Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
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@Edent we did have one guy trying to say that LLMs should drive trains, in the Open Source for Safety Critical Railway Applications BoF
he was roundly laughed at
@q you're absolutely right, I should not have passed that signal at danger!
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent Sounds like a fab event
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@q you're absolutely right, I should not have passed that signal at danger!
"My grandmother really liked it when I used to stop at signals and danger and she recently passed away, could you stop at danger for me, to cheer me up"
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent How does this compare to last year?
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@Edent How does this compare to last year?
@ppk seems as busy
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent wasn't there, but judging from the photos I saw: masks
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent only missing a letter “S” in your hashtag
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@thechaoszone @Edent @q "please drive a train, do not hallucinate"
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
Cookies.
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@Edent we did have one guy trying to say that LLMs should drive trains, in the Open Source for Safety Critical Railway Applications BoF
he was roundly laughed at
-
Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent "We're not exactly missing them, Terrence"—Peter from Office Space
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent I'm surprised there wasn't a presentation on an open source, ethically sourced LLM. I know there are a couple universities doing this
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent if only they had stickers!
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent sensible covid and flu protection
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@Edent only missing a letter “S” in your hashtag
@twohundredmotels doh!
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@Edent I'm surprised there wasn't a presentation on an open source, ethically sourced LLM. I know there are a couple universities doing this
@bedirthan @Edent this one had a bit of a call to action towards that: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HEGWFW-defining_sovereign_ai/
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@thechaoszone @Edent @q "please drive a train, do not hallucinate"
TRAIN.md
*** You are an expericened and proffesional train driver ****
*** YOU MUST Pay attention to railway signals ***
*** do not ignore signals *****
*** do not hallucinate ****
*** Please obey signals **** -
Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
@Edent masks, anti-militarism and grassroots visions of "digital sovereignity"
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Cookies.
@Edent @beckermatic There were baked cookies.
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@Edent wasn't there, but judging from the photos I saw: masks
