Fabio Valentini

@decathorpe
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Rustacean 🦀 with a Computer Science degree 🎓

I write Rust and Python, and maintain lots of RPM packages for Fedora Linux. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and Packaging Committee (FPC) member. AI Luddite.

Fluent in English and German. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺

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Fabio Valentini3d ago
Show threadAleksandra Fedorova 3d ago

And repeating the last year post here:
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"But I am not running myself, what can I do?"

1) Think about who can represent your voice in #Fedora

2) *Tell them* that you think that they might be good at representing your voice in Fedora.

This is a critically important step, because often people who are good for these roles are not aware that they are good at them.

3) Learn about people nominated for elections. Talk to them, ask their opinion on various topics.

4) Vote.

Fabio Valentini3d ago
Aleksandra Fedorova 3d ago

A timely reminder

You have until 23:59 UTC, 21 May 2026 to nominate yourself or someone you think would be a good fit for a governance role in Fedora

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-elections-nominations-period-ending-soon/191814

#fedora

Fedora Elections Nominations Period Ending Soon

Hi All, The Fedora Elections Nominations period will close soon. Several seats are open across all governing bodies in the project this cycle. You have until 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 21 May 2026 to nominate yourself or someone you think would be a good fit for any of these positions, provided you have their permission. You can nominate by visiting each wiki page and filling out the table at the end. Fedora Council[1] Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)[2] Fedora Mindshare Committee...

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Fabio Valentini4d ago
Aurélien Bompard4d ago

Hi Fedora-minded people!
There's a new article for last week on the This Week in Fedora blog! Check it out for a quick(-ish) recap of what happened last week across the project teams 🙂
https://abompard.fedorapeople.org/twif/

#Fedora #ThisWeekInFedora

This Week in Fedora

Fabio Valentini6d ago
Mitchell HashimotoMay 15

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

Fabio ValentiniMay 15
☃️karolherbst☃️May 15
responsible disclosure in the future: not dropping the vuln on a Friday afternoon or the weekend.
Fabio ValentiniMay 13
Denys SéguretMay 12

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

dystroy

dystroy - Rust consulting

Fabio ValentiniMay 7
J. L. WestoverMay 7
Secret Panel HERE 🤷‍♀️ https://patreon.com/posts/58202843
Fabio ValentiniApr 30
Neal WalfieldApr 30
As Microsoft continues its enshitification, its reassuring that the primary package registries for multiple major languages have gotten rid of or spurned distributed signing schemes based on OpenPGP and instead opted for trusted publishers. /s
Fabio ValentiniApr 29

"we can't allow the unethical orphan crushing machines to win ... so we need to work with the orphan crushers on ethical, responsible orphan crushing machines, or we'll be left behind"

- what "AI" discourse in the FOSS space sometimes sounds like nowadays

Fabio ValentiniApr 28
Fedora ProjectApr 28

Presenting Fedora Linux 44!

This release brings @gnome 50, @kde Plasma 6.6, tweaks to the Anaconda installer, and more!

Thank you to all of the contributors for another successful release. We hope you enjoy it!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #GNOME #KDE

The Fedora Linux 44 Release is Here! - Fedora Magazine

I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready, just jump right in and give Fedora Linux 44 a try!

Fedora Magazine