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OpenAI to acquire Astral (openai.com)
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I thought this was worthy of it's own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

I for one can't wait for non-deterministic package management

"You're absolutely right, I did install the wrong package and infect your system with malware. I will try much harder next time"

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 21 hours ago

(and that I even had to type that second bit is a big bit of my gripe with python in the last decade)