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(itβs not cliffhanger or anything tho; season 2 concludes all important storylines)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/palm-royale-canceled-apple-tv-1236739175/
@fasterthanlime one nine babyyy https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
slop consequences π₯Ή
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
As of 26.1, Black forces 1 line after imports whichβno matter how you feel about thatβconflicts with flake8βs E302 that enforces 2 empty lines btw classes/functions.
I've been told that it was in --preview for a yr & nobody complained⦠I can hear Douglas Adams giggling.
As one of the OG Black [β¦]
bunch of days over 5Β°C and the plants are fucking already π€§π
on the bright side, attrs is now doing half a BILLION downloads per MONTH
which is like 140 million too little for the pypi top 20. oh god i hope fastly never lets us down
https://pypistats.org/packages/attrs
@bitprophet wait until you learn about entrΓ©e
even the login form doesnβt work
getting a sense of how they implemented it
Geeklist, a site I donβt remember being on, is breathlessly announcing how itβs back and AI-first
impeccable timing
itβs very disheartening to try to walk the line between βif you need help, reach outβ and βdonβt waste our time with thoughtless slopβ
got hit by a wave of slop prs last week so i guess itβs time to buckle down and spend my morningβ¦
writing an ai policy
this looks-legitimate-but-trash slop reminds me of corporate phishing tests
the biggest tragedy for me is that iβve spent A LOT of time and energy to encourage contributions [β¦]
@offby1 it's the βonly what almighty rob pike likes is goodβ cult manifest
@glyph itβs a whole genre now https://mastodon.social/@hynek/115786979597136845
@glyph @offby1 @tintvrtkovic @bitprophet We tried to use it for a while and we didnβt lose data but I recall massive scrubbing problems that essentially brought systems to a halt. Everything is ext4 for boot and ZFS for data ever since. The bigger problem is that IIRC itβs not really maintained [β¦]
@offby1 @glyph @tintvrtkovic @bitprophet I only know about Synology because they use it for marketing which is weird because I donβt trust btrfs at all
@glyph @SnoopJ @jannem I regret to inform you that most of this is βif everybody justβ¦β energy and sadly βnobody will ever justβ, otherwise theyβd already βjust did itβ :|
@glyph My optimistic take is that this might get us into implementing a better control over build deps story. As I wrote the last timesimiΓΆar things happened: better deprecations warnings are nice but a red herring. We need a way to keep software alive that isnβt actively maintained anymore even [β¦]
@glyph @tintvrtkovic @bitprophet Fascinatingly, Synology is a heavy btrfs user, tho
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/Btrfs
@glyph @tintvrtkovic @bitprophet Same as ReiserFS before it and bcachefs Β―\\_(γ)_/Β―
My best guess is that serious people run ZFS and that sucks all the air from the ecosystem.
@glyph @tintvrtkovic @bitprophet > Btrfs is coming to more and more linux distros as the default root filesystem
It was a different time wasnβt it
@glyph Thanks to my vigorous blocking itβs so easy to forget what a toxic cesspool of self-righteous nerds this place can be. The latest reminder was when they essentially hounded off Veronica Explains/Linux Mom for daring to complain about creepy shit (not linking her on purpose). Occasionally [β¦]
ok so newsletter is out, and iβve finally posted my PyCon UK keynote with additional material to my homepage.
if you wanna know what took me so long: check out my latest newsletter ;)
back to sauna!
https://hynek.me/talks/python-superpower/
Iβm at a spa trying to get my shit together in a 90ΒΊC (~194ΒΊF) sauna after my 2025 was beautiful madness but madness no less.
Iβve finally started to write a new newsletter & if you wanna know more about the madness or whatβs coming up or a cute dog photo, sign up at https://buttondown.com/hynek
@glyph that gh fixed thing is clownshoes tho
@glyph so exciting to finally find all the places this straw was load-bearing
happy `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resourcesβ` day to all who celebrate #setuptools
the fact that the most important Hynek in #kcd2 is an ugly drunkard that everybody hates but who gets important shit done is beautifully autobiographic π₯²
@glyph yeah FWIW TB undock crashes my notebook, if it's in clamshell only. It never crashed when I opened it first which is annoying yet here we are. Sequoia wasn't 100% for me either, tho
Money quote:
> OβReilly said that he reached out to Moltbookβs creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. βHeβs like, βIβm just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.ββ
weβre so cooked
That was fast:
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/