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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.

🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

Wouter Verhelst
@wouter@pleroma.debian.socia
10/12/2025, 20:08 Edited
@aral Good thing #FOSDEM isn't about freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy, then. It's *just* about Free and Open Source Software.
(disclaimer: yes I'm a FOSDEM organizer, but no l don't speak for FOSDEM, my thoughts are my own)
RT: mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/stat...
Wouter Verhelst @wouter@pleroma.debian.socia 10/12/2025, 20:08 Edited @aral Good thing #FOSDEM isn't about freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy, then. It's *just* about Free and Open Source Software. (disclaimer: yes I'm a FOSDEM organizer, but no l don't speak for FOSDEM, my thoughts are my own) RT: mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/stat...
Wouter Verhelst @wouter@pleroma.debian.socia 10/12/2025, 20:08 Edited @aral Good thing #FOSDEM isn't about freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy, then. It's *just* about Free and Open Source Software. (disclaimer: yes I'm a FOSDEM organizer, but no l don't speak for FOSDEM, my thoughts are my own) RT: mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/stat...
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
@onepict@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral well FOSDEM pretty much demonstrated their values last year.

https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html

About that time they picked Jack Dorsey as a headliner.

https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html

I called for some transparency.

https://www.onepict.com/20250206-mirror.html

No Dorsey, Matrix got to talk instead. Oh and no transparency.

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schrotthaufen
schrotthaufen
@schrotthaufen@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral Why do so many supposedly smart people think tech is not inherently political?

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mray
mray
@mray@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral Silly you! "F" in FOSDEM stands for "Open Source". ablobcatbongo

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sortius :Fire_Bisexual:
sortius :Fire_Bisexual:
@sortius@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral there's a reason I ran like the wind from open source communities.

There's dudes like this everywhere in them. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not developing for human rights, you're developing for fascism

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the elder sea
the elder sea
@eldersea@expressional.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral "Oh, my political project isn't political at all"
-white dudes everywhere

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Simon D.
Simon D.
@siltaer@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral Ahhh, Free Software is not about Freedom…

Well, well, well.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@siltaer Free as in “not freedom”.

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mmu_man
mmu_man
@mmu_man@m.g3l.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral @siltaer IIRC it's been already complicated to get them to add the "F" to OSDEM at first, and people had a hard time getting topics like legal and policy in… Which is also why some people started OFFDEM to address these.

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Simon D.
Simon D.
@siltaer@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aral It must be the "other Free" like it was the "other private" in Mastodon confidentiality levels

(remember ? the public one)

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