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Python friends, it’s time. 🐍

The #PyConUS 2026 schedule is LIVE!

Start planning your talks, meet the keynote speakers, and register for tutorials, summits & events!

🔗 us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/

Full details: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/03/launching-pycon-us-2026-schedule.html

When your feather ball has danger claws

Oooo just thought of a 4th option. Running this poll again:

So... how's it going?

Hey @opencollective
What this business with Persona?

I'm in four collectives that use OpenCollective for funding. We want absolutely nothing to do with Peter Thiel/Palantir/Persona.

Will you please post some clarification of relationships and intentions, soon. Thanks 🙏

まあ今日はツーリングしますが

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Link: https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366666

Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

Link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517766-why-the-worlds-militaries-are-scrambling-to-create-their-own-starlink/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367220

さて起きる

うん国産サービス #なにいってんだこいつ

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116223781289008238

you remember when they made #antifa illegal and you thought "well, surely that's just on paper and no one will go to jail for being #antifa"? well we just passed this point now #wtf

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week?

#AskFedi

Have you ever read a greenhouse gas inventory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_inventory

#EvanPoll #poll

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I wrote a blog post for the Alpha Omega Foundation on the work I did to surface RustSec advisories on crates.io:

https://alpha-omega.dev/blog/surfacing-security-advisories-on-crates-io-bringing-vulnerability-data-to-the-point-of-discovery/

Jurors have reached a verdict for 9 defendants regarding the Prairieland Detention Center noise demonstration in Texas.

This case marks the first time the government has filed terrorism charges against “Antifa." Legal experts have been raising alarms over prosecutors’ theory — arguing defendants, including some who were not even at the demonstration, are part of an organized criminal “Antifa cell” and broader conspiracy.

The first charges in the Prairieland case were filed weeks after the Trump administration designated antifa as a domestic terror group last September.

The nine defendants faced a total of 65 outrageous charges that include attempted murder, aiding terrorists and weapons charges.

The verdict:

Count 1 - Riot
Autumn Hill - guilty
Zachary Evetts - guilty
Benjamin Song - guilty
Savanna Batten - guilty
Meagan Morris - guilty
Maricela Rueda - guilty
Elizabeth Soto - guilty
Ines Soto - guilty

Count 2 - Providing material support to terrorists
Autumn Hill - guilty
Zachary Evetts - guilty
Benjamin Song - guilty
Savanna Batten - guilty
Meagan Morris - guilty
Maricela Rueda - guilty
Elizabeth Soto - guilty 
Ines Soto - guilty

Court 3 - Explosive conspiracy (fireworks)
Autumn Hill - guilty
Zachary Evetts - guilty
Benjamin Song - guilty
Savanna Batten - guilty
Meagan Morris - guilty
Maricela Rueda - guilty
Elizabeth Soto - guilty
Ines Soto - guilty

Count 4 - Use and carry explosives (fireworks)
Autumn Hill - guilty
Zachary Evetts - guilty
Benjamin Song - guilty
Savanna Batten - guilty
Meagan Morris - guilty
Maricela Rueda - guilty
Elizabeth Soto - guilty
Ines Soto - guilty

Count 5 - Attempted murder of an officer
Benjamin Song - not guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 6 - Attempted murder of an officer
Benjamin Song - not guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 7 - Attempted murder of an officer
Benjamin Song - guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 8 - Discharging a firearm during a violent crime (three counts)
Benjamin Song - guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 9 - Discharging a firearm
Benjamin Song - guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 10 - Discharging a firearm
Benjamin Song - guilty
Autumn Hill - not guilty
Zachary Evetts - not guilty
Meagan Morris - not guilty
Maricela Rueda - not guilty

Count 11 - Corruptly concealing a document
Daniel Rolando Sanchez‑Estrada - guilty

Count 12 - Conspiracy to conceal documents
Daniel Rolando Sanchez‑Estrada - guilty
Maricela Rueda - guilty

We Will Free Us has two articles up about the trial and will be publishing an update soon, including information on how to support the defendants and their families during these grossly unjust times.

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/prairieland-19-case-update/

aw crud.. it's Friday evening and I broke infinite scrolling.

🫠

Edit: just in NodeBB, not worldwide, sorry everybody.

“The Parallels Engineering team has completed initial testing and confirmed that Parallels Desktop installs and virtual machines operate stably on MacBook Neo.”

ElOhEl, how long before Neo becomes the fastest Windows utility machine for students and households?

Ok but that twin parallelogram flexure on the MacBook Neo's trackpad is really cool. I did go into a store and poke the trackpad, and I was wondering how they got a consistent actuation force no matter where you pressed. (image source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPCGqoBB4Y)

miss my alder. an under appreciated tree. grows by the water, affixes nitrogen, turns red when cut. a tree of transformation and boundaries.

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Mastodon has gotten a lot better! It now shows the title, summary and url of long form text, images, video and other content objects.

The preview can be nice to use instead, but I think it's at least a good start.

I wrote a blog post for the Alpha Omega Foundation on the work I did to surface RustSec advisories on crates.io:

https://alpha-omega.dev/blog/surfacing-security-advisories-on-crates-io-bringing-vulnerability-data-to-the-point-of-discovery/

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Mastodon has gotten a lot better! It now shows the title, summary and url of long form text, images, video and other content objects.

The preview can be nice to use instead, but I think it's at least a good start.

We spent this Monday and Tuesday in Kraków visiting the venue, preparing for EuroPython, and exploring this historic city of dragons and castles. 🐲 We can’t wait to see you all here! 🎉 🤗

„Kreative Köpfe aufgepasst: #LinzhACkT 2026 steht vor der Tür!

In diesem Jahr lädt die Stadt #Linz alle Interessierten ein, ein ganzes #Wochenende lang gemeinsam innovative #Gründungsideen zu entwickeln.
…
Insgesamt gibt es Preisgelder im Wert von 12.500,- Euro zu gewinnen für die besten Ideen!“

https://innovation.linz.at/de/aktuelle-projekte/linz-hackt/

#femalefounders #socialentrepreneurship #startup #business #unternehmen #oberösterreich #österreich #austria

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A bittersweet end to an exciting launch week!

Today was my last day as Astro Docs Lead. I'm so proud of the docs our community made, & honoured I had the chance to lead them.

I'm open to new adventures in docs, education, or community leadership. So, if you've liked learning, using or contributing to Astro, or just being a part of our community... maybe part of that came from me! And maybe I can bring that to your project, or a project you know!

why would I ever want to, Microsoft

Published a little post about letter mail style sign-ups:

"Snail Mail Sign-Ups"

https://btxx.org/posts/snail-mail-signups/

When the anti-FOTUS combat veterans let the satire loose.
#Satire
#EpsteinFiles
#IranWar

“After a squad of irregular Iranian fighters breached the perimeter of his base in the region, Marine Cpl. Brian McVeigh heroically dove on a grenade to save the Dow Jones Industrial Average from falling below 50,000, sources confirmed today.” - The Duffel Blog

https://www.duffelblog.com/marine-dives-on-grenade-to-save-dow-from-falling-below-50-000/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQhUOJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEezvB8IDLRfHYMrvNOxuTJ2kXqswZak1HVuvuUF11gcJ1vw6N5tCx7svRstnY_aem_ovlqKXzo_bfCpwIxFK_ZMA

RE: https://mastodon.social/@poohlaga/116223334615431458

Amazing response from @OpenSourceCollectiveOpen Source Collective (OSC). They are dropping Persona now! Your voice has power! Community pushback works!
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/on-kyc-checks-and-persona

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220372835116642

I have frankly been wondering if the willingness to adopt LLMs at scale is a symptom of some sort of Covid induced brain fog.

Software Bonkers via @webologyJeff Triplett https://lobste.rs/s/btf0gu #vibecoding
https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/

I really appreciate that the kids have picked another funny number, sometimes I need more than three example constants in my tests.

Happy Friday!

"Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers" by Sean Mowbray

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/rush-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space-poses-poorly-understood-dangers/

XML is a cheap DSL via @dz4kDeniz Akşimşek https://lobste.rs/s/i2xkrm #programming
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/xml-cheap-dsl/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116223577734576821

This "friendly fire" point is really important. I am doing my best (and not always succeeding) to maintain empathy and kindness for LLM users in my critique, but this is *particularly* important for people that I like 75% agree with on LLMs. It's emotionally exhausting but we all *really* need to double down on that effort regardless, because all we have at this point is persuasion and nobody getting yelled at is getting persuaded.

I learned a technique to avoid spending too much time in front of the computer after dinner. Basically, I decided that as soon as I need to go pee, I shut it down. It works. Except then I turn it back on because “just one more thing…”

아. 냉면이나 비빔면을 먹으라고 몸이 원하고있다.

Meta spent seven years telling us they were working on true end-to-end encryption across all their various messaging apps... and finally rolled it out in 2024. And then less than three years later, they're shutting it off for Instagram? What? www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...

Instagram to discontinue end-t...

豆腐を買おうとしたら買い物リストに毛布が入ってる回 #電話でタイプする回

FLINTA Toiletten wurden geschaffen, um Männer zu schützen

Can I run AI locally?

Link: https://www.canirun.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363754

No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/

I have to confess something: My dayjob is as a build engineer in a very large C++ project with somewhere north of four million compiles per day. On any given day, I'm picking bits and pieces of the GCC or DistCC codebases out of my beard after work.

I've also been using Gentoo as my daily driver for 19 years. And I only set up CCache for it today. And because I apparently hate myself, I put the cache on a CephFS mount. Let's see how that goes.

#Gentoo