Anti-AI in your open source projects? Adding a CLAUDE.md, copilot-instructions.md and AGENTS.md file full of garbage instructions will significantly reduce the chances of you getting any AI based contributions.
(I'm not entirely anti-AI but I'm pro-choice for project owners, and asking nicely doesn't work)
The kids are alright
I work at #Grafana and persuaded my marketing team to sponsor #emfcamp ... I was speaking to #Antithesis and also persuaded them to sponsor EMF Camp.
Result... EMF Camp have a load of money, and I have more tickets than I need = a good problem.
Antithesis have given me 2 tickets and 1 car park pass to EMF Camp to give away, for free, with zero expectation of anything... also I have maybe 1 spare Grafana sponsor ticket... but how to do this?
Well here's Antithesis https://antithesis.com/ just for FYI, it's like a simulation testing fuzzer... runs your containers and fuzzes them amongst other things. Grafana you already know. That's the entire marketing pitch for both.
Anyone who both boosts and likes this post by 12:00 UTC on Thursday 7th May... those people will be entered into a random draw and I will give those people tickets. If someone does not reply within an hour of me notifying them, I'll move on to the next person, etc until all the tickets I hold are gone.
Yay to EMF Camp https://www.emfcamp.org/ which is July 16th– 19th 2026 in Eastnor, UK.
Filter out #grafithesiscamp to prevent ever seeing this message again if you are not interested.
Besides being an interesting project, #talkie is by far the funniest LLM ever released. Trained on pre-1931 text, to him computers are human employees skilled in calculations. He has pretty drastic (not exactly aligned) solutions to doomscrolling. And he is not aware of being an LLM: he's an Englishman. With a beard. 🎩
Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.
So I went ahead and made a browser extension.
Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.
Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.
https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/
Update: If you have problems with `archive.is`, Ghost Archive is now available as an alternative redirect as of version 1.2.1.
You did it! 🥳
European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.
This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪
Dee in London
Moreno Colaiacovo 🌍
Daisy Leigh
Jason Cosper
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