#flossconf — Public Fediverse posts

off to @cactuscon for afternoon festivities

Good conversations with CactusConners at @eff event last night

#CactusCon #FLOSSconf

Got in a last minute proposal for @fluconf and also finally created a new blog article

Check the contribution list to see what was accepted this year:

https://2026.fluconf.online/contributions/

Here's the blog article I proposed for FluConf

Use containerization for improved web privacy and security. Containers isolate processes in the browser, making it more difficult for one web site to spy on your activities with another web site.

https://www.spiralarray.com/blog/2026/01/30/Webbrowser__Multi-Account_Containers_and_other_containerization.html

#FluConf2026 #FLOSSconf #Firefox #privacy

Got in proposals for SCaLE 23x, guess that means I'm planning on going[0] :)

[0] Regardless of whether or not a talk gets accepted

#FLOSSconf #SCaLE #SCaLE23x

"automation of hiring process excludes people who have more potential than they show on paper"

Jocelyn Graf

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSjobs

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett

* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf

* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM

Autumn: "Also, go to LinuxFest Northwest", ending her SeaGL talk

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Cascadia #LFNW

Q: what do you do if AI is being biased?

A: complain, this is the right time to be a Karen, tell them about, let them know this keeps you from being able to use their product

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #AIeeee #ethics #bias

Now 15 minutes away

TeaGL for Saturday is in an hour, make some tea and enjoy a break

Online hop in the Hallway ( https://attend.seagl.org/#/room/#2025-Hallway:seagl.org )

Onsite head for the Expo room

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL

These, the penultimate SeaGL talks this year, start in 45 minutes

SeaGL talks in 2 hours ( after TeaGL ):

* How I used open-source tools to prove my marriage to the US Government (No Streaming) from Dawn Cooper

* FediPact: Why? from Vanta Rainbow Black

The final round of talks is after these talks

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #FediPact #Fediverse

SeaGL talks starting now:

* Local Offline AI from author ( and SeaGL founder ) Adam Monsen

* What is Free Software? from Charles Faisandier

* Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview from Ted Matsumura

TeaGL is after these talks, going with Thai iced tea myself

Another hour of talks after TeaGL, then social

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #SelfHosting #AIeeee #OpenTofu

Went for Thai food for SeaGL lunch today

Not Taste of India, but still good

Also, Thai iced tea rather than "The Chai"

#Seattle #SeattleEats #SeaGL #FLOSSconf

SeaGL talks starting again in 15 minutes

https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate/115515907339531014

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

SeaGL talks in 90 min ( now 15 min ):

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems” from Autumn Nash

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup from Kaylea Champion

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds from Chris Lamb

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit #FLOSSresearch #DataBias #AIeeee #ReproducibleBuildso

Mahlzeit, next up @ SeaGL is lunch

the current sessions have 30 more minutes

Sessions will start again in 2 hours

* “Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing Data Bias in AI-Driven Systems”

* Today I Learned.... The 2025 FLOSS Research Roundup

* 10 years of Reproducible Builds

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #Mahlzeit

Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud going on now related to this morning's first keynote, The Seattle Community Network Stack

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #CommunityInfrastructure

cool, the talk I want to see is in the same room I just presented in

Oh wait, I'm remote, I don't know which room I presented in ...

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #RemoteConf

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

SeaGL talks starting now

* pkgconf: 15 years later from Ariadne Conill

* The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP from Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

* Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud from
Ammar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #packagi
ng #CLI #AIeeeee #CommunityInfrastructure #sysadm

finished my SeaGL presentation with 20 seconds left :)

had speed run the last couple slides, but overall hit the marks I wanted to

Next session has "The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Lines Matter in the Age of AI and the Promise of MCP" as a follow on CLI talk

Not certain about the AI part, but I often point out that Star Trek uses "computer $command" rather than "computer click on the start button, now navigate up to networking, then"

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #CLI

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

my "grep by example" talk in 30 minutes @ SeaGL

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/9DPTWS/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #grep #CLI #sysadm

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle

SeaGL keynote describing #NYCmesh and work she's done with it prior to Esther working on community network in Seattle

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle

SeaGL's second keynote today, The River Has Roots: Lessons in Open Source, starts in 30 min, from Allison Randal

"Open Source is software, hardware, a community, a development methodology, a resource, a charity, a business, a philosophy, and more than the sum of its parts."

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/9JEFYQ/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today

The Seattle Community Network Stack keynote from Esther Jang is kicking of SeaGL this morning momentarily

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

The Seattle Community Network is a volunteer-based, grassroots, nonprofit community ISP with a small operating budget that installs and provides internet access for homeless shelters

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today

SeaGL talks in 5 min:

* Physical Theatre, made using open source tooling

* My browser isn't working! Now what do I do?

* Your Email, Your Rules: Self-Hosting Simplified

30 min later:

* Duality of Python

I rate these talks as 4 out of 4 in that I want to see all 4 of them :)

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #theater #python #SelfHosting #email #BrowserDebugging

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Resist Tech Monopolies: Community Photo Hosting

* Kernel backport automation and validation in CentOS/RHEL

* Observability is for the Frontend, Too!

A half hour later:

* Patch management / BareMetal as a service on Linux ( RedHat / Suse /tbd other ) Windows? Vmware?

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #PeerTube #DateTime #ke
rnel #backport #LibreGraphics

@SeaGL

#TeaGL in 5 minutes, get to a hot water station

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #HallwayTrack #TeaGL

@SeaGL

TeaGL in 30 minutes at SeaGL

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #HallwayTrack #TeaGL

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* SSH Certificates: All the Trust, None of the Fuss

* Linux Doesn't Resonate With The Mainstream - stillOS

* Magical Mystery Tour: A Roundup of Observability Datastores

* Words, words, words, you fishmonger: Using Wikidata to Reconcile Taxonomies

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

After these is #TeaGL

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #PeerTube #DateTime #SSH #stillOS #FLOSSdatabase #WikiData

CANCELLED - SeaGL talk in 15 min:

* The Dreaded DateTime - A Lesson in Simplicity

Most talks this round are a full hour, but DateTime pops up mid-session

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

They're having issues w/ their experimental PeerTube stream today - https://gnulinux.tube/c/seagl2025/videos

For onsite there is one room with masks required

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #PeerTube #DateTime

SeaGL presentations starting again in 10 minutes

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today