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• Post #4086844

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116841096898280132 Apparently LG was also using a silent app install mechanism in Windows 11 to push McAfee ads. Never buying LG again. https://www.theverge.com/tech/970489/lg-mcafee-ads-windows-microsoft-crackdown

• Post #4022981

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553 Unfortunately the blog post is the usual "it's the individual, not the company" line without acknowledging that people are upset because the company sends money to said individual. People don't want to be indirectly funding these politics and unless you say that person is no longer directly getting money from the company which facilitates that money, I don't want to give you my money.

• Post #3974801

  Wasmtime now has GC and exception handling support! https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-gc The GC support is useful for having **much** smaller Wasm files when you compile straight to Wasm (i.e. my WASI builds won't use it). The exception handling support should help with long jumps in C code. For Python that would be useful for porting MicroPython to WASI.

• Post #2531216

  Collection of Python core devs: https://mastodon.social/collections/116540107831540575

• Post #1834565

  @digiglean I just listened to episode 292 and you can tell the other Christopher that I appreciate the support with PEP 832 and that some version of the PEP will get submitted if simply because I think I have enough support from tool authors to make it worth it.

• Post #1834564

  For those interested in a very simple build back-end for Python extension modules, I came across https://just-buildit.github.io/just-buildit/ .

• Post #1756714

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sethmlarson/116477240088086817 Note the "install from pylock.toml"! It's experimental, but having PEP 751 reaching this point is big!

• Post #1262318

  PEP 832: virtual environment discovery https://discuss.python.org/t/106998 @pauleveritt and the PyCharm folks would probably be interested in this one. This PEP also puts me in a tie with @vstinner for being the 4th most prolific PEP (co-)author. 😅

• Post #1202773

  OpenAI is buying Astral https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/ 1. I'm happy Astral got their exit (which we all knew was the end goal) 2. I'm glad no one will accuse me of trying to kill the company anymore by working on standards or saying there are other workflow tools 3. I'm taking a wait-and-see view (e.g. Astral already said more AI is coming to their tools https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/03/learnings-from-pyai-conference.html#:~:text=Astral%20is%20also%...

• Post #1054144

  My latest blog post got into the recent edition of the Crux by @daedalus and now I feel like I've met a goal I didn't know I had (been a reader for while now). Next goal: to be called a "friend-of-the-Crux" in a future newsletter 😁

• Post #851592

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jni/116287554201659198 I said digital attestations and `pylock.toml` would have helped with the litellm attack. People asked for more details, so I wrote a blog post explaining why. It also hopefully acts at motivation for people to use: - Trusted publishing - Digital attestations - Lock files, and `pylock.toml` specifically https://snarky.ca/why-pylock-toml-includes-digital-attestations/ So yes, @jni , I have a "human-readable intro" because I wr...

• Post #776120

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/116285175398594132 Notice how the compromised releases were directly uploaded. This is why `pylock.toml` includes attestation data and trusted publishing is important. If the project used trusted publishing then their the lack of attestation data could have been noticed in a diff of the lock file as it would have suddenly disappeared (which is also why `pylock.toml` was designed to be human-readable).

• Post #625207

  Wrote a blog post to give a status update on WASI support for CPython as PEP 816 got accepted! https://snarky.ca/state-of-wasi-support-for-cpython-march-2026/

• Post #615394

  The Q&A from EuroPython for the special 20 minute preview cut of the Python documentary that covered @mariatta and @mitsuhiko 's sections is now up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf2AqQ5a38Y

• Post #615390

  The final release of Python 3.9 is out! https://discuss.python.org/t/the-final-python-3-9-security-fix-release-is-out/104666 May you all enjoy using the features added in Python 3.10 if that's now your oldest version. 😁 https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html

• Post #316956

  Because @tiangolo isn't too active over here, there's a mini-doc on FastAPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR8ngthqiE