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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona If you have looked into note taking and syncing services, you might get bookmarks as a part of that.
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If you think that that orchestrated AIs creating Pull Requests is a problem, wait until they start trying to be LinkedIn influencers.
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Phillip Hallam-Baker has defined the term "Superficial Intelligence" (SI), which better describes the artificial intelligence we are currently experiencing.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/HuQyJJHCF0y9Lrr543WQah63MQs/
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JessicaTegner@caneandable.social

Jessica Tegner 👩🏻‍🦰

I maintain pypandoc — 14M downloads/month, used by Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and many more.

I just overhauled my sponsorship pages. If you or your company depend on open source infrastructure (you do), here's how to help keep it maintained:

💛 https://github.com/sponsors/JessicaTegner

Open source has a free-rider problem. You can be part of the solution.

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Tagir Valeev

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

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Reply to @hugovk@mastodon.social
@hugovk Awesome! Yes, thanks. I cannot explain why I did not see that before.
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Apparently I was not supposed to eat all the Girl Scout cookies. Some of these house rules are downright complicated.
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I am noticing bot accounts hitting GitHub repos and approving (not merging, but approving) PRs. The GitHub docs on how to stop non-collaborators from doing this are difficult to understand. So far I have resorted to old-fashioned branch protection. Has anybody with a divining rod figured out the #github permissions to specifically address this issue?
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Christian Noll

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/trevors)

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs

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There are now more RDAP queries than Whois queries:
https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/10/the-current-state-of-rdap/
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Reply to @niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
@niqdanger sounds like you need one of the larger full size ereaders.
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The Internet Runs on Free and Open Source Software—And So Does the DNS

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-internet-runs-on-free-and-open-source-softwareand-so-does-the-dns-23-10-2025-en

Yes, it does!

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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman @b0rk @spamvictim @nygren
I am not a network operator, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.

My best guess is that the biggest impact these days is on the flexibility for routing. I hope nobody is actually exposing user hosts directly to the net anymore. RIPEstat says VNU is advertising 14 v4 routes, compared to MIT's (AS3) 123. VNU has on 1 bgp neighbor whereas MIT has 14, so quite a difference in connection diversity. Of course, VNU could help themselves out by getting a v6 prefix. https://stat.ripe.net/resource/AS45542#tab=routing https://stat.ripe.net/resource/AS3#tab=overview
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Reply to @adamhsparks@rstats.me
@adamhsparks @Codeberg beyond the technical benefits of Rust, there is the added benefit that it pisses of Brian Lunduke.
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Reply to @niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
@niqdanger I don’t get it. Do you not know where your house is? 😁
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We live an age of BS. And it is not even the old school, witty and artful BS. It’s just big-stick-in-the-poop BS.
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I decided to screw around with an ESP32-C6 board I bought awhile back but never got around to playing with. So I decided to make the lights blink using Rust. That took entirely too long to figure out because a lot of the guides are out of date and the HAL has changed drastically. Out of frustration I started using Gemini but because its training data is a few months old, that was one false start after another. Then I went to OpenCode and that worked well because the tool-calling was able to iteratively get at the problem. An interesting experience.
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Reply to @mcr314@todon.nl
@mcr314 @mauve and anytime this comes up, the obligatory book on the topic.. https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/. 😀
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@danyork

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/115906615259034425
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New version of the ICANN RDAP command line software... https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/releases/tag/v0.0.26

#rust #homebrew #rdap
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