@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says Chromebooks will get support through their "existing date commitment", and "many" models are "eligible to transition" to the Googlebook experience (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/goog
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialOh, gee - who would have thought #MayorLurie might have made a mistake in ignoring the staff recommendation on awarding a complex contract?
Lurie promised a permitting overhaul. Its builders say it was troubled from the start | The San Francisco Standard
@paulwermer@sfba.socialOh, gee - who would have thought #MayorLurie might have made a mistake in ignoring the staff recommendation on awarding a complex contract?
Lurie promised a permitting overhaul. Its builders say it was troubled from the start | The San Francisco Standard
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt's been a few months and I have a lot of new followers so, periodic reminder: I make extra capacity in my home lab facilities available on a best-effort basis to support noncommercial/hobby/open source projects who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Services are generally provided free of charge if they're not a major time/consumable commitment on my part, or on a cost-recovery basis for anything particularly large. If you're not making money from the project I w…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Argentinian president, Javier Milei,
is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023
as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a
$5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto project.
The scandal has tarnished crypto’s reputation across Argentina
and set back the ambitions of industry insiders who saw the country as fertile soil for the growth of digital money.
Milei’s promotion of…
@UP8@mastodon.social🚯 Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
#computing
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out "alpha versions" of Project Helix to developers in 2027 (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/893119/xbox-project-helix-jason-ronald-gdc-2026
@pre@boing.worldOne 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/
saved 2020-02-01
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgReally 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
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeI 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…
@darius@social.linux.pizzaDoes anyone ever feel nostalgia regarding PDAs? As a kid, I first got an old Palm and then a Pocket Loox 720 (with Windows Mobile 2003SE) as a hand-down from my dad.
I have very fond memories of browsing through the depths of the Internet trying to find some cool new program. Most notably though, there was a port of Android you could boot from a CF or SD card, and it was the coolest thing ever:
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’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.
@johl@mastodon.xyzLast month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeI have no opinion about the project itself but I just want to highlight that OPA is the german word for Grandpa.
Grandpa as a Gatekeeper!
https://www.openpolicyagent.org
@tore@openbiblio.social
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaI am starting to worry.
Dwl installed just fine, I compiled it from source. Learned how-to and applied the specific wlroots version in Gentoo. Applications I need are there. Five patches applied, all good. Even got noctalia-shell running. The project has been revived and a lot of patches have been updated to the latest version in the last month.
I stop tweaking now. Have to end the weekend on a high. Beer is cold. More next week!
@scott@carfree.cityGood primer on how California housing development laws have changed in the past few years, for better or worse, but also how those changes are unlikely to usher in broad affordability.
"*This* project is all but certainly going to get financing because *this* project is exceptional. But not every project is exceptional... If merely approving a project resulted in its construction, San Francisco would have scores of thousands of additional built units. It doesn’t."
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toI spend a lot of time being worried or angry or annoyed at the way that generative ai fervor is undermining our ecosystems (environmental, cultural, epistemic, digital, etc).
But right now I'm just feeling mournful. Seeing project after project, institution after institution run enthusiastically into a future where we boil our oceans to better insulate ourselves from one another is ... tragic. We're losing a lot right now, and we're going to have to come to terms with that.…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI've been using #navidrome for a few years now. I really liked it.
Over the past two months or so, it keeps crashing. I've never had that happen before, but now half the time when I load the web interface, it's unavailable and I have to manually start it.
I also noticed that merge requests and commits to the project seem to be making heavy use of AI tools.
I d…
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialIn order to open an account at #gitlab you have to
- solve 3D puzzles, twice!
- verify your email
- verify your phone number or add a credit card
- create a project
Wtf?! Normally I wouldn't care, but wanted to work with a friend...
@…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotDear everyone
Ghada Elkhalili is an orphan, the eldest surviving member of her family. She is supporting six other family members in a tent close to the yellow line in northern #Gaza. I have been in touch with her for some months; other people in Gaza whom I'm in touch with and who know her have verified her story.
She is receiving very little support; in the past month she's had …
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialAre you looking for a PhD position in the field of experimental planetary science? Do you have a background in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, or Earth and Planetary Sciences in general?
The ERC Starting Grant group ELMO led by Christian Renggli @… is looking for a doctoral researcher to join th…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialA web-based LibreOffice could be interesting!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
@kctipton@mas.toTiny 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU, with our home-built C compiler.
https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/
saved …
@iragersh@mstdn.social@Jehiah I am currently available to do a software project. I have few skills with current software paradigms so would consider this a learning project also. Can you recommend a project?
I will be sending you a copy of an email I wrote referencing NYC Open Data. Can't include it here as it violates length.
For example a project might me something you wanted to do and just couldn't get around to it.
I'm going to copy this to a Bluesky post as that is how you s…
@yetiinabox@todon.nloh great. now we have Buddhist techbros pushing Buddhist AI.
Look at the CVs of the folks involved.
#Buddhism
@gwire@mastodon.socialWhy doesn't Project NOVA - a multi-country network of telescopes monitoring for space threats - have a bleedin' website?
https://space.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/the-king-visits-site-of-new…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Electronic Book Acquisition Strategies in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986768
"Electronic book (e-book) acquisition models have evolved over the decades they have been available to library customers. This review leverages findings fr…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeFor hackathon.lu, I was initially unsure what my main project would be, but I ultimately decided to focus on implementing the future GCVE BCP-10.
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
The idea is combine it with the cpe-guesser and have a registry to facilitate the interaction with the CPE values to handle vendor and product references.
#gcve
@ripienaar@devco.socialI cleaned up/firmed up my scaffold project to have tests, better file creation model, better docs etc.
Scaffold can be used to render many files from a template source - imagine you have a scaffold to bootstrap a Go project.
Combine this with interactive forms and you can have a interactive question-answer session to start up new projects.
I also added a CLI tool that lets you just use these features interactively.
The project
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 215,000 people have now signed a letter which calls
not just for the closure of Dilley
but for an end to the detention of children and families nationwide
— and the return of those already detained to the communities from which they were taken.
The campaign, organized under the "National Coalition to End Child and Family Detention", is not a celebrity vanity project.
Alongside the artists is a medical corps
— pediatricians, OBGYNs, pulm…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat Does the Correspondents Dinner Have to Do With Trump's Ballroom Project? (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-does-the-correspondents-dinner-have-to-do-with-trump-s-ballroom-project
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p113#a260429p113
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineGot paid for a writing project that isn't going forward in its current form (paused) but feels good to be paid for the work I've done, and maybe it can have a slightly different life elsewhere too.
#writing
@brian_gettler@mas.toOver 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.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialBasic networking lesson I have had to learn repeatedly, including today…
Client devicess and routers will conspire to make things kinda halfway work when there’s a missing static route.
I probably should have read @…’s #n4sa2e before starting this project.
@danyork@mastodon.socialI truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:
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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.
@newstik@social.heise.de"The April Fools' posts have since been deleted."
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=hyperbridge-exploit
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialCitizen Historians fighting the regime's revisionist history efforts
#resist
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
@kidehen@mastodon.socialThe Semantic Web project didn’t fail. It delivered—early.
What it placed on the table remains unmatched as foundational infrastructure for solving critical problems. What was missing wasn’t vision, but timing.
LLMs have now arrived. Which means a Semantic Web-driven evolution of the Web, as broadly used and understood, can finally deliver the critical infrastructure needed to solve real problems.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialMy dad is a journalist. He wrote about a pilot project with self-driving busses recently. And something that none of the men I have talked to seem to realise is that it is fucking scary to think that you are in a bus alone at night without a driver and then someone starts harassing you. My male friend said "what is the bus driver gonna do?" but honestly, just the presence of another person is often enough. And a bus driver can call the police or stop the bus if need be, there are …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotAs I emerge uncertainly from another sustained period of #madness, I realise (again) that I largely use the #PostScarcitySoftware project as self-prescribed anti-suicide therapy. It's sufficiently hard that it has my foggy brain working at full stretch, and sufficiently huge that there&…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI read a README file I wrote a few weeks ago and decided it didn't have enough information, so it's now twice as long with a lot more detail.
I'm the only one who will ever read or use the file, but I have learned I cannot rely on my own memory a few months or years from now when I need to revisit the project or do something similar.
Make notes! Make more notes. It's a text file, it won't take up much space but it might save you a bunch of time in the future.
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaFormer dev at my current employer somehow convinced everyone he was a genius while writing some very smelly code. One project still on his codebase I have to fix something in every so often.
This is his enum of product status values - what occurs if something is a Top Seller and discounted 10%? 🤡
@anderelampe@chaos.social
@geant@mstdn.socialLast year, the GÉANT Community Award went to Ronan Byrne and Nicole Harris.
Two people who have shaped our community in ways that are still being felt today.
Behind every every project and milestone — there are people like them. People who show up, go the extra mile, and make our community what it is.
Nominations for the 2026 award are open until 17 April. Who in your network deserves to be celebrated?
✒️ Nominate them today:
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioFirst experience with uv tool has been a disaster. I couldn't achieve anything I planned to (create an isolated environment for a project, pull in dependencies using pip, etc.). For every command I have spent a lot more time trying to figure out what command to run. It seems like I came to uv with my baggages and uv's take is rather different.
@rberger@hachyderm.ioThis seems pretty accurate #agenticAI
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoToday'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…
@kazys@mastodon.socialJust in time for the closing ceremony, my essay on the Olympics, Expositions, and the Salon. I write about sports for the first time. Who would have thought?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-salon-and-the-olympics/
The Salon and the Olympics - varnelis.net dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Nikolaos Gyzis, winner’s diploma for the 1896 Athens Olympics. Source: Wikimedia CommonsI rarely watch sports. The last Super Bowl I watched was in New Orleans, not the one in 2025, but the one in 1986, when the Bears won. Lately, bingeing Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive has sparked a renewed interest in Formula 1 ... 
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-05 13:00:08
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@mikebabyak@musicians.todayDear Friends,
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.
We’d so very grateful if you click the link, check out the premiums, and support the project!
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopI have started a new project: ProFed.
I’m trying to understand how far #professionalNetworking can go in the #Fediverse.
https://jo…
@jensilber@mastodon.socialSo I have a friend who works for NASA (actual rocket scientist) and worked with Christina Koch on a project once, which I guess means I'm two degrees of separation from the Artemis moon mission? Living in the DC area is sometimes like that.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe 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.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioStill, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)
@veit@mastodon.socialI 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
@grist@fosstodon.orgAre 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!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMaine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town (Jenna Russell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/maine-moratorium-data-cent…
@candidexmedia@mastodon.designDoes anyone know where I could find the app download files (.MSI and AppImage) for the Glimpse Image Editor? I know the project was discontinued long ago, but I still use it from time to time, and I'd like to have access to it in the future in case I change OS or device.
#GnuIMP #GlimpseImageEditor
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSince my job is stable now and I have saved up some money, I have decided to stop accepting donations via GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. There are people who need the help much more than me right now.
If you needed a suggestion, @… is doing a lot more than me for #Gentoo these days and will certainly appreciate your help. He's also way nicer than I'll ever be.
https://github.com/sponsors/thesamesam
https://ko-fi.com/thesamesam
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo project does not need extra money right now, but there are other awesome projects such as Disroot or many Fediverse instances that would definitely use some help. However, in general I'd suggest towards supporting individuals rather than projects: people need money to live, and can use your donations directly, while projects are often bound by red tape.
Finally, please support human artists and craftspeople (and I'm counting human software developers in that). Donate to projects and people who resist enshittification and who refuse to use LLMs. They need the money.
Once again, thanks for all.
@crell@phpc.socialRE: 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…
@gwire@mastodon.socialOne aspect of open source development that some organisations have difficulty with, is that it's such a good signal of an organisation's resource priorities. There's no point putting out a statement saying you're still committed to something, when a key project repo hasn't had a commit in months.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaAh, they have this explicitely written:
> The Blender Development Fund is a donation platform. Individuals and organizations contribute to support Blender's development without acquiring decision-making power over the project's direction.
https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe batik process and results look cool, but I don’t think it’s something I’d want to try unless it was in a workshop setting.
https://handprinted.co.uk/blogs/blog/creating-layered-fabric-designs-using-batik
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIt's not just killing a wind project - it encourages massive investment in #OilAndGas - This is a #ClimateCrime. When will the parties involved be charged with criminal negligence, death resulting sorts of charges? ALL the parties involved know (or should have known) what the ramifications are…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIt's not just killing a wind project - it encourages massive investment in #OilAndGas - This is a #ClimateCrime. When will the parties involved be charged with criminal negligence, death resulting sorts of charges? ALL the parties involved know (or should have known) what the ramifications are…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imIran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, signalled Iran has yet to fully respond to the US attempt to reopen the waterway.
“We know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable for America;
while we have not even begun yet,”
he said in a post on X.
His statement did not mention negotiations with the US that are now in the form of passing messages via Pakistan.
Hapag-Lloyd AG, one of the world’s largest container…
@Lucy@social.linux.pizzaI had some inspiration, maybe an idea for a project. But small. Like maybe a subdomain worth of an idea. And then I talked to my husband and now I have a new domain registration. (For a domain I registered, unregistered, registered, unregistered..) Why. Just why. Can't even formulate the idea, but the website is almost finished.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWorked late on a paper today: I have a target to submit 3 before June, which I have been working on in parallel. I sometimes wonder if it would be more efficient to do them one at a time. But much of my job is project work, usually several in parallel, so it's not always possible...
What do you do?
#AcademicChatter
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Apple Scorpius CPU architectural specification. (1989)
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
saved 2019-12-29 https:/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdvocacy groups including WGA West and The Tech Oversight Project have written a letter urging the FTC and DOJ to probe Netflix for antitrust issues (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-d19eb230-4263-11f1-8a96-47c…
@anderelampe@chaos.social @azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThinking of submitting a tech talk on ngscopeclient to Vulkanised 2027.
This will be focusing on the architecture and some GPU acceleration tricks, more so than the feature set and end user side of things (i.e. the intended audience is GPU shader developers, some of which I hope to get interested in joining the project).
I'm throwing around potential titles, so far the best I have is "Real Time GB/s Oscilloscope Waveform Processing" but I'm sure I can improve on…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI 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.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAre you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGot the Windows CI runner building and passing tests on the dashboard! Tonight I'll try and finish the Arch runner then move on to Fedora.
At that point I think I'll have every supported platform building in my infrastructure other than MacOS ARM64 which is going to be a whole other can of worms.
https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsTotally 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
@cdarwin@c.imI feel like—from all sides—this case is The Big Moment for SCOTUS.
Have they completely abdicated or is there any semblance of separation of powers and rule of law?
If they side with Trump it feels like a death knell of sorts.
... If we aren’t there already.
-- Kendyl Hanks
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Rust should have stable tail calls.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/tail-calls-project-goal/
saved 2026-04-14 https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe Heritage Foundation,
author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda,
has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce.
In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called
“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”
which suggests that U.S. women have gotten a raw deal thanks in large part to contemporary femin…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIf 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
One hundred curl graphs.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/15/one-hundred-curl-graphs/
saved 2026-03-15 https://
@cdarwin@c.imBarely 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 …
@cdarwin@c.imThe RAND Corporation is sunsetting two major gun violence research initiatives
as funding has shrunk under the Trump administration.
Experts lamented the closures as a significant loss for policymakers, advocates, and researchers who have relied on the think tank’s work to prevent shootings.
🔸The Gun Policy in America project,
an initiative that evaluated how researchers conducted their studies and what they found,
concluded with a final update to its Science of…
