Juan Luis

Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

Posting about open source ecology, Atproto / the Atmosphere, and resisting AI. Software Engineer + DevRel at Canonical. Luddite. Proudly hosted on @eurosky.social 🇪🇺 #ADHDAwareness Posts en español en @juanlu.mu.social

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This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

ghanacitizenship.comGhana-Ivory Coast Cocoa Alliance: Mahama and Ouattara Sign Joint DeclarationGhana and Ivory Coast signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen their cocoa alliance, aligning producer prices and expanding local processing.
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So @igalia.com and friends are slowly but surely turning Servo into a web-compatible browser. This would be a singular feat of engineering whose side effects throughout the process at Mozilla and Igalia have made computing better for everybody. servo.org/blog/2026/10... wpt.fyi/results/?lab...

servo.orgAugust in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.Plus accessibility and navigation improvements.

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Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

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as someone who uses llms, i'm totally fine, even happy, about lobste.rs being an anti-llm space. if you want pro-llm stuff you can look anywhere else on the internet. if we want a moderate sort-of-llm community we can create one. niche communities with hardcore value systems are good.

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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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recommend seeing La bola negra in cinema if u can! sumptuous, expansive, vital, poetic, gripping, tender film. Queers, Spanish civil war, communing with Lorca and other lives lost to fascism. Ty to my gf for taking me on a date 💕

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This is genuinely some of the most worrying news I have seen in the past few years, in terms of the ongoing effort to hold the AI industry accountable on climate Me losing work because the org I'm pitching to is funded by Anthropic is far more of a threat than actual competition from generative AI

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social

Having worked for and with NGOs and foundations for most my career, I can't even begin to grapple with what NGO advocacy would look like if most philanthropic support was coming from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and their ilk.

Omg this is gorgeous

kepano@stephango.com

One week later, Pele is already in dozens of apps including Obsidian 1.15! Many improvements this week: - Even faster rendering! - Math resolver support: KaTeX, MathJax, Temml, etc - Gradients in sankey diagrams - Fewer edge crossings in diagrams with subgraphs - Sub, sup and inline code in labels

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One week later, Pele is already in dozens of apps including Obsidian 1.15! Many improvements this week: - Even faster rendering! - Math resolver support: KaTeX, MathJax, Temml, etc - Gradients in sankey diagrams - Fewer edge crossings in diagrams with subgraphs - Sub, sup and inline code in labels

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Replying to @laurenshof.online

It's not psychosis, just business. I wish Arc had thrived, but you don't sell to Atlassian for more than half a billion dollars, on a product with no income whatsoever and with massive competition, without an AI angle. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/a... (This was 3 months after the Dia beta launch)

cnbc.comAtlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 millionOpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

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Code is read more often than it is written. The more code there is involved in a system, the more reading must be done. Therefore the most important change control to implement in any system which will see long-term maintenance is to rate-limit the addition of new code to keep reading easy.

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⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

kyivindependent.comAmid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said in a press release announcing the deal with Kyiv.

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What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

Recordatorio de que mi cuenta en español ahora es @juanlu.mu.social 👇🏼

Juanlu@juanlu.mu.social

Nueva edición de Tu Atención Es Todo Lo Que Necesitamos, "#2 Nos prometieron coches voladores" https://tu-atencion-es-todo-lo-que-necesitamos.offprint.app/a/3my7pb7c3a323-2-nos-prometieron-coches-voladores #offprint

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Gil Duran @gilduran.com - author of The Nerd Reich - tells us he's just back from Peter Thiel's four-night speech on the antichrist, delivered in a red-walled room to an audience wearing Hitler haircuts. Those of us who are worried about AI safety are the antichrist, by the way...

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i tried to warn u about php bro. i told u

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We just gave $1,000,000 to Open Source maintainers at @sentry.io, up from $750K last year! 🎉️ And this month the @opensourcepledge.com turns 2. Its 37 member companies have now paid $8,421,535 to the people who build the software we all rely on. Read on to find out where the money went.

blog.sentry.ioWe just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainersSentry raised its Open Source budget from $750,000 to $1,000,000 this year. Here's why, and how we split it among maintainers and foundations.

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The State of the Map Latin America conference happens Oct 27-29 in Mexico City. If you want to help participants to find their way around town, do your OSM contributions before the 25th! We will give a talk and distribute some of our stickers. Want to meet? Reach out! www.comaps.app/community/

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Replying to @niedermeyer.online

I love the FT, but any article about this potential merger that doesn't mention the only obvious, screaming motivation for the whole thing happening is engaged in journalistic malpractice this is all about speedrunning a nearly trillion dollar pay package 🎁🔗: www.wsj.com/business/see...

wsj.comSee How a Tesla-SpaceX Merger Gives Musk a Shortcut to His $1 Trillion PaydayA critical clause in the CEO’s Tesla stock award would wipe away lofty performance targets if a merger happened.

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AT Protocol devroom is coming to FOSDEM 2027 🎉 @edouard.paris and I will open the CfP by October 27, mark your calendars ✍️

Damn, David Gerard blocked me over this :( it's hard to be an AI hater, there's always somebody more hater than you...

Juan Luis@juanlu.space

Came here looking for a more charitable take. I'm not happy with Scott's position on AI but his work in Ink and Switch is very much user centered, and I think he's not an AI bro, but actually a person that would be willing to listen, if any of us could be patient enough to actually talk through it.

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The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.

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finally got to reading maevyn's post. add this one to your queue. two paragraphs that hit me particularly hard

Maevyn@maevyn.codes

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

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in Firefox nightly, suspended tabs now turn grayscale. the user experience is... funereal. makes the browser feel like a graveyard, tombstones littering the place after a while. they should just implement @devdevcharlie.com's extension instead:

Charlie Gerard@devdevcharlie.com

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

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me knowing i’m not responsible for any php application right now

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Offprint is offline for some precautionary maintenance. We expect to be back around 8:00 AM PT.

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truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

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New trend I spotted over the last month or so, no one really bothers any more to open issues for open source projects, it's straight to an (often) big PR 90% of the time 🤔

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Replying to @tef.bsky.social

previously, it took just five years to lose $80 billion, but thanks to moore's law, a modern company can lose $80 billion in just under six months, a 10x improvement on the state of the art

Consumer electronics is going great

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social

Fortune: The next Xbox "Helix" console is projected to cost consumers between $1200-1800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost ➡️ fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...