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meejah

@meejah@mastodon.social

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

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meejah, to random
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Wow, neat -- just had an out-of-the-blue request for what I think was my very first FOSS public software: a client-side robot that played Id's Quake way back in 1998

mhoye, to random
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The shovels on the side of that cybertruck tool rack are just an absolutely iconic piece of industrial design from somebody who has never in their lives done a job, met anyone doing a job, or once gave a passing thought to anyone potentially considering a job, that might give them a callus.

meejah,
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@mhoye @SnoopJ Fine, you made me look at cybertruck pictures.

Those shovels look great for doing ground-breaking ceremonies! Just need a touch of gold around the top or something?

caarlos0, to random

I'm now backing up all my github repositories to my NAS, using @charmcli's soft-serve new mirroring feature.

Now I always have, in my network, an eventually up to date copy of the repos I need :)

TLDR: I can pull/clone/etc even if GitHub is having issues, and push later ✅

meejah,
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@suchipi @caarlos0 There's "gitolite" too, which I run on a VPS so that I can just blindly push all my repos with an alias before going remote (and not have to think about stuff like "should this be public?")

(Doesn't replace the above but might compliment it, depending on use-case). I've had zero problems with for years, it "just works".

robsonfletcher, to random
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This is one of those articles that I'd love to hear people's thoughts on, but only after they've actually read the entire article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/matthew-morin-opinion-project-sovereignty-1.6814277

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Incredibly naive.

robelix, to random
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Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

meejah,
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@adorfer @robelix I've got some great muck over here! We could use it in the ceremony!

meejah, to random
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magic-folder 23.5.0 is released
https://pypi.org/project/magic-folder/23.5.0/
-folder -lafs

x0darkpadr3, to random

Outside of the occasional snarky comment on shenanigans or sharing of an article or two, I won't be posting much on the Alberta Election.

However, please watch this brief video by Barry Morishita of the Alberta Party.

His words resonate here. Though we need to get rid of Danielle Smith, there is no accountability or governing effectiveness if we ping-pong between two parties.

A minority govt with a moderate third party is progress.

https://vimeo.com/822565708

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 While I can agree with your desired outcome of "having more viable parties" I don't see any way this doesn't just suck progressive votes away from the only actual alternative to dooming the province to more

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 I think the problem is way, way deeper than that.
I don't know what "policy screwup" you're imagining, but nobody knows or talks about any policies.

It's orange vs. blue.

Ask anyone who "hates" some party to name a single policy (of that or any other party).

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 (Also, cool: but fix it after this election please ;)

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 I really don't see how yet another "center-right" party helps any of this. We need some actually-left style parties if you want to expand the acceptable debate in ("Overton Window")

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 The NDP is also centrist.
(What do you think is different about the Alberta Party?)

There's no "left" in Alberta currently: there's the NDP + Alberta party milling somewhere around the center and a far-right UCP trying to turn us into Florida.

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 What is a "definitely left" policy ever held by the Alberta NDP?

meejah,
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@x0darkpadr3 Yeah, I think we mostly agree -- except I'm saying we need more left voices so I'd way rather see a "clearly different" party rather than the Alberta Party (which AFAICT is largely similar to the NDP).

robsonfletcher, to internet
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Drew Barnes, who was kicked out of the UCP caucus in May 2021 and served as an independent MLA in Cypress-Medicine Hat, says he's not going to seek re-election.

He announced it in a video.

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Awww, I was hoping he'd follow through on his threats to start an "even more right" party than the UCP haha

wanderinghermit, to fediverse

I don’t understand, can someone please enlighten me?
I keep seeing statements about how the hard part of Mastodon is figuring out what server to join.
I see things in my feed from many different servers. So why does it make a difference which one I belong to?

meejah,
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@wanderinghermit The "local" timeline (which is just toots from your instance), and how admins do their thing (e.g. policies, how diligent they are, what other instances are blocked, etc)

ghorwood, to random
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this is less of a 'many-to-many' relationship and more of a 'whatever-to-whatever' relationship

meejah,
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@ghorwood oh man, now I want to put "w:w" on an "entity-relationship diagram" and see if anyone notices through their glazed-over eyes ;)

kop316, to random
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Thank you to @bragefuglseth and the folks in the App Icon Design team ( https://matrix.to/#/#appicondesign:gnome.org ) for help designing a new icon for Phosh Antispam!

We are looking to possibly rename the app, so if you have ideas, they are welcome!

meejah,
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@bragefuglseth @bjoessi @kop316 I've always found "made up names" to be good for at least search visibility. (But can be harder to remember).

I know naming is pretty arbitrary, but do the Gnome HIGs have like "further justification and/or discussion" anywhere? Do they get translated, or is it literally "Stoplight" in all languages?

(Icon looks great, BTW!)

meejah,
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@bragefuglseth I do like how clean and more-consistent the newest GNOME things are for sure. And yeah, in a lot of places "any guidelines at all" will improve things :) as far as consistency.

robsonfletcher, to random
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Alberta is about to enter another election campaign and one thing that's actually not all that easy to find is...

... the candidates!

Seriously, it's actually kinda hard to find -- all in one place, online -- who's running where, with links to their websites/bios, etc.

I hope to make that a lot easier with a series of interactive tools that we will launch on Monday at cbc.ca/calgary

Here's a sneak preview...

A screenshot of an interactive map of electoral districts in Calgary and the candidates in one district, Calgary-Buffalo, highlighted.

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Aren't we just reduced to caring about 2 (or maybe 3) colours now?

meejah,
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@robsonfletcher Sorry, I was being snarky ;) but I always appreciate projects like this that provide a party-agnostic way to get pertinent election information!

kevinlovestech, to random
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Finally on Bl*esky. It's clearly very early days. Kinda meh so far, but we'll give it time.

Definitely prefer Mastodon at this point. :)

meejah,
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@kevinlovestech I'm not giving that billionaire a second chance, haha

meejah,
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@kevinlovestech Aren't they building their own protocol?
(In any case, even if it was "just ActivityPub + mastodon" that wouldn't change my opinion much)

meejah, to random
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My theory that "nobody will steal a unicycle from my front porch, because hard to ride" has been proved incorrect :(

meejah, to opensource
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I guess my post has vanished in the mists of time.
I am a professional Python developer, working almost exclusively on and of the genre. I sometimes do volunteer work.
Outside of that I , , and and currently trying to become a

meejah,
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@ruari Well, it got stolen last week :( so I guess I get to upgrade but: decent? I can free-mount and ride sidewalks / ramps etc for some light commuting.
Can slow down and stop, but still working on idling and backwards...

meejah,
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@ruari Found a nice used one, so I'm back in business! (And it's a cool green colour instead of black :)

This one does not magically go backwards yet though ;)

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