Join us to discuss transparency and governance at FOSDEM '25

Good news: it appears that Jack Dorsey’s FOSDEM talk has been cancelled!

This is a follow up to two earlier posts, which you can read here: one and two.

I say it “appears” so, because there has been no official statement from anyone to that effect. There has also been no communication from staff to the protest organizers, including to our email reaching out as requested to discuss fire safety and crowd control concerns with the staff. The situation is a bit unclear, but… we’ll extend FOSDEM the benefit of the doubt, and with it our gratitude. From all of the volunteers who have been organizing this protest action,...

FOSDEM '25 protest

Update: Dorsey’s talk was cancelled! See the update here.

Last week, I wrote to object to Jack Dorsey and his company, Block, Inc., being accepted as main track speakers at FOSDEM, and proposed a protest action in response. FOSDEM issued a statement about our plans on Thursday.

Today, I have some updates for you regarding the planned action.

I would like to emphasize that we are not protesting FOSDEM or its organizers. We are protesting Jack Dorsey and his company, first and foremost, from promoting their business at FOSDEM. We are members of the FOSDEM community. We have variously been speakers, devroom organizers, volunteers, and attendees for years — in...

Совмещаем Ассемблер и Си в одном проекте

Здравствуйте, на связи nikhotmsk с очередным потоком сугубо-технических мыслей. В своей прошлой статье я обещал не использовать жаргонный язык и улучшить читаемость статей. Так вот, сообщаю, что из этого ничего не получилось. Поэтому если вы ничего не поймете, то это значит, что у вас не хватило знаний, как говорил персонаж из книги - "Чтобы что-то узнать, надо уже что-то знать". Но расстраиваться не нужно.

Глядя на главную картинку вы уже почувствовали неладное. Да, я программирую для старинного компьютера ZX Spectrum. Того самого, который построен на чипе Zilog Z80, и у которого графическая память, пожалуй, самая запутанная среди всех ретро-машин. Но наша...

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...

Develop, build and distribute your HTML5 Phaser games with Vite

Take you Phaser HTML5 game development to next level thanks to Vite, with this detailed step by step tutorial full of images and source code snippets.

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...

HTML5 tile based platformer handling slopes powered by Phaser using no physics engines (and working with Phaser 4)

I built a HTML5 platformer featuring slopes in a few lines of code with no physics engines. Powered by Phaser and written in TypeScript. Full commented source code ready to be downloaded.

Concurrent programming with monitors

2024-11-26

svkbd 0.4.2 released: download