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Lightning lightning talks 1

<p>The regular FOSDEM lightning talk track isn't chaotic enough, so this year we're doubling down on Lightning Lightning Talks (now with added lightning!).</p> <p>Thought of a last minute topic you want to share? Got your interesting talk rejected? Has something exciting happened in the last few weeks you want to talk about?</p> <p>This is the first of two sessions for participants to speak about subjects which are interesting, amusing, or just something the FOSDEM audience would appreciate.</p> <p>Selected speakers line up and present in one continuous automated stream, with an SLO of 99% talk uptime.</p> <p>Presenters who attempt to speak for longer than 256 seconds risk being swept off the stage by our Lightning Lightning Talk Cleanup Crew.</p> <p>Featuring:</p> <ul> <li><strong>The use of technology by emergency services</strong> - <strong>Rémi Duraffort</strong></li> <li><strong>./make art: A Creative Commons Theater Experiment</strong> - <strong>Bogomil Shopov - Бого</strong></li> <li><strong>Scrcpy: Your new everything</strong> - <strong>Maanav Nagda</strong></li> <li><strong>Cooklang Federation</strong> - <strong>Alexey Dubovskoy</strong></li> <li><strong>my mainframe runs arch btw</strong> - <strong>Josephine Pfeiffer</strong></li> <li><strong>xcover: Cross-language test coverage with eBPF</strong> - <strong>Massimiliano Giovagnoli</strong></li> <li><strong>IsThatSlop? Community-powered AI Content detection</strong> - <strong>Carles Onielfa</strong></li> <li><strong>Open Prices: an open crowdsourced price database</strong> - <strong>Raphael Odini &amp; Alex Bourreau</strong></li> <li><strong>Everyone benefits from translations; if you make them useful</strong> - <strong>Benjamin Alan Jamie</strong></li> <li><strong>SoCmel1, an SDR SoC. Litex and RiscV on a Gowin FPGA</strong> - <strong>alberto</strong></li> <li><strong>How Bóbr Broke My Postgres Search: ARM vs x86 in 256 Seconds</strong> - <strong>Anton Borisov</strong></li> </ul>

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