#why2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Just received my #WHY2025 #merch, yay! I am truly impressed that people had the patience and perseverance to follow up on this until about a year after the actual event. Thank you, #WHY2025 #merch team!

(Picture with bonus #cat)

Gator ops at #why2025 were much more fun than those at #emf2026

Gator ops at #why2025 were much more fun than those at #emf2026

@info

Sounds like you need those fork lift "repositioning" signs that #WHY2025 had. 🙃

@info

Sounds like you need those fork lift "repositioning" signs that #WHY2025 had. 🙃

Look, what just fell out of my big camping bag while packing for #emf2026!
Memories from #why2025 .

Look, what just fell out of my big camping bag while packing for #emf2026!
Memories from #why2025 .

@dee Adorable beach defender plushie workshop was (unexpectedly?) popular at #WHY2025, although there may already be Tetrapod Plans for #EMFCamp... https://wlcx.cc/projects/plush-tetrapod/ :tetrapod:

@dee Adorable beach defender plushie workshop was (unexpectedly?) popular at #WHY2025, although there may already be Tetrapod Plans for #EMFCamp... https://wlcx.cc/projects/plush-tetrapod/ :tetrapod:

Last year at #WHY2025 I sat under the right canopy at the right time. The EMF badge people approached Arturo182 to design a keeboard hexpansion, which he sadly had to decline. But I sat there saying:

"maybe I can design something" 👉👈

Two prototypes, one job termination and a new friend @sodoku (who wrote the firmware) later and we somehow ended up here: an official hexpansion for you to get for EMF camp.

:BoostOK: ORDER NOW

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/05/28/tildagon-2026-spaceagon/

#EMF2026 #EMF26 #tildagon #hexpansion

Last year at #WHY2025 I sat under the right canopy at the right time. The EMF badge people approached Arturo182 to design a keeboard hexpansion, which he sadly had to decline. But I sat there saying:

"maybe I can design something" 👉👈

Two prototypes, one job termination and a new friend @sodoku (who wrote the firmware) later and we somehow ended up here: an official hexpansion for you to get for EMF camp.

:BoostOK: ORDER NOW

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/05/28/tildagon-2026-spaceagon/

#EMF2026 #EMF26 #tildagon #hexpansion

Holy Shit, this is awesome! #Linux on the #WHY2025 badge. github.com/mrbreaker/wh... Screenshot from the GitHub

Holy Shit, this is awesome! #Linux on the #WHY2025 badge.

https://github.com/mrbreaker/why2025-linux

Screenshot from the GitHub

Holy Shit, this is awesome! #Linux on the #WHY2025 badge.

https://github.com/mrbreaker/why2025-linux

Screenshot from the GitHub

Hello Fedi! We are Matrix Community Events, a loose group of @matrix enthusiasts interested in representing Matrix at events and running our own events for the community. Our previous adventures include: Matrix Community Summit #MCS, #FrOSCon, c3, #FOSDEM, #GPN, #MRMCD, Matrix Workations, #MatrixConf, CCCamp, #WHY2025, and 8+ local meetups/Stammtische. You can learn more at https://matrix-community.events.

Follow this account for news about MCS, local meetups, chaos events, and more!

Hello Fedi! We are Matrix Community Events, a loose group of @matrix enthusiasts interested in representing Matrix at events and running our own events for the community. Our previous adventures include: Matrix Community Summit #MCS, #FrOSCon, c3, #FOSDEM, #GPN, #MRMCD, Matrix Workations, #MatrixConf, CCCamp, #WHY2025, and 8+ local meetups/Stammtische. You can learn more at https://matrix-community.events.

Follow this account for news about MCS, local meetups, chaos events, and more!

Beautiful nerds going to @info, this post about adding a shade cloth to my tent at #WHY2025 to make it a lot more comfortable inside on sunny days may be of interest. Now's a great time to start thinking about your camp setup, and ordering anything you might need.

#EMFCamp

(https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/115015713218240103)

Beautiful nerds going to @info, this post about adding a shade cloth to my tent at #WHY2025 to make it a lot more comfortable inside on sunny days may be of interest. Now's a great time to start thinking about your camp setup, and ordering anything you might need.

#EMFCamp

(https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/115015713218240103)

two (2) whole interaction-free days of wheel-spinning, nose-following, generally doing a little bit of a lot of stuff <3

a background task is to get a couple of things together for the #emfcamp CfP...

Who knows if they'll accept "Synthercise, the chiptune dance fitness experience" again, but it's fun to do, @discontinuity seems to be up for co-teaching, and most of the effort has already been made, including new tracks added for #why2025

Yes i did say at the time "I never want to hear this tune again", but my tic80 cover version of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" is unstoppable

#Synthercise

Spent some time this monday preparing the machine including installing 2.11BSD to the M2322 hard drive, as my DIY disk emulator showed some reliability issues at #why2025 . I'm still in the process of applying the latest updates to the system, as rebuilding kernels and part of the userland on a 1MB RAM, less than 1 MIPS system takes a fair bit of time.

Once I'm done updating the system, it will be at patch level 499 - the latest available for #211bsd , released on January 14th 2026!

If you want to play around with this system, visit the open day at RevSpace The Hague next saturday:
https://revspace.nl/OpenDag2026

I will be attaching a few physical terminals to it (including a VT55 and VT100!) as well as allowing telnet from the local network.

Besides this, if you do visit and want to trade PDP-11 parts, I have a large collection of mostly QBUS cards that I want to part with, and am looking for PDP-11/84 (PMI) and PDP-11/44 (EUB) memory boards as well as spare CPU cards for the /44.

#pdp11 #retrocomputing #unix #revspace #minicomputer

Spent some time this monday preparing the machine including installing 2.11BSD to the M2322 hard drive, as my DIY disk emulator showed some reliability issues at #why2025 . I'm still in the process of applying the latest updates to the system, as rebuilding kernels and part of the userland on a 1MB RAM, less than 1 MIPS system takes a fair bit of time.

Once I'm done updating the system, it will be at patch level 499 - the latest available for #211bsd , released on January 14th 2026!

If you want to play around with this system, visit the open day at RevSpace The Hague next saturday:
https://revspace.nl/OpenDag2026

I will be attaching a few physical terminals to it (including a VT55 and VT100!) as well as allowing telnet from the local network.

Besides this, if you do visit and want to trade PDP-11 parts, I have a large collection of mostly QBUS cards that I want to part with, and am looking for PDP-11/84 (PMI) and PDP-11/44 (EUB) memory boards as well as spare CPU cards for the /44.

#pdp11 #retrocomputing #unix #revspace #minicomputer

Postkarte ist angekommen. #why2025

Ne pozabite, da je _jutri_ tradicionalno #Kiberpipa post-FOSDEM srečanje.

Torej:

5.2. ob 17h
se dobimo
v @muzej|u

in bomo predstavili kako je bilo na:

• #WHY2025
• #39C3
• #FOSDEM2026 ter fringe eventih
• #HackerTrain|u na FOSDEM

Dobrodošli vsi, ki vas zanima!

več info (in RSVP):
https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/35cc2559-555f-4672-b94d-56c41bf29a7a

#Cyberpipe

Ne pozabite, da je _jutri_ tradicionalno #Kiberpipa post-FOSDEM srečanje.

Torej:

5.2. ob 17h
se dobimo
v @muzej|u

in bomo predstavili kako je bilo na:

• #WHY2025
• #39C3
• #FOSDEM2026 ter fringe eventih
• #HackerTrain|u na FOSDEM

Dobrodošli vsi, ki vas zanima!

več info (in RSVP):
https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/35cc2559-555f-4672-b94d-56c41bf29a7a

#Cyberpipe

#why2025 does it take so long to get the t-shirts shipped. #DPD status is still in “not yet shipped” state. I will move end of February and I hope they will come before that date….

#why2025 does it take so long to get the t-shirts shipped. #DPD status is still in “not yet shipped” state. I will move end of February and I hope they will come before that date….

I just got myself a #WHY2025 Badge and I can’t get the up arrow and enter key to work. Other keys (down, a, esc) work like expected. It works when I unscrew the top plate and move the rubber keyboard ever so slightly, but when I try to assemble the badge like that the screw holes are not aligned and aligning breaks the functionality again. I also looked if the membrane was dirty or misaligned, but it seems to be clean (especially underneath) and aligned to the frame printed on the PCB. I’m a bit lost. Some of the keys work like a charm. Anyone got a similar problem and found a solution?

I just got myself a #WHY2025 Badge and I can’t get the up arrow and enter key to work. Other keys (down, a, esc) work like expected. It works when I unscrew the top plate and move the rubber keyboard ever so slightly, but when I try to assemble the badge like that the screw holes are not aligned and aligning breaks the functionality again. I also looked if the membrane was dirty or misaligned, but it seems to be clean (especially underneath) and aligned to the frame printed on the PCB. I’m a bit lost. Some of the keys work like a charm. Anyone got a similar problem and found a solution?

I finally made a blogpost with more information about the #stonehenge soldering challenge that was at #why2025 and #39c3

https://ca.rstenpresser.de/blag/2026/01/stonehenge-soldering-challenge/

Missed #39C3

I remeber #WHY2025 hacker vibes

I'm posting to Mastodon + BlueSky + Farcaster + Nostr + mainstream platforms so that my content is less likely to be deleted.

Missing the times with singular version of reality.

Now multipolar world order.

Here are 20 images that tell a story: https://planetarycouncil.org/payload/

@heiseonline Das sieht wie eine schlechtere Version des #why2025 badges aus...

You are a hacker on a train, whatever that means. But what kind of train? Multiple choice #UKHackerTrainPoll :trainpats:

*Trams are also trains. And funiculars. UPDATE: And monorails, steam powered or otherwise :monorail:

Spamming some hashtags, boosts welcome! :blobfoxwink:
#EMFCamp #MinistryOfChaos #39C3 #40C3 #OggCamp #WutheringBytes #WHY2025 #Gaussfest #PatternClub #Algorave #DemoParty #DemoScene