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mdylanbell

@mdylanbell@fosstodon.org

Software engineer, currently at the intersection of food and robotics. Posted opinions are my own.

I enjoy #SciFi + #Fantasy in any media, video and board #games. #dog papa to 2 #ShihTzus.

He/Him.

tech at work: #python, #aws, #PostgreSQL, #kubernetes, #terraform

exploring: #go, #rust, #proxmox, #arduino, #RaspberryPi

editor: #neovim in #tmux + alacritty

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DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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To those saying that Hamas, alone, is at fault for Gaza's plight

Hamas may have committed war crimes on Oct 7.

The whole point of international law is to bring all parties to account.

Holding Hamas, alone, responsible, but not Israel, is tantamount to supporting Israel's genocide.

mdylanbell,
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@DrALJONES I guess I’ll earn the ban. Israel is attacking Hamas, who is using human shields, which is an ongoing war crime. Of course the civilian casualties are horrific, but should Israel not retaliate against its enemy to protect itself, because the enemy terrorists use human shields, and risk another 10/7?

markwalker, to python
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I've got a django management command that uses python logging to output info.

How can I capture that output with pytest? I've tried a StringIO context manager for stdout with a root logging handler to the console πŸ€”

mdylanbell,
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@markwalker pytest has built in functionality to capture logging. https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.1.x/how-to/logging.html . Logging plumbing can be difficult but this should work. Also, the β€˜pytest-django’ module may help but I’m not sure it’s required.

SeattleSanchez, to politics

My mind has been obsessed with this video all day! So well laid out how our two parties became one since the 80s and 90s.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRc1uouD/
@actuallyautistic

mdylanbell,
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@SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic the two parties are nothing alike.

mdylanbell,
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@SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic I think this guys right about republicans but so wrong about democrats. Change is hard and democrats are a large tent party of all non fascists and if anything a few members are too timid to do difficult political things because the right is so good at whipping their followers into a frenzy and violence.

mdylanbell,
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@SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic Most democrats are for a lot more progressive change but that change requires a super majority (plus padding) in Congress to implement. Or republicans could stop being obstructionist clowns but that seems unlikely.

mdylanbell,
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@SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic I did understand the argument in the video; I just think it's conspiratorial nonsense.

I think the real issue is that people don't fully grasp the workings of Congress and how difficult it is to pass meaningful legislation, especially when one party is hell-bent on blocking that progress, especially when the electoral system biases things towards that obstructionist party.

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@sal @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic I think democrats definitely want to help all classes but admittedly could do better at talk and actions for specifically for working class folks. Although this argument somewhat ignores the things they already do; Biden recently joined the auto workers strike in an unprecedented act of support for Union labor.

mdylanbell,
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@sal @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic Semi-agree. So let’s vote democrats (since they are the best option that can win) while pushing them to do better and making an effort to elect more progressives in local and state elections (through voting and/or volunteering).

mdylanbell,
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@sal @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic ah, so you want Trump to win. I personally think women and minorities have been hurt enough by third party presidential votes but you do you.

mdylanbell,
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@theaardvark @sal @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic apologies. I didn’t start the thread.

georgetakei, to random

So if I’ve understood correctly, a Colorado district court found that Trump engaged in insurrection and that the First Amendment did not protect his inciting speech at the Ellipse on January 6. But he can still be on the ballot in the state because (checks notes) the Presidency is not an β€œoffice of the United States” and that the president is not an β€œofficer.” That is certainly an odd thing to conclude. If the President is not an officer, who the hell is?!

mdylanbell,
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@storchin @georgetakei but actually: β€œI’m a trial judge and this is a question for the Supreme Court so I’m going to rule in an easily appealable way.”

walkerb, to random

Go home , you are as drunk as Javascript πŸ˜‚β€‹

mdylanbell,
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@walkerb That’s not nearly as bad as js, lol. What do you think the last 2 should do?

Free_Press, to news
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Minnesota Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Thursday that states have the authority to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot, with some suggesting that Congress is best positioned to decide whether his role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack should prevent him from running.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-2024-ballot-5cb50c1ee6432efe72fd643c31dec474

mdylanbell,
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@Free_Press Of course Congress is. It’s right there in the amendment! The automatic disqualification can be waived if two thirds of Congress agrees.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp. πŸš«πŸ“Ί

β€œA federal judicial panel has turned down a bid to allow live television coverage of two historic criminal trials of scheduled for next year.

Without apparent dissent, a committee that handles potential changes to the federal courts’ criminal rules concluded Thursday that it had no ability to alter the existing ban on broadcasting federal criminal trials”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/26/trump-federal-trials-televise-00123801

mdylanbell,
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@GottaLaff hopefully they allow recording for later broadcast or at least historical documentation.

ned, (edited ) to random

Decided to look up USA's next Speaker of the House. First thing I find is he's a staunch gun advocate for "the right to bear arms".

Then I look at his X, and I see him first of all making a strawman accusation that "the left is justifying" the Hamas attack (truth is we condemn the war crimes of Hamas, and do not condone the occupation).

Then he goes on to unilaterally support Israel "to win this war". He doesn't want an end to bloodshed like "the left". He wants Israel to win.

mdylanbell,
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@ned he’s not speaker yet, but he is the nominee from Republicans who have a small majority. However, their majority is so small they also need votes from democrats or about 8 Republican members who are basically circus performers that seem to exist to say no and cause chaos.

jeffgerstmann, to random
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Should be pretty clear from last week’s show, but just in case: no podcast this week, we had a baby! To simulate the podcast just imagine I said that Riccitiello retiring probably doesn’t fix things at Unity all on its own and that the new PS5 vertical stand is intriguing.

mdylanbell,
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@jeffgerstmann Congrats!!

mattburgess, to Cybersecurity

Genetic testing firm 23andMe has suffered a data breach.

1 million data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews have been advertised for sale on a cybercrime forum. There's also information about hundreds of thousands of users of Chinese descent.

It appears to be a credential stuffing attackβ€”where previously leaked logins and passwords from other sites are tried on 23andMeβ€”with the attackers then scraping data from profiles

@lhn's story has all the details we know so far:
https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-credential-stuffing-data-stolen/

mdylanbell,
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@s we can. Just use a strong, unique password.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to california
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    mdylanbell,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell I mean, it’s kinda also the fault of the voters that half the Senate is made of fascist clowns who hate government.

    vmbrasseur, to random
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    FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality

    After a long, long battle ending in eventual defeat during Trump’s presidency, the FCC is set to reinstate rules that broadband providers must treat all traffic equally, giving no sweetheart deals to business partners or their own services.

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/

    mdylanbell,
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    @ramsey @vmbrasseur Do you know the current make-up of the House of Representatives? That should give you your answer.

    nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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    mdylanbell,
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    @forpeterssake i just skip it now. Watched it in my first couple rewatches but I find it so cringy and wrong for Beverly’s character (among other issues).

    pamelafox, to random
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    How dyall spy on mocks in pytest? Do you bring in another package, like https://pytest-mock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#spy ? Or just use monkeypatch?

    mdylanbell,
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    @pamelafox We use pytest-mock.

    dgoldsmith, to random
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    From @juddlegum:

    When politicians talk about "law and order," they mean "protecting rich people and their property, no matter the cost.”

    A closer look at California’s $267 million war on β€œorganized retail crime” https://popular.info/p/a-closer-look-at-californias-267

    mdylanbell,
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    @dgoldsmith @juddlegum or, they are in good faith trying to solve a rash of crimes.

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    mdylanbell,
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    @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia I read a bunch of vague complaints that should mostly be leveraged at congress (which is dysfunctional almost entirely due to republicans), that usually had unacknowledged attempts to implement.

    mcc, to random
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    Having a Smart TV is fucking awful. Every time I switch the HDMI between my Analogue Pocket, my Switch, or our Steam Deck, there's an apparently unskippable 40 second "Detecting device…" screen which never detects the device, after which I have to manually turn on Game Mode because there's no way to tell it "HDMI 1 uses Game mode. never disable this", every time you plug in a device is a completely new world

    mdylanbell,
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    @mcc I’ve been using an nvidia shield for years (I actually have 2, for different rooms), which has been generally pretty great to use (it runs androidTV). I have no experience with Apple TV so I can’t directly compare. I also tried to use the smartTV apps but found them very lacking (LG WebOS).

    freemo, to random
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    I think the biggest reason I want to be found guilty is so he can't run for president and then there is some actual hope someone other than Biden or Trump might actually win...

    mdylanbell,
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    @freemo oh, sorry to see you aren’t a fan of facts and are easily duped by fascist rhetoric. Blocked.

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