2026-02-17 14:24:52
Ben Adams contributing io_hiring support for .NET:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/124374
@…
Ben Adams contributing io_hiring support for .NET:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/124374
@…
Not enough people are talking about the rationale for systemd introducing the age field in userdbd (which is *not* mandatory and currently fully *optional*). In the very post here, it is clear that they are doing it because xdg-desktop-portal(!) is adding an age verification thingy (and potentially also accountsservice). This IMO is *far* more dangerous because those components are essential nowadays.
I don't get it. I am not a frequent #AI user but do not reject it completely for now. Just casually checking some AI comments in some AI project makes me shudder.
See this comment: https://github.com/opencla…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Grace Jones:
🎵 Pull Up to the Bumper
#GraceJones
https://rwrk.bandcamp.com/track/grace-jones-pull-up-to-the-bumper-rwrk
https://open.spotify.com/track/72uS4v9EdiXZeascM5RTl7
China is starting to pull ahead of US in #AI race https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-ai-race-stanford while the US is mostly burning ridiculous amounts of money on the…
Good article with lots of quotable quotes. Here’s one:
“Lines of code, number of [pull requests], these are liabilities. These are not measures of engineering excellence.”
That’s a big “well duh” for anyone who’s been in the thick of the software engineering process for more than 15 seconds — but a whole lot of folks are about to learn this the hard way, as the article lays out.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
Taking Offense: Cowboys eyeballing top WR may challenge defensive path https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/18/cowboys-took-a-close-look-at-wr-jordyn-tyson-would-they…
The OpenClaw repo itself has 36 PRs in the last hour:
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls
This seems to be its usual rate. The PRs are ~all AI-generated, judging by the writing. Some of them are dedicated agent accounts; some of them are human accounts where the human is…
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-r…
AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…
ReworkCTF challenge 13 (400 points) and 14 (500 points) are both missing dogbone traces under a BGA.
The difference is, 13 was "discovered" before populating the board so you have easier access.
For 14, you have to start with a fully populated board and either pull the BGA or go in from the back side.
16-year-old Safari bug to ignore `text-transform` on text copy:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43202
Today, there’s a PR to address it:
LOOK: Ravens pull off biggest uniform change in 27 years with two new helmets and 12 possible combinations
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-ravens-uniform-change-new-helmets/
Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-code-review-ai-agents-pull-request-bug-d…
At least they recognized that it's a monkey in the end.
https://github.com/Azure/git-ape/pull/8 🐒
Edit: PR filed, SCNR
I for one do not welcome our upstart AI agent would-be overlords:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Seriously, that issue should have just been closed instantly. Markov chains pretending to act like a sentient being and writing shit-posting character a…
Sometimes I'm weirded out by the album art last.fm doesn't pull. Nothing for Skinny Puppy's 1992 record Last Rights? Odd. Luckily, you can add the art if you want.
Cowboys trying to pull off Dez Bryant contract feat with George Pickens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trying-pull-dez-bryant-contract-feat-george-pickens/93b84a6b2aa6f2d12…
CBS says The Late Show was not prohibited from broadcasting a James Talarico interview and was given "legal guidance" that a broadcast could trigger an FCC rule (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-d
Here's a #PixelFed update #git issue I didn't expect: installed on an rpi5, the git was cloned to the sdcard, but after installation I had to move /storage to a USB drive and so symlinked the path. I also had to modify database.php to use pgsql.
Now, when I attempt a pull, I'm told to stash my changes, but stash throws an error because composer.lock was changed and /storage/app/.gitignore is now a symlink.
error: 'storage/app/.gitignore' is beyond a symbolic link
fatal: Unable to process path storage/app/.gitignore
Whatever this stash test is, it doesn't obey root .gitignore, and I did a git rm --cached on that file which shouldn't be IN the repo anyway, and wasn't. Google and DDG refuse to understand that this isn't about adding filenames to .gitignore and git itself has no obvious override.
So I'm stuck 😞
Contributions to FreeBSD: LLMs and AI
From <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#when-not-to-use-a-pull-request> for the src tree:
"Do not submit a pull request for … changes generated by AI t…
I’d like to pre-apologize for anything I might do wrong in the future. When I mess up, you can pull up this post and see that I’ve already communicated my sincere regrets. I will be learning and doing my best to improve going forward from each future incident.
If you are a middle aged man and need to feel better about your mid-life dad bod, just pull out some Super8mm film of you as a rolly-polly baby. lol
Checking some 8mm film I was given recently by my dad (left). A full viewing and eventual recording/digitizing will be required at some point soon!
This would be from spring or summer 1978.
#Family #8mm #film
This is what I used to run icloudpd, if anyone needs it. If using --xmp-sidecar you’ll also need to use a patched version of the program: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader/pull/1290
Run with --list-libraries so you can see all your libraries other than PrimarySync, you’ll have a second one if you have a shared iCloud library. Run that command one (or as many times as needed to completely succeed) time for each library.
This week's career limiting accessibility regression from @… is to not show comments in pull request diff any more. There's a separate comment panel which you can look at (but not at the same time as the diff) where there are indications of content replies but these cannot be interacted with using standard accessibility tools.
I review very long pull requests for work and as a volunteer maintainer and I am not sure why we're okay with this constant march of degraded experience. #a11y
A new pull request for Vulnerability-Lookup adds a CSAF producer that publishes advisories for many manufacturers.
This is great for defenders and researchers, as it increases the amount of detailed vulnerability information available.
It will push the number of ingested feeds to more than 50 unique sources, highlighting the growing diversity of our data sources.
If someone tells you there is a single source of truth for vulnerability information, they’re ignoring the reali…
Session tonight:
Our game master doesn't pull their punches.
#rollenspiel #rpg #ttrpg #STA
The plot thickens.
Anyone else up for a ride?
Over the weekend, I rebased a handful of things I did for @…. Now a few splits here and there, and I will file pull requests upstream. Looking for reviewers.
And if you don't like it being on GitHub, please help me migrate to Codeberg and/or Sourcehut. Or whatevs. I bet everyone will have their two…
Not proud or satisfied about this bug fix as I had to use ChatGPT in the end.
https://github.com/shanmukhateja/gitraven/pull/1
The fix was computing `objFullPath` over each iteration and then use it when computing absolute path for a tree node.
Continuing the epic battle to fix TLS fingerprinting in Node (https://toot.cafe/@pimterry/114116204429611503), I opened two more PRs this week enabling cert compression in Node (
🤔 "Add text-autospace to status content" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37694
From Webkit blog (
Trade Proposal Gives Cowboys Extra Ammo as Browns Nab WR Jordyn Tyson https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/trade-proposal-gives-cowboys-extra-ammo-browns-nab-wr-jordyn-tyson
from my link log —
Pushing and pulling: three reactivity algorithms.
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/
saved 2026-03-07
Tom Brady would 'never say never' to competing in flag football at 2028 Olympics https://www.nfl.com/news/tom-brady-would-never-say-never-to-competing-in-flag-football-at-2028-olympics
Since the trumpies don't want to refund the illegal tariffs, perhaps we could pay our taxes with affidavits that say "pull the amount from my tariff refund"?
Under <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#github-pull-requests>:
"… the normal FreeBSD review and development process (described below) instead. …"
I can't see the description.
(I…
Brilliant stealth signal method bypassing blackouts in Iran -- great piece about 'Toosheh' and how it works: #Iran
doing `ollama pull qwen3-coder-next:latest` ... 51GB
#ollama
What a day to be into ASMR (someone tried to pull a pyro on a prominent creator and it's likely bs, it's just a mess)
An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…
I forgot my very cheap and old T-Mobile plan didn't work in Canada and has to pull over at the first rest stop to get an eSIM.
#springBreak
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap
BlueSky seems to be having connectivity issues for me this afternoon... people there are blaming it on the use of AI in their codebase, so I think now would be a good time for someone to review my PR I have open against it, to tell Claude to ensure it's following the proper licensing requirements: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9709
RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296
If you pull the trigger on a gun, you are responsible for whatever the bullet does, regardless of whether you intended the particular outcome. The legal consequences of a bad outcome might be…
Today's Metacurity is a wild and varied mix of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Iran's Handela group claims control of the IT infrastructure in St. Joseph County, Indiana,
--Hasbro takes down systems after cyberattack,
--Italy’s ASIGINT accused of fake WhatsApp app,
--Attackers use WhatsApp to spread malicious MSI files,
--$250M stolen from DeFi project Drift,
--Anthropic knocks out GitHub repos in frantic bid to pull back …
I added enough Linux support to picolibc to run lua; the lua test suite found a number of core picolibc bugs. This whole adventure suddenly turns out to have actual value and not just comic relief.
I now have a shell script that adapts gcc to using picolibc and have built a small number of applications including snek, nickle and lua.
exec cc -static --specs=picolibc.specs "$@"
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, some agents pull out of Minneapolis in wake of Alex Pretti shooting (Alex Oliveira/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-some-agents-pull-out-of-minneapolis-in-wake-of-alex-pretti-shooting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p123#a260126p123
Happy to contribute to #Cilium (#documentation).
Good tools deserve good docs. ✨
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/
Raiders Need the 2025 Draft Class Now More Than Ever https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-need-2025-draft-class-now-more-than-ever
Already 6 years old, so not even taking into account post-2022 hyperscaling, this is a sobering, very rational and well argued 20 min presentation for some cold flush reality check of the hot fever dreams of AI proponents (and all YOLO energy/resource guzzlers of any walk/standing):
Blip (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd…
Amazing how a demonstrably bad idea can still pull in massive funding.
SpaceX's orbiting data center is one such idea. Space isn't "cold", it's a vacuum, the same thing that makes high-performance insulated tumblers work so well. In orbit, shedding heat will be a bigger problem than any faced on earth, such as supplying electricity.
#SpaceX
NATO SG Rutte calls authoritarian leader who illegally attacked a third country and threatened to end its civilisation his friend.
https://kyivindependent.com/trump-meets-nato-chief-as-us-mulls-wihtdrawal-from-alliance/
"Could ‘sky trains’ reduce transportation emissions?"
#Emissions #Transportation
https://
Such an amazing effort by @… to compile #Zotero from source in :nixos: nixpkgs. This will make it possible to easily try out Zotero patches or even make your own version with custom changes. Power of Nix! 💪
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Grace Jones:
🎵 Pull Up to the Bumper
#GraceJones
https://djludoremix1.bandcamp.com/track/grace-jones-pull-up-to-the-bumper
https://open.spotify.com/track/72uS4v9EdiXZeascM5RTl7
Still hooked on BLUE. Hacked all day yesterday and today converting Dezyne's (https://dezyne.org) build system. Opened six issues, and two pull requests, one already merged.
It's not perfect *just* yet, in fact, some issues are show-stoppers for BLUE to replace Autotools for Dezyne, which has a pretty "…
UK prime minister Keir Starmer
and French president Emmanuel Macron
will co-host a summit in Paris on Friday
focused on efforts to reopen the strait of Hormuz, Downing Street said.
A spokesperson said: “The summit will advance work towards a coordinated, independent, multinational plan
to safeguard international shipping once the conflict ends.”
Macron has previously said the countries participating in the initiative would work on a
“strictly defensiv…
The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.
Broncos and Cowboys predicted to pull off blockbuster offseason trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos/news/broncos-cowboys-predicted-pull-blockbuster-offseason-trade/01db3ad80152fa82a6165…
"Transit is 95 percent safer than cars today, without a single algorithm. If AVs pull riders off the subway and onto robotaxi apps, the safety math goes in the wrong direction."
And the "if" is all but certain to be true, because that's exactly what happened last time companies drove down labor costs and regulation of taxi services. (Uber and Lyft)
Revert "bsdinstall: Create separate datasets for directories in /usr/ports by ricardobranco777 · Pull Request #2006 · freebsd/freebsd-src — https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2006
I'm a keyboard-only user using vimium, I think I can still pull every branch locally and use vscode or gh cli to see the comments? Much slower though and doesn't really work in a review meeting. I'm happy to have suggested workarounds if anyone has any (they broke the plus button for commenting some months ago, it's all just very difficult now)
Cowboys Urged to Pull Off Shocking Trade With Giants for Kayvon Thibodeaux https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-trade-giants-superstar-kayvon-thibodeaux
It is frustrating every single time that I see the popular votes versus seats won in Canadian elections.
Especially when you have a party like the Bloc Quebécois who run only in Québec, pull 1.2 million votes in that province, and receive 22 seats in the House, yet the NDP pulls 1.2 million across Canada and gets 7 seats.
All our system does is reward density, rather than delivering actual representation.
But someone please tell me how 'ranked ballots' will fix this*
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
1. Submit a pull request to #zlib that changes the library filename on #Windows.
2. Pull request gets merged, and you effectively break everything that linked dynamically to zlib.
3. Attack everyone who reported this as a bug.
#OpenSource
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chalk:
🎵 I.D.C.
#Chalk
https://madeleineabooth.bandcamp.com/track/pull-i
David Montgomery trade grades, plus Bills pull off wild deal in our newest mock and grading NFL combine
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-m
House Oversight Chair Suggests Trump Pull ICE Out of Minnesota (Manuela Silva/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/republicans/house-oversight-chair-james-comer-trump-pull-ice-immigration-minnesota-minneapolis-protests
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p66#a260125p66
Trade Proposal Gives Cowboys Extra Ammo as Browns Nab WR Jordyn Tyson https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/trade-proposal-gives-cowboys-extra-ammo-browns-nab-wr-jordyn-tyson
The root problem is that a large plurality of people, maybe even a majority, really would prefer a handful of monopolies and a Great Leader calling the shots so that they don't have to think or make choices.
The rest of us just can't comprehend that, which is why we repeatedly fail to pull them away from the billionaire/fascist du jour.
In a Q&A, Bari Weiss says she doesn't plan to pull future 60 Minutes segments after they've been promoted and she wasn't pressured to hold the CECOT story (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2016204949458223303
RE: https://floss.social/@forgejo/116198323960225849
just one docker compose pull and restart and it's done. Easy peasy :)
It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ibibio Sound Machine:
🎵 Pull the Rope
#IbibioSoundMachine
https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/pull-the-rope-captain-planet-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5A2jVFrAwk7GelwtnMmLVo
3 Realistic Draft Day Trades Dallas Cowboys Could Pull Off https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/3-realistic-draft-day-trades-dallas-cowboys-could-pull-off
Nick Fuentes: "Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. ... I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order." (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/nick-fuentes-please-pull-trigger-please-kill-them-mr-president-im-not-actually-wishing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p137#a260120p137
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Chalk:
🎵 I.D.C.
#Chalk
https://madeleineabooth.bandcamp.com/track/pull-i
Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to "pull out all the stops" to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116345269637598744
On truthfulness and openness
The quoted post, unedited, linked to a plea, in Reddit, for:
― rational discussion
― no false assumptions.
The pull request in Codeb…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio:
🎵 Pull Your Pants Up
#DelvonLamarrOrganTrio
https://delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com/track/pull-your-pants-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ecPVQ8Nb1bEWcsqvXakLt
Alabama is scheduled to kill Charles “Sonny” Burton for a murder that everyone agrees he did not commit.
As the Alabama Reflector’s Ralph Chapoco explained,
“He did not pull the trigger that killed Doug Battle during a 1991 robbery at a Talladega AutoZone,
and was not in the store when Battle was shot.“
The legal concept that allows such a situation is known as
💥“felony murder,”
and it essentially means that,
if someone is killed during the commiss…
Cowboys Have Chance to Pull Off Biggest Trade in Franchise History https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/chance-pull-off-biggest-trade-franchise-history/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Sean Wolcott:
🎵 Persevere Through Gravity's Pull
#SeanWolcott
https://seanwolcott.bandcamp.com/track/persevere-through-gravity-s-pull
https://open.spotify.com/track/6R4GN2GtgKJxHyBauYThQ1
New Cowboys Mock Draft Has Dallas Pulling Off Massive Trade for Top EDGE https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-massive-trade-top-edge
Cowboys schedule top-30 visits with draft prospects, why is that important? https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-schedule-top-30-visits-with-draft-prospects-why-is-that-important