At #FOSSY2025 I *expected* to hear insights about craziness, risks, and prospects for #AI in context of #FLO freedoms and development
Bit surprised. Less AI-focus than expected, and mostly about practical issues and pitfalls of AI tools today
Most people had not heard of big-picture perspectives I've been focusing on like:
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs
https://dek.ai/ "Parenting AI"
Etc.
happy to keep connected, always happy to discuss Snowdrift.coop @snowdrift and related crowdmatching, funding, etc
and glancing at your other interests, #Buddhism and #meditation all very much aligned with my other focus, FLO-Conscious-Living https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/Conscious-Living
not to mention Portland area etc.
Cheers
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
Congratulations to @ramereth from @osuosl who just received the first Distinguished Service Award in Free Software from @conservancy at #FOSSY!
Will also give a lightning talk Sunday August 3rd at 17:30 UTC:
"An Impatient Application of Reproducible Builds"
There should be a live stream, I think at:
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
If you're at #fossy, my talk about power dynamics, relicensing, and forks starts at 11:45 in the Science of Community room (333), and even if you aren't here, you can still have a look at the slides: https://fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Power-Dynamics-Rug-Pulls-Other-Impact-on-Sustainability-FOSSY-2025.pdf #fossy2025
If you're at #fossy, my talk about power dynamics, relicensing, and forks starts at 11:45 in the Science of Community room (333), and even if you aren't here, you can still have a look at the slides: https://fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Power-Dynamics-Rug-Pulls-Other-Impact-on-Sustainability-FOSSY-2025.pdf #fossy2025
Come visit @anjan and me at the #postmarketOS table at @FOSSY today through Sunday, it'll be fun 🥳
Congratulations to @ramereth from @osuosl who just received the first Distinguished Service Award in Free Software from @conservancy at #FOSSY!
The main livestream link for #FOSSY is here:
https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/
I'm sad that I can't be at #FOSSY2025 as I recover from a cardiac procedure but I gotta say it feels pretty cool to be able to jump from room to room to check out all of the talks going on at the same time!
Watching the morning's #FOSSY keynote live!
https://www.youtube.com/live/dWrSsrGwhB8
Sad to not be there but @pono is so knowledgeable and awesome, as is Allen Gunn of Aspiration Tech, who are already talking about threat modeling to nonprofits!
The rest of the day's streaming is all here:
Come visit @anjan and me at the #postmarketOS table at @FOSSY today through Sunday, it'll be fun 🥳
Watching the morning's #FOSSY keynote live!
https://www.youtube.com/live/dWrSsrGwhB8
Sad to not be there but @pono is so knowledgeable and awesome, as is Allen Gunn of Aspiration Tech, who are already talking about threat modeling to nonprofits!
The rest of the day's streaming is all here:
My colleague Chris Lamb and I will be presenting
Never Mind the Checkboxes, Here's Reproducible Builds
at #FOSSY2025 on Saturday
You probably do not need to bring earplugs, but no guarantees.
Done with our #fossy #fossy2025 talk!
https://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/308/
A Hyperscaler’s #OperatingSystem Strategy: working with @centos and @fedora
