Good morning, Brussels! Start of #FOSDEM

Network is of course IPv6 only (NAT64 to reach old and broken sites of the 20th century)

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933 speakers, 67 tracks/devrooms, 62 stands.

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"If there is a sign saying 'This room is full', it means the room is full."

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Now, the feminist talk "Where have the women of tech history gone?" by Laura Durieux
The room empties.

Side note: according to an unscientific survey done by an amateur observer, there are not many women at FOSDEM.

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"Computer was a job" (once upon a time, computations were done by hand).
Nicole-Reine Lepaute, an astronomer, did calculations that way.

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"She wrote the first algorithm" (Ada Lovelace)

Clearly false, algorithms are known from Antiquity.

Hiding non-European people is bad, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

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Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

Grete Hermann - Wikipedia

Debugging the #ENIAC was done by wiring and unwiring. Six women worked on this task.

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No #Cobol code on the screen when talking about Grace Hooper :-)

(Quick survey by the speaker: "who programmed in Cobol in the room?")

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Now, following the lightning talks, pending my own talk. A bit of everything.

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"The world can't be coherent." (in a talk about distributed systems.)

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#OpenFoodFacts : Acting on the health and environnemental impacts of the food system, by Pierre Slamich

Timely with the many demonstrations of peasants.

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"Information on food packaging in the supermarket is abstract art. We want to make it readable."

Don't panic. Organise. (Today 3 million products.)

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OpenFoodFacts also has eco-score (impact on the biosphere).

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Depends on the country: 3 % fruit in Fanta sodas in Serbia (12 % in Italy).

#food
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Plan to merge with other projects to have Open Products Facts.

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"European Nutella price index"? At #FOSDEM, I would have expected Club Maté price index.

By the way, among the sponsors of Open Food Facts, there is my employer (well, its foundation).

@afnic

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Now, #DNS devroom at #FOSDEM. Only DNS this afternoon.

#itIsAlwaysDNS

DNS for I2P: Distributed Network without Central Authority by Konrad Bächler

"We are not coin guys"

I2P is an overlay network, adding confidentiality and anonymity

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Goal: adding a name resolution protocol on the top of it (to map names to I2P adresses).

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Algo-rollover for .nl by Stefan Ubbink

#DNSSEC https://dns.bortzmeyer.org/nl/DNSKEY

TODO: replace the RSA keys of my personal domains.

Query for domain nl., type DNSKEY

Why changing? Because elliptic curves are shorter and safer.

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The size of .nl went from 4.5 GB to 6.4 (RSA and ECDSA) then 3.7 (ECDSA only)

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So, it worked and it was boring.

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@bortzmeyer Best kind of deployment news.
@lanodan The speaker just said there was no rollback plan. Real Men don't plan for failures, they don't fail.