Mastodawn

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

José Prous Mar 27

Jani Nikula Sep 4, 2025

I'll never stop programming.

I'll keep coding as long as I'm able to. It's the ultimate brain teaser. I don't care for sudoku and the like; I'd rather write a sudoku solver (again, in new languages) than solve sudokus manually.

And, obviously, telling a language model to do that for me has no appeal. It's like asking a person who loves sudokus if they'd like to use a sudoku solver instead.

#CoderForever

José Prous Mar 26

John O'Nolan Mar 26

Coolest new integration we've shipped for Ghost in a while - you can now give your subscribers access to members-only podcasts, in partnership with the lovely people over at Transistor.fm

https://ghost.org/changelog/transistor/

José Prous Mar 26

Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 26

Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today

José Prous Mar 25

Stefan Bohacek Mar 25

Nearly 10,000 organizations, institutions, companies, and other official groups with a fediverse presence recorded on Wikidata!

https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-accounts

#fediverse #wikidata

Prominent fediverse accounts

Browse more than 5,700 accounts, courtesy of Wikidata.

José Prous Mar 17

Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma Mar 17

New article! A user *cough* @aras *cough* is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit.

But we also dove into the kernel...again, this time finding & fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it:

https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma

A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

José Prous Mar 15

GIMP Mar 14

Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release

GIMP - GIMP 3.2 Released

Release notes for GIMP 3.2

José Prous Mar 13

Carl Schwan

Mar 13

It’s now possible to access files in S3 (or any compatible services) with Dolphin and other @kde apps! We just released the first version of KIO S3, which bridges S3 with all KIO-powered apps.

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/introducing-kio-s3/

#kde #linux #s3

José Prous Mar 13

Blender 🔶Mar 13

New job opening! 📣 Blender is looking for a Communications Lead to join the team. Help share exciting news about Blender development, Blender Studio productions, and everything happening around the Blender project and its community.🧡

Read more and apply at https://www.blender.org/jobs/communications-lead/ #b3d #jobs

Communications Lead — Blender

Blender is looking for a storyteller to share and communicate the ongoing projects, through written and video content.

Blender

José Prous Mar 10

Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 10

It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review

(HT @KimPerales )

EDIT: Better link above than before. Old one is here:
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica