Eric Schultz

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FOSS and #DigitalAutonomy activist. Senior Software Engineer Software for Good. Engineering Lead CommitChange. Houdini Project Leader. Opinions are my own. Genderfluid. Cover photo from: https://t.co/7rVeNC
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they call it "postgres" bc it holds all your posts

Oh no I have had to translate open source developer speak for someone again. For the record:

"Please file a bug report" = "I am intrigued by this issue and I might look into it"

"You'll have to file a feature request" = "I will ignore this forever"

"Pull requests welcome" = "Leave me alone"

"You'll have to write an enhancement proposal" = "Kindly fuck off"

When you're preparing a PR, after you've run all the tests and linted and benchmarked and polished and so on, do you do a `git diff` and take a visual scan through all the changes?
Always
Usually
Frequently not
Poll ends at .

Struggling with job hunting? Here is two easy tips:

One, switch to trapping. Putting out a lure & wait for jobs to get trapped. This requires significantly less raw effort & scales significantly better but a higher degree of sophistication. Just remember to check your traps regularly.

Two, hunt as a pack. While managers & HR departments are generally capable of outrunning or even fighting off individual job hunters they generally struggle with coordinated groups of hunters. While you will need to share with the other members of the pack this still guarantees higher individual survival chances.

No one could have possibly seen this coming except for the many people documented in this story who saw this coming.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-knew-enemies-could-track-troops-phones-for-years-now-they-are/

The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are

The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.

WIRED

FWIW if someone did this in mission-critical software in the US, folks would be actually harmed lmfao

https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code – OSnews

GitHub has long been a source for zero days exploits in competitor products - it still is. While I worked there GitHub had a policy saying they wouldn’t remove them.

By continually removing just exploits for their own products from Github and declaring “criminal activity”, it’s a rubicon.

I’m deeply uncomfortable with Microsoft attempting to weaponise their extensive law enforcement contacts to arrest people who post zero days in the products.

It comes after the researcher was kicked off GitHub (owned by Microsoft), Gitlab (a Microsoft partner), after they were doxxed on Twitter and had their MSRC - Microsoft vulnerability reporting portal - account disabled.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2026/05/a-shared-responsibility-protecting-customers-through-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure

it's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability

Uber burned through its entire...
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it

The rideshare giant's COO says “it’s very hard to draw a line” between rising AI costs and useful features for customers.

Fortune