here I've been combing for old documents and stuff to free up disk space on my laptop, when all I need to do is do a little file system surgery to make sure Chrome will not be able to successfully redownload this *four and a half gigabyte* local model when […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

if you weren't able to tell from my recent posts, i am well beyond my Fuck This threshold at current job and would like new job i do computer things, mostly with lots of database or distributed systems (regretful); looking to *not* use or build LLM things. where does one find such a job these […]

That's another #NBPy in the books. We'll be back next year for the 8th edition and our 10th anniversary. From the bottom of our hearts: thanks for being the kind of community that speaks truth to power, instills hope for the future, and makes each […] [Original post on social.northbaypython.org]

"The laser pointer does not own you" 😮‍💨 @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

"most of us are not destined for the history books" echoing "most people are not here" #nbpy

"what if it *is* your circus and your monkeys?" #nbpy

"[The PSF] is basically office hours as a service now" #nbpy

The internet is full of things: - doom - misinformation - python libraries - cat pictures #nbpy

ಠ_ಠ #nbpy

press F for shenanigans #nbpy

the horse has thoughts #nbpy

“It is a well known fact […] that if you want a job done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy” @phildini at #nbpy

"search is easier than it's ever been" having been paid to maintain opensearch clusters and the app code using them, i am not sure i agree #nbpy

… @phildini did you add this “quote” just because everyone else had 20 quote slides in their talks? #nbpy

"mybinder.org", just in case you need a room full of queer people to be confused by a namespace collision #nbpy

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@MaggieFero/116473134207484808 @minrk: "kubernetes" me: "condolences" #nbpy

Okay, the jitters from my talk this morning are abating a bit. I know that I was the one speaking, but really, that's only half of the work. Having a receptive audience is just as much important. Thanks to all at the conference for journeying with me. I know the topic is tough, but I believe it […]

"the cascading failures will continue until morale improves" #nbpy

"engineers aren't born fully formed from the head of an incident response manager" — @amcasari, #nbpy 2026

“The impact of a system is what we continue to allow”, a better corollary to the problematic “purpose of a system is what it does” coined by Amanda Casari at #nbpy

RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/116472860951298224 Accurate description of our venue right there. #nbpy

"i think it's important to piss off the transphobes a little bit" [crowd cheers wildly] #nbpy

now that we're at lunch break i suppose it's a good time to announce to #nbpy that i am available to hire! if you can't tell from the kind of event i help run here, i deeply value inclusivity and equality, and am not very interested in replacing myself with an LLM. i also come with 16 years of […]

today we discovered that the propane heaters at #nbpy start making a high-pitched whine as their tanks get low on pressure; my student-pilot brain has decided this is a stall horn

"i know i left a bunch of negative space in my talk yesterday, so thank you for driving right into it" — @chrisjrn, to @benno #nbpy

"[errno] hopefully tells you why something failed" load-bearing "hopefully" there #nbpy

"Oppose Systems. Support People." - @pythonbynight at #nbpy

Always glad to see Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, William MacAskill, Effective Altruism, etc etc get read for filth. These guys *still* get way too much credit for the bailey of their ideas and are not often scrutinized for the motte of overt eugenics, racism, misogyny that they are building upon […]

everything @pythonbynight is describing about TESCREAL etc is stuff i have been paying attention to but god it hits different to have it all summarized and reviewed at once #nbpy

Good morning! Up now: "An Economy of Empathy" by @pythonbynight . We are starting off … extremely dark … with some descriptions of the grisly reality of content-moderation work in the global south at a company called "Sama" (on behalf of Meta, née Facebook) and moving directly to eugenics […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116468047421602214 (willy wonka voice) stop. don't. come back.

this resonates so much with me. i hit my breaking point at my current job this week and am genuinely unsure where to go from here — how do i find a job that isn’t getting dominated by the AI trend or completely sacrificing diversity and inclusion?

Remember all the oligarchs pearl-clutching about “quiet quitting” that didn’t exist? Now they will conveniently ignore all the not-quiet-at-all quitting. https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

MovableType mentioned — my first job out of college was at Six Apart 🥲 #nbpy

Now I'm learning about the lesson that users have learned from yes/no "consent" modals is that they just always have to say "yes" or the computer will deny them critical access to functionality that they need in order to perform their desired task, complete assigned work from an employer or […]

I love talks that make me, as a 25 year Python veteran, that have the ability make me say to myself “wait, does that even work” with less than 10 lines of code

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@MaggieFero/116466651896394139 this talk is so, so necessary right now, and even better than i'd hoped it would be

“facts”, as the kids say

okay i think i have set up the bsky bridgy thingy here @skimbrel.bsky.social