Notices by Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)

libxslt project maintainer steps down, citing the amount of time it takes to triage embargoed security issues.

“I’ve been doing this long enough to know that most of the secrecy around security issues is just theater. All the ‘best practices’ like OpenSSF Scorecards are just an attempt by big tech companies to guilt trip OSS maintainers and make them work for free.”

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus I’m by no means an expert on anything remotely related to economics, but in my industry (software / web development), I think a lot of it has to do with resetting salaries and shifting power back to the employers.

Even well before 2020 (throughout the 2010s) software engineers enjoyed tremendous power in the job market and the ability to draw salaries traditionally reserved for upper management and VPs.

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus By artificially decreasing the job supply, companies have driven down salaries, and software engineers can’t just quit and go elsewhere, since it’s extremely difficult to find any jobs in the salary ranges previously enjoyed.

@jerry Yes. With Liam Neeson playing the son of Frank Drebin!

Does anyone know if the Mastodon Slowflake IDs are intended to be monotonically increasing? The hashing described here seems to break monotonicity, so I’m trying to understand if I should expect them to be monotonic.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/ed4788a342a7215ac87b8d34761f0a996c83e699/lib/mastodon/snowflake.rb

The subtext of King Charles’s speech is that the US had singlehandedly destabilized the global order. He has not mentioned the US by name, but it’s there. These are pretty strong words from a powerful head of state.

@chris I mean, I can’t do any server-side data processing with a static site, for one.

@chris I didn’t say anything was bad with using them, but they don’t solve the problems I want to solve.

@grmpyprogrammer I don't want to use a static site generator.

@mrcopilot I should have been clearer. I want a stand that can hold it above me (hands free) when I’m in the bed.

Does anyone have one of those iPad stands/mounts for watching from your bed or hands-free from a chair? If so, do you like it, and what model/style did you get?

@chris I didn’t like it, the little time I spent trying it out. It’s too much like VS Code, and I don’t like the VS Code experience.

“AGI: a strategy of raising funding based on the promise of being able to replace any worker with a Python script.”— @anildash

https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/01/what-would-good-ai-look-like/

@inthehands A lot of them have bought into the idea that we need to reduce taxes on the wealthy because they will use that money to create jobs.

@VeroniqueB99 @benroyce Guess whose company isn’t processing poultry right now.

Some people hate PHP because it was their first language, they wrote a ton of bad code in it, learned better practices along the way as they switched to other languages, and then look back on their old code and blame the language.

#PHP

Did we (the US) or did we not bomb Yemen? I can’t find any news about it because everyone is so focused on the Signal group chat fiasco.

So…is that what the administration wants us focused on?

#USPol

@chris They don’t want to slow it. “Move fast and break things.”

@chris I’ll be there!

The problem is that so many people buy-in to the “eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy” argument because we’re taught that bureaucracy and bureaucrats are wasteful and evil.