MiniDebConf Cambridge 2026 will start this Thursday already! We know the last MiniDebConf finished a week ago, but we had a quick peek at the schedule and the talks are SENSATIONAL! Check it out for yourself at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2026/MiniDebConfCambridge#Talks_-_Saturday_and_Sunday #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfCambridge2026
'It's not everyday you have everyone talking about the site you made', 'I did it all by myself and the time/urgency made me feel really cool'
I think that all quite speaks for itself, the idea these are tools is a boot to 'your' work, and wanting to help.
And citing a user response poll on your own website, how many people knew those fics weren't there by choice.
For the worst part of it all, using AI to auto respond to takedown requests, and
Talking about the financial costs of running AI agents but like, damn, fucking hell you burned your personal savings on tokens, by your estimates you built infrastructure serving thousands of requests, the environmental costs of you using this "swarm" of agents?
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OSM Bengaluru's next mapping party is this Saturday, in Sanjay Nagar!
🗓 Date: 7th November 2026 (Saturday)
🕖 Time: 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Mapping, followed by brunch)
📌 Meeting Point: Jyothivana Park (geo:13.0341,77.5755)
No prior mapping or OpenStreetMap experience needed, all are welcome to join!
RSVP and more details on OpenStreetMap Calendar: https://osmcal.org/event/5431/
tzag, fellow humans.
found this, made me both giggle and angry at the same time, deemed it repostable.
(credit: Jim Elliott @jimelliotcomedy )
The new #LLM debate in #Debian has made clear to me that we loose the incentives to solve
a) our technical problems using deterministic and less energy-wasting classical methods (Lintian)
b) our social problems by talking to each other (teaching upstreams about SPDX and other machine-readable methods to declare copyright)
Of course this is only one facet to the LLM problem (there are larger issues) but I joined Debian because I want to do the right thing and not "paper over" real problems.
Not enthusiastic about the pollution and noise of Deepavali. Considering an escape to Kerala.
"Can we design for where we could go, rather than adopt an LLMs to make
it supposedly easier to stay where we are? " - Enrico Zini ( @spanezz )
People advertising a "new" Live2D alternative. Authors swear up and down it's not vibe coded.
The entire website reads like LLM speak.
*Looks in .gitignore*
# agent notes stay local, never in the repo
CLAUDE[.]md
.claude/
I'm so tired of these liars.
If you're going to unleash your legally dubious vibe coded mess on the world, at least own up to it and stop lying to people.
Edit: I should clarify, their claim is they didn't use LLMs at all. So they are lying regardless of to what extent Claude was involved.
First ticket of the day! Hopefully I plan on hitting 4 stations given how much my schedule allows, Today isnt as packed as I have seen it, but already I have experienced casteism and lack of good toilet facilites and baby changing tables cause issues.
At least the coffee at the station was good!
But, here's the thing. Accessibility isn't just about us "disabled" people with our totally weird shit going on. It's about the millions of people who need to wear glasses, or who maybe are starting to need hearing aids, or their joints are a bit creaky.
There's a narrative of accessibility as an extraordinary thing, needed by a minority. This relies on the average person's certainty that they aren't disabled.
You're either disabled, or you're not disabled yet. Accessibility is for all of us.