I really feel like we had several prominent FOSS organizations fail us by not saying "hey hold on, don't use generative AI in FOSS projects, we're not sure what the legal, community, environmental implications of this are but there are serious problems and we have a history of taking a stand" and I worry that maybe we lost our moment to be principled, except in niche spaces, and the walls are closing in

And... I'm really sad about it. I think we're underestimating the amount of damage that's happening. :\

@JulianOliver @alex27 I'd say that the toughest part for me (and still is sometimes) is the social pressure. Always having to constantly justify yourself on why you don't drink. It's been more than 10 years now. So I built some thick skin. It's also getting easier in recent years as we start seeing a range of non-alcoholic options almost everywhere (that are not the usual US based sugar drinks).

Global alcohol consumption peaked a few years ago and is in steady decline. We're on the right path.

@DarkOptimism yep

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#config-relative-paths

Note: To maintain consistency with existing .cargo/config.toml probing behavior, it is by design that a path in a config file passed via --config <path> is also relative to two levels up from the config file itself.

It Is By Design

Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you.

This little dude is true grey fadey and far too curious for his own good.

This colour is created by a mutation. He will fade to white on his body with a distinct band where his lamb colour changes to his adult colour.

@urlyman

“There seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness.

Oversimplified as this may seem, we shall find the idea more easily acceptable if we consider that bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem.

It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation. Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.”

~ Leopold Kohr

Kancelář prezidenta republiky by měla mít v rozpočtu na příští rok 425,4 milionu korun. Je to o zhruba čtyři miliony korun více, než jí přidělil letošní schválený státní rozpočet. Počítá s tím návrh státního rozpočtu na příští rok, který zveřejnilo ministerstvo financí na svém webu.

@davidgerard

I wonder if a bunch of companies are using it to probe how much Trump has disassembled the IRS. Some of these donations look so sketchy that, in normal times, I'd expect at least a gentle probe from the IRS, if not a full-blown investigation. If they don't do anything, that gives you a useful datapoint on how much fraud you can probably get away with this tax year.

@kirschner Does the Spotify CarThing count?

｢ NetBSD is a stable, somewhat minimalist, and relatively slow-moving project. If you're willing to put some work in, this arguably makes it a refreshing change from the ever-accelerating techbro world of Linux ｣

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/20/netbsd-11-lands-with-risc-v-support-and-lightning-fast-vm-boots/5289713

#NetBSD #bsd #unix #opensource

I admittedly i don’t have that many coding client projects left these days but in the ones I’ve got left, most of the coders I work with have adopted LLMs

For what it’s worth, they do seem to understand much less, work much slower towards the project’s actual goals, with much more code, and at a lower quality

While asking sillier questions

But they think they’re working so much faster because the tools find the occasional bug and generates so much code

🤷🏻‍♂️

@Floppy Wikipedia says they are porus,

"Bird eggs have a hard shell made of calcium carbonate with a 5% organic matrix. This resilient external surface prevents desiccation of the contents, limits mechanical damage, and protects against microbes, all while allowing the exchange of gas with the surrounding atmosphere"

I always assumed this was also how fresh eggs sunk but off eggs float...

I keep reading guys reply to posts circulating about the above news that “Y’all should be using KeePass” or “why did you even bother using a closed source password manager for your secrets?”

Dudes, have you fucking looked at a screenshot to KeePass recently. Thing looks like an encyclopedia illustration of the opposite of user friendliness, and I can’t even begin to understand how it is supposed to work with your web browsers across all your devices including an iPhone

Get out of your fucking caves and touch grass. Yes people have been using password managers that are not a nightmare fuel 1990s enterprise piece of software ffs

@Krazov it is! Encountered it this morning when I went to https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2

Framasoft soutient Autistici/Inventati, désigné « organisation terroriste internationale » par les États-Unis.

➡️ https://framablog.org/2026/08/31/autistici-inventati-designe-organisation-terroriste-internationale-par-les-etats-unis/