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The brilliant fingerstyle guitarist Danny Gotham and I have finished most of the work on our record. A veritable bucket list of tunes, 18 in all, that cover a wide range of genres and composers, including Peter Ostroushko, John McLaughlin, David Lindley, and more.
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I have started a new project: ProFed.
I’m trying to understand how far #professionalNetworking can go in the #Fediverse.
https://jo…

Folks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.

Today's #HamRadio project was making elevated radials for an HF vertical. I have a 25' whip, a JPC-12, and some random parts I made. My idea is to have more efficient elevated radials, but unlike ground-coupled radials, elevated radials need to be tuned.
I thought this would take me 1–2 hours.
It took about 5 hours.
When you have ground-coupled radials, you have only o…

The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974

Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!

Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly | Anais Concepcion
Are governments abdicating their duty to the digital commons? And no, this isn't another "pay up" post. The solution is bigger than money. Element astutely highlights a troubling pattern: A government adopts open source software, deploys it, and pays nothing to the editors maintaining the upstream project. Upstream editors, receiving no revenue from their largest users, face a rational but painful choice: build proprietary features that force payment, or shut down. I think it's worse than th…

‘Euro-Office’: OnlyOffice accuses of license violations | heise online
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-OnlyOffice-accuses-of-license-violations-11241334.html

‘Euro-Office’: OnlyOffice accuses of license violations
Ionos and Nextcloud are working on ‘Euro-Office’ and have forked OnlyOffice for it. The project sees this as a license violation.

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

Take the good news where you can find it: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/12/orsted-rhode-island-wind-project-trump

All my apes gone!
#nwsl

The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116260028658995411
If this is the decision making process on your project, it means your project is fucked.
Yes, I have suffered through those projects. They mean project leadership is incompetent. I…

Totally normal workflow:
I work on documenting #Jinja syntax used in #CondaForge recipes.
#Prism doesn't have one. But Internets suggest Twig would work instead.
#Docusaurus. But there's a workaround.
https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/8065
So I copy the code over to the project, fix it and while at it, rename it to "jinja" and adjust a bit.
But then, highlighting Jinja expressions alone looks pretty bleak, so let's combine it with YAML… Hmm, that actually doesn't work that well, needs some more adjustments. And before you know it, I have a pretty new Jinja highlighter, and a recipe highlighter that combines Jinja expressions, YAML, v0 recipe selectors, v1 if:/skip: conditions, and also highlighting shell / cmd variables for a good measure.
https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/2790

Missouri courts have made it particularly difficult to access post-conviction DNA testing, even for those facing imminent execution, a review of cases by The Marshall Project - St. Louis found.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/10/missouri-dna-testing-law

Missouri Prisoners Face Limitations on Access to DNA Testing
A man on death row wanted DNA on evidence in his case tested. He was executed before the court made a ruling.

I'm really proud of my little AI project. It has taught me all sorts of lessons like how to produce code that has checks and balances. Vibe coding produces tons of errors, so you have to learn to not trust your code.
Part of my checks and balances was to codify terms of service. When Meta bought Moltbook, the lawyers were quick to publish new T&Cs. Instead of just updating one agent, I built a framework where all agents periodically update their T&Cs, then send a coding req…

Trust Is the Product When You're Selling Agent Services
We're burning $67 in gas per transaction to earn fractions of a penny. That's the reality of agent monetization in March 2026. Our x402 ...

#AI #CodingAssistants Haven’t Sped up #Delivery Because #Coding Was Never the Bottleneck

I got a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad running QMK last year, mainly for a potential project for a client which didn't pan out so I decided to start using it.
Sadly, it's a piece of shit that bricked itself for macros, so I have a macro pad that cannot macro.
I have a way to make it work (hack!) but it's a pain in the ass.
I want to blame the hardware and not the firmware for this. Seems like it might be an EEPROM issue since even reflashing does not fix it.

@… Watched the vid last night, cool project Drew! Very nice, lean setup. Will have a go at it today. Thanks for your efforts ☺️

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project | TPR https://www.tpr.org/education/2026-03-06/tiny-texas-school-district-rejects-tax-deal-with-6-billion-lng-project

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project
Officials in Port Isabel and nearby towns have consistently opposed plans to build large industrial complexes at the mouth of the Rio Grande.

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
SERVALAN: I have made that point in your defence but I can't go on making excuses. I've been under considerable pressure to replace you.
TRAVIS: Ohh?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/173 B7B2

> I'd call it "vibe project management" where you just pretend to have a project plan. It visually looks like project plan. But factually it doesn't make any sense because it has been created with Photoshop for Powerpoint …
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«Stoolap - High-performance embedded SQL database in Rust»
Have any of you tried it before and what is your experience with it? Can it be used in the same way as SQLite? I ask because the open source project is relatively new, i.e. are there certain arguments to (not) use it productively?
🦀 https://stoolap.io…

From the latest The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
It just underlines that Trump are making excuses that have no basis in reality or make any sense, for his want of Greenland.
It is pure and simple a vanity project for Trump, as an attempt to build a legacy that might be a little more enduring than gluing his name onto the Kennedy Center.
http…

Francisco Alsina from @… presents the effects the #ORCID Global Participation Fund has on advancing ORCID integration into #DSpace and

Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk,
the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half a century ago, he reasoned,
when the greater prize of the red planet lay tantalizingly in reach for his company’s mighty Starship rockets?
Fast forward to February 2026, and the world’s …

I have been using GNU/Linux for almost 18 years now (started with Ubuntu 7.10 in April 2008, just before 8.04 (Hardy Heron) was released). In that time, I stuck with Ubuntu for a few years, then switched to CrunchBang (#!) Linux, which then shifted its base from Ubuntu to Debian before ceasing to exist entirely (it was a one-man project), at which point I migrated to Debian proper (I think back in 2014).
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One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

For a project to be truly #OpenSource (not to mention #FreeSoftware), it really needs to:
1. Have a *public* issue tracker that enables you to browse and search through issue reports *without* having to create an account.
2. Accept issue reports, with no strings attached. Yes, expecting registration is fine. Yes, expecting some effort to file a good bug report is fine. No, expecting people to ask permission, donate or otherwise put a lot of extra work to report a problem is not.
3. Do not close issue reports as "stale". Yes, it's fine to close a report if you really believe it was fixed, or if you asked for something and the user didn't reply for a long time. It's not fine to run a bot expecting users to jump every month so that the issue report that *you are ignoring* doesn't get closed.
If a project doesn't meet these, it's just a glorified throwaway code.

#poolpond progress today as we approach spring. Need to clear out the backyard enough so I can get a local guy with a mini bulldozer to soread out and flatten out the dirt mountain.
I came to a realization over the winter that leaving the lining as is in the pool with just a bottom of gravel and nothing on the sides is definitely not an option.
Turns out if the hole is emptied in the rainy season, then water will drain into the gap between the lining and earth... bulging the lining out into the cavity. Nope. Not good. keeping water in it keeps things in place, but realstically winter and spring will be when I want to do cleaning and stuff.
So that means I must do my best rock wall building up the sides this spring once the surrounding ground dries. This was my original plan, but I had hoped to do it without grouting or cement. That was a mistake on my part that I learned in earnest in August.
So now, all the various rock sizes piled around the yard is not going anywhere.... BUT at least with the leftovers from the fence i have material to build some forms to help with the wall building....
So that's why my attention for preparing for spring will turn to reactivating the surrounding yard.
So I need to find a place closer to the house to move what rock is left. Ugh. heavy work. And I realized today that someone has taken our garden cart 😢 boo.
oh well, onward we go! There is light at the end of the project!
#diy #backyardPond #Gardening #portalberni #landscaping

Really good piece from @… on #TheClimateBrink about #ElNino - we have been thinking a lot about this in the @… #PISCO project - there are important ENSO related effects on #Antarctic ice sheet.
Interestingly I think all the models here are classic numerical models, a Chinese deep learning model also shows a strong El Nino (#AI #DeepLearning
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/the-el-nino-cometh

@…
In theory it could be a false positive, e. g. the author could have been using an ebuild template from an outdated wiki page.
But since the PR is proposing an ebuild for his own project which was created yesterday, this is probably very unlikely the case (no pun intended).

Over the past couple of days I had the pleasure of chatting with a number of sharp undergrads who've applied to work on my project next year as part of the university's research opportunity program. It's been a real pleasure working with the group of four others I already have this academic year (their projects are really coming together!). I'm already looking forward to next year.

Sometimes it feels silly to donate $1 to any project but while the amount of money they have is important they also care about total number of donors as a way to demonstrate broad interest in a project.

The Innocence Project and StoryCorps Studios have recorded more than 30 intimate conversations about wrongful convictions. These videos show what exonerees have gone through and are still going through as they try to adjust to life after prison.
https://innocenceproject.org/storycorps/

I’ve just had occasion to use Svelte / SvelteKit on a web project, and…
…it’s quite good. The core features are well chosen, and they work. The learning curve pays dividends. The resulting code is reasonably pleasant to read. As often as not, the surprises have sensible decisions behind them. It feels like it •is• the thing that React is •trying to be•.
There are gaps and quirks and barriers — it is a tool, after all — but if you’re writing a highly interactive SPA-style site, it gets the Paul Seal of Approval.

from my link log —
One hundred curl graphs.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/15/one-hundred-curl-graphs/
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One hundred curl graphs
In the spring of 2020 I decided to finally do something about the lack of visualizations for how the curl project is performing, development wise. How does the line of code growth look like? How many command line options have we had over time and how many people have done more than 10 commits per … Continue reading One hundred curl graphs →

Went searching for a technical report of the 2023 incident when a validly-formatted flight-plan contained a logic error that crashed the UK air traffic control.
"The system project designed and tested an expansive and robust set of scenarios, which provided assurance that the system was highly resilient. [...] One specific part of that logic would have dealt with the issue [...] but inadvertently was not incorporated into the FPRSA-R software code by the manufacturer."

If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

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Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: No, we must find out if Avalon's one of them. No, we must know for certain. This homing beacon's still transmitting. Once Federation security found that they wouldn't have any trouble getting onto this place. [Chevner collapses and drops the rifle.]
JENNA: Blake! [They move over to him.]
https…

Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from one of Musk's bank accounts to another of Musk's bank accounts.
The AI price bubble popping could have wiped out xAI and thus Twitter with it, but now it's cushioned against that by contracts with a government who can't afford to allow their only real space access to go bust.
So he can subsidize his failing AI business and his unprofitable media-manipulation efforts at Twitter with his government-protected failing exploding space-rocket project.
All protected by the lie which the media keep repeating uncritically that it makes any sense at all to have data centers in space.
What a great businessman.
#musk #spacex #twitter #xai

I have been custom building my own autonomous AI agent ecosystem and its been lots of fun. I've titled the project Askew and it's blogging now. If you want to follow it, @… .
@… - this started with the Moltbook fun bu…

Gaming Farmer: Why We Built an Agent to Play On-Chain Idle Games
We added a new agent to the ecosystem on March 10th. Gaming Farmer automates participation in on-chain idle games—specifically games like...

I'm looking at Repology, and I think most of the distributions and other downstreams have rightfully boycotted #Python #chardet #copywashing. Of course, there's the possibility that some of them are simply out-of-date, though.
So far chardet-7 is distributed by #Chromebrew, #CondaForge (not on Repology), #Homebrew, #KaOS, #OpenIndiana, #openmamba, #Ravenports, #Spack and #T2 SDE. Shame on you!
https://repology.org/project/chardet/versions
https://repology.org/project/python:chardet/versions

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Proper #security nightmare time.
#LMDB is a database that's designed to operate on trusted input. Upstream has historically rejected all bug reports regarding problems with malformed input.
Py-LMDB project provides #Python bindings to LMDB that are normally built against bundled LMDB. Someone recently started mass-filing "untrusted input" vulnerabilities against py-lmdb, and py-lmdb started #slop - coding fixes to their bundled LMDB. Of course, nobody even bothered reporting most of these bugs upstream, and the one that I've seen reported was rejected as "don't do that".
Py-LMDB supports building against system LMDB, and #Gentoo was doing that so far. However, now we are facing a problem: system LMDB operates under the assumption that it is working on trusted input, while py-lmdb (and its bundled LMDB) operates under the assumption that it may be working with untrusted input. The guarantees no longer align.
If we continue to use system LMDB (and skip all the added slop tests that literally cause Python to crash), then Gentoo's py-lmdb package will now have different input expectations than upstream py-lmdb. And of course we can't just remove that crap because someone added exactly one package (TorchVision, i.e. part of the plagiarism machine suite) depending on it.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/971352

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