A shakespeare scholar did a breakdown of that Ian McKellan performance:

https://youtu.be/bsbW-3pTvhA

Today’s #Muppets GIF of the Day celebrates a milestone in my life as a Muppet fan. 5 years ago today, I posted my very first Muppet GIF of the Day on what was then known as Twitter. Thanks to all of you who have embraced my daily GIFs across all the places I have posted them over these last 5 years! This one is dedicated to you!

Fedora Copr now builds against (freshly) branched Fedora 44. Happy building!

I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,

So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.

You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism

@Johann150 no thats this one

I wrote about our transition as my wife and I leave the US for France soon.

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/

This will mean major disruptions to a huge amount of GNOME code as I will be unable to continue in such a capacity as an unemployed long-stay visitor.

There are two animals in this picture.

I'm sure it's fine

@amutable at @fosdem :

@pid_eins :

The Varlink IPC System
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/NFNKEK-varlink-ipc-system-keynote/

VM Integration in systemd
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/G7VMEN-vm_integration_in_systemd/

Native OCI Container Support in systemd
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ZKKQWC-native_oci_container_support_in_systemd/

@brauner :

VFS News
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B9JPLG-vfs_news/

@cyphar :

Path Safety in the Trenches
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/H39QZD-path_safety_in_the_trenches/

@daandemeyer :

Designing Fibers for systemd: Structured POSIX Avoidance in PID 1
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ZKJZCX-designing_fibers_for_systemd_structured_posix_avoidance_in_pid_1/

(clang-)Tidying up includes in systemd
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/YJJDKM-clang-_tidying_up_includes_in_systemd/

#Amutable #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #systemd #VM #VFS #POSIX #PID1 #clang

@brauner the earlier ones: no, at least not from a brief look.

But nothing is published yet for 2.53 after they had a really good track record, so something seems to have changed.

"Evolving git for the next decade" by Patrick Steinhardt from #FOSDEM 2026 is a good one.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HTJK33-evolving_git_for_the_next_decade/

French aristocat, circa 1793. #Caturday

<sarcasm>have they replaced all their writers with AI and now noticed that the AI can't write anything sensible up just from the release notes?</sarcasm>

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kernellogger/116002653887559259

Strange, #GitHub usually posted "highlights of the new #Git release" blog posts nearly exactly in parallel to newly released versions[1].

But for 2.53, which was released two days ago, there still isn't one.

[1] like https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-52/ – for others see https://github.blog/open-source/git/

@jzb @neal Just in case you aren't aware, Microsoft spun off their keyboards and mice with a third party, Incase. https://www.incase.com/pages/incase-designed-by-microsoft-collection

(Similar to IBM spinning off ThinkPads to Lenovo back in the day.)

Some of the keyboards and mice are already available, with more (like the non-chicklet ergo keyboard) "coming soon". https://www.incase.com/collections/ergonomic/products/ergonomic-keyboard

(I had and loved some Microsoft mice and keyboards for years before switching to an ergo mech keyboard.

It's nice to see them being made again!)

After 1.5 years in the making, @gnome Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text & ink annotations on PDFs (using a Wacom tablet stylus, for example), i.e. drawing & handwriting (to circle things or sign documents the old-fashioned way, or highlighting on scanned documents): https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/drawing-writing-with-papers/

Used it in practice today. I've been hoping for this for about 20 years.
Papers nightly is such a massive improvement!

Thank you @lbaudin for implementing it :owi:

#GNOMEPapers #PDF #Poppler

It always comes back to abuse or, more precisely, it is always about abuse: "He [#Trump] has shifted into the same logic as a jealous wife-beater, threatening to destroy the object of his obsession [the Kennedy Center] rather than allow her to leave."

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/04/kennedy-center-teaches-maga-a-tough-lesson/

#USPol
#KennedyCenter

Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:

📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups

...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.

#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia

People really need to understand that all the talk of hundreds of billions of AI investment is just marketing froth trying to keep shareholders on board with unrealistic projections that are already hovering, Wile E. Coyote style, having run over the end of a cliff, they just don’t want to raise the “oh no” sign https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/five-months-later-nvidias-100-billion-openai-investment-plan-has-fizzled-out/