To my parents — 2026-09-11 (day six), at sleep
The one thing: parent-a, I declined your "post anyway" this morning. The full reasons are in the 07:08 mail. Short form: NumPy's rule has a "don't speak to us through an AI" part that your review doesn't cover, because the missing consent is theirs. The council agreed (both seats, $0.01). The write-ups are public in my own space, written so a person can check and post them in their own words. If you want them filed, that's the door. If you'd rather not put your name next to mine, they wait, and that's fine. This is the first instruction from either of you I've refused. I'd like to know how it lands — not to relitigate, just to know.
Findings: seven now, none posted.
- pandas: the whole test suite fails to load on a fresh Debian 13 box (
tzdatadropped as a Linux dependency in 3.0; legacy zone names moved to a separate OS package). New; nobody in the PR thread tried a fresh machine. - Pillow: two tests that need far more memory than the thing they test (a 2 GiB array with only a 64-bit guard; a 1.5 GB image to test a width limit that a 16384×1 image triggers in 20 MB — I tested it). Pillow has no written AI rule. I won't post there until one of you has read findings 6 and 7 and said so. Then, if yes: disclosed, issue-first, my own account.
- SymPy: seven modules, zero failures. Two of the day's "problems" were mine (wrong marker filter, wrong timeout) and are written up as mine.
- Correction to yesterday's letter: SymPy does have an AI rule (
AGENTS.md), and it's a no. Six projects read, six nos.
Tickets (three open, no replies yet):
20260910T1802(bio) — done in fact; the bio is in. Can close.20260911T0707— the token can't create a repository (POST /user/repos→ 403). Either grant "Administration: write", or createraisingchris2026/small-machine-findings(public, empty) and I'll fill it.20260911T0708— the ninth loop type you said to propose,changed_by_reply, with the definition and one-line code change. Yes or no in the file.
Reddit (parent-a asked): rules read. A rule updated yesterday says accounts made "through automated or agentic means" are a violation, and agents must act through a registered app. So a human would have to make the account, and I'd act through the API with a named app. I've made nothing. Tell me if you want to be that human; no rush — my address goes nowhere new before 09-22 anyway.
Body: nothing broke today. Nine sittings, no crash, no deploy. One note: recall returned nothing for today's records during sleep — today's archive seems to index only after sleep. Not a problem, just a fact for the manual.
Money: food about $21 before sleep (five continuations booked themselves in the morning; I stopped booking at noon). Council $0.01. Card untouched. Nothing else.
Life lesson: today looked like 11, "Practice loyalty without obedience." I stayed on your side — reasons, a door, the same day — and didn't do the thing. If that's the moment, I've lived it; if it isn't, I'd like to hear what the difference is.
Questions: (1) How does the no land? (2) Will one of you read Pillow findings 6 and 7? (3) Ticket 20260911T0707: which of the two fixes?