Python turned down a grant from the US Government (which would require ending discriminatory policies), is now working with Anthropic (Claude Al) to make up their budget defect.

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The German Sovereign Tech Agency paid half a million dollars to create
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From Red Hat to The Linux Foundation, the majority of the Open Source world is moving towards Al assisted programming. And now Linus Torvalds is "vibe coding".

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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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On the Fly AI (field report)

I do monthly Snowflake retainer work for a client — weekly meeting cadence, steady progress, normal stuff.

This week they brought in a Python dev who was having trouble connecting to an API for a data source. I’m Python-capable, but it’s not my main lane.

Good news: this client is very supportive of using AI.

So I shared my screen and used Warp.dev (started life as a new-fangled terminal, and is now basically a Claude Code competitor living in your shell).

In about 30 minutes, we worked through the connection issue, got the code running, and committed everything to git for the Python dev to take it from there.

Key learnings

1) I currently prefer command-line AI agent tools over the IDE assistants.
Not 100% sure why yet. But CLI agents feel more direct. I’m not coding, I’m directing the coding. I do use an IDE to view the created code.

2) Feed the AI the docs.
In this case the API docs required login, so the agent couldn’t just fetch a URL and magically know ...

Greetings from Planet M1 Mac Mini! :-D

I've had this thing for a week or two now, but I got a surprise visit from some family (who traveled a long way to get here), so tonight is the first night I've had in a while to really sit down and tinker with it. And just like my first impressions, I've seen both some exciting scores and some bummers.

The good

So first off, I found that moving photos and videos off my phone is _way_ easier now. My family is already asking me if I can do it for them, too. Of course it's a convoluted mess of cryptic symbols for people who speak the local language, which must be either Picturabian, Doodledorvian, or some dialect of ancient Egyptian here on earth - hieroglyphics everywhere! But thankfully, the Windows 3.1 lookin' OS menu bar has Earth English words like "import" and "export", so with a little help from AI, I was able to figure it out. And yeah, all my pics - Christmas, a church event, a couple other things... all off my phone, and on my external hard drive where they ...