*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

Pasting a huge AI generated explanation to a problem in an issue or pull-request is nothing but RUDE. Don't do it. You look stupid and the receivers of that feel insulted.

We are humans. We communicate like humans. Fine, use the tools you like, but don't insult us.

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SaraM37/116635914474911627

Protest sign loosely translated to

"If Nazis are afraid to walk the streets because of immigrants, let's get some more immigrants."
❤️

GitHub Actions security in Python packages - a written version of the talk I gave at @pycon last week.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/25/github-actions-security-in-python-packages.html

#Signalapp doesn't actually delete messages when they're deleted (either manually or by automation). The message deletion is written to Write-ahead Log, and the data is only truly deleted once Signal is restarted or threshold of 1000 pages is reached. For macOS Signal application, extra complication arises from the fact that the signal message database can be backed up before the database consolidation occurs. Large amount of the supposedly already deleted messages could be recovered from the device or backups.

This concerns use cases where deleting messages actually getting removed in timely manner is of high importance and recovery of the deleted messages could lead to grave consequences.

TL;DR: If you don't care about deleted messages being actually deleted you don't need to worry.

Full advisory at: https://sintonen.fi/advisories/signal-deleted-but-not-forgotten.txt

#fulldisclosure #infosec #cybersecurity

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@spellingmistakescostlives/116611777114655359

sad reality of our times. don't forget the whistleblower who also died mysteriously while openai getting ready for trillion dollar valuations. this tells us everything you need to know about that company and its bosses.