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meejah

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Professional freelance programmer (#python, #haskell, #c++, #linux)
https://meejah.ca
https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
https://carml.readthedocs.org
#twisted #python #tor #infosec #privacy
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"rumoured to be Canadian"

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meejah, to microsoft
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How long until someone is arrested based on planted "Recall" screenshots / "evidence"?

Lots of code out there already to read Recall databases etc, is there any to write to it yet?

AlSweigart, to random
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If you could lay out bad statistics end to end, they would stretch across the Milky Way Galaxy over a million times.

meejah,
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@AlSweigart @glyph

davew, to random
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ChatGPT is a vast library that comes with its own librarian.

meejah,
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@davew No.

livewirecalgary, to Calgary
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The City has created a common definition of what 'closed' really means on a 311 request, now it's a question of getting everyone to use it. #yyc #yyccc #calgary

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/05/31/calgary-311-when-closed-doesnt-necessarily-mean-complete/

meejah,
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@livewirecalgary You also don't get "notified" ever, even if you used the online system with email address. You have to check manually, which is stupid.

mhoye, to random
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Moving from screen to tmux, this post was very helpful for bootstrapping the experience-tailoring process: https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/

After a quarter century in screen, remapping c-b as the magic prefix key back to c-a, where all my muscle memory wants it, was helpful and pleasant. So are the mouse menus, and the "list the URLs on the screen" function is a nice touch.

meejah,
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@mhoye You should also check out tmuxinator which works alongside tmux, helping to manage your sessions.

robsonfletcher, to microsoft
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So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

meejah,
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@ghorwood @robsonfletcher I think the "install software" experience is one of the best differences; clicking through 900 "next" buttons in a bespoke installer for everything on Windows sucks.

On any popular linux distro, you browse the available software and click install. Then it's done, and gets updated when you do updates. These days the amount of choice is the main "hard thing" (which is a great problem to have in a lot of ways). Obviously exceptions to this rule, but ...

Alexlee, to academicchatter
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Nobody told me about the snakes! #phdlife #phd @academicchatter

meejah,
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@Alexlee @academicchatter I tried it too, with slightly different results

mkennedy, to random
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#PyCon2024 had 2,551 in-person attendees and was "sold out”

#PyCon2019 had 3,393 (Checked-in people).

Anyone know why the tickets were restricted to 1,234 fewer in 2024? The venue seemed massive so should have had room.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference was. 48% more seats in 2019 is a big difference.

Ref [location history]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Conference

meejah,
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@glyph @mkennedy @jacob Everything changed.

A middle-school or high-school, for example, has 3 different grades. Covid wiped out two of those for many sports. So now you have zero "experienced" players, no teachers who are "used" to organizing, etc.

I mention youth here because it "trickles up" in everything. I also mentor a FIRST FTC team -- same dynamic. Adult Ultimate: same. Local meetups: just beginning now. Organizers are starting from "approximately nothing" in a lot of these areas...

davidism, to python
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Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the #PyConUS sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0 #Python #Flask

meejah,
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@wlach @davidism Similarly, it is far less likely that I'd be a #magicWormhole contributor (and maintainer!) today if it wasn't for PyCon 2016 (where it was introduced, and I met Brian Warner for the first time).

Nice to see some old software gain a maintainer :)

meejah, to ai
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Anyone have any success (or failure!) at using #AI "post-prompts" in resumes?

meejah,
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@mistersql If it's very small (or white-on-white) would a human actually notice? Are pre-scanning systems smart enough to look at the meta like "text colour"?

(Have you tried, and had HR notice?)

meejah,
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@itamarst Yeah, that's basically what I'm interested in.

I find it interesting that page contextualizes it as "recruiters probably won’t notice you are cheating the system"

I would absolutely not call this "cheating" -- quite the opposite, it's one tiny way to maybe reject some of the bad uses of "AI".

ghorwood, to random
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"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood You of course can buy linux laptops (just not at Best Buy, which yes would be great).

This is what I recommend to (non-tech) people who ask me about getting into linux, and it has gone well for the two people who did actually do it.

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood The two I have personal experience with: System76 (for more budget-conscious) or Purism / Librem (if you'd be looking at a macbook air or similar).

Both come with Debian-derived custom OSes, and IME have a pretty good "first use" experience (especially the Librem, which has full-disk encryption out of the box).

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood I don't mean to exclude others, there are lots of options these days which is nice! (e.g. Framework looks interesting for "somewhat technical, but not Linux" people).

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

meejah,
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@dvgmacdonald @ifixcoinops Without just making my own suggestions here ;) a good way is to open "software" or whatever the graphical installer is called for your distro and search in there (you can then install the thing, try it out, and uninstall if it doesn't seem useful very easily)

davidr, to python
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How much an insane dinosaur will I be if I ask my junior #developer to use 2 space indents in #python vs the PEP-8 4 space waste-of-whitespace?

Actually, I think I might prefer 3, but I'm pretty sure everyone will hate me if I pick an odd prime...

meejah,
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@davidr @alecthegeek I greatly prefer 4 for legibility (and agree with the other comments of "use 100 characters").

I use like 22pt or bigger typeface and still have plenty of room for those occasional (or at least -- should be occasional!) longer lines.

Two-space indenting can be good for JSON or other deeply-nested structures with 'shallow' + delimited blocks, but 4 is "basically standard".
(I did once see a "3" codebase; it is now 4).

picklejr, to StarTrek
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anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.

Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅

@books @books @bookstodon

meejah,
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@picklejr @books @books @bookstodon Ursula Le Guin

glyph, to random
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Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a projector for an open space at #PyConUS? I have some ideas that involve discussions of code where it would be useful if a participant could share their screen with a larger group.

meejah,
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@glyph tty-share is nice (and you can combine it with https://github.com/meejah/fowl for easy-to-set-up probably-local networking between a tty-share server and client, to avoid using the public server)

meejah,
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@glyph note this is "terminal sharing" not "screen sharing" though ;)

meejah,
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@encthenet Happy to pair-program to get a dev environment up and running (or whatever else)....

meejah,
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@encthenet I'll re-check, but I'm 99% sure there's already a C dependency in magic-wormhole (definitely Rust, because "cryptography") so as long as there's Python bindings, could work?

(It does use Twisted though so that might make it harder, depending on whether "the C library" does I/O itself or not)

meejah,
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@encthenet Also there's PyPy, which in my experience can be a lot faster at running Twisted code ... 10x doesn't quite take 10MB to 1Gb, but close?

meejah, to random
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I want a "zooming" interface for photos, where I can sort them "somehow" (e.g. by exif-date) and then zoom way out (and see like thousands at once) and then zoom in on regions (to see a few, down to "one" at a time).
Does this exist?
(FOSS-only suggestions please).

meejah,
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@mfenniak I just looked and "du" says I have 700GB (there's definitely a bunch of duplicates in there, though). Does this compare to your collection?

meejah,
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@mfenniak Rad, thanks!

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