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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Re: FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Post by menaerus »

direwolf20 wrote: post #228
menaerus wrote: post #207

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I genuinely hope you're a bot. If you're not then please consider being respectful in your conversations and address the question being asked rather than moving goalposts - it is extremely annoying. If you're out of your arguments, learn to say "I don't know". And I also do hope, if you're a human, that you're not sitting anywhere close to decision making committee be it in NLNET or any other grant program because if…

You have repeatedly resorted to ad hominem to avoid answering questions.

Ad hominem does not apply to bots or trolls and you're one of those two. And I'm not sure what was ad hominem about my response. You're the one being ignorant here

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Post by brnt »

lucb1e wrote: post #9
ongy wrote: post #7

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Which probably also relates to DB pricing. Being flexible with DB is expensive . Getting somewhere at all is generally cheap. Getting somewhere at a reasonable time is usually ok~ish priced. But being able to just take any train? €€€

And reliable. This is why I (near the border) drive across the border and take the train through Belgium. https://belgiantrain.be for finding trains and tickets to/from the nearest station, Etterbeek (or use another station if you want to take the tram, where you just swipe a bank card). The ticket is valid for any train going to your destination. For those Same with the Netherlands. Sadly no intercity stations have…

That's probably the first and last time anyone will ever mention Nuth on HN. #nuthmentioned.

Maastricht Noord has a much bigger free parking, in case this part of the Netherlands is how you want to start your journey up north.

Re: FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Post by brnt »

nesarkvechnep wrote: post #97
throw567643u8 wrote: post #59

I watched at home and drank Belgian beer in the afternoon.

I hope you didn't get a hangover. They have great tasting beers but put too much sugar in them.

They pump too much CO2 in it you mean. I prefer Polish and Ukrainian beers for this reason.

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Post by teekert »

direwolf20 wrote: post #229
teekert wrote: post #193

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"Concerning society" is important here. We do not codify the use of FOSS in any laws. At most we have decided that people can make up licenses and that we agree to adhere to the terms of any creator stated in licenses. We don't say what those terms must be or how we come to those terms. I just like some terms more than others, they work for me, I think they make the world a better, more interesting place. Where is th…

Some terms allow the ICC to be banned from computers and some don't. This can have far–reaching implications.

Indeed, but that was not FOSS but MS365.

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Post by fvdessen »

direwolf20 wrote: post #174
menaerus wrote: post #170

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> This year there is more emphasis on bringing complete solutions to market. Previously they were funding much more experimentation. That's the step in the right direction however there's what I believe is a major issue with the NLNET scheme - there is no fastrack possibility for really great ideas with very potent market impact - you have to spend (lose) ~year to prove your idea is worthy by applying to Zero Commons…

How should they know your project is worth investing 500k? I heard they've got 3x8M, per year I presume, so 500k is a huge chunk of that. Everyone thinks their project is worth 500k, what makes yours different from the rest?

> How should they know your project is worth investing 500k? I heard they've got 3x8M, per year I presume, so 500k is a huge chunk of that. Everyone thinks their project is worth 500k, what makes yours different from the rest?

Well that's the job of VCs, that's what they're expert at.

There's also another model where established industrial communities set up research centers to fund projects that might help their common problems.

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Post by protocolture »

anthk wrote: post #159
protocolture wrote: post #116

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Yeah man. Just like how novel reading, newspapers, music, rock music, the internet, computer games all made everyone super dumb and the world ended. I am definitely sure that this time you are right and the world will actually end this time, everyones going to end up way dumber than you, or if they dont, you will still pretend it happened and be smug about it on the internet.

Mobile computer games compared to the ones from the 80's, 90's, and early 00's? For sure. Ditto with tons of best sellers, which are very dull and dumbed down compared to what I could read in Spanish "Dollar Stores" like shops in Spain such as the books Clarke/PKD and Orwell novels for very little, less than what $2 were in Pesetas (pre Euro Spanish currency) in late 90's. Nowadays you have AI generated books which a…

I saw someones profile on goodreads, she was putting away 100 - 200 of those cheap supernatural romance books per year. Reading at that level isnt dumb, the books arent making her stupid. That I consider the books stupid isnt ending the world.

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Post by teekert »

teekert wrote: post #198
direwolf20 wrote: post #191

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The people I put the "extreme" label on believe that it's okay to kill millions of people in order to increase your own strength.

I'd love to have a beer with you, we could be at this all night haha.

.. And we know MS is used as a political tool (ie see their past with the NSA, and the whole business with the International Criminal Court), ie Linux is not, at least not "willingly".

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Post by direwolf20 »

teekert wrote: post #230
direwolf20 wrote: post #224

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Is it ever appropriate to model another human's internal processes?

Imo we do this all the time :) But, perhaps it is important to recognize that those models are simplifications. It's easy, probably tempting, to project a group of humans onto one axis. But it's wrong, you don't know someone until you know someone. A good rule to live by (and imo a correct assumption) is that, by far, most people are kind.

You say most. If someone consistently acts in ways that are not compatible with kindness, but are compatible with bloodthirstiness, may we model them as bloodthirsty?

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Post by direwolf20 »

teekert wrote: post #234
direwolf20 wrote: post #229

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Some terms allow the ICC to be banned from computers and some don't. This can have far–reaching implications.

Indeed, but that was not FOSS but MS365.

It was precisely because MS365 wasn't FOSS.

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Post by lucb1e »

brnt wrote: post #232
lucb1e wrote: post #9

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And reliable. This is why I (near the border) drive across the border and take the train through Belgium. https://belgiantrain.be for finding trains and tickets to/from the nearest station, Etterbeek (or use another station if you want to take the tram, where you just swipe a bank card). The ticket is valid for any train going to your destination. For those Same with the Netherlands. Sadly no intercity stations have…

That's probably the first and last time anyone will ever mention Nuth on HN. #nuthmentioned. Maastricht Noord has a much bigger free parking, in case this part of the Netherlands is how you want to start your journey up north.

I forgot about that station! Now that you mention it, indeed I remember they were building it before I moved away

Looking at the track layout in OSM, I'm very surprised that the regional train from Roermond literally cannot reach the platform and passes within like 1-2 meters of the stop. That means that 99% of destinations in NL require you to first take a train into Maastricht and then backtrack (pay double) for the path north. Not sure I'd recommend that over Bunde (3km further, also free parking) unless your destination is one of the tiny towns towards Heerlen. Even if you want to hop onto the tri-country train (BE-NL-DE), which stops at the previous and next stations (Maastricht and Meerssen) and could simply stop at this platform, Maastricht Noord is useless to you O.o who is that rich person living somewhere along this track who funded that incapacitated station such that they can be its only user? xD

Edit: you are correct, btw! https://hn.algolia.com/?query="nuth"&type=comment

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