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folkerschamel

@folkerschamel@mastodon.social

I love creating new software.

"All problems of humanity cannot be solved by another level of inaction" - (what David John Wheeler really meant)

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aral, to random
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Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.

This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).

Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.

So thanks for that, Eugen.

(Yes, I’m livid.)

folkerschamel,
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@rriemann @davep @shadowsminder @john380 @aral

I would agree that user level domain blocking of should be interpreted as withdrawal of consent.

folkerschamel, (edited ) to threads
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Statistics related to joining the :

Only a small minority of users (11%) are on servers that do not want to with .

It's roughly the same as four month ago: https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/110938499421631272. Main change seems to be fewer unlisted instances.

That's based on https://fedipact.veganism.social (probably manually curated) together with https://instances.social/instances.json

I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but it gives an idea of the mood.

folkerschamel,
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@yala

What about https://pastebin.com/Qtxmuifm ?

folkerschamel,
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@kinetix @Natanox @me_the_fl00f @Gargron @trumpet @stux This is the same for all instances.

folkerschamel,
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@yala

Good idea!
I did it for the original post. Did it work? Does it help? I can see it in the tooltip, but don't know how to get it out again.

samid, to threads
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so, I learned that can not only get your posts, even if you blocked them (via different servers that didn't and that store your posts cus people there may follow you or interact with you), they can also monetize those posts by showing ads next to them. Thus making money off of you. Put that together with all the genocidal and fascist and other harmful activity. It makes me think that the of the has begun. The cycles seem to move faster and faster. I love it here and I've had many elightening convos and beautiful connections. Today I read that 41% of servers have blocked threads. Maybe there is still hope.
Esp. the neurodivergent community on here is the best I've ever experienced.
@actuallyautistic

folkerschamel,
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@samid @actuallyautistic @ophiocephalic

Yes, seem to be smaller instances. And yes, there seems to be no rock solid information.

folkerschamel,
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@samid @actuallyautistic @ophiocephalic

Only 11% of users are on such instances https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/111612927848322776

18+ andthisismrspeacock, to threads
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Ok, here is my thread, which I'm posting in the middle of the night so it doesn't clutter up most of my followers' feeds. Buckle up. 🧵

folkerschamel,
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@kytta @kindspells

What you call "miracle" is simply that EEE is not a thing here. You use a lot of loaded but vague language like "bad actor" and "may just be a start" and fantasies of how things may play out in your view, but I still don't see how this matches reality.

folkerschamel,
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@kytta @kindspells

Blaming the failure of an project on an open standard and thinking that a walled garden would have saved it is naive in my opinion and also harms the open source community because it avoids addressing the real reasons discuss and draw conclusions from it.

folkerschamel, to python
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for fans:
where does this error come from?

In my opinion, one of the great things about is that it's simple and straightforward - you don't get unexpected surprises. But there are a few exceptions, as this example shows.😉

mialikescoffee, to meta
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The discourse in the last few days regarding and gives the impression that the entire Fediverse is already blocking Threads. I wanted to take a look at the numbers and they speak a different language. The data source for my calculation is https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2.

Measured by user count, 76 % of all users are federated with Threads. Remaining instances with 24 % of users either block Threads or are limited (e.g. infosec.exchange).

folkerschamel,
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@mialikescoffee @73ms

Yes, it seems that https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2 includes only a subset of servers.

folkerschamel, to python
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@ketmorco @zenforyen @diazona @bk1e @askonomm @cazabon @ado @kevin

This unsolved challenge bugs me:
How can I add type hints to the following class

class D:
def init(self, t):
self._t = t
def getattr(self, n):
def m(*args):
print("a")
getattr(self._t, n)(*args)
print("b")
return m

so that can detect type bugs like the following?

class Q:
def f(self, x: int):
print(x)
q = Q()
d = D(q)
d.f(2.0)

chris, to threads
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Consider this: If a large number of Mastodon/Fediverse instances block Threads.net not out of ideological 'purity’ (never a good test anyway) but rather out of true and obvious poor moderation, spam, sources of harassment, etc. Perhaps Threads joining the Fediverse will improve Threads through force of de-Federation?

There have been plenty of keystrokes committed to how powerful Threads is... but don't discount our power.

folkerschamel,
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@chris

0.2% of monthly active users is not, well, much power. It's noise for .

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/mastodon-founder-touts-threads-federation-saying-it-makes-his-x-rival-a-far-more-attractive-option

https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/111612927848322776

folkerschamel,
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@sepfeiffer @chris

Well, what about the scenario that users happily interact with users (if they want) without becoming -like?

For example, I'm exchanging emails with people using gmail without becoming google-like. At least I think.😁

folkerschamel, to python
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Another funny curiosity.🙃

(My personal opinion would be that 'is' should behave as '==' for all types which are not classes.)

treyhunner, to python
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Today I wondered whether I could generate Fibonacci numbers in a list comprehension using 's walrus operator.

It turns out that this is possible... and I do not recommend it. 😬🤭

>>> a = b = 1
>>> n = 15
>>> fibonacci = [(old:=a, a:=b, b:=old+b)[0] for _ in range(n)]
>>> fibonacci
[1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610]

folkerschamel,
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@treyhunner Somebody writing such code I would first complement them for their IQ of 200 and then give them a good talking to: don't pull the hairs of your playmate.

shrikant, to threads
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The whole fiasco is a no-win situation for , IMHO.

If a majority of instances with , then and zuck can claim mastodon is hostile and move on to the part of "embrace-extend-extinguish" and create proprietary features.

If a majority of instances and accept threads, Meta and Zuck will embrace it but continue to and eventually take defacto control of the protocol.

@Gargron, good luck threading this needle, man! 👍

folkerschamel,
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@BeAware @shrikant

But only 11% of users are on such instances https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/111612927848322776
A fracture yes, but not affecting the vast majority of users.

keithwilson, to bluesky
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This is a nice statement of why exists and how it differs from other social networks like #X, and . It’s also an amazing technical achievement. 👏 https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

folkerschamel,
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@keithwilson
This statement looks misleading to me.

For example, the first half of the article: "[...] you would have to leave that social network and lose your existing connections. It doesn't have to be this way!". Sounds like they invented that idea, as if / didn't exist.

Or: "On Bluesky, your experience is based on what feeds and accounts you follow, and you can always participate in the global conversation [...]". That's the same for .

folkerschamel, to threads
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New statistics about joining the :

The small minority of users on servers that don't want to with (fedipact/suspend/block) has slightly shrunken further from 11.17% to 11.11%.

Numbers from https://fedipact.veganism.social (probably manually curated) and https://instances.social/instances.json. Pie chart motivated by @mialikescoffee https://mastodon.social/@mialikescoffee@social.tchncs.de/111606781226003585. Previous statistics https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/111578560621666468. source https://pastebin.com/tzBF9VKN.

folkerschamel,
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@tze @mialikescoffee

Yes, and if the trend continues, in 3 years you will be the original , everything else will be conquered territory. But they still have time to confront it and federate with you again.

So let's keep optimism up! 👍

folkerschamel, to python
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⁉️ time!

What is the result of the following Python expression?

Why?

[x for x in range(2, 1000) if all(range(x + 1)[::y][-1] != x for y in range(2, x))]

Enjoy!🙃

(Another riddle is https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/110867567641826240)

folkerschamel, to python
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⁉️ Another for
!

What is the value of the following expression? Why?

sum(map(lambda q, x=[]: (x, x.append(1))[0], range(10)), [])

(Another riddle is https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/110876661322264891)

faassen, to python
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People complained about semantic indentation in as an unsurmountable barrier of syntax, but that and other things didn't hold it back from becoming the most popular language in the world

folkerschamel,
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@faassen Who is complaining about that? And why?

folkerschamel, (edited ) to threads
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How do you create multiple ?

folkerschamel, to mastodon
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Typical user: If behaves nicely, them I may allow them to access my data, which they desperately need to boot their .

Typical user: What the heck is ?

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