I’ll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).

For the people, like me, who were wondering where they were going next.

I’ve never heard of this.

Did you bother to look?

• cURL shut down their bug bounty program because of an “explosion in AI slop reports.”
• Godot sounded the alarm on the “increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it’s a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers.”
• Tldraw now automatically closes pull requests from external contributors, “due to an influx of low quality AI pull requests.”

It’s gotten bad enough that Github added a feature to allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely.

Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.

Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn’t be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?

because we just don’t have the need

The market isn’t perfect at matching needs and abilities. We famously have a shortage of COBOL programmers, which is crazy given how much of our infrastructure still depends on it. A Nobel prize winner predicted that radiogists would be obsolete eight years ago, and we’ve been suffering a shortage ever since because people believed him and stopped studying it.

The most interesting argument I’ve heard is that vibe coding is to coding, what baby formula was to breastfeeding. When formula was introduced, it took only one generation for us to lose a lot of the generational wisdom and cultural infrastructure surrounding nursing.

We haven’t completely forgotten COBOL, or radiology, or breastfeeding, and technically speaking, we won’t completely forget coding, either. But we might forget enough that it becomes a huge problem when we need to remember.

I’ve heard of many projects disabling contributions, shutting down, or pivoting to closed source and naming slop code as a major reason.

If the contributions are quality, that’s great, but I don’t think skepticism is an inappropriate reaction to a sudden surge in contributions in this year of all years.

MinIO’s official stance is to redirect people towards their proprietary AIStor solution, but that’s a hard pass for anyone who prefers to stay open source. You don’t need to go down that path.

Here are the three open source alternatives

You love to see it.

Is it good news, or is it vibe coding?

Farm security is national security. Through this partnership, Palantir is empowering USDA with core capabilities that will enable it to secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse, and foreign adversary influence. In doing so, USDA will gain critical visibility into risks that can affect America’s agricultural production and food supply.

I’m curious about what this’ll look like in practice.

Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.

I guess technofeudalism didn’t catch on, so he’s attempting a rebrand.

Is this that CNN article about the people posting #eyecheck videos on motherless?

I use FreshRSS as the backbend for my clients, but I hate its interface for actually reading.

If I were reading on the web, I’d switch back to Miniflux

The careful reader may note that my title is not quite accurate. It’s not every dependency you add that’s a problem; it’s every dependency you update.

Why not put that in the title, Mr. Hoyt?

Sometimes it’s lowkenuinely

Tl;dr: It’s “give us $300 million (which we know you won’t do), or we’ll order everyone involved in hosting your site to give up your name and address.”

For now, the monetary judgment is mostly a victory on paper, as recouping money from an unknown entity is impossible. For this reason, the music companies also requested a permanent injunction.

Permanent Injunction Targets Domains In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains: annas-archive.org, .li, .se, .in, .pm, .gl, .ch, .pk, .gd, and .vg.

Domain registries and registrars of record, along with hosting and internet service providers, are ordered to permanently disable access to those domains, disable authoritative nameservers, cease hosting services, and preserve evidence that could identify the site’s operators.

The judgment names specific third parties bound by those obligations, including Public Interest Registry, Cloudflare, Switch Foundation, The Swedish Internet Foundation, Njalla SRL, IQWeb FZ-LLC, Immaterialism Ltd., Hosting Concepts B.V., Tucows Domains Inc., and OwnRegistrar, Inc.

Anna’s Archive is also ordered to destroy all copies of works scraped from Spotify and to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, including valid contact information for the site and its managing agents. That last requirement could prove significant, given that the identity of the site’s operators remains unknown.

A Way Out, at a Price In theory, Anna’s Archive has the option to prevent the domain suspension. The permanent injunction allows the site to seek relief from this measure, after showing that it has paid the full $322 million damages award and complied with all injunctive obligations.

That’s an unlikely option, to say the least. At the same time, however, it is not guaranteed that the site’s domain names will be suspended.

As reported previously, several domain names, including the Greenland-based .gl version, are linked to registries and registrars outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. court. As such, they previously did not comply to the preliminary injunction, and it is unknown whether the latest order changes that.

In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

Did being gamblers make them successful, or just memorable?

Nobody cares about all the times Goliath won, after all.

Microsoft seems to have stripped away mentions of the “Copilot” brand in the Windows Insider version of the Notepad app. The Copilot button in the toolbar is gone, and instead, you’ll find a writing icon which will present you AI-powered writing assistance, such as rewrite, summarize, tone modification, format configuration, and more. Additionally, “AI features” in Notepad settings has been renamed to “Advanced features” and it allows users to toggle off AI capabilities within the app.

*and also burning everyone else’s money at the same time.