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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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What the heck is "default opt-in"? Is this corporate consent-subversion talk for "opt-out"? Just say "opt-out". mastodon.social/

RE: mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/112457773374003138

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@tilde my read is that it’s the opposite and the headline writer is trying to avoid giving the impression that “slack depends opt-out” would give; ie that slack opted us all out of something

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Yaaaay, Twisted shout-out at the PSF keynote as we are a new PSF fiscal sponsoree this year. Hype to be mentioned right next to @NorthBayPython

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Check us out at https://twisted.org, where you can try out this new feature by giving us money to maintain and improve Twisted. https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=44

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The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus, respectively

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@bitprophet wow, if so, I super do not remember it. lmk if you find a link :)

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Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a projector for an open space at ? I have some ideas that involve discussions of code where it would be useful if a participant could share their screen with a larger group.

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If not I am contemplating how local screen sharing might work if the group is too big to crowd around a single person’s laptop #PyConUS

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@mariatta thank you, always nice to get a very authoritative answer:)

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@matt a good concern to raise!

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@Yhg1s no worries, I have more ideas than I can possibly fit into the conference, so I can skip over these with no issue :)

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@matt Also: sorry to hear you won’t be there.

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At the airport en route to #PyConUS and feeling all kinds of feelings but let me start with this one, which too often remains unstated in the constantly frustrating and difficult world of software development:

I love Python. I love the Python community. It is such an enormous array of gifts (the code, the ecosystem, the social events) that has enabled so much of my career and my life that I want to express my gratitude.

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That said I reserve the right to be critical of many things while I am at #PyConUS, as is my idiom. That is how we do better, after all. 😉

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@ethantyping I suppose I should make my way to the gate in a minute, I assume we are at the same one :)

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I'm headed to today, arriving in the middle of the opening reception (if all goes well). I'll be trying to clump together with other dinner-foragers...

glyph,
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@nedbat what a lovely coincidence, I am also arriving a little on the late side. I hope we can meet up! #PyConUS

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There are many things about git submodules that are more unpleasant than they should be but one of the most frustrating is that you have to decide early whether to add the submodules as git+ssh URLs or https urls. If you pick ssh URLs, your Windows users using GUIs will not be able to check out the submodules. Whereas if you pick https URLs, your Mac and Linux users using the command line will not be able to check out the submodules. Once you have picked one of these choices, you can't change it

glyph,
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@mcc @doomsdayrs I bit the bullet and set up tokens and have been using https urls exclusively for like 5 years now and it’s so totally worth it

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If you are not interested in the goings-on at , my feed is about to get truly annoying. I usually try to be mindful about posting volume but for the next week or so I will definitely not be doing that. I will do my level best to use the hashtag consistently, and to boost stuff that does the same, so if you don’t want to be flooded please go ahead and mute the hashtag if you haven’t already.

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@eaton then strap in because this is gonna be a heck of a ride

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TIL the “what Bladerunner would have driven” tweet was real

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@flyingsaceur my favorite part of the movie was when john bladerunner said “it’s bladerunnering time” and then he bladerunned all over those guys

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@flyingsaceur im ded

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Everyone at is wearing masks, (from looking at the first pictures), so I guess I won't be getting a common cold this trip.

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@mistersql Last year at I was vaxxed and freshly boosted so I wasn’t too worried about COVID in specific for me personally, but it was SO nice to get home with zero con crud

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It's REALLY weird to me when people in software mine research papers for their content and say "researchers" instead of naming the scientists who actually did the work they're using. We're human beings and our work is our livelihood (at a fraction of yours I might add). Name us.

Blessed for the community around me that has this value, side eye at the content engine that doesn't.

glyph,
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@luis_in_brief @mlinksva @grimalkina oof.

mcc, to random
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I am (unfortunately) on a Macintosh. A program is segfaulting, and I need to run in a debugger to find out why. I run lldb executable-name, and then "run". It prints:

error: the platform is not currently connected.

I do not know what this means. Googling for this error message turns up various things involving iOS and XCode, but I am not using either of those things, I am using lldb at the command line.

What should I do?

glyph,
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@swiftcoder @mcc I used to be absolutely militant about this advice, but the big problems used to be junk left over that actually modified the system in /usr/ or whatever, but nowadays SIP prevents those sorts of modifications and a post-install clean-up of /Library and /usr/local can reliably get you to a functionally "pristine" state. But I did do a manual re-install when I got my M1 machine, and haven't gotten a new mac since :)

PearlescentFerret, to random

Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.

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@PearlescentFerret @CatherineFlick anxiously awaiting the Debian Torture Aggregator which addresses numerous unresolved trademark issues with the use of ambiguously licensed Torment Nexus assets within OT

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@glyph That's interesting. I moved from Mac to Linux because as a programmer I feel more free and empowered there. But I see now that only some people would have the time, interest and skill to exercise that.

What about a Mac gives you agency? Is it the usability?

glyph,
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@federicomena I am doing part of that rhetorical work here ;-). But a big part of the problem here is that the structures in the free desktop world are balkanized and hostile. It is beyond my capabilities to convince anyone in a decision-making capacity to do the things that need doing to make this happen, and I think that it’s largely a lost cause at this point. Anyone who believes that Linux can be a viable desktop competitor is extremely welcome to prove me wrong, though

glyph,
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@federicomena sure

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