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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@pearlrotter/116239403844326107
This needs to be addressed
My @torontostar column this week: thereās no science that can make sense of Doug Fordās decision to move the Science Centre.
The new facility will cost more and deliver less ā and waste a whole bunch of time that parents and kids will never get back.
Okay friends, I am back at the hotel after a wonderful dinner with friends, both old and new, and before I go to sleep I wanted to talk about ConFoo.
On the one hand, it was great to be with lots of enthusiastic people who are interested in programming. As a staff-level engineer with almost 30 years of experience and having given talks for more than 20 years, I enjoy all the sharing and the conversations.
AI talks were everywhere, at least a third of all talks. People are excited and lots of examples of integrating this stuff.
But the AI stuff is very deeply personal for me because these companies stole my books and paid me nothing to use them. They are attempting to resell to others what they stole. I am not attempting to gatekeep people. If you want to use them, knock yourself out.
I am just disappointed at the overall lack of empathy being shown to folks like me who had their stuff stolen. Too many shrugs or weak comments.
You are not required to care about what happened to me. Just donāt be surprised at the frosty reception and comments you will get from me when you ask me to be impressed by what you have done with these tools.
Weāre excited to welcome @elizabeth as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! š š
Elizabeth Barron brings deep PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub and CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come.
Read more ā https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/
Log4j, *the* project that escalated the need for funding open source in the first place, is currently being DOSād by slop vulnerability reports. Well done everyone. Slow fucking clap.