🚨 Good news everybody! 🚨

Our amazing Organizing Committee managed to have the hotel extend the block booking!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/accomodation.html

Now you can book even longer!

https://www.warwickhotels.com/hotel-barsey-by-warwick/book/dates-of-stay?domain=2026.eurobsdcon.org&groupID=4846572

Hotel Barsey by Warwick
Louizalaan 381-383, 1050 Brussel

Located near the Flagey area, know for its restaurants and bars.

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD

Pretty chuffed to hear from the organisers that my "How not to use AI" preconference workshop helped set the tone of the following days, and that scholarly values and the benefits of slowing down were recurring conversation topics

If your conference or grad school is looking for a workshop format that avoids the tired marketing cliches and productivity narratives around "AI", I'd be happy to do a rerun (time permitting) https://ideophone.org/how-not-to-use-ai-workshop/

#workshop #CriticalAI

Seems British PM tenures could be effectively stated using a unit derived from lowest common denominator, so recent tenures are :

Keir Starmer: 15 Trusses
Rishi Sunak: 13 Trusses
Liz Truss: 1 Truss
Boris Johnson: 23 Tr
Theresa May: 23 Tr
David Cameron: 46 Tr
Gordon Brown: 21 Tr
Tony Blair: 76 Tr
John Major: 48 Tr

(Using @urlyman's lettuce-head data )

#UKPM #UKPol

In this time of political instability and uncertainty, just a note that Larry has now outlasted six prime ministers.

#cats #catsofMastodon #UKpol

How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps:

1️⃣ choose a username
2️⃣ choose a password
3️⃣ choose your interests
4️⃣ download the #WIdentity app to your phone (two options: Apple AppStore or Google Play Store)
5️⃣ scan a QR code
6️⃣ create a PIN code
optional: enable biometrics; re-enter PIN
7️⃣ choose whether you simply want to verify that you're human or if you also want to verify your name
8️⃣ choose the verification method (automatic photo review, request a manual review or scan your passport chip)
9️⃣ scan your passport's picture page
1️⃣0️⃣ scan your passport's chip
1️⃣1️⃣ take a selfie
1️⃣2️⃣ scan a QR code to link the W Identity to your W Social account
1️⃣3️⃣ enter your PIN code

Congratulations, you're verified*!

(* for two years)

Demonstration in all its simple glory here:

📺​: https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ

Please save this toot as reference if you ever hear somebody say that IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO JOIN THE FEDIVERSE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO PICK A SERVER 🤡​

#SocialMedia

Just in case anyone needs a bit of encouragement: It has always been and is still perfectly reasonable to fix bugs without LLMs. I found 7 WiFi driver bugs this evening and wrote fixes for each of them. With no more than vim-classic, grep, and debug prints.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178204688871868&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178208266083832&w=2