AppleTV
A couple of weeks ago I received an AppleTV 4K as an early Christmas present. It’s a really nice device and it immediately replaced my Chromecast Ultra as the way to watch streaming content on my 15-year-old non-smart TV. Of course, the kids love it too!
Before I disconnected my Chromecast Ultra from the TV to put it back into its box, there was a small matter I needed to solve. Sometimes I watch content on my TV by casting it from my Linux PC. Most of that content are rips of my DVD collection, which is thankfully legal in Spain, as far as I...
Weird Lexical Syntax
I just learned 42 programming languages this month to build a new syntax highlighter for llamafile. I feel like I'm up to my eyeballs in programming languages right now. Now that it's halloween, I thought I'd share some of the spookiest most surprising syntax I've seen.
The Fastest Mutexes
Imagine you have a workload where all your threads need to do a serialized operation. With Cosmo, if you're looking at htop, then it's going to appear like only one core is active, whereas glibc and musl libc will fill up your entire CPU meter. That's bad news if you're running a lot of jobs on the same server. If just one of your servers...
Neurodivergence and accountability in free software
In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a harmful political agenda which legitimizes adult attraction to minors, consistently defends adults accused of and convicted of sexual crimes with respect to minors, and more generally erodes norms of consent and manipulates language regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault in his broader political program.
In response to this article, and on many occasions when I have re-iterated my position on Stallman in other contexts, a common response is...
Cosmopolitan v3.9.2
Cosmopolitan's Windows support may finally be feature complete. It's now possible to send signals between processes using kill() on Windows. Ten new torture test programs have been written to tease out more fixes and offer a high level of assurance that signal handling is correct. Some of these tests are good enough to deadlock the signal handling of UNIX OSes but not our ...
Rust for Linux revisited
Ugh. Drew’s blogging about Rust again.
– You
I promise to be nice.
Two years ago, seeing the Rust-for-Linux project starting to get the ball rolling, I wrote “Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?”, penning a conclusion consistent with Betteridge’s law of headlines. Two years on we have a lot of experience to draw on to see how Rust-for-Linux is actually playing out, and I’d like to renew my thoughts with some hindsight – and more compassion. If you’re one of the Rust-for-Linux participants burned out or burning out on this project, I want to help. Burnout sucks – I’ve been there.
The people working on Rust-for-Linux are incredibly...