@bkuhn @bortzmeyer @jzb saying that ‘initially, Truth Social violated AGPLv3’ gives copyright troll vibes to me. They were running some internal tests on public domains without announcing them. They made the source code available before launch (they’d likely do this no matter the legal actions because their then-head of engineering was at least a FOSS believer).
But now they haven’t updated the published source code for years so they’re not really compliant anymore.
The numbers: 1014 events, 1186 speakers, 66 track/devrooms
"Don't skip the food queue but let staff and volunteers do it."
And if the room is full, or if you are remote: https://fosdem.org/schedule/streaming/
"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI", talk by Michiel Leenaars "We need to talk about war"'
Because not everything at #FOSDEM can be fun.
[FOSS = Free / Open Source Software. AI = generating funny answers to stupid questions]
The growth of the Internet and of free software was during a time of [relative] peace and hope, after the end of the cold war [in Europe]. It was ideal and we forgot about war, dictatorship and other nasty things.
Then, we moved to hyperscalers/ GAFAM
"Cloud first strategy" means you're proud of your incompetence.
And with deliberate attacks (think supply-chain), free software is in the battleground.
And we are not ready for that.
