Here's a thread of code-repository questions I've had while at PyCon. Feel free to boost them or reply to them, I'm doing them one at a time specifically so discussions will start
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You may have heard that Peter Neumann passed away yesterday at the age of 93.
I cannot do his memory and legacy justice here, but I will say that his work (and friendship and support) influenced almost everything I've worked on. He was one of the first computer scientists to confront (well before it was popular to do so) the fact that computers and software are unreliable in both theory and practice.
@mattblaze comp.risks came as a revelation to me when I first stumbled onto the listserv in 1989.
Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.
ISP technician this morning telling me about how humans have invented a new god with AI. That we as people have exceeded our programming.
You know, while he was recapping coax cables.
I somehow forgot to mention that he told me that the AI will poison the water to kill us. That it needs non-salt water for cooling, but it doesn't care what other contaminants are in it.
Charlie Stross
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You may have heard that Peter Neumann passed away yesterday at the age of 93.
I cannot do his memory and legacy justice here, but I will say that his work (and friendship and support) influenced almost everything I've worked on. He was one of the first computer scientists to confront (well before it was popular to do so) the fact that computers and software are unreliable in both theory and practice.
der.hans
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"These jobs are the ones we should value way higher in society."
Exactly. These jobs should pay more, and be among a collection of stable and respected jobs that people would aspire to getting.
There is still a little of this respect for nurses and doctors, but it's something we need to renew. These are positions with power and authority and you need to be a certain kind of person worthy of deeper trust to do them well.
It's not something you post on "fiver"
Here's a thread of code-repository questions I've had while at PyCon. Feel free to boost them or reply to them, I'm doing them one at a time specifically so discussions will start
I wish that Bill Gates had seen it, its method of dealing with the conflict between Unix file names and CPM comnand syntax was much superior to what Microsoft came up with for MS-DOS.
@resuna Yes, but was this before or during Microsoft's 1980s infatuation with Xenix (System 7 UNIX)? Which they sold to SCO (in return for equity) in 1987, IIRC.
@liaizon@social.wake.st it's not a bug per se. Mastodon chooses not to notify people of replies to their posts. They only notify when you are mentioned. Mastodon gets around this by spamming everybody in mentions, but I don't think that is proper etiquette so NodeBB does not do this.
The simplest solution would be for me to just join in on all the mention spamming, but I don't feel that is appropriate.
The fact that it's not a bug is why I haven't raised it with the Mastodon team. To fix it they'd have to do a lot more work than if it were a simple bug.
@julian@activitypub.space There is, however, also something wonky about some of the mentions in NodeBB posts when viewed on Mastodon. Looking at the content HTML, I can see that the mention links don't have the "mention" CSS class, which Mastodon treats as a microformat (of sorts) when rendering: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/microformats/#mastodon That should be an easy fix if you feel like playing nice.
@mekkaokereke One day I'd love for some state in the US to adopt Ireland's representational voting method: https://www.electoralcommission.ie/irelands-voting-system/
IIRC, it means that the districts can be drawn in any fashion anyone wants -- each district elects multiple members to the legislature. Everyone's vote gets represented. Every group gets representation.
"Main features of the Irish electoral system:
Several candidates are elected to represent each constituency"
@mdm @mekkaokereke Ireland definitely has one of the best electoral systems. There's a slight complexity argument, it leads to comparatively long ballot papers, but that's kinda the price of getting the system right in other ways.
Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/17/0014220/amazon-stops-supporting-pre-2013-kindles-today-some-owners-turn-to-jailbreaking?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@slashdot As they should...
n8chz 🩎
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"Android est plus ouvert qu'iOS"
Alright it’s time for another game of:
How Many Ticks You Pulled Out Your Hole This Weekend For Zero Money!
If the answer is LESS THAN FIVE, you get to put £20 in this crowdfunder.
@Philsturgeon I picked no ticks off myself this weekend, but I did once need my wife’s help extracting some from locations I could not easily see.
hypebot
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This opinion piece by prof. Timothy Snyder from the Toronto University in the German newspaper SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) doesn't mince words.
"A toast to their own demise
It is hard to describe just how primitive Trump’s approach is and how much joy it brings to America’s enemies: after effectively committing suicide as a superpower, America will find it difficult to regain its status."
(German, possibly paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/timothy-snyder-selbstmord-einer-supermacht-donald-trump-gastbeitrag-li.3483444
der.hans
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Cuba ordered 300 drones, Axios
#CUBA :
[en] „The anti-Cuban campaign aimed at justifying, without any excuse, a military attack against Cuba is intensifying by the hour, with increasingly implausible accusations. The United States is the aggressor. Cuba is the country under attack, acting in self-defense.“
„Like any country, Cuba has the right to defend itself against external aggression. It is called self-defense, and it is protected by International Law and the UN Charter.
Those from the US who seek the submission and, in fact, the destruction of the Cuban nation through military aggression and war, do not waste a single moment fabricating pretexts, creating and spreading falsehoods, and distorting as extraordinary the logical preparation required to face a potential aggression.“
@ndjee pour être franc je pense que j'ai déjà consacré plus de temps de ma vie à David Lynch que j'ai envie. C'est ni un personnage ni un artiste pour qui j'ai une passion.
Tkt, je suggérais ça comme ça
@davidgerard how many Zs in pastizzi
@fasterandworse all of them
@fasterandworse steve just think of all the sweet sweet tokens you can choke on, if you work hard enough there *will* be *four* Rs in strawberry
@davidgerard how many Zs in pastizzi
mekka okereke :verified:
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Multi-member districts have been used historically in the United States to disenfranchise Black Americans: Racist white Americans would deliberately dissolve state Congressional districts so that they could elect white supremacists for every Representative from a state.
Congress had to pass a law to stop that practice very shortly after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Congressional_District_Act .
Unless fair elections need to be specifically enforced.
