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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
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robsonfletcher, to microsoft
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So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

#microsoft #ai #privacy

meejah,
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@ghorwood @robsonfletcher I think the "install software" experience is one of the best differences; clicking through 900 "next" buttons in a bespoke installer for everything on Windows sucks.

On any popular linux distro, you browse the available software and click install. Then it's done, and gets updated when you do updates. These days the amount of choice is the main "hard thing" (which is a great problem to have in a lot of ways). Obviously exceptions to this rule, but ...

Alexlee, to academicchatter
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Nobody told me about the snakes! @academicchatter

meejah,
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@Alexlee @academicchatter I tried it too, with slightly different results

mkennedy, to random
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had 2,551 in-person attendees and was "sold out”

had 3,393 (Checked-in people).

Anyone know why the tickets were restricted to 1,234 fewer in 2024? The venue seemed massive so should have had room.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference was. 48% more seats in 2019 is a big difference.

Ref [location history]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Conference

meejah,
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@glyph @mkennedy @jacob Everything changed.

A middle-school or high-school, for example, has 3 different grades. Covid wiped out two of those for many sports. So now you have zero "experienced" players, no teachers who are "used" to organizing, etc.

I mention youth here because it "trickles up" in everything. I also mentor a FIRST FTC team -- same dynamic. Adult Ultimate: same. Local meetups: just beginning now. Organizers are starting from "approximately nothing" in a lot of these areas...

davidism, to python
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Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the #PyConUS sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0 #Python #Flask

meejah,
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@wlach @davidism Similarly, it is far less likely that I'd be a contributor (and maintainer!) today if it wasn't for PyCon 2016 (where it was introduced, and I met Brian Warner for the first time).

Nice to see some old software gain a maintainer :)

meejah, to ai
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Anyone have any success (or failure!) at using "post-prompts" in resumes?

meejah,
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@mistersql If it's very small (or white-on-white) would a human actually notice? Are pre-scanning systems smart enough to look at the meta like "text colour"?

(Have you tried, and had HR notice?)

meejah,
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@itamarst Yeah, that's basically what I'm interested in.

I find it interesting that page contextualizes it as "recruiters probably won’t notice you are cheating the system"

I would absolutely not call this "cheating" -- quite the opposite, it's one tiny way to maybe reject some of the bad uses of "AI".

ghorwood, to random
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"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood You of course can buy linux laptops (just not at Best Buy, which yes would be great).

This is what I recommend to (non-tech) people who ask me about getting into linux, and it has gone well for the two people who did actually do it.

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood The two I have personal experience with: System76 (for more budget-conscious) or Purism / Librem (if you'd be looking at a macbook air or similar).

Both come with Debian-derived custom OSes, and IME have a pretty good "first use" experience (especially the Librem, which has full-disk encryption out of the box).

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood I don't mean to exclude others, there are lots of options these days which is nice! (e.g. Framework looks interesting for "somewhat technical, but not Linux" people).

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

meejah,
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@dvgmacdonald @ifixcoinops Without just making my own suggestions here ;) a good way is to open "software" or whatever the graphical installer is called for your distro and search in there (you can then install the thing, try it out, and uninstall if it doesn't seem useful very easily)

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