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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 4h

@glyph I tried to make the SQLAlchemy sprints we did in 2007 or so about helping with documentation and small issues and ultimately I received hate mail for making the volunteers do such boring work that didn't help them to learn anything there were no more sprints after that

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@benjamingeer our piano player has a new baby and can never show up to rehearsals! piano is great, I think it will fit your brain very well. Was my first instrument as well and my son is immensely talented at it too

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@benjamingeer uh oh Ben's talking jazz! our guitarist in NYC is moving to Uruguay I can save you an audition slot

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2026

Just to sum up yesterday: 1. as soon as you put one file on pypi from CI with attestations, you now have to use CI releases / attestations for *all files, forever*, or you will get large red warnings on your package (and they dont send you emails either). 2. if you dont use attestations at all […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2026

may The Force be with you

screenshot of pypi releases for SQLAlchemy 2.0.57 and 2.0.56

2.0.57

2 minutes ago
2 release files
Full provenance

2.0.56

58 release files
Loss of provenance

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

@glyph the issue is I expect to get special treatment because I am so amazing

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

@glyph ive alwys pushed a .tar.gz from my workstation. then one day github came along and added this thing called "actions" that would build wheels on all the OSes for me, for free, whereas previously we published maybe a source wheel and that was it (even though we have C / Cython code). so we […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

so a little clarity on what's happening here. If I *never* used trusted publishing *at all*, I'd have zero of these banners all over my page. pypi is throwing all this red paint on me because I use trusted publishing for *most of my wheels*, as I was encouraged to do. but because my source .tar […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

pypi is now **EXPLICIT** that if you do not do your releases from a trusted host like github actions, you are **DOING IT WRONG**: docs.pypi.org/using-pypi/package-se…

Incomplete provenance¶

What it means: A portion of the files in this release were uploaded without an attestation.
Why it matters: While this can happen due to build or publishing configuration errors (such as mixing manual uploads with automated CI workflows), it can also indicate that some of the files have been uploaded by a malicious actor.

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

do folks remember the discussions here about "attestations"? so many people told me I was misunderstanding "attestations", how they had nothing to do with your existing workflow from your workstation? look at pypi now. Clearly they are trying to SCARE THE […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

the pypi page for SQLAlchemy 2.1.6. With a giant red banner that says "
Incomplete provenance

8 of 72 files were uploaded without provenance metadata. View details. " complete with triangle exclaimation point, and then a giant red box down below that explicitly says: "We recommend further investigation before installing files from this release. Learn more. "

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2026

this is apparently correct - Google is refusing to provide a google search interface that does not force the "AI summaries" into the top. that's a very shitty decision because it's pure marketing and marketing has no place in kids education (even though it's sadly ubiquitous)

Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into U.S. @u-s-newyorktimes

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026

I think we also get *more* bug reports because people are actually able to isolate the problem they're having whereas previously they'd have no idea where to look. Or they didn't have time. and we'd never know, they'd just be like "oh well SQLAlchemy is buggy". now they do, because it takes 30 […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026

SQLAlchemy gets relentless bug reports now. Many are regressions from the recent 2.1, that's normal, but lots from 2.0.x too. Most of these are real issues that affect real apps; the frivolous "AI fuzzer" ones have declined a lot, as the community has pushed back on those. What is not normal […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026

This is a really well written article about AI and interestingly it's the very predictable reader comments that all sound like they were written by an anti-ai-talking-point robot that is depressing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/opinion/…

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

if LLMs manage to find working treatments for MD, every "using an LLM is unethical" argument is gone. this is a very tragic and horrible disease. if we in fact built a machine that can find a cure for a disease like this, it would be a truly amazing achievement

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

here I was today thinking, that PHP thing was kind of dumb, because first of all, PHP, second of all, it was a one off that's possibly not even practically exploitable , people are freaking out a little too much about the overall "oh no endless 9/10 vulnerabilities for years!" but here we are […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

ooh yeah we're so back

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I will say that to make the game playable, I had to turn the How Hard Is The Game knobs way down. The game has an exceptionally fine-grained set of difficulty controls where you can tune at least nine or ten different axes. set it all to Old Man Wants To See The Next Screen please

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I have to patch some servers that I maintain on a familial basis but I am not calling myself a "PHP user" when I do so, sorry

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

what it doesn't have for me is the really dark and brooding quiet suspense of the first one. In Control, that whole thing with the phone ringing, the Director's ghost voice, the Motel, and my favorite, the Custodian, this game doesn't generate that kind of suspense, it's more like "here's the […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

the combat at first seemed like it was going to be thinner but as I got into the game basics in fact the combat model in C:R seems to have a more dynamism going on, and in particular has a really novel feel to it where you can sort of fly, sort of not, but if there's a baddie you're going after […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Control:Resonant status: I guess I'm 40-50 percent in. Definitely fun and a game anyone who liked the first Control would like playing. It has both more and less than the original Control. The level design paradigm is way more sophisticated than the original, and if you've watched any trailers […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

happy "shut off all your php sites until 10:30 am" day

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I cannot believe Google won't give us a control to mark and block multiple messages at once as spam, or even a control to auto block these. It detects them all as political spam identically but refuses to not send them due to some stupid legal loophole

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

some serious unicode fail today

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

WE ARE GETTING THIS CHESS ROBOT!!! but I have to wait for my son's birthday to play with it!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fha3WC-3DOg

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

AI companies read all the documentation of open source projects without permission and repackage it for profit - without paying the maintainers!

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@pythonbynight it depends on the LLM and the subject. Gemini on it's lower settings definitely gets things wrong quite a lot. Claude Opus, not so much

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@pythonbynight im really talking about simple use of some API here where there's not a lot of room to get it wildly wrong

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

LLM opponents, a question. how do you folks google for "how do I do X in Python", the way we would in the old days and get directed to StackOverflow, and not use AI? Google at least will put front and center a code example its LLM just worked up which is usually correct. Then you can drill down […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

i just tried Codex for about ten minutes, seeing if it could run through some of the basic workflows I've used with Claude, and it did so terribly I ran screaming. it's funny how all these models have similar capabilities but Claude has really tuned it for "programmer working with code"

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

well my genius mind still annoyed by the constant onslaught of "AI does not improve productivity" studies being dangled around as some kind of indictment of LLMs, thought wait a minute. I bet they said the same thing about word processors (and I have used actual typewriters, for pay, in an […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

birdnet is now in production!

the birdnet frame showing off about a dozen birds, leaning on a stool with a booklight mounted on top, and a small plant in front

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I dont know much about Yan LeCun except I saw a well known activist blaming him for the Rohingya genocide, so I was like OK.."works for facebook" is bad. but he's pretty on point in this article […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

today on bluesky, four studies showing interactions with correctly-aligned LLMs can be used to dispel conspiratorial thinking, even when perceived as human pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@glyph people who are using LLMs to save themselves time and effort in this case are being asked to document all of their LLM use and all the time spent dealing with an LLM and then somehow produce equivalent data from before they used an LLM in order to prove what to them seems obvious. Until […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

after today's events I'm probably going to be a little more rude/blunt to hardcore anti-AI absolutists.

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@glyph this is the thing tho, taylor's positions on everything always seemed extremely personal from the get-go. the pinnacle was when she was defending kids having phones in school at the same time she was taking money from a company trying to get kids phones in schools. that was sort of the […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

with both of these likely annoying takes, for me it's all laid on top of, "I wanted to be a drummer in the 1980s but a huge swath of entry-level recording jobs had already vanished due to machines", I feel like I already went through watching the thing I wanted to do get replaced my machines 35 […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

if that one isn't annoying you enough, here's another: yesterdays dialogue about "learn to code" courses losing popularity. Drum machines did not make a dent in the market for people learning to play drums. Yet AI is ruining the "learn to code" industry, and people are just using AI to write […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

one thought: when a guitar player singer-songwriter type does a demo, it's normal and uncontroversial that they used a drum machine. Yet when we hear of songwriters having AI generate a whole band sound behind them, now that's "unethical". Even if they wrote the chords and melodies themselves […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

im thinking more and more about how I was affected by the introduction of drum machines as a common way to replace the need for drummers in the 1980s, just as I was hoping to start a career as a drummer. so far it at least seems to give me the "this machine can do XYZ better than any human and […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

so the inevitable task we finally did in SQLAlchemy 2.1 of changing the deafult DBAPI driver for postgresql:// and oracle:// URLs (because DBAPI drivers change in prominence too!) is hitting a few surprised users enough that they're breaking out the semver argument (URL stuff is where we […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-tay… (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@glyph spectacular post! i truly have no idea how you have the mental energy to write these huge posts but it's loaded with great ideas, bravo

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

we're on hour 40 or so of this noreaster thing. non stop winds, being outside for any amount of time is inherently dangerous. All of Long Island is like hundreds of outages all over the place, not from the usual hurricane fast destruction thing, just by persistent winds hammering the trees hour […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs" mostly good advice which is close to how I work with agents as well. For me it's very much an "I review the model, the model reviews me, then another model reviews both of us" kind of thing […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@glyph @hynek the reason AI haters really refuse to consider any possible benefit is because then every negative externality of AI is no longer a "therefore it must be abolished", it now becomes a much more complicated question of balancing cost/benefit. I'm interested in the cost/benefit […]

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mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@glyph @hynek it's frankly getting to be annoying that experiences like that pictured below are shrugged off with "they're in a cult, they're not actually any more productive and are simply under mass delusion (of course *they* are, not *me*), they're actually […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
yeah I really think this is still underrated.

beats me if this is true for other neurodivergencies but for ADHD, at least the kind I’m working with, this stuff is magical 1/3

Ari Drennen
@aridrennen.bsky.social
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This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@glyph @hynek you can talk about the environmental / worker impacts of AI and you have an argument there but saying everyone that's using claude or chatgpt is experiencing direct harm, you're just not going to get much traction on that argument, sorry. We can go back to the "meat" argument for […]

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