Periodic official communication, just to clarify a few things.

The BSD Cafe is an open, inclusive and friendly community. A community of people who try to be *“pro, not against”* and *“supporters, not haters”*: enthusiasts, friends, people who come here to share, to learn, to discuss. Not to hate each other.

This does not mean that we all have to think in the same way. Quite the opposite: it means that we can have different opinions, discuss them, defend them strongly, and question each other’s ideas.

What it does not mean is that it is acceptable to insult, threaten, attack people, or pretend that there can only be one morally acceptable position on every possible subject.

Calling the BSD Cafe a "Nazi Bar" from the outside simply because we do not automatically censor people who have an opinion different from yours is offensive towards the hundreds of people who are part of this community.

People are, of course, free to criticise what happens here. But expecting us to attack, ban or silence someone because you believe they deserve it, and then accusing the whole Cafe because we do not, is something different.

And I have seen something even worse lately: actual calls for hate. The equivalent of *“hey, everyone, go and attack this person”*, simply because that person does not share your position.

No. This is not acceptable.

And, dear friends, declaring yourself anti-Nazi while organising a crowd against somebody, intimidating them and treating them as an enemy who deserves to be attacked means using exactly the kind of methods you claim to oppose.

I do not say this lightly. I come from a family, and from a country, with a very real history of fascism and of the antifascism that immediately followed it. These are not just abstract words to me.

Hate is not tolerated, at any level, inside or outside the Cafe. The same is true for threats, intimidation and aggression. Believing that our cause is right does not make those behaviours more acceptable.

You disagree with someone? Say it. Explain why. Argue against their ideas. Support yours with all the conviction you want. But do not aggressively attack. This is not tolerated.

And expecting everyone else to attack that person too, or considering them somehow complicit because they do not, is something different. And it is not what I want for this community.

On any subject.

Even pineapple on pizza (!!!).

The Fediverse is a non-place, but it is made of real people. Wonderful people, very often. Let’s not turn it into version 2.0 of traditional social media, where every discussion becomes a war and anyone who does not think exactly like us automatically becomes the enemy.

In the last few weeks I have seen people stepping away exactly because of this. On different subjects, people accused of the worst things not because of something they had done, but because they had not said what someone expected them to say. Some of them, for their own wellbeing, simply decided to take a step back.

We all lost something because of that. Nobody gained anything.

So let’s keep supporting what we believe in. Let’s do it with conviction, and with firmness when needed. But let’s discuss ideas without turning people into targets.

From experience, I have learnt that real change also requires discussion, organisation, patience and concrete actions. We can disagree deeply without stopping considering each other as people.

This is the kind of place I want the BSD Cafe to continue to be.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #Fediverse #SupportersNotHaters

Salom, jebu-doste!

Jaledin, mi le xorudo hanman xwexi Globasa.

To sim "Esperanto", mas Ewropali minya fe centro.

Bon tyojan pro misu moge.

#conlang
#Globasa

@akshatrathi.bsky.social @codinghorror Can’t help noticing that coal’s still rising. I guess it would’ve risen faster without solar, though, so there’s still an improvement.

@christianschwaegerl Ach naja, das war ja nur eine einzelne Drohne. Um nun während einer länger wärenden Phase weiter Tit-for-tat spielen zu können, kann man jetzt nicht gleich das ganze Pulver verschießen.

@somebody oh and i was spending the past week trying to understand why q = 2p + 1 is the safest prime field and didn't fucking get it at all. and then today i just read the pohlig-hellman paper again and it's just directly because sunzi's remainder theorem still requires you to calculate logs in each prime factor of q - 1 for a finite field F_q. and q = 2p + 1 means there's a massive memory-bound problem tracking discrete logs (mod p).

so the most basic and simple and obvious way to create a big prime (find an existing big prime, then 2p + 1, which quite literally and directly employs euclid's first proof of the infinitude of primes from 2000 fucking years ago, in a system without any numbers) is also just the most secure approach. i haven't seen anything that improves upon the methods of lenstra and schoof and instead we literally just have djb writing papers on what not to do.

Hello Fedi friends,

Sorry I've been a little MIA lately, but it's been a hectic time, returning to Paris after 2+ months away.

Some news about the Fediverse HOPE t-shirts:

The blue one had a little flaw (logo too high up) so I'm having it redone in the same soft material as the red one (which turned out perfect). This means I have a SPARE to give away at #BerlinFediDay next week (it looks good TBH!)

📏 Size small unisex (but quite big IMHO)

If you're interested & you're coming reach out 🤗

@stufromoz Not really, when you buy that many at once they're like $0.005 each.

@tante Premium Spatziertempo

@Phipe
Et quand ceux qui font tourner leur LLM en local "pour être indépendant" finiront par travailler sur de vieilles données obsolètes parce que leur modèle n'a pas été mis à jour (et qu'il n'y a plus de milliardaire pour fournir de nouveaux modèles parceque ce n'est pas rentable), l'efficacité va fondre comme neige au soleil.
@Zestryon