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@dadjokes It can get quite cool in Argentina.

In fact, it borders on Chile.

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

This is an terrific 5-minute radioplay: They're Made Out Of Meat.

Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.

https://asciinema.org/a/746358

They’re Made Out of Meat

A radio play by PRI and WNYC Studios based on Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat" short story. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segments/168264-theyre-made-out-of-meat The visuals ...

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Cory Doctorow points out that the US was using the threats of tariffs and/or losing USAID to force the world to enact DMCA-style anti-circumvention laws. These laws overwhelmingly benefit the US, but seeing as Trump has removed the US's leverage, now is the time to repeal those laws and move towards a post-American tech industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0

39C3 - A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internetTrump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system...

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Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

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"i generated [many] lines of code, and much more complexity than i could have done on my own" isn't the selling point you seem to think it is

Interesting reframing. Cost of aid to #ukraine in cups of coffee per month.

(by @topleadEU)

If you've been wanting to speak securely to your garage door or whatever MQTTS capable devices you want to control with your #curl command lines, look no further:

(this is planned to merge in time for the March 2026 release)

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/19418

mqtt: initial support for MQTTS by bagder · Pull Request #19418 · curl/curl

test cases documentation

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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/115707071905814326

Some amazing links found in this talk:

- https://www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ : Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
- https://dynamicland.org/ : Dynamicland is, among other things, a new kind of computer.
- https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder : StarCoder is a Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data
- https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/ : These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything ...
- https://jenson.org/boring/ : Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
- https://www.couldshouldmightdont.com/reviews : A book about futurism

[MV] 10 Years of AoC

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