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ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116487432210126490
Counting down the hours till the PyCon US hotels deadline (and to being done with these reminders😅)
Booking in the conference block makes a big impact on the event and the PSF<3
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designthinkingcomic ("DESIGN THINKING! Comic") wrote:
Stand proud, people.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
that feeling of surprise bliss when you find a security library that isn't vibecoded
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
OCI, not to be confused with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) or OCI (Oracle Call Interface)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
it's possible that one day Windows might catch up to Linux in gaming performance
no really, Microsoft is literally using SteamOS as its benchmark and working hard to catch up to it in performance, this is not a drill
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
aronowski@furry.engineer wrote:
A metaphor on agentic AI and what not to do:
- Summon a demon that's meant to be helpful
- Accept everything that happens from then on, including the responsibilities and getting the blame for what can happen
- Give the demon autonomy to do whatever it wants to fulfill its own desires and wishes first and foremost
- Don't isolate it to any dedicated cage where it can only see what's actually needed to help out, and nothing else
- Witness the demon taking a weird route and acting maliciously, despite hearing a suggestion "Please, don't be evil"
- Keep on using it
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Calishat") wrote:
@danlyke Today in Primitive Technology
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if I were the Iranians, one of the lessons I would learn from this is that nobody bombs North Korea. they have nukes. another lesson I would take from this is that they can control the Strait of Hormuz & thus manipulate the world economy.
if I were the DPRK & PRC, three of the lessons I would learn from Trump's War on Iran are (1) the US has a limited supply of munitions with which to defend RoK & Taiwan, (2) the US does not have a coherent strategic direction, and (3) the US does not have the assets nor productive capacity for a prolonged conflict nor for more than one simultaneous conflict.
these are not good lessons for future world peace & stability.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
- They've lost the staff with the expertise needed to scale this. Up shit creek without a paddle in a canoe staffed by people who didn't realise they needed a paddle
- They're more constrained than they're letting on. Capacity and engineering resources are reserved for "AI" so corners are being cut
- GitHub as a system has serious flaws that only come into effect at this new scale and fixing them is a much bigger task than they expected.
Could be all of these. Could be none.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Normally scaling issues exhibit themselves a bit differently (normally) than the outages and outright data losses people have been seeing
So, while I believe GitHub managerial types when they say that the proximate cause is an increase in demand, that's unlikely to be the ultimate cause of what users are seeing
It's hard to speculate what the ultimate cause is when dealing with a system and organisation this big, but I can think of a few potential ones (could all be wrong, though):
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
What I meant above is that many of us had idly wondered whether GitHub's unreliability was because of MS's drive to use LLMs for coding, leading to a drop in quality. Instead they seem to be seriously mishandling a demand increase driven by their own actions
And it only partially makes sense as an explanation
They've been through this before. When MS bought GitHub and made it free, demand exploded. In theory, they should have all the expertise and capability to handle another massive increase
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
How loudly do we have to shout it? NO KINGS.
Especially not you, you damn dumb orange toad.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
q3k@hackerspace.pl ("q3k :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:
what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?
asking for a friend
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Capitalism is a cartoon come to life.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/29/capitalism-has-lost-the-plot/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
More evidence they should resign:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
EveHasWords@toot.cat ("Eve Ventually") wrote:
Dear Mastodon User,
Our records indicate that you are totally rad. No further action is required on your part. We just thought you should know.
XOXO,
The Johns Mastodon
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Unfortunately, I can't get down on my knees to beg for my knee surgery.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/29/its-knee-day/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cdh@hcommons.social ("Christina D-H") wrote:
"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.
Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper
#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Diziet@mastodon.me.uk ("Ian Jackson") wrote:
It looks like I'm going to be rewriting git-subtree. Related: my 2023 blog post "Never use git submodules" https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14666.html
It has become evident that I need a vehemently anti-LLM policy, before I publish any of my nascent code. I may want to make an exception for prose for those with less command of English.
Rather than DIY I'd like to copy a very anti-LLM policy from somewhere. Where has the best current practice?
(AI apologia replies unwelcome; will get blocked & reported.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
The scale of mismanagement is breathtaking. I think the central planners in the Computing and Communications committee should resign immediately:
https://sourceability.com/post/ai-is-reshaping-the-market-and-breaking-the-supply-chain
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
People keep linking to tech “thought leaders” who are too muddled in the head to be able to clearly articulate a difference between generative and non-generative ML models and I keep letting it annoy me
There was a time I was hoping the distinction would be obvious to everybody 🤷🏻♂️
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:
Compound words in languages like Icelandic and German are useful because they help you see the difference between a criminal lawyer and a criminal lawyer.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:
This tweet by the GitHub COO is *bananas*
The most egregious failure modes we have been seeing these past weeks are cannot be attributed to "growing pains".
This is not PR anymore. It's just gaslighting.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:
Also, are you really complaining about hosting too much code when you rolled out fucking Copilot? For real?
Also, hosting code must be like a fraction of the actual compute budget for GitHub, surely? Dwarfed by action runners and... model inference? By a very long shot?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:
This tweet by the GitHub COO is *bananas*
The most egregious failure modes we have been seeing these past weeks are cannot be attributed to "growing pains".
This is not PR anymore. It's just gaslighting.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
I hate to do this, but thanks to the continued shittiness of the job market, I am well beyond broke.
Please donate generously so I can afford such luxuries as food and medication.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The Moon is about as confident of a repeat visit as I am.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
> There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
>
> GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Apparently, subsidised code automation tools ("coding agents") that make it 10x easier to generate code is a big part of why GitHub has been having issues
So, it really is their own fault since GitHub and Microsoft are pretty much ground zero for offering LLM-based coding tools and promoting the bubble, it's just not breaking for the specific reasons some of us have been thinking
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:
In case people are wondering why GitHub has been having some issues as of late - the GitHub COO recently shared that they're handling up to an order of magnitude more traffic than they were a year ago.
It's not like GitHub is just serving up pictures and text - things like the core git backend and actions are quite complex to host at scale. Idk, I guess I'm not surprised there are some stability issues when they're going from handling 1 billion commits/year to 14 billion commits/year.
