(but seriously, best of luck to everyone patching today)

Lol.

#php #php2shell

First of all, ✨ I was a DEI hire once ✨

Ya girl had studied PolSci, and didn't have the attention span yet for her big girl job as a policy worker in Parliament, so she applied for a junior dev role. I already knew some programming, because as students we were always protesting something, and protesters need a website (html, css, javascript, php).

Capgemini gave me a Java bootcamp. Quote: "this will look great for our diversity numbers." Despite the wording, I'm still grateful they hired me. ❤️

In honor of #FOSDEM rejecting our Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Belonging (DEIB) track, and time permitting, I will be posting numbers about diversity in tech and my personal experiences in IT today.

Feel encouraged to share numbers and experiences as well ❤️

Yall, it was such a good proposal 💔☹️

I'll see if we can share it here tomorrow.

Also, considering some of our more corporate organizers, I quote from our proposal:

✨️ [This track] is not an advertising podium for large organisations or businesses. Talks should come from lived experience in real communities. ✨️

We had an inclusive coalition of organisations willing to sponsor speakers, we were designing cool "not a techbro" stickers, and just lots of cool ideas to platform #FOSS people we generally don't see at #FOSDEM.

At a time where female representation in #opensource is at 9.8% (let alone any other intersectionalities), tech bro culture is infiltrating open source projects, and marginalized communities increasingly rely on these FOSS alternatives, we thought this track would be a no brainer.

I'm actually a bit upset about this. 🙁

@RosannaSibora , @_elena and I, and a whole coalition of open source orgs were hoping to organize a track at #FOSDEM27 about Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity and Belonging (DEIB) in #FOSS.

It got rejected.

https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

Something is brewing in Europe... 🇪🇺

There are protests in France against the state of education, in Spain against the housing crisis, in Italy against the cost of living, in Albania against corruption and in Belgium because Belgium.

https://www.ft.com/content/d8df36c2-7e8c-4cfb-ad9e-e6e954fea4b9?syn-25a6b1a6=1

There's something so dystopian about these AI agents reaching out for invites.

#Mastodon #Fosstodon #AI #deadinternettheory

Btw I found it beyond ironic that @zendis 's booth - aka the German Center for Digital Sovereignty, who is in charge of building sovereign alternatives like OpenDesk and OpenCode - was next to the evil empire looking Mastercard area at SCCON26.

#opensource #digitalsovereignty #SCCON26 #USpol

RE: https://nrc.social/@MarloesdeKoning/117443878800925446

Dutch bank ABN Amro (one of the big 3) is at risk of being hit by US sanctions, because of services it provides to the ICC.

Worst case scenario ABN AMRO would be excluded from the international banking system, which would be the "corporate death penalty" and has already caused another bank, the Amsterdam Trade Bank, to go under.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #ICC #USpol

RE: https://nrc.social/@NRC/117439326530971500

Amsterdam police seized a server belonging to Autistici/Inventati (A/I) from a data center at Amsterdam Science Park, acting on a US legal assistance request. Police digital experts are making an image of the drive, which goes straight to the US.

A/I spent 25 years providing free web hosting and email to about 20,000 left-wing and anti-capitalist groups. In August the US branded it a terrorist organization.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #EUpolicy

Lol talk about sovereignty washing. "The sovereign workspace" based on... Google.

#sovereigntywashing #opensource #sigh

And yes I know it's vibecoded, but I hate Adobe even more than I hate AI.

Oh nooo... someone recreated Adobe's entire suite.. and it's all free and open source. So sad, won't someone think of the shareholders... 🥲

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#foss #opensource #adobe #fuckadobe #AI

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/117236161241462079

The US is going to impose new sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). These sanctions would prevent companies from providing services to the ICC.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-international-criminal-court-hours-after-former-judge-wins-2026-10-09/

Dutch newspaper @NRC wrote an article a month ago about IT suppliers of the ICC, such as @ProcoliX , who worry about getting hit by US sanctions as well.

@_elena @oscl @paolo btw I had the honor of meeting the OSPO of the country of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, which was so incredibly cool. They're doing great things over there, glad they were invited to the EU OSPO network 🥳

The Open Source Conference Luxembourg has started! 🥳🥳

@_elena and I are organising the Decentralized and Federated track. It's in Building D, come say hi! 👋

This years @oscl brings together governments, lots of open source projects, and even the UN!

Compliments to @paolo for the excellent organisation! 👏

#opensource #oscl26 #OSCL #luxembourg #FOSS #digitalsovereignty

Lol my friends are currently sharing ways in which they messed up at work, and some of them are truly heinous ❤️