I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

It is difficult to express how bad microsoft’s authentication system is. like it’s not just “bad” or “broken” or “buggy”, it is a world-historic interaction design catastrophe. no matter how bad you think it is, no, it’s worse than that actually.

i just want to go on the computer and have a good time but the gosh darn racket that civilization is making as it collapses is *really* distracting

Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website:

abortion | Jeff Geerling

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines

New Blog: the "Dependency Cutout" workflow pattern:

Deciphering Glyph :: The “Dependency Cutout” Workflow Pattern, Part I

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

is everyone pumped for No-AI November

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

I just boosted a bunch of stuff about this, most of which puts the focus on the PSF's correct moral calculus here, and that's where most the focus should be. But there's unfortunately another, tougher lesson: you cannot be a Republican and support the Python community.

Fosstodon

Python Software Foundation (@ThePSF@fosstodon.org)

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new reven...

Oh no I just realized that Wayland is the IPv6 of display servers and IPv6 is the Wayland of networking. 1. works OK if you don't look *too* hard 2. a necessary, even critical upgrade for deep infrastructure reasons that most users don't know 3. exciting new features you can't use because it's only 70% implemented 4. wildly divergent technical "standard" compliance between platforms 5. experts with complex needs just ignore it by using shell scripts that interface with its legacy predecessor