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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

if you want kids to "go outside" instead of being on their devices how about you work to restore 3rd spaces for them instead of trying to ban them from social media

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pybay@fosstodon.org ("PyBay") wrote:

🐍PyBay 2026 Speaker Highlight🎤 Anthony Sottile

Anthony is a prolific open source maintainer -- including projects such as pre-commit, flake8, deadsnakes, pyupgrade, babi, and many more. anthony streams his development on twitch and also produces educational content on youtube.

📍 Oct. 03, 2026, San Francisco: https://pybay.org/
🎟️ Tickets: https://pybay.org/get-tickets/
🎤 More talks: https://pybay.org/speaking/speaker-profiles/

#PyBay #Python #PyBay2026 #Python #libraries

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

Alright, I should know better to engage with certain types of discourse :tm: but I need to talk about something in particular.

Datacenters. Because apparently I need to point out that the size and scale of AI datacenters *in particular* are categorically different from traditional data centers.

For one, the things that are going into them are different. In traditional webapp contexts you don't need a warehouse full of Nvidia H100s that pull 1000W *by themselves* (depending on the version)

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

"First, all contributors should be treated with respect and kindness. There are strongly held and widely varying opinions regarding large language models (LLMs) and everyone should be presumed to be contributing in good faith."

When you see this text, you should take it as the "get out. get out of here now" moment from a horror movie

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Oh and one more thought don't ever let yourself feel like you're somehow screwing up for going to yet another doctor. I felt like an IDIOT going to the EIGHTH doctor appointment and she was a complete angel and the first person to truly help me and literally the days before going to that appointment I was wondering if I should cancel it because it was just going to be dumping money down the drain for another miserable experience. Roll again roll again roll again roll again keep going if you can

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

does anybody have that single-panel comic/meme about shower controls being confusing where they're a Nomai device

for our records

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

If you are interested in helping, I greatly appreciate it. I'm slow at responding to things because of the aforementioned challenges, but here's some of the ways you can help:

• Reviewing PRs on https://codeberg.org/rereading/ repos.
• Helping get devops running, CI is a huge part of that, but not the only one.
• Contributing documentation.
• Financial support (see caveats in the next post).
• Moral support — this one is huge, just telling me that this is worth doing helps more than I can say!

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

So: that's why I founded the rereading Project (https://rereading.space/), why I'm working on Arcalibre (https://rereading.space/arcalibre/ and https://codeberg.org/rereading/arcalibre), and why I'm trying to be transparent about what challenges slow me down in that effort.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

What Calibre developers have done here is an affront to the human act of creation, and no less than a fascist attack on art. I do not believe that to be even slightly an exaggeration, even if it does sound hyperbolic.

To have a fascist attack on art come from an open source project that used to stand for helping users free their e-books from proprietary lock-in is beyond disgusting.

But I don't get to say something like that without backing it up by action.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117292152041410285

When Adults say "kids should go outside instead of playing online all the time" I sometimes wonder when they last left the house without their car keys.

I heard this once from somebody whose neighborhood doesn't even have sidewalks.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@krig @hynek @zzzeek the reason I say “conspiratorial” is because there’s no particular evidence that anyone got sent a piece of gear or even a request

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

I've turned off pull requests from non-members for Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click this week, and have enjoyed not waking up to a fresh wave of AI junk every morning. I think I'm going to update our contributing guide to say "introduce yourself and how you use the library in chat first if you want to contribute pull requests". Sad that we had to go here, but aside from conference sprints we weren't really getting outside contribution anyway (which is also sad, but that's been the case a lot longer than AI has been around). #python #flask #opensource

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

dutch is not a real language, it's just too artificially funny to be real.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

@glyph @hynek @zzzeek But yes, notoriety and controversy goes a long way all on its own.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

@glyph @hynek @zzzeek I don’t think that’s conspiratorial, it’s how a lot of tech youtube works. Send someone a piece of gear or invite them to an event lets say, they make a video which gets traction so others in the space want a piece of the cake

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezerobit@anticapitalist.party wrote:

I've got a huge collection of CD era PC games. Like 100-150 games (see photos). I'm in SE Portland, OR. If anyone wants to buy them from me, I'll sell the whole lot for $50 if you come and get it. DM me. Plenty of mainstream and oddball games and such. #PDX #PCGames #VideoGames #lot

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

For financial support, that takes a bit more explaining. While I have founded the rereading Project in a way that hopefully outlasts me, that is a work in progress. In particular, there is no current way to support the rereading Project directly whatsoever.

Instead, I personally pay for domains, for social media hosting, and for the object store used to cache long builds.

You can financially support me *and not the project* at https://ko-fi.com/xgranade, but there are caveats!

(con'd)

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
samir@functional.computer ("samir, fake programmer") wrote:

RE: https://thicc.horse/@and/117293289884500133

I guess I should be thankful that LLMs are shining a light on the fact that we rely so much on a few pieces of critical infrastructure at each level.

Hopefully the long-term outcome will be an explosion of alternatives. Alternative compilers, OSes, window managers, email clients, whatever. Bring on the alternatives, and make the politics front and centre.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@krig @hynek @zzzeek I don’t think there’s any need to get conspiratorial here; dhh leveraged existing notoriety and got some coverage which snowballed. lots of people have nicer-looking dotfiles but they’re not packaged and didn’t have a coordinated launch.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I got to talk to Gleeb!

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

@glyph @hynek @zzzeek Also ya'll know youtube coverage can be bought right? Don't even need to buy that many videos, once someone gets views covering a thing there will be a whole trail of attention leeches trying to replicate that.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

woooooooo grats to these brave workers! this is huge! love and solidarity 💜✊

https://labornotes.org/2026/09/canadian-walmart-workers-make-history-union-contract

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tef wrote:

to industry, like the ideal programmer is no more than a dropshipper, presenting an artisanal front, handling last mile logistics

and i guess it should be of no surprise that the average industry programmer dreams of code they only need write once, write maybe, and never maintain

if you've spent years code with so little meaning or purpose, how can anyone expect you to value your output

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tef wrote:

kinda tired of hearing the future of programming is giving money to defence contractors, even though that's pretty much how tech has always worked, especially in america

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tef wrote:

one of my more load bearing beliefs is that you actually have to give a damn about other people if you want to write good software

or good tools, at the very least

even though i know that games repeatedly demonstrate the opposite, that people will put up with any old shit if it lets them live out a power fantasy

but one can dream anyway

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hah, oh well, we had to do the magic comments for string literals in a few places after all. s'fine. they're trivial.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

no such luck with high-level flow-control but that's okay, there really was no way to have that work like that

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

pleasingly, because we went to a lot of trouble to make sure all three transforms defer to the authoritative implementation of the string-literal syntax instead of reimplementing it, it looks like we'll only have to do the handling for that in one place

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Taking up woodwork as a hobby has ruined porn for me. Now I am inordinately focused on background objects like cedar log gazebos and "What shaper bit did they use for that credenza?". I can't even post a screenshot and ask, because there's a hefty lass in the kip right in front.