#FOSDEM closing session, the statistics

138 proposals for devrooms, 65 happened.

1197 speakers

1079 sessions

66 BoF

Peak number of remote viewers 1000

All T-shirts sold.

Remember to send money: https://fosdem.org/support/donate

Now, creating an Internet access provider, with modems. Make 1990 great again.

Why doing it? Because it is fun but also because in some cases, it can circumvent censorship (Egypt, 2011).

On Linux, with ppp and mgetty (and systemd!).

https://neo146.net/

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Biquinary encoding. Unlike binary, there are more 0 and less 1 because 1 used more power (and 1 which were too close could interfere).

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Digging into an old Belgian computer, MMIF (1952-1962).

Inaugurated by the king.

At the end, 13 meters, 5000 vacuum tubes, 25 kW of power.

Harvard architecture (code and data were completely separated).

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Software updates were done by email, carrying arbitrary Z80 code.

The only protection was... SimpleDES (10 bits key).

Since the original infrastructure for the machine no longer exists, hack is needed.

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"There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump."

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@koen @fediversity Fosfem is feminist free software?