The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides.
Today I have spent way too much time handling the https://copy.fail situation #copyfail
The persons who discovered it didn't notify the distribution security list, so no patched kernels was available for people to install when they released it.
But they did have time to write an exploit, and thought it was a good idea to distribute that on day one, before vendors had time to provide patches.
I'm not very impressed with xint.io, I guess it's the marketing department that runs the show.
I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/
The *entire* selling point to investors of LLMs is "we won't need to employ people."
That's it. That's all. That's why "AI" is worth trillions of dollars. No pesky humans to bother with.
It's not "the workers will be more creative" or "we'll help the disabled." There's no investment money for that. A company is what the worst investors are.
My mom used to do environmental activism. All by herself, she got earth day and a recycling center going in town, and was a whistleblower about Dow chemical using agent orange. She was mentioned in Time Magazine for it.
Then she went to a barbecue for environmentalists. They put her down for wearing red lipstick and long nails.
And then her activism days petered out because she didn't want to hang out with these people.
Make sure you can see the forest for the trees.
Armenian Genocide
Today is #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, marking the arrest and deportation of hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals in Constantinople on April 24th, 1915. Most were eventually killed.
Deportations and massacres of Armenians had already begun in other parts of the Ottoman Empire and would continue. One million Armenians were killed, many in concentration camps or on death marches.
I'm a descendent of Genocide survivors. Let their histories not be forgotten.