@SnoopJ @xgranade The LLM architectural feature of "there *is* no control channel" is so stupid that nothing else has ever done it before, so no metaphor can be made to work, but that also means you can't engage existing infosec social structures, cultural memories, etc. If you try to accurately […]

``` $ cargo clean Removed 138621 files, 298.8GiB total ```

Progress report on Python performance book: after a long interlude of no progress due to health issues, mental health issues, local politics volunteering, etc, finally making progress again. Got over the hump for the chapter I was most stuck on, so need to finish that, one other chapter, finish […]

"My name is Jake. As a tech entrepreneur, I have been a personal fan of yours. ... <please invest in my company>." Does this work? Like, do people actually raise money this way? I feel like this is D-grade grift, the flattery, such as it is, has all the genuine emotion you'd expect from a […]

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

Ono, my payment to Sendgird [sic] was declined!

Banks announce even more fraud in credit markets leading to large losses, and therefore stocks go down and Bitcoin goes down. Great financial system we've built here.

Google Ads is a giant river of revenue and yet the user interface for adding ads is quite broken (I can't save changes for reasons the UI refuses to specify; there are errors in the Console). Amazing example of organizational priorities at work.

Everyone: Look at all the exciting features in Python 3.14! Me: I'm so excited to learn about all the new features in Python 3.10! #python

BEHOLD! Need to search for multiple strings in a large string, and do so quickly? Sponsored by G-Research OSS, built on top of the `ahocorasick` Rust crate and PyO3, faster than PyAhoCorasick, and now with support for Python 3.14 and free-threading: https://pypi.org/project/ahocorasick-rs/ […]

I am releasing software! And by releasing I mean: 1. Doing a release. 2. It fails. 3. I realize I forgot to update version in that one place. 4. Updating the version. 5. Doing a release. 6. Realizing PyPI isn't showing the description. 7. Trying to fix that. 8. Doing a release. 9. Writing this […]

I am writing software! And by writing software I mean: 1. Staring at mysteriously failing build. 2. Upgrading a GitHub Actions step's version. 3. Staring at mysteriously failing build, again. 4. Realizing I committed to the wrong branch, commit to the right branch. 5. Staring at mysteriously […]

This is very good and very much worth reading: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/transportation/781908/electric-cargo-bike-car-replace-bike-bus

Work for the ACLU of Massachusetts as a data scientist: https://www.aclum.org/en/jobs/technology-liberty-fellow-0 "The ACLU of Massachusetts (ACLUM) is seeking a full-time Technology for Liberty Fellow to join its Technology for Liberty (T4L) Program team." #FediHire #fedihired

TIL that some people don't realize Ken Cheng writes satire.

Trying out Python bindings of PAPI, a cross-platform hardware counter library. I've tried it in the past and failed, so for my book (https://pythonspeed.com/products/practicesperformance/) I'm using a Python wrapper I created for a Linux-only Rust library that access perf. It would be nice to […]

Just fixed a bug by adding a line that does `self.__class__ = ModuleType`. Apropos of nothing, you can hire me to maintain critical open source software. I can handle even the kind of critical libraries that are old and terrifying and have millions of downloads a month. Chances are I've seen […]

Occasional reminder that anyone with a Canadian ancestor can now apply to get a citizenship grant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Canadiancitizenship/wiki/index/ It can be a very distant ancestor! Really! "But my it's my great-great grandmother" yep that's OK you can apply anyway, some people have […]

Lets say you find a trick where the compiler optimizes your code so that a loop disappears and now it's constant time. Success! But—how do you know that this optimization will continue to work? Here's one approach: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/testing-compiler-optimizations/

``` fatal error: ld terminated with signal 7 [Bus error], core dumped ``` Hardware error? Cosmic rays? Very rare software bug? None of these. Guess what caused it!

please upvote this if you don't mind https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/169148

Considering a second career as a translator, just so I can write prefaces explaining how every previous translator of this book was an illiterate fool who couldn't translate a stop sign.

Going through really painful "fraud" process with Namecheap, to the point where I'm never going to use them again. Just FYI. What domain registrars do you like?

Every single time: Headline: "Company X files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy" Me: I wonder if they were bought by private equity ... Me: Yep

Google Workspace now defaults to expensive plans ($20/month) instead of cheaper plans ($7/month) with promise of better AI or something. Downgrading is _really really_ hard, I had to dig super far into the UI. I was able to do it, but I suspect vast majority of people will just fail. So […]

Oh god Anaconda is an "AI startup" now. I'm glad Mamba and Conda-Forge exist cause when that blows up I dunno if Conda will survive.

Started working on the parallelism part of my book, and the interaction with automatic rendering of code (via Quarto + Jupyter) is fun. Like, I need a reproducible race condition for demonstrations purposes that also doesn't take forever to happen. Also I need to figure out why my […]

Previously I said local single-line code completion is the acceptable level of "AI" assistance for me and that JetBrains one was somewhat useful, only wrong half of the time, and easy to ignore when it is. I've changed my mind. See, I code primarily in TypeScript and Rust. Both of these […]

😱 😱 😱 https://www.reddit.com/r/ImmigrationCanada/comments/1m14a95/do_not_use_chatgpt_to_research_canadian/

Got distracted by looking for the Most 1980s Song Ever and one theme is that is every 1980s music video ends with you saying "what the HELL did I just watch".

YouTube is actually a great source for music mixes, as long as you stick to videos of music nerds playing vinyl records. Lacking that you're much more likely to end up with AI shit.

"Newington" sounds ridiculously fake to me but apparently, if you believe Wikipedia, variations date back to 15th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpath

Once again gazing into the abyss which is used to operate some of the biggest private clouds on the planet.

I want to get things like percentiles for microbenchmarks in Python, from a library since I need to control what the output looks like. 1. Stdlib `timeit` module doesn't measure elapsed time for individual runs (which makes sense, there's overhead, but that's solvable). 2. `pyperf` doesn't seem […]

Here is my flash talk from #scipy #scipy2025 - model free AI, just output random garbage directly https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qzTAz5Y5QiGw6CMkefZBxi-E7FJ7TqSpP-UU1ip4YUE/edit?usp=sharing https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/gpu-free-ai

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash […]

Tesla's so-called "autopilot" turns off automatically a fraction of a second before a crash, so the driver can be blamed even though the driver has no time to respond […]

👋 I am looking for speakers (explicitly no dudes) in the #it #security field. Best case with ties or relations to #opensource technologies. If you see yourself in that but never spoke about it publicly i am happy to help with preparation! Boost this into hivemind!

I did not known the new Wet Leg album is coming out in a week! https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/album/moisturizer

Would you like to end the constant drumbeat of ill-informed legislative proposals that threaten to destroy end-to-end #encryption in #OpenSource #software? Are you from #europe? Can you demonstrate your expertise? Then why not apply to join the European Commission's Expert Group for a Technology […]

So I've talked about the idea of Practices of performance here before, where each practice is a fundamentally different source of speed for your code. This is a bit abstract though, so I've written an article with an example where I apply multiple practices. As a preview: I apply both the […]

I do not understand how Quora exists or how it makes money but also at least all the multiple people who want to know if cats, dogs, and cowslay eggs can get answers that might or might not be correct: https://www.quora.com/Do-cats-lay-eggs https://www.quora.com/Can-some-cats-and-dogs-lay-eggs […]