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Admin here. Please report instead of DMing.
Excellent post on the correct SI unit for (HTTP or not) request rate: https://entropicthoughts.com/si-units-for-request-rate
The world needs more blog posts like this.
roll roll roll your own
upstream's being mean
if you see dependabot
don't forget to scream
The new pip version comes with experimental lockfile support *and* `--uploaded-prior-to` for dependency cooldowns, neat.
It brings me great joy to block my first drive-by AI open source PR guy <3
(not for using AI; for drive-by spamming a PR and then returning with the same PR two weeks later after I closed his first one explaining why it was not suitable to be merged at this point)
Delightful morning reading: “An ssh adventure” (or: smuggling your bashrc onto remote servers)
The perfect amount of unhinged. I was already sold on reading the whole thing and giggling throughout when I got to “The filesystem is basically global state, global state is morally wrong.”
"Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years" was an interesting read https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/
some good notes by @DRMacIver@mastodon.social on his use of AI for coding at https://drmaciver.com/2026/04/how-ive-been-using-claude-code/
Tja, Triodos macht zu, wo geht’s jetzt mit dem Geschäftskonto hin …
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ATTENTION, Public Service Announcement: Do not upgrade your npm. Do not upgrade to 5.7.0, released yesterday.
It changes file permissions of /etc, /boot, /user, … when run with sudo. Avoid, duck, cover, whimper.
@xian Thank you, that's quite possibly the best compliment I could wish for! I honestly set out to write this text when I was very frustrated with some aspects, and wanted to not write a rant. (Or at least a productive one.)
And absolutely agree – I'm active in other activist groups too and there is a big overlap in challenges and in skills. Government is probably the closest in some ways, because this being an admin is like being a tiny, low-stakes, low-relevance , unelected government.
