whoever keeps sending ZSF $18 each month via paper check... thank you, but please keep your money. it's barely enough to cover the check cashing postage & service fee 😅

every.org is our preferred platform. it's non profit and no fees! https://www.every.org/zig-software-foundation-inc

DontSurveil.Me has put together a great explainer on Bill C-22.

Canadians need to pay attention.

Expanding surveillance powers, retaining metadata, and weakening encryption all threaten privacy, free expression, civil liberties, and digital rights.

If we care about privacy, digital rights, and a free society, now is the time to speak up, contact MPs, and push back before this becomes law.

Learn more: https://dontsurveil.me/c22.html

#CDNPoli #BillC22 #Privacy #DigitalRights

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@Luchador/116593127475215747

Canadians: we really need you to contact your MPs

And we need you to encourage your friends to contact your MPs

There isn't much time left! Privacy matters!

Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare

I just wrote to my MP about this; happy to send folks ideas to reach out to their reps! https://opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.me/c22.html#act also has some ideas for actions.

Systems Distributed '26 is getting closer and so is the Zig Day Boston scheduled for the day before (completely free, NO conference ticket required).

Come practice your systems thinking and make software you can love with us!

RSVP: https://luma.com/eloljzc0

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

RE: https://front-end.social/@anarodrigues/116562197482285921

I hate how I nodded along to the familiarity of all this.