I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.
It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.
RE: https://chaos.social/@hugo/115870935695360950
Didn't know about this family of FPGA bitstreams supported by yosys+nextpnr with this for bitstream generation.
It's been zero days since I lost time on a GH repo before realizing 'oh wait, this is slop, that's why none of this makes any sense' after 15 minutes.
Is there some nice community list/plugin that I could use to give me a big red border around repository pages of vibe coded garbeoleum?
I know about open-slopware, but that's not what I'm looking for - I want a baseline filter for obvious useless slop, not one where well established projects might fall into just because someone used an LLM once.
Overview of past, present & future of data retention/Chat Control/Protect EU, likely in June 2026 there will be new draft of some new way of surveillance:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/1730 - recording will be here in a day or so
Admidst its current push to remove the rules that have protected the EU's environment, consumer and fundamental rights, there is one area the European Commission happily calls for more regulation: Internal security. The recent "ProtectEU" Internal...
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.
The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.
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