Guen Prawiroatmodjo @guenp@physics.social

We're Looking for fiscal sponsorship for Black Python Devs.

If you know a non-profit that would love to host funding for the fastest growing community of Black, Colored, and Coloured Pythonistas on the planet.

TLDR: We’d like to collect matchable funding and would like to not make our own Non-Profit.

@ThePSF and @opencollective's community sponsorships are currently paused.

Other orgs all seem to be too narrow or too broad in scope to support a GLOBAL community of PYTHON developers

LLMs are degrading the internet ecosystem in many ways. The biggest is they’ve broken the symbiosis of websites benefiting from content being open to crawling since it leads to search traffic.

The rise in spam for everyone who accepts submissions is also a massive problem. I’d initially thought this would mainly affect social media sites but we now see bug reports, book publishers, etc being overwhelmed as well.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal

Classics like the Ergonomic Keyboard should be available again this year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/discontinued-and-unreleased-microsoft-peripherals-revived-by-licensing-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SciPy 2024 will be in Tacoma, WA this year! 🎉 (I've been told this is no longer privileged information, and can be shared publicly.)

We'll be in the Greater Tacoma Convention Center July 8th-14th. To celebrate the announcement, I made 2 things:

1. A chirp.social group: @SciPy2024 This is a mastodon bot that will boost any post that mentions it. Follow it for updates
2. I threw together a small promotional image. I was feeling Art Deco today 😃

@SciPyConf @scipy #scipy #scipy2024 #pnw #Tacoma