djotaku

Green_Footballs, 7 days ago to random

What an insufferable jackass.

Jack Dorsey praises Twitter as ‘freedom technology’ as he leaves Bluesky board

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4646630-jack-dorsey-praises-twitter-as-freedom-technology-as-he-leaves-bluesky-board/?utm_source=press.coop

djotaku, 12 days ago to random

Regardless of how you feel about the content of the protests, one thing is absolutely clear: If you've read any of @pluralistic books, you would definitely not be surprised at the police's actions last night at Columbia University. The books have been an eye-opening education in how adversarial modern protest response is.

djotaku, 15 days ago to random

@mkennedy love the new theme "song" for @talkpython that came on before the chatgpt SAAS episode

djotaku, 19 days ago to random

@brianokken re: moving away from slack: have you considered matrix? There's the main free server and it's also pretty easy to run your own if you use containers

djotaku, 1 month ago to random

I know everyone in the OSS world has been talking/reading about the #XZ issue for the past few days, but I found that @joshbressers episode: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/04/01/xz-bonus-spectacular-episode/ and the @changelog news episode: https://changelog.com/news/88 to be great explainers. I think the Changelog is probably a better first listen to get all the details and then you can listen to Josh and @kurtseifried
talk about the implications and how this is an unsolvable problem, but that doesn't mean we should give up

micahflee, 3 months ago to random

Tucker Carlson could face EU sanctions for his interview with Vladimir Putin https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-sanctions-eu-putin-interview-1867655

djotaku, 4 months ago to random

@miguelgrinberg As I was reading your Microdot post (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/microdot-yet-another-python-web-framework), it made me want to ask your opinion on web frameworks, especially given your expertise with Flask. I've written apps in Django, FastAPI, and Flask. I think the dev story for choosing between Django and Flask/FastAPI is pretty easy to see. But for a new project how does one decide between Flask and FastAPI? Thoughts?

djotaku, 6 months ago to random

@pluralistic did you ever do a write up on why you went away from creative commons for your books?

djotaku, 6 months ago to random

@mkennedy you've mentioned a few times you prefer chameleon to jinja2. What's the benefit in your opinion? Also, what about partials love when using htmx?

brianokken, 6 months ago to random

The main reason I am learning Django is that the Django community seems to have quite a bit of fun.

pythonbynight, 6 months ago to random

Hey all! Hopefully you've been enjoying @djangocon

I've had major FOMO attending online, but still feeling part of it, especially since my online talk will be shown in around 20 minutes!

I'll be on slack or on here if anyone has questions/comments.

https://2023.djangocon.us/talks/back-to-the-future-of-hypermedia-in-django/

reginasbread, 7 months ago to random

I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.

jakers, 7 months ago to random

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mkennedy, 7 months ago to random

Hey, Vivaldi browser is now (finally!) out for iOS.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-launches-on-ios/#pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=subscribers

djotaku, 7 months ago to random

My absolute favorite fact so far from @pluralistic 's book The Internet Con is how the mother flippin' booster rockets for the US space shuttle had a size constraint that could be traced back to ancient Rome.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

Interesting that a lot of people don't think Diablo is a RPG. They have very valid points. A lot to think about. I realize you can't box a game by a label, much like an adventure game or even point-and-click adventure game, but it's enlightening to think about.

jwildeboer, 10 months ago to random

The contrast of 100s of refugees having died on a ship on their way to Europe to countries sending military rescue troops to save 5 rich people that went missing trying to look at the wreck of the #Titanic makes me sick.

oliphant, 10 months ago to random

The path of least resistance states that some big company owning social media isn't a problem, until it is.

If things seem competently run, you'll give them a shot, start posting, entering a bunch of personal data, tell your friends.

I think it will be harder to convince people to do that going forward. We've had a sort of 'social media reset' the past 6 months or so, and if anything, it seems to be accelerating (as all the big platforms start doubling down on really bad ideas.)

Ultimately the web is transient, and stuff can change over time, and a site that was once trusted can lose that trust.

Better, I think, to exist on a platform where no one owns you, your data is exportable (and importable, some places) and your follow graph can move with you.

You get to watch flameouts and personalities and bad admins in realtime here, too, lots more of them than just one.

But you're ultimately not beholden to any of that. You can move until you find your people, and your followers come with you.

That's just not a thing anywhere else.

poppastring, 10 months ago to random

At every single inflection point in the recent social media wars I have thought "I am so glad I have invested in a blog".

djotaku, 10 months ago to python

My 7 year old daughter just asked why the #python logo isn't as cute as the #golang gopher. She wanted it to be a cute snake.