Is anyone else as unreasonably perturbed as I get when encountering a seatbelt where the buckle has inexplicably been flipped around the wrong direction?

Who else out there on the internet cannot rest and enjoy their journey until you have spent time methodically fishing and twisting the belt in order to set things back right and proper again?

(Airplanes and rental cars are some of the most common places I run into this, but I've even found personal friends' vehicles with a buckle turned oddly. How in the world do people manage to do this to themselves?)

“When reviewing PRs generated by AI, the cognitive effort never decreases.”

IOW, you can’t build trust over time with the person submitting those PRs, and every time you review their code, you have to apply the same high level of critical thinking to assess its quality.

(Paraphrase of a paraphrase of a quote by @Girgias; apologies if I got it wrong.)

#LonghornPHP

Hot take: we should replace ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5) with ELIC (Explain Like I'm Claude).

Be honest.
- Agencies forced to rehire ~25,000 'essential' employees
-Public health/safety services degraded
- HHS, HUD, VA crippled
-End of US public diplomacy (State cuts; VOA silenced)
-USAID shutdown linked to spikes in disease, hunger, violence in Africa
- DOGE staff stole private data

My younger kid has realized that school is at least in part, a prison where kids are kept so parents can be farmed by capitalists, and that the grading, testing, major, and degree system serves to normalize and perpetuate hierarchies of importance among people. Also that many people have no interest in the knowledge and only care about the signifiers of status.

Send help.

If I show up at your meeting on my day off it is very unlikely to be because I plan to +1 your proposals.

#Subtoot

"this downright black-and-white refusal of generative AI is childish"

Okay, now replace"AI" with child labor and say that again. Because a lot of the moral arguments against genAI are similarly structured than those against child labor.

Sorry AI companies but it is my birthright to swear at and abuse the computer, as I have always done and as is right and proper

So when did we all agree that sending a one-time password in email is more secure than using a secure password?

#passwords #security

Well, today was my last day working at Meta. (I'll be on garden leave for the next few months.) Meta consolidating outside the Netherlands and me being unwilling to move means we're parting ways. I'm sad to go because the Python folks at Meta are stellar, and the work on Free-threaded Python, lazy imports and CinderX has been fantastic. Say what you will about Meta as a company, but the open-source support continues to be excellent.

Garden leave notwithstanding, I am now in the market for a new job 😅 I'm not in a rush, but if you happen to know of a company that cares about open-source, who're looking to hire an experienced, deeply technical, heavily connected Python person for a remote NL/EU position, HMU 😁

The Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the largest conferences for women in computer science, has been canceled due to declining sponsorships and registrations.

This is a depressing sign of the times. When I was a manager at Microsoft, it was the norm to encourage women on our teams to attend, all expenses paid.

That time is clearly over.

Hello everyone,
I am still trying to find an employment for a friend migrating from the USA to Germany. He qualified for B2 German language level already and is working on his C1 right now.
He has been working in front- and backend developement, focused on vanilla js and angular, but willing to do anything in that area.
He has multiple years in experience and something close to Karlsruhe would be great.
Please only reply if you have some actual company names or open listings :) TY
#FediHire

Sam Altman is upset someone left a recording device in his conference room. I guess he forgot to explicitly opt out of data collection for marketing and training purposes

Happy Birthday to us 🎂! Today KDE is 30 years old!

And, boy, do we have treats for you!

#KDEat30 #FreeSoftware #anniversary #party #birthday

"Konqi and cake" image by Elias Silveira.

The full vulnerability report for the nasty #curl UAF problem is disclosed. It was submitted by people at Anthropic. The reproducer is a minor piece of art.

https://hackerone.com/reports/4030333

Do you like #rustlang? Embedded device programming? Home automation? WASM runtimes? Playing with toys? My team, which is almost entirely an R&D team, is looking to backfill a role on our team. It's a fun role, great team, great problems to solve.

Hit my DMs if you apply and I'll get you the attention you need. Please boost! We want to actually hire someone!
https://www.careers.resideo.com/jobs/principal-software-engineer-full-stack-united-states-united-states-united-states-300027520521226-jobs--general-engineering--

Have you ever written a cheque (check) and paid for something with it?

It’s nice of Anthropic to use my personal GitHub account as an example https://github.com/acme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=5oP0m2opwTEfZcRI&v=-OH1y7CjIew&feature=youtu.be #ai

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then vibe-coded in rust.

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making it exponentially worse