who needs local testing environments when you can bait engagement in prod
hailey@hailey.at· 27 Feb 2024paging all bluesky users: reply to this post to assist in reproing a bug.
they put hacktoberfest on the blockchain
web3 is going just great@web3isgoinggreat.com· 27 Feb 2024tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
February 26, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
![tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
This crypto skeptic I've heard of once said "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
A project called tea.xyz promised people they could "get rewards for [their] open-source contributions", complete with a flashy website describing how it would "enhance the sustainability of open-source software". So far, it's achieved the exact opposite. Promising to reward open source contributors with crypto tokens, the project asked users to verify their access to open source projects by merging in a YAML file containing their crypto wallet address. This kicked off a flood of pull requests to prominent, often non-crypto-related open source projects by people who had never contributed to the project (or, often, any open source project), but who wished to merge in a file describing them as a "code owner".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreifvlhhljzleeftjriozwgfwjpjhjf5lwqv5qxlxiefdc4d7k7jthu "tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
This crypto skeptic I've heard of once said \"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.\"
A project called tea.xyz promised people they could \"get rewards for [their] open-source contributions\", complete with a flashy website describing how it would \"enhance the sustainability of open-source software\". So far, it's achieved the exact opposite. Promising to reward open source contributors with crypto tokens, the project asked users to verify their access to open source projects by merging in a YAML file containing their crypto wallet address. This kicked off a flood of pull requests to prominent, often non-crypto-related open source projects by people who had never contributed to the project (or, often, any open source project), but who wished to merge in a file describing them as a \"code owner\".")
![Particularly impacted by this project was the open source blogging platform Ghost, which was used as an example in the demo video released by tea.xyz, and which received several PRs of this kind. A somewhat flummoxed maintainer of the repository replied to one PR: "[I]n practice the TEA project is not helping to support the Ghost project, but is instead causing a rush of self-serving PRs to be submitted to cash-in on other people's work. ... This why people hate on crypto." A maintainer of another unrelated open source project called "ghost" also reported receiving an influx of spam PRs. This is not the first time crypto has generated massive Github spam, although another recent incident was (blessedly) mostly limited to open-source crypto projects and didn't waste the time of non-crypto-related projects as this one has.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreidyawvaxye75ujzfgro65zvcpslcfwhtrigy7jxilcnun7o6qicju "Particularly impacted by this project was the open source blogging platform Ghost, which was used as an example in the demo video released by tea.xyz, and which received several PRs of this kind. A somewhat flummoxed maintainer of the repository replied to one PR: \"[I]n practice the TEA project is not helping to support the Ghost project, but is instead causing a rush of self-serving PRs to be submitted to cash-in on other people's work. ... This why people hate on crypto.\" A maintainer of another unrelated open source project called \"ghost\" also reported receiving an influx of spam PRs. This is not the first time crypto has generated massive Github spam, although another recent incident was (blessedly) mostly limited to open-source crypto projects and didn't waste the time of non-crypto-related projects as this one has.")
in the webbed site. straight up “hogging it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s just say. My componits
1 2 14“hogging it” is of course slang for reworking it to use the Application Layout Framework (ALF)
11thank u @danabra.mov @esb.lol @haileyok.com @pfrazee.com for that team-wide effort, it was worth it 🥰
1 6honestly the fcc are so real for “phones are annoying”, its a real shame that you’re not legally obliged to follow instruction from cinema staff
You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.
gizmodo.com
cinema staff should be allowed to court martial you. anyone who runs on this platform has my vote
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fun fact, @graysky.app is my most successful project and is the only one I deliberately delayed buying a domain for. many lessons here
Samuel@samuel.fm· 26 Feb 2024don't forget the domain, very important
“le chat” is cute af
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com· 26 Feb 2024Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language model called Mistral Large. It is designed to rival other top-tier…
tcrn.ch
may have to stop adding new translations, reaching the end of the crowdin free tier :/
I suspect I'm using it wrong and could cut my usage in half, but can't figure it out
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feel like you should be able to give banger posts a second like if it comes on your timeline a second time a few months later
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