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I am a Jew. As a Jew it is my absolute obligation, despite any historical affinity I may have felt towards Israel (to be honest, I’ve never felt it, but I know many Jews have), to call this monstrous genocide what it is.

By virtue of our own history, it is absolutely incumbent upon us to condemn what is happening, regardless of who is doing the perpetrating.

If you are a Jew, it is precisely because you are one, that you, more than anyone else, should recognise this for what it is. Genocide

fanf42 18h ago

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Liam

2d ago

@Kels_316 @fsvo @ThermiteBeGiants actually. You know what this is. You know how in WH40K the technology works because people believe it does? Orks with painted-on dials etc. That’s what this is. Gympie is canonically Warhammer 40K

fanf42 23h ago

So, not only AI assistant are making you 19% slower on non bullshit tasks, they also make you believe that you are 20% faster.

From what looks like a serious study (with a small set of 16 people, but the set-up seems good):
"Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity"

GenAI is a master bullshiter, the kind raising cults

we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower

This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

#genai #aiAssistant #floss #development #bullshit #brainBias

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

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Thomas Strömberg 2d ago

@dene https://dash.ready-to-review.dev/ (WIP). TL;DR, a pull request tracking & notification system that uses a lot of fancy techniques (state machines, natural language processing) to provide targeted real-time notifications for PRs whose progress you are blocking + an army of bots to keep pull requests from getting stuck elsewhere.

Critiques welcome - I truly want to make it useful. The idea is free for public OSS repos, but cheap for private repo use.

I guarantee it'll show you PRs you forgot about.

Ready To Review - GitHub PR Dashboard

A modern dashboard for managing GitHub pull requests

fanf42 1d ago

Stefano Marinelli 3d ago

Edit: this is a positive, pro Open Source post, not a "us" against "them". When an Open Source project makes progress, is a progress for all the Open Source world.

FreeBSD 15.0 will allow users to install KDE Desktop directly from the installer. This is great news. I'm reading the comments on various news sites: “It’s too late”, or “What’s the point? No one uses it”. Or even “We already have Linux, we don’t need another OS”.

I may sound repetitive, but I really don’t understand why, in the Open Source world, people aren’t happy to have more alternatives to consider. Whether it's social networks, operating systems, or software in general, many seem to get stuck on the most popular solution and almost ideologically reject alternatives.
Fear of change?
Maybe - which is why progress is welcome, because once they see what other solutions are capable of, I’m sure they'll start to give them a chance.

Just yesterday I was talking about this with a colleague, but I’ll write about it in another post.

Time for my coffee.

#FreeBSD #OSS #OpenSource

fanf42 1d ago

Archie Feb 19, 2023

This is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!

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Molly White 2d ago

Trump thanked the crypto industry for their support at the Genius Act signing ceremony, remarking, “half of you were under arrest for no reason”. He later added, “I got you guys out of so much trouble”.

“They’ve got plenty of cash, and it’s great that you’re on our side.”

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

fanf42 1d ago

Ricki Yasha Tarr 2d ago

This is Checkmate, painted in 1799 painting by German artist Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. It is often thought to represent Man losing their souls to Satan, but Chess Master Paul Morphy noticed there is still a winning move. The Angel's very pointed look makes more sense; there is still a way out, a bit of hope.

fanf42 1d ago

Democracy Matters

2d ago

Ron Wyden said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden

#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb

Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

The New Republic

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Sarah Jamie Lewis 2d ago

I've been working on collecting all my research/writings/projects etc. into one place.

To that end, I've updated my website, and it now contains a tagged log of various projects/research/reports/papers/vuln disclosures etc. dating back ~10 years - https://sarahjamielewis.com/tag/log.html

Sub categories like "privacy research" now also have their own log: https://sarahjamielewis.com/tag/privacy-research.html

Far from exhaustive, many small things missing. But it's a start.

Pages Tagged: log

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