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The founding fathers are dead. Long dead. Government should be focused on the rights and well-being of its citizens, not beholden to the ideas and prejudices of people hundreds of years dead. (quoting @jzb from https://nitter.net/jzb/status/1540339073981767680#m)
@Sandra (ack hit send unintentionally there) I have a similar system for sorting my button up shirts. When I hang up a shirt after laundry, I always put it in the leftmost side of my closet. This means that the shirts I never where are constantly shifted to the right. Every few years I donate the stuff I never wear save for a few things I keep for formal occasions should they come up. Love the idea of using such a system to organize other things
@Sandra Just read: https://idiomdrottning.org/nfs
There's a lot in the standard library that people don't even know about including: an http server, the ability to use a sqllite database directly, turtle-style graphics, C bindings for gui applications with TCL and probably more I haven't learned about. By learning what is in it, or other languages standard libraries you can make your applications and libraries much more stable, secure and resilient. Read those docs before reaching for a third party alternative!
The python requests library is widely used and respected. But it contains almost 7,000 lines of code and with it's own dependencies over 24,000 lines of code. Each one of those could have bugs or security holes someday. Having a dependency like this could or expose you to things like https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/typosquatting-attack-on-requests-one-of-the-most-popular-python-packages-3b0a329a892d
Did you know the python standard library can make http requests with urllib? It is a little clunkier interface wise, but it works for everything I've thrown at it.
@jzb Re: https://nitter.net/aravosis/status/1529813375932321793
This is a reality and it hits very close to home for me. A year or two ago, a guy went into the town square a 10 minute walk from my house and called the cops on himself with the express intention of shooting the ones who came, which he did. A local "good guy with a gun" saw an officer get shot, and ran out and shot the shooter. Other cops came to the scene and shot the "good guy". The original shooter, the officer and the "good guy with a gun all died.. sad.
@redstarfish @CantCodeYet It shouldn't be difficult. I tried to keep the dependencies as minimal as possible. I haven't used guix yet but I'm happy to lend a hand if you run into any trouble
Today I pushed up the code for the first version of a new project - youTranscript - a light-weight frontend for youTube that shows you the transcript of a video instead of the video itself.
https://github.com/thavelick/youtranscript
This is useful when you just want to skim a video and don't want to watch a 30 minute video when you just want to find out the answer to their click-bait headline.
Thanks to @twizzay for the idea on this one.
Does
#peertube even work? I've been trying to watch videos on @tilvids (tilvids.com) all day and every video seems to download maybe the first 15 seconds of a 8-10 minute video before grinding to a halt. No matter how long I keep the page up, it never really progresses. Every video I try only has one peer and has the same behavior.
Am I doing something wrong? Will this not work right with qutebrowser? Do I need internet with better (currently 5Mbps) upload? Is the server just saturated?
@craigmaloney thanks for all the comics you post. You've reminded me how much I enjoyed them since I quit reading a paper newspaper. My life needs more than just xkcd.
I kind of wonder if we should start calling it Right to Repairable instead of Right to Repair. It's a product design issue, not an access to specialized tools and knowledge issue
This is both ridiculous and fascinating. "Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery": https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on
Sad to see that #FairEmail is going away..
I started to use it last summer because it was basically the only MUA that supported VMC/BIMI (that's how I discovered it), and I just liked it more than k9-mail.
However, thanks to google unreasonable crap - the development has now stopped.
I’ve always thought “Believe Women” applied in a specific context. If you’re a first-line responder: a support-line, an emergency room, a first-contact in law enforcement in conversation, or even just a friend she trusts, then yeah, that’s when you believe. It’s not the time and place to express doubt.
Someone comes in bleeding & crying, you don’t interrupt the story with a bunch of “did he really?” or “is that ketchup?”. Be a mench.
I'm a thinker, software engineer, reader, tinkerer, arm chair scientist, and amateur philosopher. I believe in focusing on the long term over the short, and that done is better than perfect.