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ashwinvis

@ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

Research software engineer, Ph.D., :blobcatnerd: moderator for https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se. I write / boost posts related to general topics such as news and technology here.

Recurring topics: :python: #python :terminal: #linux :blobcatscience: #science

I usually approve follow requests for humans.
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nixCraft, to random
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PSA: Stop calling these: () brackets!

These () are parentheses

These [] are brackets

These {} are curly braces

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

ashwinvis,
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@adityatelange
Also:
<| = bra
|> = ket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation
@nixCraft

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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If Mozilla wants me to stop using Firefox, building "AI" into the browser is a great way to go about it.

(Note: I'm still using Firefox...)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ashwinvis,
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@dangillmor
As long as Firefox remains open-source, I am not worried. They will most likely add an opt-out switch or if nothing LibreWolf will remove it, I bet.

scubbo, to random

Wake up babe, Godwin's Second Law just dropped

ashwinvis,
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@scubbo what was the 1st law?

ashwinvis, to vim
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I like mixing the keyboard and mouse. Yes I know

set mouse=a

exists, but it provides only some basic actions. I was wondering if you could map the mouse to allow moving split window panes around - something which is painful to do by keyboard. Do you know of something like this?

@vim @neovim

ashwinvis, to random
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It's Friday night and I know it's late... nevertheless I hope you have some energy left to catch up on what happened on 🥁 ... #PyConSE day 2 :python:

Here it goes...

ashwinvis,
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@willingc showed us how #Jupyter notebooks, #JupyterHub and #Binder empowers everyone with a learning mindset to be a beginner in anything.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a demo of #ECMWF and their charts page as an example of this (ofc, I knew about this, because if work, but wow)

https://charts.ecmwf.int

The charts.ecmwf.int page with notebook and binder links
The flags in front of the ECMWF office

ashwinvis,
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@willingc 's keynote started with a philosophical perspective on getting things done, being an agent of change and why the community is important :python:

Talk title slide: Pragmatic Python

ashwinvis,
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@willingc on how to keep informed on all these changes and how PSF got an award for being "Wonderfully Welcoming".

PS: Also there was an important bit on how Project Jupyter won the ACM Turing award, I should add

PPS: all of this was CC-BY 4.0 allowing me to share more. Kudos for that!

PSF GitHub Awards Certificate of Recognition Wonderfully Welcoming

ashwinvis,
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@willingc showed a glimpse of Python's future. Adapting it's C API, adopting WASM, finding synergies with other languages like :rust: etc

WebAssembly will open new doors Rust and PyOdide logos visible.
Python Intersections Keep an eye on development Rust and Python together (ruff) TypeScript and Python > WASM, WASI, WebAssembly g » Excel and Python (Microsoft and i Anaconda) * Mobile e Change

ashwinvis,
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@willingc highlighted the importance of community projects and how they are driving change. To name a few from blogs like @itamarst 's https://pythonspeed.com, project #Memray, #Pyladies meetups, the whole ecosystem of open-source.

Python at Scale Memory Profiling and Stack Debugging = Reliability Pablo Salgado-Galindo [Core Developer, Steering Council] https://bloomberg.qithub.io/pystack/ Bloomberg: 1/2 million files, 100 million lines of code, funding PSF , https://bloomberg.qithub.io/memray Reporters, Jupyter integration, APl for customization, Examples
[Why PyLadies are vital] It's clear that women are underrepresented in open source software overall. Figures reported by GitHub in 2020 show that 90% of all contributors to open source projects identify as male, while only around 3% identify as female. Insider 2021
3 mountain peaks representing foundational ML models anf their commercial applications like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Soundful have all open source tooling particularly Python and friends under the hood.

kushal, to random
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It is Friday, remember to push code to production befor the day is over.

ashwinvis,
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@kushal
If you have an overtime pay, sure!

ashwinvis, to random
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Holy crap! They made ordering #MobiltBankID so complicated now. The usual stuff like going via net banking -> multiple authentication (QR code, SMS) -> sign agreement -> and.... a real ID card check.

But hey, Skatteverket's ID card and Driving Licence doesn't count, even though they are national ID cards. WTF?! :ablobcatbongoangry:

ashwinvis,
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@nlovsund Swedish passport or police issued national ID card, which only citizens are entitled too. A bit discriminatory if you ask me.

ashwinvis, to linux
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Is #NewsFlash the only #RSS / #Atom feed reader / aggregator with a builtin web scraper?

#linux

baldur, to random
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“Witnessing the death of the web as a news medium | Christian Heilmann”

https://christianheilmann.com/2024/06/03/witnessing-the-death-of-the-web-as-a-news-medium/

> Almost every social platform now ranks posts with links lower than posts that are just statements.

I know this but I still can't bring myself to not add links to most of what I write.

ashwinvis,
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@baldur I don't care how these rankings work. The academic in me feels it is ridiculous to make unsubstantiated claims whenever I post something.

Edit: fixed typos

nicd, to GNOME

A problem I have with #Gnome / #GnomeShell: the resize handles of windows are like pixel perfect. There's maybe 3 pixels of space where I can start the drag from, and sometimes the click goes through to an underlying window even though the cursor is a resize handle.

ashwinvis,
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@nicd
Same here. Idk if it was a regression after Gnome 40; can't recall having this a few years ago.

Meanwhile in KDE one can Alt+Right Click to resize any window without being precise. Would be nice to have this in Gnome.

nedbat, to random
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ICYMI: Coverage․py now has a page of other resources: https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other.html

What should be added?

ashwinvis,
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@nedbat
Mypy can also produce a compatible coverage report.

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/command_line.html#report-generation

ashwinvis, to random Swedish
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Fråga om #Svenska #språk

Uttalar man ”g” som en mjuk vokal /J/ bara i början av ordet, t.ex.

genom
gillar
ge

Och inte i mitten?

intelligens
allergi

Eller handlar det om lånord?

nlovsund, to random
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Aaaahh ffs https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Check your systems sysdamins.

ashwinvis,
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@nlovsund Yep, saw that yesterday. You know it is bad when ArchLinux makes an announcement.

ashwinvis, to random
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Well well well

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android/issues/32#issuecomment-831988663

#onlyoffice is not fully open-source

ashwinvis, to RSS
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In case you have been wondering why I have kept quiet -- I've been experimenting reading feeds on a FreshRSS instance as an alternative to social media. Hope it sticks.

#atom #rss

ashwinvis, to random
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Princes and princesses in fairy tales: 👦 👧

Nowadays: 👴 🧓

Blame higher life expectancy due to modern medicine.

ashwinvis, to random
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#PyConSE time. Who's here?

ashwinvis, to python
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Thank you @jugmac00 for the talk on today. I ws expecting a tech deep dive, but was pleasantly surprised to see a meditation on open source maintenance.

Thanks for @kushal and for being a wonderful host!

ashwinvis, to infosec
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Reading up what's happening with the #XZBackdoor incident. (I guess everybody is and soon they will be posting #xkcd2347 all over the interwebs and life goes on repeating the same mistakes...)

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

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