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Vaadin 25.2: Build UIs in plain language, and call the browser from Java
https://vaadin.com/blog/vaadin-25-2-release

Due to a >1000% increase in attempted signups on our server datasci.social in the past weeks generated by AI bots, we added a new rule: Only human users. (They won't care, but it's now explicit.)
We also clarify our ads rule: No commercial advertisements, unless permitted. This has never been an issue, but we want to be open to allow small projects supporting themselves reasonably. We deleted mention of spam as it is already covered by Mastodon's defaults.

⚙️ Small, practical API: add(), addIf(), get() with defaults, has(), missing(), only(), except(), forget(), and pull() to read-and-remove in one go. has() uses array_key_exists(), so a key with a null value still counts as existing.
🛡️ Middleware is the natural home — set trace_id, url, route, user_id once, then deeper logs stay focused while Context carries the wider request story.

Bernd: "Nutzt Du eigentlich Skills?"
Mela: "Ja, einen."
Bernd: "Hast Du den selbst geschrieben?"
Mela: "Ja."
Bernd: "Was tut der?"
Mela: "Der setzt meine Markdown-Defaults."
*grillenzirpen*
Bernd: "Pff."
*grillenzirpen*
Mela: "Ist Dir das nicht fancy genug?"
Bernd: "Neee."
Bernd: "Ich schreibe gerade einem, der alle unnötigen Aktionen verhin…

We are quickly arriving at the time where we can run models on local hardware that rival some of the largest datacenter based models from a few months ago. A lot of companies will start building and using these in their own infrastructure to provide cheap local AI services instead of expensive BigTech APIs.
https://simo…

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

speaking of slophub, here's environ-config 26.1.0 (my #Python take on loading config from env variables and secrets from safe places) a minor modernization update. thanks so much to every single name in the thanking section and to github who made it possible:

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/environ-config
Highlights Mostly packaging, small bugs, and docs updates. Only heads-up is that the created classes are now using attrs's NG-style ones with subtly different defaults. Full changelog below! Specia...

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

Right, battery on my Master replaced (by a 2x2 AA holder with one slot soldered out and heatshrunk and taped to the old plate.
Took me a while to figure out how to do all the CMOS resetting, there's a page at the back of the manual with the defaults; and a more forceful reset. I'd forgotten about the ability to 'unplug' ROMs and it took me a while to figure out that's where BASIC had gone.
So in Beeb mode it looks happy (other than the X and 6 keys that are a b…

#Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Monsoon season is starting!
Kodak DC290 (2MP, 1999)
Yes, I forgot to turn off the burned-in date and time (which I also didn't set).
Anyway, get yourself a camera that defaults to the previous millennium as default year.
#ShittyCameraChallenge

via @… :
Meta views its users as something akin to vassals.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/09/meta-instagram-ai-default…

Meta Sets Default for Instagram Accounts to Permit Content Reuse by AI
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/technology/meta-instagram-ai.html

{ggblanket}, a wrapper around #ggplot for quick, explorative plots with sensible defaults and less code. https://davidhodge931.github.io/ggblanket/

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

Eindelijk eens bij mn voorkeuren ingesteld dat mn standaard antwoord in het Nederlands moet zijn. 'standaard' bleef maar niet lekker werken. Nu is het tenminste eenvormig.
[mastodon.nl]*/settings/preferences/posting_defaults
#Mastodonnl

Yay, one of the MMORPG has put out a beta client for #linux. Installed and tried to run, but they need to update their instructions.
1. APPIMAGE needs to be marked executable.
2. Client defaults to a fixed resolution. You may want to go into video settings and make it resizable.
I may play it again tonight and see if it saved my config changes.
The joys of testing b…

If you ever notice me committing ebuilds without a trailing slash in GitHub homepage, please raise an alarm; that will be an impostor!
(GH does not normalize trailing slashes and defaults to the abomination of URLs without a trailing slash.)
#Gentoo

Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...

🦆 Huge milestone for {duckspatial}! We just crossed 10,000 downloads and 100 GitHub stars! ⭐
What’s new in v1.1.1.:
🟢 New geometry functions for counting points/sub-geometries and applying affine transformations.
🟢 DuckDB storage version control (defaults to v1.5.0 Native Spatial Storage for persistent CRS metadata).
🟢 Faster dplyr methods using lazy temp views instead of temp tables.
🟢 Better connection management.
Check it out at

Managed to get just a little bit ahead in my classes, so I did a small bit of work on #Sunstone today after work. The feature I just added is bookmarks in the sidebar. Works decently well so far, but I'll eventually be adding a setting to choose whether it opens bookmark links in the current tab or in a new tab (right now it defaults to a new tab). There is a history tab in the sidebar w…

🌳 Each role runs in its own git worktree under .worktrees/, gets its own roles/<role>.prompt, and is launched in a dedicated tmux session with a terminal window per role
📜 Layered constitution: constitution.prompt points agents at article files, with shared defaults on main and local-*.prompt overrides per branch for workflow-specific rules

Writing a brief for my personal Linux image and I have no idea what the defaults were for new NVMe drives in the GNOME disks app, I'm basically trying to inform people of people adding a simple ext4 secondary drive and I knew I did something extra on Bazzite that I want to recall and replicate as recommendations in this.

Are they right? 🤔
"Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe."
https://blog.do…

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement - TDF Community Blog
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source should rest on transparency, not deception — to correct this claim. The first open-source office suite developed in Europe was OpenOffice.org in 2001, based on StarOffice’s source code, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. These are two gen…

🛡️ Safety is code, not prompting. PathGuard blocks .env, storage, vendor and .git. BudgetTracker aborts the session when estimated spend passes the limit. Shell modes off, allowlist, approve and yolo gate execution — production defaults to shell off and worktree on.

🚨 slopscan is a zero-dependency Node linter that fails the build on concrete slop: the 250–290° purple−blue AI gradient, transition: all, scroll listeners driving animation, autoplay audio, WebGL with no prefers-reduced-motion branch and Inter/Space-Grotesk defaults.