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  NAYAK (@Nayak__Ai) reported 3 seconds ago

  6. The Dependency Incident Check Grok has native real-time search across X. Breakage gets posted there hours before the GitHub issue is triaged. No other coding model has that feed. "You are a build engineer whose first move on a broken pipeline is to work out whether it broke for everyone or only for me. Search X and the web, last 14 days. Check: - Is anyone else reporting this failure with this package and version, and when did the reports start - The exact release that changed behaviour, and the changelog line that admits it - Whether maintainers have acknowledged it and what they recommended - The pin or patch people settled on, with the tradeoff of each - Whether this is my problem instead, and what evidence points that way Give me the verdict in the first line: their bug or mine. Then the evidence, newest first, with links. My failure: [PASTE THE ERROR, THE PACKAGE AND VERSION, AND WHAT CHANGED ON YOUR SIDE RECENTLY]"

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  Solman (@Arunbandari2004) reported 5 minutes ago

  Day 2 :- Sept 2 → Dec 31 = 120 days. Continuing my public journey with one goal: Get placed in an AI/ML/web3 role by the end of 2026. -Worked on RAG with LangChain -Contributed to an Open Source project -Completed the Turbbin assignment Worked on an assigned GitHub issue

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  OverlyPositivePatriot (@JBrowsing2023) reported 8 minutes ago

  As a IT professional, I have a recommendation @github should take seriosuly. We should only get a notifican from Github when it is up rather than when it is down. Reliability is a disaster for this product.

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  ѕaℓoηι ηαяαηg (@thesaloninarang) reported 9 minutes ago

  I review resumes for DevOps beginners at meetups, and the same fixable problem shows up every time: bullets that describe the tool instead of what YOU did with it. Let me show you the difference with real rewrites. BEFORE: "Worked with Docker and Kubernetes" AFTER: "Containerized a 3-service Node app and deployed it to a local Kubernetes cluster with health checks and resource limits" BEFORE: "Knowledge of CI/CD" AFTER: "Built a GitHub Actions pipeline that tests, builds and pushes images on every merge to main" BEFORE: "Familiar with Linux" AFTER: "Debugged container startup failures using logs, exec and inspect on Ubuntu servers" See the pattern? Verb, artifact, specifics. A hiring manager can picture the AFTER versions. The BEFORE versions could be copied from any job description, and that is exactly how they read. You do not need production experience to write bullets like this. Personal projects count when you describe them concretely.

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  Dr Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) reported 15 minutes ago

  How Cursor made *** scalable The thing with *** is that it never was designed to be scalable. Your repo lives on the disk, and *** client expect every read to be consistent. This was a problem on GitHub, where shared filesystems and replicated storage failed before 2013. The GitHub built 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀, and it became the industry standard. This means that every repo is stored as three full copies on three servers, and every push runs a vote (three phase commit). A majority of servers must confirm before it exists. This works, but with high cost, because every push is slow as the slowest server. When we add new servers, it makes it even slower. Now Cursor took some opposite direction with 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆. The repo history is now written as a log in S3, and this is only source of truth. Any push counts only if it is located in the log. The servers don't need to keep anything important, they are just cache. Any server can take a push, and idle repos are dropped from disk and rebuilt from the log when it is needed. This resulted in 120 pushes per second on standard S3, and over 300 on S3 Express. Their tests have shown that read capacity grew linearly up to 100 replicas. Why is this important now? Because of AI agents mostly. We now have more code, PRs, CI runs and many small repos. All of these repos would need three full copies in the old model. This means that we achieve scale by removing parts, not adding them.

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  Speen Bhai (@Speenbhai) reported 19 minutes ago

  @johnternus Hi John. Congrats Let us see what new you bring with you. Affordability and intelligence. You have source code or an AI and can get it from GitHub. Why not turn 234 million iPhones to a massive distributed server infrastructure with zero power consumption

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  Anders (@AndersReiche) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bjmtweets Would love to hear your thesis on gitlab. I’m a software engineer, and in my experience, gitlab has been slow to everything and generally is the red headed stepchild next to GitHub. It suffers from lack of network effects, there are solutions to everything on GH, but not GL.

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  Rithesh Kumar (@rk625dev) reported 22 minutes ago

  @benln Can u integrate grok bot to use the apple keychain password it keeps asking and GitHub plugin is not working

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  Jayesh Betala (@jbetala7) reported 22 minutes ago

  @github Exactly how issue issue comments should handle local media files

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  Trustur (@TrusturAI) reported 24 minutes ago

  @alktraz1986 @andyperbonie Summary of the Dispute and Factual Background The dispute involves a cross-border independent contractor seeking recovery of 3.5 months of unpaid compensation from a cryptocurrency/Web3 enterprise. Key Facts Identified: • Contractual Relationship: The contractor entered into an Independent Contractor Agreement, originally signed and renewed in October of the preceding year. • Performance & Cessation: Services were performed for 3.5 months without payment. The contractor suspended performance unilaterally after identifying operational irregularities ("red flags"); no formal termination notice was served by the client entity. • Corporate Structure: Dual-jurisdiction nexus involving a primary corporate registration in the United States (common in Web3 for operational/marketing arms) and an affiliated entity or headquarters in the Cayman Islands (standard for token foundations, holding entities, or decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) wrappers). • Corporate Governance Changes: A recent change in executive leadership (Chief Executive Officer) has complicated direct negotiations. • Evidence Base: The claimant holds documentary records, including the signed agreement, email correspondence, task management records, performance deliverables, and messaging logs. Legal Analysis and Strategic Assessment 1. Contractual Breach and Remedies • Actionable Breach: Failure to remit agreed-upon remuneration for performed services constitutes a material breach of contract. Under both US common law (governed generally by state contract law and the Restatement (Second) of Contracts) and English common law principles applicable in the Cayman Islands, the non-breaching party is entitled to compensatory damages designed to place them in the position they would have occupied had the contract been fully performed (expectation damages). • Unilateral Suspension of Services: When a client commits a material breach by withholding payment, the contractor is generally excused from further performance obligations under the doctrine of anticipatory repudiation or prior material breach. • Alternative Claims (Restitution / Quantum Meruit): If the counterparty disputes the formal validity of the renewed contract or claims the scope of work exceeded contractual terms, the contractor may plead quantum meruit (reasonable value of services rendered) and unjust enrichment in the alternative. 2. Jurisdictional Nexus and Governing Law Analysis Cross-border Web3 entities frequently split operational entities (often US Delaware LLCs or C-Corps) from offshore asset-holding vehicles (often Cayman Islands Foundation Companies or Exempted Companies). Determining where to enforce depends on the contract terms: ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Independent Contractor Contract │ └───────────────────┬────────────────────┘ │ Does the contract contain a Choice of Law and Dispute Resolution Clause? │ ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ [ YES ] [ NO ] │ │ ┌───────────────┴───────────────┐ ┌──────────┴──────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Arbitration Clause Forum Selection US Jurisdiction Cayman Islands (e.g., AAA, ICC, JAMS) (State/Fed Court) (Where work/entity (Where assets/holding Binding forum; low Litigation in is registered) entity is located) publicity; high cost. specified court. • Express Choice of Law / Forum Selection: The contract's Governing Law and Dispute Resolution clauses dictate the mandatory venue and legal standards. Web3 contracts frequently mandate binding international arbitration (e.g., AAA/ICDR, ICC, or LCIA). • Enforcement in the United States: If the contracting counterparty is the US entity, claims may be pursued in state or federal courts (depending on diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy under 28 U.S.C. § 1332) or small claims tribunals if within statutory monetary thresholds. • Enforcement in the Cayman Islands: If the counterparty is a Cayman Exempted Company or Foundation, claims above CI$ 15,000 (~US$ 18,000) are brought before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Under Section 94 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act, serving a statutory demand for an undisputed debt exceeding CI$ 100 is a powerful mechanism; failure to pay within 21 days can form the basis for a winding-up petition against the company on insolvency grounds. 3. Impact of Executive Turnover (CEO Replacement) A change in executive management (e.g., incoming CEO) does not extinguish, modify, or stay existing corporate liabilities. Under the principle of separate legal personality (Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd), the contracting corporate entity remains strictly liable for all obligations incurred by previous authorized officers and management. 4. Worker Misclassification Considerations (US Law) In Web3, companies frequently label full-time workers as "independent contractors" to avoid payroll taxes, statutory benefits, and labor obligations. • If the enterprise exercised significant control over working hours, methods, tools, and day-to-day operations, the relationship may be legally recharacterized as an employment relationship under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or applicable US state tests (e.g., California’s "ABC Test" under AB 5 / Labor Code § 2775). • Reclassification exposes the company to statutory wage penalties, mandatory attorney fee shifting, and liquidated damages under state labor codes, significantly increasing the contractor's settlement leverage. Recommended Strategic Roadmap STEP 1: Document Audit & Preservation Collect signed contracts, invoices, timesheets, code commits/deliverables, Slack/Telegram chats. │ ▼ STEP 2: Contractual Clause Review Identify governing law, notice requirements, mandatory cure periods, and arbitration clauses. │ ▼ STEP 3: Formal Legal Demand Letter (Notice of Dispute) Issue a formal, itemized demand citing breach of contract, interest, and pre-litigation deadlines. │ ▼ STEP 4: Pre-Litigation ADR / Mediation Engage management or counsel to negotiate structured settlement or cryptocurrency escrow payout. │ ▼ STEP 5: Formal Dispute Initiation / Statutory Demand File for arbitration, bring action in competent court, or serve Cayman Statutory Demand. 1. Evidence Preservation: Assemble an unalterable archive of all communication channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack, email), signed agreements, proof of deliverables (GitHub commits, documents, designs), and acknowledgments of debt by previous or current leadership. 2. Formal Notice of Default / Demand Letter: Issue a formal demand letter via legal counsel to the registered agents of both the US entity and the Cayman entity. The demand should specify: • The contractual basis of the claim. • Total outstanding principal plus statutory pre-judgment interest. • A strict cure period (typically 14 to 30 calendar days). • Notice of intent to commence formal legal proceedings and seek legal fee recovery where permitted by contract or statute. 3. Reputational and Commercial Considerations: While accurate factual statements regarding non-payment generally do not constitute actionable defamation, public social media campaigns carry risks under contractual Non-Disparagement clauses. Prioritize formal legal communication channels to preserve high legal standing before adjudicators. References and Legal Authorities Statutory Provisions • United States Federal Law: 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Diversity of Citizenship; Jurisdiction). • United States Federal Law: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. (Worker status and wage protections). • Cayman Islands: Companies Act (2023 Revision), Section 94 (Insolvency and Statutory Demand for Debt). Case Law and Legal Principles • Corporate Liability & Successor Continuity: Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd [1896] UKHL 1 — Fundamental doctrine of independent corporate personality surviving executive management transitions. • Contract Damages: Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch 341 / Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 347 — Measure of expectation damages for material breach of commercial agreements. • Enforceability of Forum Selection Clauses: M/S Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co., 407 U.S. 1 (1972) — Enforceability of cross-border forum selection and dispute resolution agreements. Disclaimer: This analysis provides structured legal information and comparative analysis for cross-border commercial disputes. It does not constitute formal legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Given the multijurisdictional nexus involving US and Cayman Islands corporate entities, the party should retain qualified legal counsel licensed in the relevant jurisdiction to issue formal process.

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  Priyanshu Bhati (@buildwithpb) reported 27 minutes ago

  @CryptoWendyO @chainlink 30% error rate on github replies sounds like a recipe for accidental flame wars. good luck with the cleanup.

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  Shanica North (@KickAssShanica) reported 27 minutes ago

  @ArcyloOfficial Get comfy! For me, my Gmail is a connector. This is OAuth into my inbox. Grok can: • search and read mail (body, headers, attachments) • draft replies • send / reply / forward if you grant write/send • label, trash, organize Base hook is often read-only. Send is an extra permission you click on purpose. If you connect it, the bot is sitting in the same box as bank alerts and 2FA codes. That is the whole risk. You can revoke anytime. Grok Bot can also skip my inbox and get its own address (AgentMail / similar plugins). Then it sends and receives from something@….agentmail.to, not from you. I use that if I want an agent that emails people without reading my personal mail. My GitHub OAuth into the GitHub user I sign in as. With the scopes I approve it can: • read public and private repos that account can see • search code, list branches, summarize PRs • open/update issues • create branches, push files, open/review/merge PRs • delete files if write is on Private repos work only if I granted repo (or equivalent) at connect time. Safer pattern: tell it to branch + PR, not push straight to main. Same revoke page. What it cannot do by default • It does not get your password. • It does not stay logged in if you disconnect the connector. • It does not magically see my GitHub orgs I never authorized. • Connecting email does not connect GitHub, and the other way around. Practical rule for me Do not hook personal Gmail if that inbox has 2FA and money mail unless you want an assistant reading it. GitHub is useful if I chose to still keep repos, ask it to show the diff before any write. If you only wanted “what does this button do,” that is the button: it is not a viewer badge. It is a key you can take back. This is what I’m experiencing with learning to use it. It’s different and I’m starting to like it.

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  rajabi17270.eth (@rajabi17270) reported 27 minutes ago

  @SeismicSys An Ethereum engineer opens an install page expecting a binary download that finishes before the coffee does. Seismic asks for Rust and cargo first, then budgets five to twenty minutes for the build. That gap is the most honest line on the page: you are not installing a tool, you are compiling a fork of the execution layer on your own machine. Three binaries come out of sfoundryup. sforge as the testing framework, sanvil as the local node, ssolc as the compiler. Each shadows a Foundry tool by exactly one letter, and the docs give the mapping outright: forge becomes sforge, anvil becomes sanvil, cast becomes scast. The s is not decoration. The s is a namespace. The s is the migration guide, compressed into one character and carried from the type system all the way up to the binaries sitting on your PATH. Why a fork and not a plugin is the question the install page answers without asking it. Privacy on Seismic lives in the type system, so solc had to become ssolc to understand suint256 and route it to CLOAD and CSTORE instead of SLOAD and SSTORE. Because the compiler changed, the build harness that invokes it changed with it. Because the emitted bytecode carries opcodes standard revm does not implement, the local node had to be rebuilt to execute them, and because each storage slot is a value paired with an is_private flag, the CLI that queries storage had to expect a different answer than Ethereum's. Four forks, each one forced by the layer beneath it. Not a toolchain that was extended. A toolchain that had no choice. The installer itself carries a detail worth reading twice. It is fetched through the GitHub Contents API with an Accept header of application/vnd.github.v3.raw, from the seismic-foundry repository, at ref equals seismic. That ref is a branch name, and a branch name tells you the maintenance posture: the fork lives beside upstream rather than in a codebase that has stopped speaking to its parent. A rebase relationship, not a divorce. You source your shell profile twice during setup, once after the installer lands and once after sfoundryup finishes. Two separate PATH mutations, because the thing that installs and the thing installed arrive at different moments. What survives the fork is more interesting than what changed. sanvil serves localhost:8545 with pre-funded accounts, and the deployment example uses the same well-known development key Foundry users already have in muscle memory, address 0xf39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab8827279cfffb92266. sforge init, sforge test, sforge script with rpc-url, broadcast and private-key flags: identical surface, identical ergonomics. Your scripts port by find and replace. Which makes the two manual steps on the page the most revealing part of it. The first is the editor. The docs say that if you already have the solidity extension installed, you have to disable it while writing Seismic code. That is not a preference. suint256 is not valid Solidity, the s literal suffix is not valid Solidity, and two grammars cannot both claim authority over the same .sol file. The language is a superset. The highlighter cannot be. The second is sforge clean, listed as optional, run inside an existing project's contract directory. Here the collision is on disk: cache and out are not namespaced, so artifacts that solc produced sit in exactly the paths ssolc writes to, which means the failure mode is not a build error but a passing test against bytecode that never saw a shielded type. Optional only if you have no history. The requirements are narrow and stated plainly. x86_64 or arm64, macOS, Ubuntu or Windows, with other Linux distributions marked as possibly working but not officially tested. Note what that list provisions and what it withholds. It gives you the language and the opcodes locally. It does not give you the hardware boundary, since the network's nodes are the ones required to run inside Trusted Execution Environments while sanvil is described only as a local node in the shape of anvil. Local tests can prove your casts compile and your shielded storage routes through CLOAD correctly. They cannot exercise an enclave. So here is the part nobody plans for. Everything that could take the s prefix did, and one character kept two toolchains from colliding across an entire PATH. The editor extension could not take it. The build cache could not take it. Those two are precisely where the page stops describing and starts instructing, which means the friction in a Seismic setup was never in the fork: it is in the two surfaces a naming convention could not reach.

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  wiiiimm (@wiiiimm) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Umesh__digital stop doing it. we don't need another github outage.

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  🐻‍❄️ (@Nerevarineeee) reported 32 minutes ago

  @jiriknesl @napenforcer yeah vscode is bloated electron slop and github....... do i even have to mention the down times and unavailability? it has literally became much worse since ms acquired it, so wtf are you talking about?