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  @statsguy@mas.to I had a teethgrinding letter from them leading with patting themselves on the back because they're keeping the EV tariff the same price. Later it mentions that that's only for 6 hours a night (~40kWh), if you need any longer you can either pay more or go boil your head.

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  Surprise of the day... the excellent EU push to force laptop makers to move to USB PD has, after 18h with a new laptop, made all other laptops with proprietary PSUs seem like relics from some other era, like rotary-dial telephones. It's surprising because my first USB-PD laptop was from 2019 or so. Somehow the first one after knowing they'll all be now like that has ushered in a new psychological era.

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  It's interesting that the ways the training incorporates a lot of US cultural expectations. They are relentlessly upbeat about whatever you wanted to achieve. They won't argue with the boss although they will point out inconsistencies with what they're working on. It's only a matter of time before they carry guns. Since most of us are from different cultures, and the US had led most advances since before WW2, could this virtual cross-pollination actually be ps...

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  Antigravity added a lot of interactive command auth stuff... really this is security theatre since ultimately the whole goal is to let the assist edit code, build and run it. The theatrics include not letting you whitelist kill or killall... well I can see it... but... the thing writes code. It can just call the same apis as kill[all]. They also added a 'sandbox', but it's incompatible with valgrind. It feels like being funneled into turning off the auth which would b...

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  What on earth has happened at Coverity? Coverity Scan is down We're performing some upgrades to the Scan servers. During this time, login is disabled. All changes to projects and accounts are disabled. We're really sorry for the inconvenience. We're working quickly to be back online soon! https://scan.coverity.com/ I sent them an email on the 20th May asking when they would be coming back up, I just got notified it was "undelivered" due to &quot...

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  Oh an unexpectedly great article via lobste.rs https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ > Github turned all of open source into an unpaid job for maintainers. > Suddenly open source is a second job. You're burned out. Yeah. And your "community" feels legitimized by it, you get explained how just being a user is a contribution.

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  Today's lobste.rs pulse monitoring: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap So that sounds dire, but actually the author is a quite complete coding assist believer and user. He discusses various reasonable (ie, based in fact, if not complete prescriptions) problems and outcomes from using them. At the end he says he uses them heavily, but his preference to fight the slop is to write 20%+ of the code manually and have them work filling that in. Well, OK. As he says, hi...

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  https://noahbogart.com/posts/2026-05-03-losing-skills/ People are using coding AIs and correctly noticing their day is not spent the same way... it's similar to when people "entered management" and so stopped doing output-work, and started directing others to do it. This guy likens it to using lane-assist in his car. Manually minimizing lane drift WAS a critical skill... after relying on the assist, his manual skill atrophied. OK... but... if every car has lane-assi...

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  Jesus. We certainly have to worry about "end of civilization" due to the US, but it's not what was in the newspapers. I've written before the step up in bug finding the last weeks is unprecedented. And now: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/