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Malik Benson projects to be Raiders' fourth-leading receiver in 2026 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/11/malik-benson-projects-to-be-raiders-fourth-leading-rec…

As if by magic after asking the other day someone made a basic git based dependency / packager thing and its delightfully minimal.
https://alnewkirk.com/projects/git-from

Check out MUSLIM FUTURES by Karim Ahmad on
@kickstarter.com
#MuslimFutures

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

Can we call Windows abandonware now?
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380259791929422

There's one building in LA with 89 registered hospices: "Ground zero" for fraud? (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/hospice-fraud/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p148#a260310p148

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay
In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be learned from the experiences in Denmark?

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/google-says-anthropic-remains-a…

Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
Cloud vendors are letting customers know that Anthropic's popular AI tools can still be accessed after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company.

tl;dr Using https://thi.ng/column-store to accelerate tag intersection queries by a factor of 880x...
Working on the static website generator/export plugin for my personal knowledge tool has been one of the main projects this past month. A key part of this setup is tagging, not just simple flat keywords/cate…

In-memory column store database with customizable column types, extensible query engine, bitfield indexing for query acceleration, JSON serialization with optional RLE compression

AI studio Moonmax unveils a slate of features signifying a push into more mainstream film production, including an AI-assisted movie on Captain James Hook (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/ai-assisted-captain-james-hook…

AI-Assisted Captain James Hook Feature in Works at Moonmax
AI studio Moonmax has unveiled a slate of projects, including a new AI-assisted feature based on the origin story of Captain James Hook

For several years now, public EV charging points in Amsterdam have also been used to provide temporary power supplies for construction projects and events, for example. The city is now actively promoting this as an alternative to diesel generators on construction sites.
https://www.amsterdam.nl/leefomgeving/o…

"Offshore wind firm that took Trump payout hits a milestone in Europe"
#Europe #Renewables #WindTurbines

Offshore wind firm that took Trump payout hits a milestone in Europe
Even as Ocean Winds abandons two U.S. offshore wind leases, it’s staying the course on projects elsewhere, including a floating French array that flicked…

Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/microsoft-locks-open-so…

Microsoft locks open source devs out of their accounts
Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.

from my link log —
Linux internals: how /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory.
https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/
saved 2026-03-09

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory - offlinemark
Introduction An obscure quirk of the /proc/*/mem pseudofile is its “punch through” semantics. Writes performed through this file will succeed even if the destination virtual memory is marked unwritable. In fact, this behavior is intentional and actively used by projects such as the Julia JIT compiler and rr debugger. This behavior raises some questions: Is […]

DNS-OARC has officially moved from #GitHub to #Codeberg.
This seems mildly noteworthy to me. They have a number of widely used DNS-related utilities and projects that had been on GitHub for many years.

DNS-OARC
The DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Center. DNS-OARC has 38 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

@…
Baseline secure boot support for installer and releases · Laptop Project Board
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Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid
A new federal government with big promises for “nation-building” projects has the potential to deliver a climate-safe and affordable future for all of us. If we fight for it.
A publicly owned, east-west electricity grid that connects renewable energy projects is the type of ambitious project we need. It would provide affordable, secure and renewable power to people from coast to coast.

Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid - Leadnow

I'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

New projects added for the hackathon of next week such as misp-ghidra and also bsimvis
https://github.com/MISP/BSimVis
BSimVis is a tool to upload large quantities of decompiled binaries from Ghidra to a redis/kvrocks server for analyzing similarity, clustering and diffing functions based on Ghidra…

I have a common problem with several work-related projects. After quite a bit of pondering, I believe I have found the solution in my archives - a bash script linking a few very cool utilities that I wrote 20 years ago in the heady days of Egressive. Probably took weeks to get it right (it automates a business-critical backup process). I'm very chuffed my archives are still with me. You can never tell when they might come in handy. This will likely save days of work.

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Nick Wright Projects Jets Pick a QB; Eagles, Rams Get WR Help https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-nick-wright-projects-jets-pick-qb-eagles-rams-get-wr-help

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muslimfutures/muslim-futures/description

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

Steelers' 2026 draft picks ranked from starters to... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48678873/pittsburgh-steelers-2026-draft-class-rookies-tiers-starters-projects

Here is the #visualization that I was writing about yesterday. It's showing data by the #UN about immigrants/emigrants to/from all countries to/from all countries in 5-year intervals.
What do you think?

Migration Stocks – Interactive World Map
Explore international migration flows from 1990 to 2024. People from one country living in another – visualized with D3 and the Hufnagel III projection.

Ukraine, US shortlist investment projects worth over $1.2 billion for groundbreaking reconstruction fund: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/ukraine-us-shortlist-investment-projects.html

I really want a podcast that mixes anarchist academic papers and interviews with their authors with real projects from around the world and interviews with organizers and agitators in a single content stream.
Anyone know if anything like that exists today?

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

Parts of this bill seem poorly thought out. I like this:
"Slow Streets Speed Limits. Cities that have already adopted a slow streets program would gain the authority to set lower speed limits on those streets by ordinance or resolution, without having to first conduct an engineering and traffic survey, a process that can be time-consuming and costly."
Then again, we could road-diet slow streets to reduce the design speed today if we had political will.

Buffy Wicks Pushes Legislation to Cut Red Tape for Transformational Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects - Streetsblog California
AB 1976 would impact a lot of projects including pedestrian malls, neighborhood greenways, safe routes to schools projects, and more.

Democrat Shawn Harris to face Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller in runoff to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, CNN projects (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-seat-clay-fuller-shawn-harris-runoff
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p141#a260310p141

Updated my free-for-dev Contributing Guide, Code of Conduct, Readme, PR templates, Added AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md that tells bots not to contribute.
Still you get daily fuckers like this who just drive by dump their projects on 100s (or exactly 100 in this case) lists with no regard for list polilcies.
Now just closing without even any discussion anything that even looks like LLM generated.

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva | Original editorial and merchandise design :: Behance
Follow Vasilena here: @…
https://www.behance.net/fonhea/

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva - Editorial, graphic design, illustration in Bulgaria
Book cover designer, graphic designer, illustrator. I have completed my design education in Alois Senefelder Munich and have a lot of expereince working in the creative field. See other illustration and design portfolio work on the link above.

https://ground.news/article/mexico-to-require-federal-projects-to-use-local-steel-in-response-to-us-tariffs_b9d55b

Mexico to require federal projects to use local steel in response to US tariffs
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday announced a rule that all federal work projects use steel from Mexican companies, after attempts to reach a deal to lift U.S. steel tariffs failed.

Tutti i motivi per abbandonare #GitHub e quali sono le possibili alternative. Il post di @…
Sappiamo che non è un compito facile; GitHub è onnipresente. Grazie al suo marketing efficace, GitHub ha convinto gli sviluppatori di software li…

A huge D&D campaign kickstarter that just went live and is at €4 million and counting that I had a small part in working on with the Wild Blue Studios team.
Check it out here 👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofavantris/neon-odyssey

It's just a coincidence…🫣
"The White House said, in an emailed statement, “All of the president’s trade discussions are totally unrelated to the Trump Organization.” It argued that there are no ethical issues as the president’s family develops about 20 Trump-branded properties worldwide, because the president’s sons run the businesses. President Trump’s financial disclosure report, however, shows that he still personally benefits financially from most of these ventures."

https://lemmy.world/post/43988094
There are going to be a lot of projects forked to remove or halt ai coming up.

New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI - Lemmy.World
According to the release: >Adds experimental PostgreSQL support >The code was written by Cursor and Claude >14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed >reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks This makes me a bit uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?

HPE reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.3B, vs. $9.37B est., Cloud and AI revenue down 2.7% YoY to $6.3B but reports an AI server backlog of $5B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/hpe-project…

Do Wikipedia or Open Source projects need an AGENTS.md file that explains to “agentic AI” how to donate money from all the bank accounts and wallet apps the agent was granted access to?

If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that

@13a@mastodon.social
The problem I see is that if they are not asking the right questions about the risks, and simple consider the technical challenges, being careful with the demo projects now cannot and will not inform what happens at scale.
And the real problems will only appear at larger scale deployment.
Which is why I advocate for a NEPA-like process, where the design of the study is based on input from the variety of experts in the range of disciplines related to cl…

@13a@mastodon.social
The problem I see is that if they are not asking the right questions about the risks, and simple consider the technical challenges, being careful with the demo projects now cannot and will not inform what happens at scale.
And the real problems will only appear at larger scale deployment.
Which is why I advocate for a NEPA-like process, where the design of the study is based on input from the variety of experts in the range of disciplines related to cl…

Pure Data Playing Cards by Dan Berg — Kickstarter #b3ta
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bergonomix/pure-code-playing-cards

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome

Today marks 19 years since the very first _public_ commit of my old #Toxiclibs code library collection, which for many years were one of the largest and most important side-projects related to Java & Processing.org.
Altogether, toxiclibs consisted of ~360 different "building blocks for computational design" and was used as teaching tool in related fields in many universitie…

Thinking about #MuslimFutures and what we can build, rather than what was/is/will be taken from us. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muslimfutures/muslim-futures…

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

Das Crowdfunding für Ahu's First Patrol: A 5e solo adventure gamebook ist gestartet
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marteloschwarz/ahus-first-patrol-a-5e-solo-adventure-gamebook?ref=thanks-copy
Ahu…

Is there any leaked code of DirectX? Asking for my AI friend that likes to rewrite projects from scratch with a different license

The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $
100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations
was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National…

Judge rules government illegally canceled more than $100 million in humanities grants
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional. Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday sided with The Authors Guild and others who sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants. The judge also criticized DOGE's use of artificial intelligence to label and target projects as "diversity, equity and inclusion. Several groups t…

Small developers that sell their projects to another party should ensure that the transfer is marked by a higher major version number, lest the reputational damage of any subsequent fuckery accrues to them.

Free link! How to Manage Retirement DIY Projects as You Age - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retirement-diy-projects-aging-2bf30f21?st=9kQtNX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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

from my link log —
Simple screw and nut dispensers.
https://mitxela.com/projects/screwcounter
saved 2026-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/7U00…

Renewables on the march in coal country.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/records-tumble-as-nine-wind-and-solar-projects-1-gw-of-batteries-join-grid-in-just-three-months/

Records tumble as nine wind and solar projects, 1 GW of batteries join grid in just three months
If Angus Taylor thought there was "too much wind and solar" on Australia's grid back when he was federal energy minister in 2018, have we got news for him in 2026.

Free for orgs under $5M revenue/funding — startups, side projects, experiments. Larger orgs need a commercial license.
🐰 Try it out:
🌐 https://directus.io
📚 https://docs.d…

Android transparency logs (https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/overview) now include 1st Party Apps and Mainline Modules:

Android Binary Transparency  |  Google for Developers
An index page for all Android transparency projects.

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.

New NFL mock draft: Schrager projects all 32 first-round picks based on what he's hearing https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48408193/2026-nfl-mock-draft-peter-schrager-insider-intel-first-round-pi…

If it's not clear my last two projects I think hashtags are cool and powerful but also can be pretty annoying to use
https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116308200316706011

I have built two little apps using Claude Code now - just for myself to learn more (and I have). One is some tv listing for my region and the other is to collate a history of the river water levels. There is a small risk of flooding at my house. The DEFRA page only shows 5 days and the api only has 365 days and i want to keep a longer record.
Anyway for both projects CC updates a documentaion.md file so I can understand what it has done at each step in a few months time.

Ted Turner, like Bill Gates, is one of the rare billionaires who seemed to eventually realize that if he gave away enough money to big projects, people would be less offended by his obscene wealth.
The first step there is recognizing that there is a level where wealth becomes unequivocally obscene.

I'm pretty sure most projects on GitHub now need to remove the "made with ❤️" footer in their READMe

I see more and more discussions how OSS projects should deal with AI contributions, how they embrace or refute AI at all etc.
Are we going to see “pure” and “AI” forks on many projects? Watch how this works out? Or will there just be a dumpster fire? ;-)

WSJ's head of video Maral Usefi explains its strategy focusing on original journalism, breaking news, explainers, live video, franchises, and IP-based projects (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/wall-street-journal-…

Wall Street Journal video team recentres around 'journalism that's worth paying for'
The Wall Street Journal has revamped its video strategy around the central pillar of making “ video journalism that's worth paying for”.

A nice reminder that @… just shared :)
#ArtemisII

🥳 New Kitten release
Several but fixes, thanks to wunter8 (https://codeberg.org/wunter8):
• Default socket doesn't work when testing with a local mobile device (https…

wunter8
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Apparently we approved another bunch of tidal stream energy projects last month; it's only 20MW capacity, to be installed over a few years; but it's a pretty high price to try and get it going;
https://www.marineenergycouncil.co.uk/news

Four tidal stream projects successful in Allocation Round 7a | UK Marine Energy Council (UKMEC)
The Government has today announced four tidal stream projects were successful in Allocation Round 7a, giving the UK a deployment pipeline of over 140MWs.

#DearLazyWeb ( #Nederland #HamRadio edition): I have small kids. My oldest is just turning 7. I have an idea of starting to introduce radios to them and some other parents are also interested.
I'm starting with walkie talkies and basic radio protocol. My thought is to try to play a few games of "keep talking and no one explodes" over walkie talkie, then trying to expand that out into an informal radio net or something. I have some other ideas for projects, like downloading weather satellite data or something (but I think this may be a bit too advanced, perhaps).
I've also been thinking about playing a bit with LoRa radios (meshcore or reticulum), but I haven't yet figured out an application that would be fun for kids.
One parent suggested a kids radio broadcast. In the US it's possible to get a local FM license (within about 2 kilometers) for community stations and educational use and such. Is there any similar program here in NL?
Extra question for #Ham operators: are there other simple kid friendly projects you can think of?
For parents (to gauge interest outside of my weird little circle): one goal here is getting kids into radio to build the next generation of disaster communication. Is this something you would be excited about for your kids? Is this something you would be interested in seeing as an after school program?

My response to Matt Davis’s post about how AI is gutting developer jobs in the private sector. It is doing similar to government jobs. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/avatar42_those-of-us-who-had-projects-doged-are-hearing-share-7456771166225993728-vqow?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAAAWih4BHI000GeGPDyU7bRW4eU6cr4S0vw

"Zambia tenders 300 MW of solar"
#Zambia #Energy #Renewables

Zambia tenders 300 MW of solar
The first bid window of Zambia's new Carbon Feed In Premium Program plans to develop 300 MW of solar across projects that are connected to on-site battery energy storage systems. The deadline to submit expressions of interest is May 31.

"Train Fight" got some updates. New music (in Stereo!), new levels and controls. Check it out either on Scratch or Turbowarp if you want 60fps
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1285094904/

I continue to use #VSCode with my #Go projects.
It’s decent enough to feel okay.
I did switch to #Vim bindings.
I do feel a significant drop in my own comfort levels using #VSCode bindings for which I cannot find any logic.

Trump Lawsuit Tracker, courtesy of the Associated Press AP Politics
#AP

Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration | AP News
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.

I went to the appflowy web site and read “Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI” and I have never closed a browser tab so fast in my life.

What do Ukraine and Japan have in common? They are leaders in robotics, and for the right reasons
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-experimental-physical-ai-is-ready-for-the-real-world/

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Last 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…

from my link log —
How to pick a random number from 1-10 using only people.
https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng
saved 2019-07-01 https://

Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:
1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.
Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.
Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.
#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security

CBS News California Investigates conducted more than 20 hours of accountability interviews with the top-polling candidates for California governor,
covering more than a dozen issues suggested by viewers, policymakers, and community leaders
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/ca-g

🐰 #Directus — The Flexible Backend for All Your Projects!
Turn any SQL database into a full #API with an admin dashboard — no migration, no vendor lock-in.
#HeadlessCMS

"Madagascar plans 46 solar projects totaling 932 MW "
#Madagascar #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Madagascar plans 46 solar projects totaling 932 MW 
Madagascar’s state-owned utility Jirama and the country’s rural electrification development agency have signed 46 memoranda of understanding for new solar projects with a combined capacity totalling 932 MW.

The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains. (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p42#a260304p42

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
Apparently reputation farming and running a openclaw consultancy
https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-…

Microsoft plans to keep Anthropic's tools embedded in client products, after its lawyers determine the DOD's designation doesn't apply to non-defense projects (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-…

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist
Microsoft is the first major company to say it will keep using Anthropic models in its products.

Predicting which NFL teams will draft quarterbacks: Nine perfect fits across seven rounds https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48421239/2026-nfl-mock-draft-quarterback-team-fits-mendoza-simpson-nussmeier…

The key takeaways from the early part of the #chardet thread (I didn't read beyond the ~30 first comments, I have my limits).
1. People there love cosplaying lawyers. Except when the other side also starts cosplaying lawyers, in which case they suddenly divert to suggesting asking professional lawyers.
2. Almost nobody there is concerned with ethics or morality.
3. There's a lot of GPL haters there. Like, they seem the kind of people who don't really care about licensing at all, just used MIT in their projects because it was cool and they heard something about license incompatibility and now bash at everything that's (L)GPL.
4. People don't get that LLMs are statistical models and can't build anything from the ground up. All they can do is remix, which implies they use existing code for inspiration.
5. The maintainer who did the rewrite is a total asshole, and is perfectly aware of it.
Honestly, I'm truly waiting for the subsidizing to end and companies start charging obscene amounts for the use of LLMs. Of course, the reality is that we're totally fucked. We have a lot of projects that adapted a lot of #slop, and people who are being increasingly addicted to this shit. The moment they can't afford it, we'd be left with lots of broken code nobody wants to maintain.
And I definitely don't want to put my effort into packaging crap if its maintainers don't even bother trying.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

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There was a time when creating massive amounts of code would have been valuable. There was a time when lowering the bar for creating software would have been beneficial. But today we are inundated with garbage apps, written too quickly and never maintained, half-working libraries, projects someone took up once and abandoned (I have several), and grift startups just waiting to be acquired and "fixed."
#LLM code generation is a pestilence. We don't need more code owned by people who know less, we need less code managed by people who know more. It's literally the opposite of everything we want. Oh, but it will be easier for infosec to find bugs so it's fine, right? I've found critical bugs that never get fixed (I think one of mine is like 7 years old now).
There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed because there are no systems to fix them. Go on Shodan and look for ATGs. There are thousands of them. I'm betting that most of those are not honeypots. It may be possible to blow up a bunch of gas stations with a for loop, but, yeah, we need #AI to find some more bugs.
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/fuel-tank-monitoring-systems-vulnerable-disruption

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-e…

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

"How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Since 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.

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"UK’s Renewable Energy Expansion Gets Major Boost with Grid Connection Overhaul"
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UK’s Renewable Energy Expansion Gets Major Boost with Grid Connection Overhaul | Happy Eco News
The UK’s renewable energy expansion advances, with 283 GW of approved projects after NESO completes grid connection reform, clearing a 700 GW backlog and outpacing its European neighbors.

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/open…

"France publishes specifications for 925 MW ground-mounted solar tender"
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France publishes specifications for 925 MW ground-mounted solar tender
The French energy regulator has released the specifications for the ninth period of the PPE2 ground-mounted solar auction, covering projects above 500 kW and setting a submission deadline of July 30, 2026.

"Chile reaches 4.6 GW of energy storage under construction"
#Chile #Energy #Batteries

Chile reaches 4.6 GW of energy storage under construction
The March 2026 Energy Sector Construction and Investment Projects Report, released by the Chilean Ministry of Energy, records 38 storage systems under construction, for 4,597 MW and 18,780 MWh.