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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-02 at 05:50

If you’re at #FOSDEM, and

1. you’re feeling a bit 😅 about how crammed some of the rooms are

2. you‘d prefer to avoid either getting or transmitting some nasty lurgy

Then this post might be useful to you.

I spent a bunch of time yesterday hunting around in shops near the campus to buy one. Learn from my folly - this would have been much more convenient:

https://chaos.social/@RichiH/113930416266289126

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 14:28

@andrewnez , @mgifford - I spoke to you both about @ecosystems, and I figure you might get along 👍

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 10:15

If you are at #FOSDEM, you forgot a mask and you are thinking you might want one in some of the rooms, I just picked up a couple myself from this Pharmacy.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hqBqdeyuFsuKx6Uj8?g_st=ic

2.50 EUR each.

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 09:43

As an example, this I made a decision to start funding OSS I use myself via @ecosystems this year, because it does this.

Let me set a recurring amount , and solve the allocation problem for me, or at least make it engaging.

Don’t me a think every single time about whether I’ll donate and how much - I’ll usually drop out the funnel.

#FOSDEM

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 09:37

has someone already built this already?

It seems like all the parts are out there now to build a prototype, and if it lowers the barrier to financially supporting public goods like OSS, I think it’s a good thing.

I really think that one of the barriers to funding OSS with individual donations it’s getting someone to open their wallet for the first time.

If you can separate that from what you actually choose to fund, the problem can be solved in all kinds of interesting ways.

#FOSDEM

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 09:35

I don’t have the time to build this myself, but it would likely pay about as much as I do for a podcast sub, for this for conferences like #FOSDEM:

1. Let me make a playlist of all the sessions I am interested in, including the ones I can’t attend.

2. Package up the recordings as a podcast / playlist that I can easily consume.

3. Share a proportion of this subscription fee to the OSS projects as a donation. Base the share on have something like which talks I actually watch.

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 09:23

[#]FOSDEM @andypiper im tagging you as I see the social web dev room on the list in the original pad. I have a spare sensor I lend today if it would help 👍

https://pad.public.cat/p/fosdem-2025-lofi-aq#/5

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-02-01 at 08:30

If you're at #FOSDEM, I put this shared pad together a few weeks back for ppl thinking about air quality and public health.

https://pad.public.cat/D0sRexLgTlmdcxlSnbDA3Q

Following on a suggestion from Nico Rikken in the Energy Dev room, I've bashed together this super-lofi “dashboard" (ahem) for some of the rooms:

https://pad.public.cat/p/fosdem-2025-lofi-aq#/

Anyone can edit and improve it. If you know someone to tag, with a room, please do.

I'm dashing to my first session, as I overslept 😅

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-31 at 11:49

Hey gang. I've arrived in Brussels for #fosdem

My tips for getting a lot out of it:

Have a list of events ahead of time! My fave to use is

https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/2025/

It lets you share your schedule with others.

Also, use the https://nav.fosdem.org map. It gives you routes between rooms at the event, let's you hyperlink anywhere on the campus. It's v handy!

Here’s the link to a post with a few more, and a link to the sessions I'll be at:

https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2025/01/im-at-fosdem-2025/

Enjoy!

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-31 at 07:51

Dear Brussels fediverse peeps. If you have a fave quiet cafe near Bruxelles MIDI/Zuid that you like and have personal experience with, and is within walking distance, would you share a recommendation.

I can Google, but I’m looking for recommendations based on personal experience if possible.

I thought I would arrive in time to make it to the hotel

I’m staying at, and I’ve learned the train was delayed overnight (I’m on a sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels for #FOSDEM)

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-30 at 08:53

Dear internet. We maintain a bunch of OSS repositories and the github issue / pull request syntax looks kinda neat - particularly the ability to make issue forms that let you use various form widgets:

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/about-issue-and-pull-request-templates

Has anyone seen good examples 'in the wild' to learn from for implementing yourself?

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-29 at 07:49

Whenever I think of schadenfreude , I now think of this post:

https://toot.cat/@plexus/113910449947763019

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-28 at 14:14

I am really really glad that Berlin has decided to start doing this - setting aside road space for non-car forms of transport.

It makes responsible use of e-scooters much much easier, which is good because they can be extremely handy.

Whoever was behind this idea, thank you very much, oh mystery city planning hero.

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-25 at 12:50

And for folks who use python, there is a handy package on Pypi too:

https://pypi.org/project/jsonquerylang/

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-25 at 12:48

TIL: I discovered that JSON Query is a thing. I can totally see this becoming popular - it feels a bit like jq in that it’s a nice way to work with json output, but it the syntax feels more intuitive at first glance.

https://jsonquerylang.org/

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-18 at 10:42

Yikes, InfluxDB was a really popular time series database. It’s going non-free as well.

I’m following this to see what comes out as it filled a nice niche of lightweight databases that allowed for easy collection of metrics. Others exist, sure, but it was v handy.

https://social.netz.org/@mephisto/113843026660873356

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-17 at 07:37

Dear internet.

If I have a sqlite database file, and then another copy of it from the day before, what is the easiest way to get a diff between them so if i want to store them , I only need need to store the first one plus the incremental changes?

I get that you'd still want regular full snapshots too, every N days. I know I can do this with Mariadb/MySQL, but is there an easy to use option for the most widely deployed database on earth too?

It sure would be handy.

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-14 at 16:33

HOLY NOPE ON A STICK.

https://chaos.social/@jonty/113827628811181120

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-14 at 14:21

Hello, anyone who works for @Vivaldi gonna be at #FOSDEM?

I wanted to speak to someone to try to understand how hard doing this would be with Vivaldi, because I have an idea how difficult it was to do with Firefox, and I'm using it more and more for personal browsing.

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbon-emissions-in-browser-devtools-firefox-profiler-and-co2-js/

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Written by Chris Adams on 2025-01-13 at 08:27

And here's the full report we published. The government announcement frustratingly doesn't seem to link to the actual 50 points in the the 50 point action plan, and it would be good to be able to respond to the substance in detail. If you have seen a copy of it, or it’s online anywhere I've love some pointers.

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/publications/report-ai-environmental-impact/#9422c57b-4238-4167-82b6-b37526e47cf0

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