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colindean

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Bon vivant, scholar, champion of the oppressed. Software engineer and community builder. My words are my own. Quotes and boosts are not necessarily my views, but something I want followers to see. Also https://pixelfed.social/colindean.

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hynek, to random
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If you wondered why I’m mostly boosting humorous takes on xz drama it’s because I find almost all serious takes absolutely nauseating. So much serious thinking by people who have never maintained anything of substance in their whole life.

colindean,
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@hynek @brainwane "just" used in that manner nearly always indicates a lack of understanding on the part of the speaker, or a disregard of the reasoning or concerns of the subject. To me, it indicates naive thought up to callous disregard. I've virtually eliminated "just" as a preposition from my vocabulary.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Fucking House. Can't support Ukraine fighting Russia, get aid to Gaza, deal with the border. But they waste time on the cynical political nihilism of banning TikTok, taking away the speech of countless millions of citizens not heard in old, white mass media. Fucking House.

colindean, (edited )
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@jeffjarvis esp. When it is pretty blatantly unconstitutional and the Senate realizes that so they probably won't even take it up. Bills of attainder have been unconstitutional for a very long time.

aardrian, to random
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Regular reminder that even vast swathes of the US still have shitty internet connectivity:
“One of Wisconsin's most isolated places is finally getting fast internet”
https://www.wpr.org/one-wisconsins-most-isolated-places-finally-getting-fast-internet

Please consider this when choosing your framework, library, dependencies, third-party services, 9MB background images (looking at you, recent event), fonts, etc. Not everyone is using your high-end system, massive display, and fast connection.

colindean,
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@aardrian heck, I would say step 40 minutes outside of Pittsburgh and you hit areas with lots of people and little internet but the reality is that there are plenty of areas in the suburban area and even inside the city limits with a whole lot of people and not much connectivity. And just wait until the analysis comes out about where the money is going for the new broadband programs.

Lorenanicole, to legal
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How can YOU help @blackpythondevs? 👇🏼

  1. 💸 via https://blackpythondevs.com/#support
  2. 👩🏿‍🏫🧑🏻‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫 checkout https://github.com/BlackPythonDevs
  3. 🗣️🎙️ via X, @blackpythondevs LinkedIn group
  4. Open doors, listen, learn

At ? @blackpythondevs will be at @ThePSF booth today @ 16:00

colindean,
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@pythonbynight @Lorenanicole @blackpythondevs

write the checks 💵

colindean, to IBM
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IBM Cloud Configurator Enterprise Edition

IBM Cloud Secure Secrets Storage Vault

IBM Virtualized Development Studio

colindean,
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@jordan Velocity eventually became Explorer Foundational Components and Application Builder.

This was after a year as IBM Data Explorer and like a month of IBM Watson Cloud Explorer.

simonmic, (edited ) to random
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I'm probably getting ahead of myself, but

https://discuss.plaintextaccounting.org/t/a-trial-of-discourse-for-plain-text-accounting-discussions

Discourse for discussions - any thoughts ? (See link for rationale)

colindean,
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@simonmic I'm not opposed to using Discourse but I need something to remind me to go check it because it's not a part of my general workflow. My days of being stupendously active on forums are largely in the past, almost entirely before Reddit became a thing.

colindean, to reddit
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I looked at my phone's screen time history for the last month. Most days have at least 20 minutes of screen-on-time for Baconreader, my client of choice. Many days have 40 minutes; a few have an hour.

That's a minimum of 20 minutes less time that I'll be using reddit daily starting tomorrow. I'd estimate the average to be around 30 minutes.

That's much less time spent consuming and producing and moderating.

In aggregate, how many people are like me, w/ a shuttered client?

colindean, to random
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I'm incredibly proud of Target today.

I'm stoked that @homebrew was one of the first recipients of Target's new open source fund grants program.

https://tech.target.com/blog/open-source-fund

colindean, to random
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Sorry I missed the meeting, I had a cat on me

colindean,
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colindean, to random
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420: An HTTP Status Code to Report Requester Impairment

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-richardroda-420requesterimpaired-02.html

I support this.

colindean, to Pittsburgh
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Am I seemingly the ~only person on the Internet who wants a smoke detector with a black casing?

I can only find them from boutique, wired, high-end brands. Nest stopped making the Protect in black years ago, apparently. Owl sells them but my house doesn't have a wired smoke detector system; they're not required in .

colindean, to random
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So, in English, we tend to use "RIP" in many contexts to refer to someone deceased.

What is an equivalent for when someone's no longer with a company?

E.g.

"$person did this cool thing, but they're gone now, RIP"

but when they're still alive but no longer accessible in context

colindean, to random
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This has been an incredibly insightful @changelog podcast interview with Paul Vixie, who wrote a whole lot of stuff that powers the modern internet

https://pca.st/episode/0bdfbecd-6802-428f-aad3-6961a8557fb9

colindean, to languagelearning
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That's a bit of a steep descent, .

colindean, to random
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Diggin' @simon's vibes on LLMs at

colindean, to random
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If you're like me and dislike how the macOS Sonoma SF font family looks, esp. on GitHub (Enterprise), consider using this helpful CSS user style sheet with a browser extension like Stylus:

.text-mono, .blob-code-inner, .input-monospace {
font-family: "Fira Code", "Source Code Pro", "Input Mono", "Jetbrains Mono", "Liberation Mono";
}

body, .markdown-body {
font-family: "Source Sans 3", "Source Sans", "Input Sans", "Open Sans", "Noto Sans";
}

colindean, to random
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Found on the ground outside of building F at : a badge with ❤️ FOSDEM

image/jpeg

colindean, to Texas
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This declaration from Governor Abbott feels like more than saber-rattling.

How long until there's a shootout between Texas Rangers and Feds?

The last time a state defied a Supreme Court decision, it really went poorly for the state. Arkansas defied Brown v. Board, and Eisenhower sent in federal troops when the state wouldn't guard against violent, racist protestors… and more actions I've forgotten since high school history class.

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-statement-on-texas-constitutional-right-to-self-defense

colindean, to python
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My long-awaited blog post on the Tech blog has finally been published! Tag soup, you'll love it if you care about any of these together:

#homebrew

https://tech.target.com/blog/make-python-devex

colindean, to terraform
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Naming open source forks of Hashicorp products, a modest proposal:

Already existing:

-
- Vault

My proposals:

OpenPierogi - Packer
OpenStoopwafel - Vagrant
OpenEmpanada - Consul
OpenRavioli - Boundary
OpenSamosa - Waypoint
OpenFufu - Nomad

(names chosen largely at random from dumplings and dumpling-like things)

colindean, to random
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Are you skilled with ? Help me solve a seemingly nasty problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78399515/how-best-to-merge-many-git-branches-appending-to-a-single-file

TL;DR I need to merge dozens of conflicting branches, each adding a few lines to the same file. Octopus merge method isn't working.

colindean, to random
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I wonder how much human productivity time is wasted daily thumbpecking, swiping, or narrating on a mobile keyboard at a desk that could be done significantly faster on a keyboard.

colindean, to random
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What would an ActivityPub based competitor to LinkedIn look like?

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