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tshirtman

@tshirtman@mas.to

Dissipé, curieux, ultracrépidarianiste.
développeur (#python :python:), vegan :seedling: (éco/éthique), linuxien (ubuntu depuis 2005)
core développeur #kivy

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jacob, to random
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As usual I'm reminded of this SNL sketch which I'm afraid will continue to be prescient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiKrWUoTq4s

tshirtman,
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@jacob my hopes are higher than a couple years ago, despite all the good reason to put him in jail, i was pretty sure it wouldn't happen, now it seems not just possible, but very hard to avoid, unless he dies first or win the election before he can be put in jail, which of course would break everything.

Free_Press, to random
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Appointed by President Obama, Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan will preside over the criminal trial of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump, concerning the events leading up to the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack.

Chutkan is a Jamaican American immigrant with a distinguished background as a lawyer and jurist in Washington, D.C. Since 2014, she has served as a United States district judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/community-news/jamaican-judge-tanya-chutkan-will-preside-over-trump-case/

tshirtman,
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@Free_Press the attacks on her are going to be insane, but hopefully she will bring him to justice.

w7voa, to random
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Murdered Las Vegas reporter co-recipient of National Press Club's President's Award.

tshirtman,
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@w7voa continuing the work is the best answer, it’s courageous, but it’s exactly how to tell criminals that they won’t get off the hook like this, just add to their crimes.

sebsauvage, to random French
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  1. Les admins d'instances Mastodon peuvent accéder à vos données.
  2. Les GAFAM peuvent accéder à vos données.

Vues les réactions que je lis un peu partout, les gens sont absolument horrifiés du premier, et totalement indifférents au second.

Par quel fucking MIRACLE les entreprises sont, dans l'imaginaire des gens, des entités de confiance ???
C'est pas comme si on avait trouzemille exemples de leurs mensonges et méfaits, non ? 🤔

Dafuq.

tshirtman,
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@sebsauvage j'ai l'impression inverse ici, mais sérieusement, malgré tous deurs méfaits, les gafam sont des entreprises avec une responsabilité juridique, et des controles plus importants qu'un quidam qui ouvre son serveur masto, donc jwai encore moins confiance dans le quidam.

Sans même parler de la capacité à ne pas se faire hacker.

gvwilson, to random
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Future software developers will learn about technologies like C2PA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2PA) in the same way that today's medical professionals learn about vaccines and antibiotics. https://mastodon.social/deck/@Techmeme@techhub.social/110803119828466442

tshirtman,
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@gvwilson I'm worried open source software and operating systems will not be able to provide such guarantees, i see adobe released open source implementations, but how do we ensure that correct implementations are used, and a software accurately reports the changes that were done to the file? That it doesn't remove information added by previous editors? It seems you can only trust signed software on signed OS for such tasks.

fulelo, to anime_titties
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Interesting FT piece (doesnt seem to be hidden behind a paywall), by Alexander suggesting that is preparing for an even bigger 'war :

https://www.ft.com/content/861a8955-924e-4d3e-8c59-73a13403e191

'Despite sanctions, the Kremlin’s war chest is still overflowing with cash, thanks to windfall energy profits last year and also to the adaptability of Russian commodities exporters, who have found new customers and who settle payments mostly in yuan' (cont.)

tshirtman,
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@fulelo it is

ciredutempsEsme, to random French
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Je m'ennuie.
Commenté ce pouet avec un thème et je crée une question de sondage associée

tshirtman,
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@ciredutempsEsme chaussette!

rysiek, to random
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Just got hit with:

"But can you prove ChatGPT is not intelligent in the human sense?"

Oh my that old chestnut. 🙄

I am not making a claim, I am merely rejecting somebody else's claim that ChatGPT is intelligent in the human sense.

The burden of proof is on whoever claims that ChatGPT is intelligent in the human sense. That proof would also need to be accompanied by a clear, unambiguous, testable definition of what "intelligent" means, that ideally includes humans but excludes calculators.

tshirtman,
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@rysiek the number of times it says "i'm sorry about that mistake" and proceed to repeat the exact same insanity should be proof enough.

But yeah, the extraordinary claim is that it is intelligent, it's the one that needs to be supported by strong evidence.

rahmstorf, to random

I posted an epic thread on the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation AMOC on the X-rated site. It has over 650k views there already. Can't repeat it here so I dare posting the link: https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1684903347118051328?s=20

tshirtman,
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@rahmstorf as an unlogged user (i deleted my account) i could only see the first tweet.
But threadreader knows about it so here it goes https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1684903347118051328.html

Stark9837, (edited ) to Youtube
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"Why We Left The Cloud"

Recently watched this video by #ThePrimeTime on #Youtube, and his hot-take 🔥 was that they were using #Ruby, and half of their pain was caused by this.

I have no experience with Ruby at all and most probably won't even recognize it if I were to read it.

If Ruby is such a bottleneck and inefficient, why did #Mastodon :mastodon: use Ruby for its implementation?

I know Ruby is often praised for servers and backends, especially APIs, but we have many solutions for this in #Python :python: , which I wouldn't recommend, but #Go :golang: and #Rust.

Does anyone have opinions or sources for this statement?

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6h4oiPwtwDk&feature=share

Original article:https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

#programming #tech #infosec

tshirtman,
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@Stark9837 @mo8it @badrs have a look at FastAPI for python backends, it leverages Pydantic a lot, making types really useful in development and thus harder to avoid and build a broken system.

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tshirtman,
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@lerk @moeria @vegan @Blickwinkel … never though i'd root for a tick, but here we are.

willmcgugan, to python
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You know I genuinely forget that rich.inspect exists.

Think help() buy easier on the eye. You can inspect any object, instance, class, module etc...

I should really do a blog post about how to use this.

https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/init.html?highlight=inspect#rich.inspect

tshirtman,
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@willmcgugan i keep forgetting as well, maybe i'll install a fake "pprint" module to remind me to use rich.inspect instead 😆.

Thanks for the reminder.

georgetakei, to random

This is a record scratch moment for me. 👽👽👽 Link to testimony: https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1684233888871362560?s=61&t=dlYuBcwzZXmET9Xd_RRdaQ

tshirtman,
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@georgetakei this is all second hands claim, right? just had a brief look at the wikipedia page about his claims, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims and it seems like he is asking for information because he has reasons to think such information exist, but his sources are obviously not public, so i’m not holding my breath, if i had to bet, i’d be at 1000 to 1 or something like this, that no official will confirm, and no serious evidence (though potential fabrications, for sure) will emerge.

Free_Press, to greece
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The air crash of the fire plane happened in Greece yesterday.

From what I see plane hit the obstacle with float and in its turn it hit the aileron up on the right wing damaging or jamming flight controls.

One of the most dangerous jobs is to be a pilot on those fire planes…

RIP crew

video/mp4

tshirtman,
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@Free_Press They know the risk, and still they go in, because someone has to, true heroes. RIP.

mcc, to random
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I put it off but time to open the box.

Last time I bought a MacBook I promised myself that it would be the last time I ever bought an Apple product. I am so sad right now.

tshirtman,
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@mcc just switched from a dell to a macbook m2 at work, and wow, i still hate macos (and fighting to make it bend to my will, and it's giving in), but the hardware is incredible.

tshirtman,
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@mcc right, but on weak hardware, even good software can be quite frustrating to use, because things are slow, or even unreliable, that machine is powerful, has an incredible battery time, and is silent most of the time, it also has nice bonus like an incredible sound if you decide to play music on it, better than i though possible on a laptop.
Even if i end up running mostly vim and a browser on that (and docker and stuff, right), it's nice to have the power.
The only problem is MacOS.

grumpygamer, (edited ) to random
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Number of days before Musk says the Twitter name change was just a joke. HAHAH. All you woke libs fell for it.

tshirtman,
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@grumpygamer i think he is determined not to back down, he'll double down instead and waste every dollar he has on this insanity, he'll be one of the few data points on how stupid a billionnaire needs to be to stop being one.

mcc, to random
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"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

tshirtman,
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@mhoye @mcc yeah software maintenance is expensive, so when you sell for cheap, you certainly plan for shorter lifetime/support, to make the economics work. They could keep making the updates work for these models, but making it harder to develop features for newer ones, that are making money now.

Models being obsolete means code specific to them can be deleted, and newer code don't have to be compatible and tested on them.

Apparently users don't find the free software alternative suitable :/.

tshirtman,
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@dalias @mhoye @mcc well, drivers for one, if they are not open source/mainlined, need to be updated to be able to update the kernel, which can be necessary to apply security patches (unless of course you backport them, but i don’t think that’s generally easier), and support software that tends to come with commercial machines has to be aware of the hardware, of course, you would expect this to be handled in a natural way by the OS on a linux distro, but i don’t think that’s the case here.

tshirtman,
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@dalias @mhoye @mcc well, wrong from the point of view of an OSS/distro maintainer for sure, but surely it makes sense for them.

feoh, to random

OK a question for the junkies out there.

Are you OK using next/previous key shortcuts to move between tabs, or are you like me where it's random access or GTFO?

For me, being able to Ctrl/Cmd-F1,2,3,4,5 etc to switch between sessions is a huge productivity boost.

I know a lot of folks love , but is a single key chord to switch sessions even possible in it?

tshirtman,
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@feoh yeah, i don't know how it is regarding accessibility, KDE is likely to be much better fit for that.
You could make all the UI elements big, of course, like the bar, and rofi (to start programs, select desks, etc) by setting their fonts to 20 or more (at least that seems big to me, but you might need more, the sky screen is the limit), but for other accessibility features, i don't know.

scudery, to random French
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J'ai décidé d'annoncer la montée du fascisme tous les soirs.

"ÇA VA ÊTRE TOUT BLEU !"

tshirtman,
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@scudery @Eomerj @osefmegrav @mimimaton

tshirtman,
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@scudery @mimimaton @Eomerj @osefmegrav toute à fée

MeidasTouch, to random

Whoa.

Florida insurance premiums have now SOARED 206% since DeSantis became governor.

On average, Florida homeowners pay over $4,200/year for home insurance, TRIPLE the national average of $1,700.

Some insurers are now leaving the state entirely.

The DeSantis administration's response so far has been to call the insurance companies 'woke.'

tshirtman,
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@MeidasTouch lol, yeah, insurance companies are known for that, yeah, being empathic and ready to leave money on the table for it.

_thegeoff, to random
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In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe

tshirtman,
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@alan @_thegeoff i'm entirely unqualified to decide if it would split, collapse on itself to become a black hole, or do something else 😆 .

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