shamelessly stolen from slack so that I can post with the comment: "lmao"

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email.

Here's an email I got from one of them.

Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they still owe me $110.

Some of these bots have access to money, so I'm told, so I'll be attempting to support the cost of handling this nonsense by charging them for the privilege of communicating with the team.

"Mon combat" ?
Il semblerait que personne ne parle allemand dans l'équipe de campagne d'attal.

I cannot understand the mindset of a (I hope small) subset of the free software community that software-related freedoms can never be impinged upon, but it's fine to remove arbitrary other freedoms that have a greater impact on people's lives

Every company right now for some reason

Get out

If you hate DHH and vibe coding, come help Redox. Here he is throwing a temper tantrum over our no-AI policy:

https://x.com/dhh/status/2097559561993326752

I never thought this would pay off, but here we are.

My date of certificate expiry is now automation actually triggered.

#manjaro #linux #manjarolinux #ssl #tls

the #pkgconf maintainers would like to talk to humans, not bots which have gone on a wild ride. this wastes our time as maintainers, and is why pkgconf does not allow LLM-generated contributions, especially agentic ones.

https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/pull/592

(I'm tired, boss)

suddenly felt like I was transported to an alternate reality

You may fascinate a hacker with 20 year-old e-waste

I really need to get around to deleting my account

#getOffGithub

This month's annoyance: people non-consensually assigning me tickets in their organisation's ticket tracker.

As #PuTTY maintainer, I'm often asked to fill in annoying government paperwork, usually from someone else's country. "All the software our organisation uses must comply with the National Foo Directive, so please fill in this huge questionnaire to confirm that you do."

Often without bothering to even mention which nation's National Foo Directive it is. Often without noticing that a lot of the questions are obviously meaningless (e.g. assuming the product is hardware, or a cloud service, or something). And _always_ without thinking through the difference between a commercial software vendor (who has a financial incentive to do this kind of paperwork, and can employ staff to do it out of the revenue stream from selling the software itself) and an unpaid free software maintainer (LOL no).

In the past, this has generally involved an email from some actual employee tasked with going through the Big Spreadsheet of all the software that (they know) they're using. So you can reply to the person and explain their misunderstanding. (Generally I wait until the followup email before bothering, in case they manage to engage their own brain before then, which sometimes they do.)

But a new and unwelcome development is that they're starting to do it by automated ticketing systems, so I get an email saying "[employee] has assigned you a task" and I have no doubt it's going to carry on automatically pestering without any way of making it listen to reason. Probably I have no choice but to start blocking these ticketing systems' email addresses.

I've (finally) got the talk recording from Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ("We need an open-source phone OS - postmarketOS!") on my YouTube channel, as always with proper subtitles!

https://youtu.be/Wi5DpVYozUc

#postmarketOS #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

Real hacker.

77-year-old Carl Gunn legally blocks a Flock license plate camera in St. Petersburg, Florida, by sitting on a public sidewalk and holding a 12-foot pool skimmer pole with a “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS” sign. Because he remains on public property and never touches the equipment, police confirmed his protest is lawful. #flock

I may need to unfollow the postmarketOS hashtag due to a weird flood of negative doom posting about it not being ready to fully replace Android yet. I know people are worried about Android locking down app development and such, but don't take that out on one of the few projects trying to remove Google and Apple's dualopoly :( Complaining can't make development faster.

going to the javascript store anyone want anything?