I have decided that from now on, intermittent bugs shall be called "cicadas".
No questions will be entertained at this time.
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Generative AIs were created in an unethical manner.
Their use causes irreparable harm to society and the environment.
There is no ethical use of Generative AI.
@DelilahTech@tech.lgbt The books _need_ you.
I forgot how to say 51, 6, and 500 in roman numerals and I am so livid!
Watching @miketheman@hachyderm.io 's #PyConUS talk on the Anatomy of a Phishing Campaign for this week's tech talk. Highly recommend that everyone take 30 minutes and watch it!
It looks like another batch of #PyConUS videos have dropped, including Pablo's and @amcasari@hachyderm.io 's keynotes!
While I was at #PyOhio I went to hear @itsthejoker@hachyderm.io talk about lambdas. Great talk. Y'all should definitely watch it when the videos are up. As a throwaway at the top of the talk, Joe talked about ~ and using it for simplified list access from the right. I thought it was really cool so I wrote it up. I hope you think it's cool too.
I am so glad I decided to drive to #PyOhio. What a great experience! Great talks, great keynotes, great conversations. The people who came to my talk were so supportive and gave me wonderful feedback.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Can't recommend highly enough.
I have been having so much fun at #PyOhio so far! I didn't manage to go to any talks yesterday other then the keynotes or my own - I was too busy getting myself ready and doing the final things for it - but I have had so many great conversations. Was great being able to hang out with people I had seen but not interacted too much with at #PyConUS. Looking forward to today when I have much less on my plate. Highlights are @itsthejoker@hachyderm.io telling us anout lambdas and @chrisjrn@social.coop 's closing keynote.
I decided to turn back time and do #AdventOfCode 2015. I've done through problem 16 so far. OMG these are so fun! They're original. They're a little brain twisty without being out of this world hard.
The last couple of years the problems had been somewhat repetitive - same concept with a different twist. Not that they weren't fun but they were solving the same problem. I hope that with fewer problems we'll get back to more original things.
Thank you @playdate@social.panic.com for refunding the tariff payment to me! That is so amazing and awesome and unexpected!
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@bitbraindev@mastodon.gamedev.place are you tring to say we came here to get away from the algorithms and don't want to see them come back? @matty@blahaj.zone @alice@lgbtqia.space
@itsthejoker@hachyderm.io cursed all of us with lambdas at #PyOhio !
Do I know anyone with knowledge of masto.host? I'm considering migrating to a single user instance and wonder how much work it's going to require of me.
I got and played a little of this game today and had a blast! Thank you @vampiress@eigenmagic.net for making it!
Are you interested in contributing to open-source, but feel like you need a little support? Check-out Djangonaut Space! Applications are open until September 6th for the upcoming session: https://djangonaut.space/sessions/2026-session-7/
I am going to be ine of the Navigators (techjical mentors) for this session working on Render Engine. This isn't a Django project so all you need is #Python skills - no Django experience necessary.
#Python programmers are snake charmers.
Can I say how awesome it is that I can find an issue, talk to some people and make sure it's not just me, and push up a fix so that other people don't hit the same thing. This is the power of Open Source. This is what makes #Python great.
If you're at #PyOhio my talk, "This is Not the NaN You're Looking For" is at 2:15 in Ballroom B. Come and learn about floats that aren't numbers and have some fun in the process.
Heathens!!!
I ported the FediDevs starter pack I had built for @webology@mastodon.social 's Office Hours people to be a Mastodon collection. If you're there in error (or missing but should be there!) let me know and I'll fix it!
Happy to be in the room as @chrisjrn@social.coop instructs on statistics and communication in the #PyOhio closing keynote.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space it can't be implied consent if I didn't know there was something to consent to. It's violation. @evan@cosocial.ca @matty@blahaj.zone @alice@lgbtqia.space
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SheHacksPurple/116898554777852010
I do not approve of sharing this picture of me.
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@phil_stevens Like when you forget a ; in C and get 50 error messages, none of which mention a missing ;?
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@aurynn@cloudisland.nz I mean that "kiro" looks to be some kind of "agent harness" or something like that. Which is a very different level of LLM BS than someone allowed an LLM coded contribution through.
I spent this past weekend in Cleveland attending #PyOhio. I have thoughts. And feelings. You can read all about them here.
You don't need sprints at a Python conference to contribute!
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/154746
I opened an issue I discovered while preparing for my talk.
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@amcasari@hachyderm.io does the need for this reminder qualify?
https://twit.social/@brass75/116855863154399109
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io but could you exit or was your Gameboy stuck forever?
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Not to mention the companies that put them behind paywalls. If you make it hard to scrape your security advisories you are doing the entire internet - yourselves included - a huge disservice.
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@phildini@wandering.shop @diazona@techhub.social @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de I know folks at the PSF are thinking about it. IIRC @sethmlarson@mastodon.social essentially said it's not big enough yet. Chicken/egg situation.
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange with all of that (and I agree with you completely) there is benefit for people knowing what their metadata says about them and how much of it there is.
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@stylus@social.afront.org @AlSweigart@mastodon.social @pyohio@fosstodon.org And if your employee will match a donation to the PSF it will be multiplied even more!!!
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@aurynn@cloudisland.nz I just searched for "kero terminal" and ended up on a site for "kiro" which looks to be some major LLM BS. Then I noticed the I instead of an E and went back to the results and found the right thing.
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@pathunstrom @stylus I know Click has a method of adding tab completions. Maybe it's something that could be adapted?
@signalapp@mastodon.world i pay for backup. My phone has failed to backup for weeks. I have tried to contact support but have only received automated emails in response. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have done everything I wad told to. Please help me get my backups working.
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@grant_h@mastodon.social @qoyyuum@fosstodon.org because that's how mutable variables work. It seems more like you want to know why an exception wasn't made for the case where a mutable value was used as the default for a parameter.
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@coderanger@cloudisland.nz Shouldn't that be in the AGENTS.md file? @miketheman@hachyderm.io
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@alice@lgbtqia.space you should watch this talk by @pythonbynight@hachyderm.iohttps://youtu.be/bf2b1CBz-wc
An Economy of Empathy - Mario Munoz - 2026