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BSides Saskatoon is back for another year!
Join us for the #1 infosec event in Saskatoon! On August 22, 2025 we'll be taking over the Broadway Theatre for the 2nd annual BSides Saskatoon.
There will even be a half day of training on the 21st. Stay tuned for details!
Visit us at https://bsidesyxe.ca for more information, tickets go on sale on Friday April 4, 2025!
#BSides #Saskatoon #InfoSec #Conference #Broadway
Here we are! Stars of #PyTV ✨📺 Can you spot your #Python 🐍 friends or favourite speakers? Tag them if you do 🏷️
#conference #AI #DataScience #Web #Django #OSS #tech #programming
Did you know that beer used to be even cheaper in the Czech Republic? So cheap, in fact, that it became a problem. The government had to introduce legislation forcing pubs to offer at least one non-alcoholic drink that was cheaper than beer 🍻
Episode court de retour du #fosdem26 .
Nous avons demandé à quelques personnes proches du podcast de nous faire part de leurs impressions 🎧
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/s4e12-retours-du-fosdem-2026/
Avec @vdew @LaurentD_Eldy @lexoyo @raphiki et Alex Bourreau.
We’re thrilled to welcome Daniel Cuthbert as keynote speaker for our 25th anniversary virtual conference! 🎉 It’s free (yes, really 😉) and packed with insightful talks, community highlights, and celebration.
Join us online! 🎂✨ https://owasp.glueup.com/event/owasp-25th-anniversary-virtual-conference-164290/
#appsec #community #conference #cybersecurity
After almost a year of planning - we can finally announce that we can bring #free #Python #conference to everyone in the world:
📺 Live on YouTube
🗓 March 4, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET
Save the date: jb.gg/pytv
Python Unplugged on PyTV – A Free Online Python Conference for Everyone
#Pycharm #Ai #Conference #Ml #Python
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/02/python-unplugged-on-pytv/
⏳ Call for PODs closes Friday, Feb 13!
We’re introducing PODs (Practical On-Demand sessions): 2–3 hour, hands-on, small-group experiences alongside the conference. Less listening, more doing! Got an idea? Submit it 👉 https://lnkd.in/eA_pNyks
#owasp #globalappsec #opensource #conference
Witnessed XXIII International Conference "Internal Audit and Control"
Pour celles et ceux qui m'ont demandé le
diaporama de ma conférence sur #mastodon "un réseau libre alternatif mieux que Twitter ?", il est dispo sur mon blog
👉 https://tutox.fr/wp-content/uploads/conferences/mastodon_conference.html
#blog
#conference
#reseauxsociaux
#logicielslibres
FOSDEM 2026 Reflections
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Last weekend, I attended FOSDEM, the largest Open Source conference in Europe. The last time that I attended was exactly a decade ago, and I had forgotten what it was really about.
But this became instantly obvious when (nearly) the first slide during the Opening Remarks shouted loudly: "Open Source has always been political". The emotional introduction instantly brought home what Open Source is really about: Activism to break the chains of "big tech". Although big tech wasn't so big when they started the conference over 25 years ago, it is now more required than ever.
As I remembered that it can be really hard to get into the rooms where talks are held — FOSDEM can be really busy — I had made a plan to divide my two days up in roughly four blocks to follow talks in the same room. I also made sure I showed up a talk (or two before), to have a better chance of having a seat in the talks I wanted to attend.
I spend most of Saturday following talks in the Geospatial and Legal & Policy tracks. Although Geospatial, mostly through OpenStreetMap, is my fun open data involvement, the Legal & Policy tracks were good to see.
In From Policy To Practice; Open Source in The Dutch Government, I learned from Gina Plat how the (old and new) Dutch governments are now pushing ahead with Open Source. With the more volatile situation in the USA, where constant threats of tariffs and other economic measure, they seem to now have understood, that it is vital to build up their own stacks. Although there have been policy and plans before, there is now also funding available to reduce the liability on US big tech stacks and software. It's not perfect, but there is certainly progress.
After more geo fun in the afternoon, I attended Neil Brown's "Online Safety" laws: reflections for FOSS projects (video). Although I am familiar with the topic, and have written about this before to my MP, it was good to see Neil explain how this affects open source projects specifically. The main take-away here was that although you can follow the law(s) to the latter, it is likely going to be more important to check what risk there actually is for users, and for the project itself, when the regulator comes knocking on the door.
Talks on regulations, mostly in the EU form, is what my piqued my interest next, and I spend most of my Sunday morning in the Open Source & EU Policy track.
I arrived early enough to catch the Digital Omnibus: is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity from Open Source. How EU Policy is created is often complicated. This talk critically explored the challenges that policymakers have to make the regulatory burden on EU projects and products lighter. At the same time, regulation should not get in the way of innovation and competitiveness, but also not be so light that the general protections towards user privacy and control are watered down too far.
I was mainly aiming to see "The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Service Act". Jordan Maris moderated this panel discussion, with Sandra Barthel, Alexandra Geese (MEP for the Greens/EFA group), and Felix Hlatky (executive director of Mastodon GmbH), answering questions. The whole discussion was interesting, my main takeaways were the explanations by Alexandra on the DSA.
The provisions under the DSA are frequently derided by the American tech bros and their government allies as "censorship". Alexandra eloquently argued that the provisions in the DSA are explicitly meant to do the opposite. The DSA requires large operators to explain what their algorithms do, and how they work, to (try to) prevent the doom-spiral towards hate speech and othering. These algorithms have been designed to keep users engaged so that they see more advertisements. And the best way to keep users on your platform is to make them feel angry about something — usually vulnerable groups of people.
While listening to the panel, the though occurred to me that the approach by the EU is very different from the approach across the ocean. Where there the mentality is "work fast and break things", with no regulation to protect people's rights succinctly, in the EU the approach is strong regulation to prevent harm.
But that does require that the provisions are properly enforced, with enough resources, and sometimes with enough political will to not kowtow to the Americans with their tantrums. I suspect that we will see more of these tantrums in a short while, now that the EU is more keen to show its fangs as well.
On this side of the pond all is not well either. The UK's Online Safety Act is already a sad state of affairs, especially now there are rumours that they are considering banning age gating VPNs as well. But Age Verification as a measure to "save the children" is popping up in many jurisdictions. Age Verification and Assurance are antithetical to the open nature of the Web and free expression, and will not work regardless.
Where the focus now mainly is on websites themselves, there is a distinct possibility that regulators will want to enforce age on service level (app stores/package managers), on browser level, and on operating system level. These all conflict with open source variants (F-droid, Firefox, Linux), unless you withdraw the freedom that users have on what to run on their devices.
Nobody has any idea how a wide roll-out of Age Verification and Assurance will work out. It's like going straight to a release without beta testing. Preventing the broadening of Age Verification and Assurance is where the next fight for the open web and freedom of expression now must be.
We don't have the luxury of sitting on our hands, and as the opening slides of FOSDEM indicated that "Open Source has always been political", the closing remarks were equally pungent: We can't afford to not be politically active, and that's why we must engage with politicians. FOSDEM has fanned the flames in me for doing more again. Stay tuned!
And remember: "If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away".
I'm going to #webdayout in Brighton on March 12th anyone else? ☀️ #conference #webdev
Veckans Kodsnack är här: Fredrik snackar Foss-north och FOSDEM med Tobias Olausson och Johan Thelin.
https://kodsnack.se/688/ #pocast#opensource #foss #conference
Two markup/XML conferences announced today
XML Prague - https://www.xmlprague.cz/ in... er... Prague... and
26th annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) https://tei2026.tei-c.org/ in Vancouver.
Don’t forget also Balisage - https://www.balisage.net/
#MarkupMonday #TEI #tei2026 #XML #XMLPrague #XML_Prague #conference #balisage #markup #digitalHumanities #techDoc
Hello! 👋🏻 I'm David. Been in tech/web since 80s but last 15+ yrs I primarily identify as #PHP #WordPress dev building plugins that run on a bunch of sites.
Last 20+ yrs: #freelancing, manager, full stack dev, podcast host, #conference speaker, Post Status alum, event/meetup organizer, dad³. #hackathons. #WordCamp Miami co-founder. #StarTrek.
I use Mastodon mainly to share tech links & memes as they are archived to davidbisset.social. I avoid talking about certain subjects here.
Une #conference de @vmignerot
#effondrement #collapse #capitalisme #humanité #demographie #ressources #énergie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0HpPHL0xY
NB: quant aux #solutions à mon sens , elles paraîtront claires quand on aura compris et parfaitement assimilé le(s) problème(s) ... D'ici là, on tournera autour du pot en se faisant b**s*r par ceux qui manipulent notre attention... (pubs, politiques, médias, ... )
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🎊 🇸🇬 Very successful second edition of the AI4SC bridge @ 40th AAAI! During the event we managed to bring together a community of researchers interested.
🥇 In between the sessions we also played a short game 🪨📜✂️.
Many thanks to:
💐 Our very active participants
💐 The keynote speaker, Mark Gahegan
💐 Authors and speakers
💐 Organising committee
💐 Program committee
🔜 AI4SC on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/ai4sc2026
#ai4sc #ai4sc26 #ai4sc2026 #aaai26 #aaai2026 #research #conference
🎦 Our #Fediverse talks from #SFSCon are live.
I gave a talk about our existing building blocks of public-interest digital infrastructures like #Matrix #Wikimedia projects and #socialnetworks and how they are relevant to establish real and long term #digital #sovereignty. ✨
"From #OpenSource to Open Spaces: The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure"
🔗 https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-open-source-to-open-spaces/
Thanks again for the cooperation #Fediforum & South Tyrol #FreeSoftware #Conference @ohnewein 👏
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Conférence "Sortir des GAFAM" samedi 24 janvier 2026 à Die (26), entrée libre.
#Conférence #Gafam
📢 The AI4SC proceedings are now available online! Check them out on the TIB Open Conference Proceedings website: https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/ocp/issue/view/187
📅 Our bridge takes place in less than two weeks! If you're attending this year's AAAI, make sure to check out our program: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4sc/2026-program
And come by to participate in discussions!
#ai4sc #ai4sc2026 #aaai #aaai2026 #aaai26 #proceedings #conference #research
@soeren_auer @lysander07 @DiTraRe
Press Release: Insights into Venezuela’s Digital Dictatorship
DeepINTEL publishes information about government surveillance in South America
Vienna (pts011/07.01.2026/09:15)–At the recent DeepINTEL Security Intelligence Conference, security expert Chris Kubecka gave a presentation on Venezuela's digital surveillance dictatorship. Considering the current situation and at the request
https://blog.deepsec.net/press-release-insights-into-venezuelas-digital-dictatorship/
Happy 2026 everyone! Here's a Binomica labs retrospective post. An amateur independent researcher's perspective on genome sequencing, academic conferences and approaching research themes undertaken through 2025
#independentresearch #archaea #microbiology #conference
https://naturepoker.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/welcoming-2026-independent-research-retrospective/
How can we break this vicious cycle of #ClimateCrisis, economic crisis and #war? Clearly a major concern for those working at the intersection of #research and #activism, this question was the focus of #PluriverseOfPeace The BG #conference brought together researchers, #artists, and activists from over 25 countries. The goal was to explore the convergence of #peace and environmental struggles. Check out the videos here: https://berlinergazette.de/pluriverse-of-peace-conference-intro/
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𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗦𝗔𝗚𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 📅
This year’s #SAGconf was truly special – an inspiring program, great conversations, and an amazing atmosphere. We already can’t wait for what’s next! ✨
𝙎𝘼𝙑𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘿𝘼𝙏𝙀: November 16-19, 2026 in Berlin! 😍
#SoftwareArchitecture #iSAQB #Berlin #Conference #SaveTheDate
