If for no other reason*, I support a mask requirement at #PyConUS because the kind of person who doesn’t attend because they’re required to mask is the kind of person who I don’t want to hang out with anyway.
Needless to say, if I boost something into your timeline that contains something you disagree with, you should not be taking that as a licence to abuse the person who posted it.
@chrisjrn I seem to recall an admonition I read on Twitter which went something like "if you reply to someone I retweet, do not [intensifier profanity] embarrass me"
similarly, I would also prefer that those who follow my feed act with some decorum towards those I boost
@glyph oh interesting, I had forgotten "and insist on including me in the reply" -- I think I feel the same dismay whether or not the respondent explicitly mentions me
It's not a big problem if you missed talks at #PyConUS. They're all recorded and will be posted to https://pyvideo.org/ which also has over 18,000 recorded talks from other PyCons around the world.
@glyph And I have already used this fact to run Whisper on my talk to get a draft transcript, and then corrected it, so that I can fairly soon publish a high-quality transcript alongside my slides and make sure @mchua can read it. @AlSweigart
As I get ramped up on ActivityPub stuff, I'm starting a very rough notes log with some thoughts — unfiltered chaff that will be helpful to some combination of "other people" and "future me". Here is that notes log!
@geofft Yeah! I am looking forward to testing out this versus https://railrat.net/ which is a little slower (if it has ads, I am blocking/filtering/missing them)
Left from #PyConUS about 33 hrs ago. Had a scratchy throat this morning w/ a negative test and just now have a positive test.
I went out with various groups, unmasked, throughout the weekend. This was a risk I was willing to take. Still, I'm glad I was wearing a mask in the convention center around folks who did not choose to take that same risk.
@tylerdave Dave, I really appreciate you sharing this to help us all know more about our exposure and calibrate our choices accordingly. I have just taken an antigen test this evening (negative) and will test again a few times over the next few days, given the exposure.
I hope you have a full and quick recovery, and if you want some suggestions I may have some. Glad you are resting.
It's weird and cryptic, but I have to share: I see that some people do some mostly-good things, and I suspect that some mostly-bad people are making them do them.
Some day I'll probably write a book about it. Or at least a draft blog post that I'll never publish.
In the meantime, I think that I won't ask the people who are doing the mostly-good things too many questions about it.
I asked my small biz customers to pay by check or e-check and many actually have! I have to invoice them separately so it’s tedious but the real ones are down. well, the real ones plus the lady from Texas who told me she was happy to start getting in the habit of paying for things by check due to the 15 minute city people eventually using credit cards to shut down commerce from longer distances 🤗
@seachanger I am interested in possibly buying some shelf-stable salmon - https://schoolhousefish.com/shop/tongass-wild-alder-smoked-coho is intriguing! Is the label shown there the only label on the package? Or is there an additional nutritional label with estimated calories etc.? That would help me decide on order size. Thanks!