Mastodawn

Heh, as the movement towards the formation of an elected Python Packaging Council continues, I only belatedly noticed the mildly amusing initialism for Battletech fans :)

Alyssa Coghlan 1d ago

PyCon AU 1d ago

48 hours left to submit your talk to #PyConAU 2026. ⏰

Submit a rough draft now and keep editing until the deadline. Anonymous review. All experience levels welcome.

Deadline is 29 March anywhere on earth; that's Monday morning for Australians.

👉 https://pycon.org.au/cfp

Alyssa Coghlan 2d ago

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Kevin Beaumont 2d ago

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

Alyssa Coghlan 3d ago

Fedora Project 4d ago

We are now officially using @forgejo! The Fedora Forge is ready for contributors to start migrating to. Cutoff for switching from Pagure is by Flock to Fedora 2026.

New chapter :)

➡️ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/the-forge-is-our-new-home/

#Forgejo #Fedora #OpenSource #Linux

The forge is our new home. – Fedora Community Blog

While Pagure.io has been a vital part of our community for many years, the time has come to retire our homegrown forge and transition to this powerful new tool.

Fedora Community Blog

Alyssa Coghlan 3d ago

Visiting news sites on my work machine to find a good link to share for the LiteLLM compromise, and I am reminded what an absolutely awful experience publishers are willing to inflict on their users by default.

Alyssa Coghlan 4d ago

Josh Bressers 4d ago

I love the hot takes that this Trivy debacle will be the end of open source

Heartbleed didn't kill open source
Log4Shell couldn't get the job done
xz tried and failed

This won't kill it either

Free is too good of a deal

Alyssa Coghlan 4d ago

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JP 4d ago

@ancoghlan

Alyssa Coghlan 4d ago

PyCon AU 4d ago

Thinking "I'm not sure I'm the right person to give this talk"? That's the imposter syndrome talking. 👋

First-time speakers give some of our favourite #PyConAU talks. Your perspective is the talk. Nobody else has it.

Also: if travel or accommodation costs are a barrier, financial assistance is available for speakers (priority given to applicants from Australia, NZ, and the Pacific).

Apply before 29 March for first-round consideration: pycon.org.au/cfp
#CFP #Python