Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

10 years today.

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

Today I learned #TIL: "human.json"

👉 https://foosel.net/til/humanjson/

As we are in the age of slop, I won’t accept any contribution to any of my open source code anymore.

And I make every one using AI for code responsible for that.

RE: https://ruhr.social/@julijane/116221262490830643

I think I need to extend on that.

Agentic coding is mighty. But it is like having a junior which is on a cocktail of speed, cocaine and ketamine. It also suffers from Alzheimer, ADHD and a learning disability. It forgets everything it does not write down, but then also fails regularly to check the own notes properly.

Anything more to add?

"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources to manage large open source projects, they _have_ to use AI to get anything done."

I've seen this take a couple of times in recent weeks, and I've got two things to say about it:

1. We've been able to manage large open source projects for decades in the past, without LLMs.

2. Ever thought about how there may be a connection between "FOSS is unpaid" and capitalism producing trillion-dollar AI companies and more and more billionaires?