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Wednesday April 29th, 2026

What is correct? Dan Lyke / comment 0

Lots of stuff I'm struggling with in this, and I need to rewatch it:

North Bay Python: "What is Correct?" and is that even the right question any more? - Christopher Neugebauer - 2026 (YouTube video)

KDE “30 for 30” challenge Dan Lyke / comment 0

KDE is turning 30 this year!

KDE contributor Farid inspired us to take on the “30 for 30” challenge: for our 30th birthday, we are asking you to do something to help the environment and make the planet a nicer place to live in. Farid is planting 30 trees and we want you to come up with something similar.

Film you and your crew carrying out your effort and we will promote your project on social media.

Here are some more ideas:

Via.

it used to be chips Dan Lyke / comment 0

dave @dthompson@toot.cat

all this talk about tokens this and tokens that. they turned my profession into chuck e cheese.

Addictive by design Dan Lyke / comment 0

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the  2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI addiction, and that chatbot design could be partly to blame.

Via ResearchBuzz

Making primitive circuit boards Dan Lyke / comment 0

Feminist Hacking: MaKING Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay

Via Tom's Hardware: Hacktivists share a guide on making working electronics PCBs made from natural clay with prehistoric technique — ethical hardware tutorial explains how to find clay, stamp 3D printed circuits, paint traces, and fire tablets

Via Calishat @researchbuzz

Github has an image problem Dan Lyke / comment 0

Lobste.rs this morning:

* Ghostty leaving github (comments) * Github banned me for no understandable reason (comments) * Before GitHub (comments) * From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo (comments) * Ditching GitHub (comments) * An update on GitHub availability (comments) * Github Actions is the weakest link (comments)

Talkspace subpoenaed Dan Lyke / comment 0

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Don't fucking trust pyschotherapy apps. Holy shit.

Via, MeFi thread.

Tuesday April 28th, 2026

Matt's Script Archive is precedent Dan Lyke / comment 0

that genehack guy from that dead bird site ‪@extremely.website‬

Current status: wondering what percentage of my GenAI skeptisim is grounded in having lived thru the Matt’s Script Archive phase of the “this lets everybody code” era.

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Wow So this weekend at North Bay Dan Lyke / comment 0

Wow. So this weekend at North Bay Python, the Apify folks were doing a "try out our API, win something". I'd had a glass of wine, so I fired up my phone, did a few queries to enter myself in the raffle, and carried on.

I'm not sure what I did that's ongoing, but just got the "you hit your $100 intro bonus API cost" email.

So clearly there was something I didn't understand. Another entry in the "I'm scared of cloud billing" bucket.

My talk on Modern Western Square Dan Lyke / comment 0

My talk on Modern Western Square Dancing at North Bay Python this weekend is live...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVvaz8eFwA

#NBPy

mixed blessings Dan Lyke / comment 0

pubes with poop on em @poopypubes@jorts.horse

Me: it's not OK to stan any side of a war
Iran: *bombs an Oracle data center
Me: *biting knuckles, squirming*

A clown event is possible Dan Lyke / comment 0

ni cole4fox -> GPN @nicole4fox@datastream.cortexvoid.net

"I'm down for whatever as long as it doesn't increase shareholder value"

<br> handling. Dan Lyke / comment 2

After years and years of tolerating it, I finally fixed an issue with how the Flutterby formatter handles <br> tags. Actually, not so much how it handles it as with how modern browsers handle </br> tags.

Anyway, in the process I willy-nilly changed the doctype. Holler if you see anything stupid, or if I regressed utf-8 handling again, or something.


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