TBH, my first thought when I read the news about OpenAI acquiring Astral was, "there goes my productivity today"

Nice! Not sure how old this is, but noticing it now.

#TransRights #mastodon

"And some people say 'These people, they're not even trying to be British. They come here, they bring their own culture, their food, speak their own language, and try to take over the whole bloody place.'

Dunno. Sounds pretty British to me."

~Trevor Noah
😂

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

Link: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441546

"드림캐스트 시절엔 한 번 장난삼아 Samba De Amigo의 마라카 컨트롤러로 '바하 : 코드 벨로니카'를 플레이해본 적이 있다. 붉은 사막의 조작감은 가끔 딱 그때 같다고 느껴진다" m.ruliweb.com/news/board/1... ......

m.ruliweb.com/news/board/100...

To easily configure your installed FreeBSD use bsdconfig(8).

-- Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>

Remember I was talking about the 1989 context of Infocom documentation?

The Video Game History Foundation has just posted some audio recordings from that GDC! Or “CGDC 1989", as it was called then.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ccdbd662-971d-4296-87a8-7a7e6473b41b

Features the voices of Dani Bunten, Noah Falstein, Doug Sharp, Richard Garriott, Chris Crawford, Cliff Johnson, and others.

@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 Quick question on OAuth2 for ActivityPub C2S: FEP-d8c2 and the IETF Client ID Metadata Document both solve server-based client identification. But what about pure Public Clients (browser SPAs, mobile apps) with no server to host metadata? Is there any initiative addressing this?

@steveSteve Bate

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/

⁃ Channelling Buddhism: it’s OK when things change or go away! Expecting things to last forever is an unnecessary source of suffering. But, worst case is that we get the community-maintained pkg mgr you always wanted! Chill, y’all 🧘 3/4

since I see a lot of gloom re Astral x OpenAI: ⁃ Even if Astral actively (malice) or passively (neglect) ruins uv, Python packaging is 1000x better today than 2 yrs ago. 1/4

missing kitten just doesnt care

: Trying for a CVE in ones name
: Trying for a #GAYINT threat actor designation

🕐 2026-03-19 18:00 UTC

📰 Claude Codeをフル活用！本気で使える厳選Skills/Plugin 8選 (👍 57)

🇬🇧 After 8 months of testing dozens of Claude Code plugins, only 8 truly essential Skills/Plugins survived that transform daily dev workflow
🇰🇷 수십 개의 Claude Code 플러그인을 8개월간 테스트한 결과, 실제로 일상 개발 워크플로우를 바꾼 필수 8가지만 소개

🔗 https://zenn.dev/itsuki_y/articles/0eb054f14523d7

#ClaudeCode #DevTools #Zenn

Still on the fence about submitting a talk? Our review process is anonymous, community-led, and actively looks to elevate first-time speakers. CFP closes March 23. Here's exactly what we do with your proposal:
https://2026.djangocon.us/news/proposal-selection/

How many branches can your CPU predict?

Link: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438490

To easily configure your installed FreeBSD use bsdconfig(8).

-- Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>

Ahhh, Fedi.

@lcamtuflcamtuf
Suuuper legit. All I could think of was covering a 3D printer bed with diffusers and gluing them all on. I just described hundreds of dollars of time.

And of course then you’d need to iterate.

#Twenties

As you might have seen over on @FediTips , Wanderer is a trail-sharing platform for the Fediverse somewhat similar to Strava.

Wanderer is free open source software so you can host your own server if you want, and federated so you can communicate with other servers too.

At the moment Wanderer does require some technical knowledge to create your own server, you can find installation instructions at https://wanderer.to/run/installation/quick and source at https://github.com/open-wanderer/wanderer

#Wanderer #SelfHosting #ActivityPub

금 오늘 빅빅빅세일인데요 내일 양봉 나오면 들어가보려고 합니다 제가 만든 스프링 기반 모델은 다시 튀어오를거라고 보고 있는것 같군요

I'd love to update this SE 2 test device I have to the latest version of iOS 18 to prevent the severe security issues in the old version I'm running. But I can't because my only choice is to upgrade to iOS 26 which defeats the entire purpose of having this test device.

Döp dö döp dödödöp döp döp döp

Obviously I have a lot of feelings about OpenAI acquiring Astral but I am going to try not to do much Discourse today, on account of there's not much to do about it and everybody's feelings are probably pretty raw at the moment. I am also going to *try* and wait to have much in the way of commentary until there's a better picture of what concrete influence the acquisition will have.

Döp dö döp dödödöp döp döp döp

since I see a lot of gloom re Astral x OpenAI:

⁃ Even if Astral actively (malice) or passively (neglect) ruins uv, Python packaging is 1000x better today than 2 yrs ago.
⁃ Ruff is nice but only nice to have—ty is barely usable. We'll be fine if they vanish today.
⁃ Channelling Buddhism: it’s OK when things change or go away! Expecting things to last forever is an unnecessary source of suffering. But, worst case is that we get the community-maintained pkg mgr you always wanted!

Chill, y’all 🧘

I'm talking at NYCBUG on 1 April 2026!

"What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way - a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS"

https://mwl.io/archives/24606

Remember I was talking about the 1989 context of Infocom documentation?

The Video Game History Foundation has just posted some audio recordings from that GDC! Or “CGDC 1989", as it was called then.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ccdbd662-971d-4296-87a8-7a7e6473b41b

Features the voices of Dani Bunten, Noah Falstein, Doug Sharp, Richard Garriott, Chris Crawford, Cliff Johnson, and others.

And while we're releasing, here's a double-feature, mostly to avoid GitHub Actions complaining about deprecated actions:

- https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.15.0

- https://github.com/hynek/setup-cached-uv/releases/tag/v2.4.0

If you sometimes have trouble building your #Python packages in CI and would like better introspection and debugability, definitely check out build-and-inspect-python-package!

The -f option for the git push command, which is an alias for --force, should be re-aliased to --force-with-lease.

#Git

I'm talking at NYCBUG on 1 April 2026!

"What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way - a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS"

https://mwl.io/archives/24606

"And Punch will put it in the bowl" someone prepped that phrase ahead of time for this for this Ohio State - TCU game

The main reason I was fine using uv was that it did a very good job of following the PEPs when they existed, and giving clear, transparent reasons for not doing so when they made exceptions (like why they didn't adopt pylock.toml).

Other than PDM, though, there's just so little in the way of Python package management tooling that does a good job of bootstrapping and for declaratively managing venvs.

Firefox use counters are easily accessible at https://mozilla.github.io/use-counters/ nowadays.

朝もはよからBBCでニュースを流してしょんぼりしてるので夕方のしょんぼりに備えてビールを冷やそう←

Yesterday's #GNOME 50 release included new parental controls features which are essential for many families. With these features, we're excited to be bringing GNOME to new generations who can experience open source for the first time.

Check out the release notes to learn more 👉 https://release.gnome.org/50

I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

From Monday: Talarico—whose central message is that it’s about not left versus right, but top versus bottom—is going to have to meaningfully engage with and accept the critiques of Black voters and politicos and give those voters substantive policy that renders them as seen, full humans with separate, unique concerns that white voters do not have. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-talarico-crockett-influencer-class-problem/

#Texas #politics #USpol #news #Democrats #Talarico

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116256569856726011

I use this, it's good! You never know when you might need the extra info, and this makes it really easy to check.
#Python

日本首相高市早苗星期四中午到訪白宮，舉行峰會前先跟美國總統川普會見記者

有日本記者問到，為什麼美國空襲伊朗前不先知會日本、歐洲等美國盟友，日本人感到有點混亂

川普在高市面前回答說：「因為我們想出奇不意（surprise）。誰比日本人更清楚什麼叫做出奇不意？為什麼你們不告訴我們（將要突襲）珍珠灣？」

川普這樣說期間，直播傳出在場有笑聲，懂英語的高市則露出這個表情

I am drawing custom user icons again!
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@signalappSignal oh no...