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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i don't need a tool to delete the production database for me, i'm quite capable of doing it myself.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Soylent Confessions" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/soylent-confessions/

Soylent is frequently held up as a poster child of everything wrong with Silicon Valley, which makes it hard to admit that I liked it.

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sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116478133377243019

Workflow security continues to be a common cause of compromises of open source projects.

If you're using GitHub Actions and don't want this to happen to your project: use Zizmor and treat the findings seriously, especially insecure triggers and user-controllable template injections.

https://docs.zizmor.sh

#github #actions #security #oss #opensource #python

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

FOSS is more than just a way of organizing labor and distributing software. It makes possible a vision of computing as a broad, collaborative social activity, an impromptu latticework of individual people contributing their knowledge, creativity and work into a communal pool of resources that can be built upon and directed toward diverse human ends. Even apart from the technical damage being done by a tidal wave of vibecoded contributions, AI threatens that vision by eroding its social component.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

Newsom is a bad parent for letting his son become a chud by immersion in fascist incel influencer media but really this is the centrist ideal at work: hold infinite grace and understanding for everyone to your right, hold the line hard against anyone to your left. This is also what makes him a terrible candidate for 2028: regular people don't have DC centrist blinders and can clearly see a refusal to understand power and capital as they really are and a refusal to fight for anyone.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

eventually inventory shortfalls couldn't be covered and it got out. people were arrested. they even recovered money from the accountants, even though miniscribe had broken into their office and changed the numbers on their reports!

yes, they did that, did i mention how hilariously fucked it all was?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

at one point they actually shipped 26,000 bricks to singapore from colorado to inflate the inventory figures there. then issued a recall on the units without doing anything about it and claimed they still had the originals!

and then there were the company retreats where he'd just fire people randomly to keep the rest on their toes.

like top to bottom it was fraud and fucked up management. incredible stuff.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

miniscribe were a struggling hard disk manufacturer. i think they sold 5MB drives to start with.

business failed, so they got in someone literally called "mr fix-it" on wall street. he's the bastard who "rescued" adobe and turned it into the monster it is today.

mr fix-it just bullied everyone, fired people for minor things and demanded more. consequently, people started faking results to keep their jobs.

they ended up doing fucking everything. in one case, they sent out bricks to retailers, marking them as sales. then the retailers sent them back and they marked them as inventory, thus doubling the number of hard drives!

"Account BW" was one of the primary places where they would ship bricks. BW = Big Warehouse.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bshaurette@social.linux.pizza ("Barbara Shaurette :python:") wrote:

Here’s Why You Should Go To North Bay Python Next Year
https://mechanicalgirl.com/post/here-s-why-you-should-go-to-north-bay-python-next-year/

#NBPy #NBPython

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

no likes? surely fedi knows the miniscribe story. do i have to go find a good writeup?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

shipping my miniscribe hard disk to account BW

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
smn@l3ib.org ("Justin Fitzsimmons") wrote:

@glyph seriously I was gonna do a presentation at work about the risks of getting rugpulled by AI vendors but it went from hypothetical to anecdotal before I could present! Our model got abruptly pulled from the provider and we were forced to transition to a different one that conveniently costs 3-6x more. Meanwhile we've been down in prod for over a week due to the disgraceful way the provider has handled the deprecation.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

goddamnit I'm not going to get any credit for all my predictions about the AI industry being correct if they keep coming true so fast that I am spending all my time editing unfinished blog posts about the predictions

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limneticvillains@mastodon.online ("Limnetic Villains") wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it's out of the oven. it's also delicious.

recipe:

• in an oven dish, scatter frozen cherries in bowl. sprinkle sugar on top and defrost in microwave
• in another dish, mix about 0.8:1 sugar:flour. rub in butter or substitute. add literally 5 or 10ml of water to get it to form a crumb. be careful not to use too much water. no, really, add it slowly, it's hard to undo.
• rub in some oats or muesli
• top cherries with crumble and bake (20 minutes at 180 in an airfrier)

jwz wrote:

Per my previous email to my HOA's management company regarding the third unannounced multi-hour water shut-off in two weeks, they "kindly ask that all communications remain respectful".
https://jwz.org/b/yk6u

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I wish I were smart enough to read this paper because I feel like it's making a good point about the information-theoretical limits of model collapse but I got to the first Σ and like… I'm out, my brain can't take this any more

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05280v2#S5

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

in light of the tragic news that a 2-year old died at a licensed SF daycare earlier this month, i made a site to show childcare license violations and complaints in the Bay Area: https://azuki.vip/childcare/

* the data is public at https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/ but i found that site hard to use
* PRs welcome https://github.com/diracdeltas/childcare
* i am aware this does not show small home daycares; working on that
* very grateful to Claude for making this a sunday project instead of a multi-week one
* aforementioned news report: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/toddler-death-daycare-san-francisco/4072713/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
benno@eigenmagic.net ("Benno") wrote:

With @NorthBayPython not being in the barn next year, might I suggest a sponsorship opportunity to ensure that the most wise and notable commentator at the event, namely the horse, is able to attend? #NBPy

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sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

pip 26.1 is an incredible release, thank you to the pip maintainers!! 💜

– Relative dependency cooldown support!
– Installing from pylock.toml
– Multiple security fixes

Read the full blog post by @ichard26

https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/

#python #pypi #pip #security #oss #opensource

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I am so exhausted with thinking about AI, with talking about AI, with having to jump ship from one product to another because of AI, with having to explain that no, I don't have an {Instagram, Bluesky, whatever} account because of AI, and so forth.

I'm so tired of having to extend good faith to people uncritically regurgitating talking points from the worst techbros on the planet, of having to be polite about "but it works!" claims, of being asked to "set aside" the ethics.

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headius ("Charles Oliver Nutter") wrote:

There's a disturbing trend of developers I've known for years now suddenly being unable to discuss even basic aspects of software development. They have become so dependent on LLMs, they can't even describe how to design a system anymore. Feels like losing friends to dementia. 😢

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

self-employment #ADHD "two buttons" meme:

button 1:

"begin by eating the frog first, turbocharging your protestant-work-ethic demon to scream about your worthlessness; ultimately get nothing done due to under-stimulation, feel bad due to negative self-talk"

button 2:

"begin with a video game to start a virtuous circle of small wins leading to bigger ones; ultimately get nothing done because you were derailed trying for a difficult achievement, feel bad due to irresponsible use of time"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
csalzman@a2mi.social ("Chris "Crunchy Leaf" Salzman") wrote:

My hope is that what defines the next era of tech is looking to the past and deciding what was good enough and embracing it

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/?utm%5Fsource=hackernewsletter&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=fav

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Quick flight to NY to see a doctor about a thing and then I’m heading home tomorrow. I feel bad for my partner and child though who are driving the length of the state today during an all-day spring storm, and will probably have to hide in the basement when it turns into tornado weather. #TransOnPlanes

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

cherry crumble is in the oven

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald") wrote:

Terry Gilliam was right about everything. The incompetence. The banality of administrative evil. The fascism.

And most notably, Mar-a-Lago Face and the lengths Republican Barbies will go to maintain it.

Attachments:

• gifv: A woman has her face literally stretched by a surgeon.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Please don't describe the boot on your neck with heated rhetoric. It's divisive.

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)

Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link%5Fgateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB%5FPDF)

Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

If you're interested, my next distro is probably going to be Fedora. Despite having a real soft spot for Elementary, I realized I just love GNOME too much, and Fedora has always been the champion of the vanilla GNOME experience.