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zzzeek

@zzzeek@hachyderm.io

:python_logo: :redhat: cats, dogs, python. drum-related content at https://drumstodon.net/@zzzeek

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glyph, to random
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Finding it surprisingly difficult to get worked up about the google anti-fraud nightmare surveillance robot today. 10 years ago I would already be on the phone to my senator, but after a decade of helping folks out post-compromise and just generally following the infosec news, I am tired of how privacy activists just … don’t engage with the very real threats that these very problematic tools are addressing. Basic account security is a total nightmare for laypeople and it’s getting worse.

zzzeek,
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@glyph uh oh, do we need to call up a big gilded frame picture of Ben Franklin's "deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" quote? :)

zzzeek,
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@glyph im a pragmatist / compromiser in all things. havent seen the specific google thing you mention but I gather they are tracking people very hard in order to reduce some kind of fraud

mhoye, to random
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Whenever Americans talk about "fighting for freedoms" I remember that one time some dude who got thwarted by his own flopsweat tried to blow up his shoes and twenty years later anyone who goes through an American airport has to shuffle around in their socks hoping their pants don't fall down while they get millimeter-radared for a security pageant and the whole country just rolled over and decided that's totally reasonable.

zzzeek,
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@asbestos @mhoye @sidereal i would not feel comfortable with a society where everyone gets free gym membership, fitness/diet counseling, and obesity has been cut by 10%, but anyone can walk onto a plane with a giant bag filled with anything whenever they want no questions asked. that is, I believe in the concept of airport security if not specific methodologies

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

zzzeek,
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@mekkaokereke VCs invest in stupid dumb things like "walk my dog...with AI! dot com". things that can be slapped together as software or simplistic hardware in a few months. they don't want to deal with complex dependencies and development, manufacturing infrastructure, huge liabilities, safety recalls, the list goes on and on. That's why the US is mostly just waiting on GM / Ford / etc. to make electrics. it's just that charging infrastructure is a rolling dumpster fire perpetuated by Musk

zzzeek,
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@mekkaokereke this guy, first he literally gets everyone to agree to abandon CCS in favor of his connectors, then he goes and fires the whole team doing charging infrastructure. what a dick

onelson, to random
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I'm getting indian takeout tonight. It's time.

zzzeek,
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@onelson yah it does look a little epcot, sorta

our town desperately needs an indian place, there's one that's about an hour away and that's the entire 50 mile radius basically

onelson, (edited ) to movies
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Background TV as I wind down my work day.

I'll work my way through the main 9 movies over the next few days, and starting with The Phantom Menace might be sacrilege to some, but who cares.

zzzeek,
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@onelson I will never understand the Adam Driver casting decision

zzzeek,
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@onelson we watched every episode of Girls so he is permanently a sensitive enigmatic hipster who lives in Greenpoint , and they even put some of that character in the movie. He's not plausible as any kind of dark lord or anything like that for me. Made the movies feel much less serious

charlotteclymer, to random
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"It is incredibly privileged to intentionally harm innocent people, to decide that their medical emergencies are unimportant, to place their suffering on hold, for what is essentially peak activist narcissism."

READ HERE: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/blocking-traffic-as-protest-is-bad

zzzeek,
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@wonkothesane @charlotteclymer there's a difference between disruption and imprisonment. a disruptive protest should leave no option to not be seen and heard, but it should not imprison the viewers in cages and prevent them from leaving. that is deeply cruel, unethical, and dangerous. This is not hard to figure out, there's 100 years of literally millions of protests around the world to study im sure you could find lots of examples

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

zzzeek,
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@jacob @mekkaokereke this was my thought exactly. it seems really awkward and inappropriate to single out people and just volunteer "as a white person, I support you!" I can see if a company has like, an internal message board where people are discussing DEI, you can come in and support DEI efforts at that level. I've certainly done that here.

onelson, to random
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I want to watch The Expanse, but for some reason it always feels like a chore.

zzzeek,
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@onelson we watched seasons 1-4 religiously and they were amazing, to the point I think about them all the time still today. Then we couldn't get started with season 5 at all, the whole world was different by then due to covid, and never picked it up after that

glyph, to random
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If you have not read this paper, you probably should. I don’t have a particular comment but the parallels are obvious and you are probably going to be seeing a lot of experienced security people referencing it in discussions in the coming days

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

zzzeek,
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@glyph "More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will
produce as output an exact copy of its source. "

with open(file) as f:
print(f.read())

this is why i fail job interviews

kellogh, to llm
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Automatic refutation of misinformation.

A new paper offers a system to correct misinformation using an #LLM. The approach seems solid, and the results seem strong. I haven’t dug in deep yet, but I’m hopeful about this one

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11169 #LLMs #AI

zzzeek,
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@kellogh ah the LLM was able to correct misinformation by quoting Ron DeSantis, perfect. he's of course totally above bar

onelson, to movies
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Adaptation (2002)

Love it.

zzzeek,
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@onelson just seeing it for the first time? yeah. well they had to make Being John Malkovich first before they could make the meta version of it.

zzzeek, to random
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here's our current fastapi tag: https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/discussions?discussions_q=label%3Afastapi 26 or so issues, all related to asyncio and connections / sessions not being cleaned up when they are disconnected / interrupted etc. Are there any fastAPI experts who can figure out what general pattern(s) are missing here why we get so many fastapi issues? we literally do not have a tag for any other framework

zzzeek, to random
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Pythoners!

is there a linter / flake8 plugin etc for this pattern:

if thing():
return
else:
otherthings()

Where it requires you to write:

if thing():
return
otherthings()

?

zzzeek, to random
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They interviewed a "Biden Uncommitted' voter and they said "it's worth the temporary pain of having Donald Trump win for us to get an ethical government"

NO
NO
NO
NO
TRUMP IS NOT TEMPORARY
HE WILL BE FOREVER

This seems to be a critical misunderstanding. A VOTE AGAINST BIDEN MEANS PERMANENT FASCIST AUTOCRACY FOR THE US RULED BY THE TRUMP FAMILY.

THERE IS NO OPPORTUNITY FOR AN ANTI-BIDEN "PROTEST" VOTE THIS SEASON

is this controversial in some way?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-biden-uncommitted-voters-set-win-2-delegates/story?id=107643586

zzzeek, to random
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I wonder if people are using ChatGPT to write their web request / database code for them so that they dont have to bother understanding what they're doing, then when it fails they are coming to my issue tracker to ask for help (which they wouldn't have needed if they just put the time in)

zzzeek, to random
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What's the deal with FastAPI? is it just a flaming piece of poop software or does it just have a lot of beginners using it and getting confused? we literally have a whole category in our discussion tracker called "fastapi", and it's where all the "we have no idea what's connecting where, why it connects, why it disconnects, why it's sharing connections between tasks" I mean what is the deal with this?

samuelcolvin, to random
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Big @pydantic news!

We're going into closed beta with our new platform, THIS WEEK!

If you want to join, answer the survey linked from our Roadmap:

https://blog.pydantic.dev/blog/2023/06/13/help-us-build-our-roadmap--pydantic/

zzzeek,
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@samuelcolvin @pydantic building an ORM I see, mind if I toot / post that independently ?

jwildeboer, to random
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Made appointment to refresh my measles, rubella, mumps, polio, rabies vaccinations. Check every 10 years latest if you need a refresh, my friends.

zzzeek,
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@jwildeboer no tetanus ?

molly0xfff, to opensource
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"If no one tries to do it, it for sure won't be done."

https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

zzzeek,
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@molly0xfff “The internet is a big place and most people know that it's not exactly trivial to build a search index,” Denker said. “With that said, it's actually also not as difficult as one would think.” .....says person currently running a search engine from a single machine in his basement

hynek, to random
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Copilot just confidently suggested a sweet SQL injection to me.

We’ve got some wild times ahead of us, folks. 🫠

zzzeek,
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@glyph @hynek @danilo that's not an AI "mistake". That's the AI pen testing the humans

molly0xfff, to web3
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Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

zzzeek,
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@molly0xfff wow, sad

zzzeek, to random
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angry README wants to tell you how to pipe a password into base64

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