Considering to change my #backup solution from #duplicity to #restic (Not sure yet, I like having #pgp keys for encryption, but it's not like a long password stored in #PasswordStore wouldn't cut it). Since restic supports Windows I might try moving a couple relatives onto it; Makes helping them easier if I know the software. For them however, a #GUI is likely a MUST, but what I've found so far is not too encouraging: restatic (dead), npbackup ("metrics" and other assorted niggles), resticguigx (Electron), backrest (browser-based, which makes my skin crawl for security tooling)... Does anyone know other options I missed? Or has some compelling arguments for those I mentioned?
I'm old enough to remember when the "Back" buttons in web browsers used to work reliably. You'd get exactly one page transition back in history for every press of the button.
@leonerd Just disable JavaScript and its ilk and the button works just fine. As a bonus you get a pretty good idea which sites are really in it for "teh metrix" (read: surveillance capitalism) first and foremost... ;-)
I am currently designing a small toy-language and was considering making all strings proper #Unicode objects and all source files utf-8. Lo and behold, Unicode has recently published some guidance: #TR55http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr55/ I am, however, rather deeply concerned about the general strong preference for #blocklists over #allowlist, e.g. as recommended for identifiers. I get wanting to allow people to use their own language and script wherever possible, and therefore recommending switching from e.g. requiring type names to start with an upper-case character to blocking an initial lower-case character, thereby allowing the use of unicameral (without upper and lower case) scripts. But I have this deep gut-feeling that while the TR certainly solves some existing #vulnerability classes, it also opens up a huge amount of new ones with this general attitude. I haven't yet gone through the TR with a fine-toothed comb to allay that fear, but I'd appreciate input from anyone that has thoughts on the matter.
Schade, die #CCC-Instanz blockiert die Föderation mit #Threads – ich denke, ich werde mir eine neue Heimat bei #Mastodon suchen müssen, wenn ich überhaupt bleibe … 🤷🏻♂️
Hey network :)
Can anyone recommend a good online course to get into programming with Python? It's for a complete beginner when it comes to both python and programming who's currently doing a German video course that's not well explained, leaves some of the general programming basics out and uses overall not very good didactics. Hints are appreciated!
Habe ich selber gemacht und fand den wirklich hervorragend. Wie uebrigens alle Kurse, die ich bisher im #LinuxHotel gemacht habe. Ist inzwischen meine absolut erste Adresse, wenn ich X lernen moechte/soll und mir kein passendes #OReilly in die Haende faellt ;-) (Derselbe Besitzer betreibt auch das #Unperfekthaus, das auch einen Besuch wert ist!)
Es ist surreal, dass die #AfD & #JungeAlternative in immer mehr Bundesländern wegen verfassungsfeindlicher Bestrebungen beobachtet wird, während sie in Umfragen gleichzeitig so stark wie nie ist.
Wieso verstehen so viele nicht, dass #Rechtsextremismus eine Gefahr ist?
@Wohlfahrt_P Weil viele Menschen weit mehr rechte Vorstellungen vertreten, als man glauben moechte. Die sehen dann kein grosses Ganzes, sondern viele einzelne Punkte, denen sie zustimmen, und voellig akzeptabel finden, die aber in der Politik aus "linksextremen" Gruenden immer "unterdrueckt" werden. Das die AfD dann mit dem "Scheinargument 'rechtsextrem' kaltgestell" werden soll passt da voll ins Weltbild. Verwandter: "Vater war ein Scheiss-Nazi!" & "Die AfD sagt wenigstens X"
Video begins with a shot of a cat sitting on a Roland Space Echo
ME: Oh, ha ha, that is so cute! Look at this beautiful ki—
[REALITY SINKS IN]
ME: Oh my god there are a finite number of those on Earth, the newest ones are 33 years old whereas the oldest are 49 and they have fragile purely mechanical components! Do not get cat hair anywhere near that thing!!! D:
@Just_Jen And the #aspie equivalent (nesting multiple such addenda (yes, Latin), because thought isn't entirely linear (though speech is (which is terribly annoying (at least to me), as is the #ocd-ish need to verify all parentheses (e.g. ")") are properly nested (and the parser sufficiently clever to handle nonsense like that above or ;-) ))))!
"By stacking PRs, each PR becomes more focused and is easier to review and fix. And new work can continue to build on existing PRs before they get approved"
For me, it’s “Don’t Look Up” bc while the #movie is supposed to be satire, it’s terrifyingly plausible from my perspective as a former staffer who now studies science policy.
@Sheril Dr. Strangelove. Hilarious turning into an unexpected gut-punch upon reading Confessions of a Doomsday Planner... On a lighter note, I watched both Alien and E.T. in a single week when I was a kid. Guess which one gave me an actual nightmare (Hint: To this day I find isolation tents slightly disturbing)
@ripper It could be up to six bytes, as null-terminated ascii string, or eof-terminated json file, and I can think of even worse... (netstrings, utf-32,..) Be thankful for small blessings (and pack/and/or/xor your bools into numeric types like a good c captain ;-) )
@nixCraftchuckle I used to simply say "Das Boot", which was at least a very unusual/distinctive choice at my age then. Today I struggle to name just one favourite, let alone ones that also describe me reasonably well (For books just read the Cryptonomicon, it'll give you a reasonable facsimile of my self-image at least; Other favourite books would require a full-fledged review/critique to go with them). But Movie... Uuuugh... I'll go with... Star Trek VI (pun intendended).
@bea Frankly, ferrying 320GiB essentially undetectably in your wetware still makes for an excellent courier. I would have serious use for much smaller numbers when sending cryptographic materials into questionable locations (think one time pads to embassies).
Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man
MAN
Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race
Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating
EDIT 2023-11-27 2130 UTC: I muted this thread a while back because wew lad this got too big. I won't see your reply but the lurkers (and commentors) of Hacker News might.
@ifixcoinops Good to know. I used to buy HP, because their network stack just worked, but recently they've started requiring their fucking closed-source app for "activating", otherwise it just refuses to print after an initial (totally fine) 15 pages... Will buy HP never again...
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic Almost the opposite. I have a lot of empathy plus a willingness to go through hell and high water for my chosen family. For strangers though? While I have strong principles, think Human Rights, or, better, TNG-era Starfleet officer, I don't empathize more than symbolically when someone hits their nail with a hammer (I'll help, because that's the right thing to do, no need to actively decide to, but empathy? no...)
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic It might be an interesting data-point: I am a dominant sadist; which kind of implies that even for chosen family I do not "share/feel their pain" in the sense usually meant by "empathy", at least not automatically and all the time.
@evan I tend to put the side in front that instigated the current/most recent exchange, read: war/attack of X on Y. Hence: Hamas/Israel, and Russia/Ukraine.
I fully embrace my childish side (hey, I'm an #aspie / #geek, not doing so would be inhumane#jokingbutonlyhalf), which tends to express itself, among other things, in really enjoying having plushies of programming languages, that I actually use, etc. on my desk at work (Think #ElePHPant and #rust's #Ferris). One day I'll manage to score an #AntsyBull somewhere. But I cannot, for the life of me, find some proper floofy #Python sneks anywhere!
Wie reguliert ihr Gefühle, bei denen ihr nicht genau wisst warum ihr sie fühlt? Also zum Beispiel plötzlicher Frust/Genervtheit ohne offensichtliche Ursache?
Die Grundcheckliste (Hunger? Müde? Körper? Tagesgeschehen?) gehe ich immer mental durch - aber manchmal ist es nix was ich benennen kann.
Antwort von anderen Autisten mit gleicher Problemstellung wären hilfreich.
Bonusfrage: Wie macht ihr das, wenn ihr Gründe identifiziert habt, diese aber unlogisch/nicht änderbar sind?
@Kurorori Nicht. Bzw. auf Wiederholung achten und langzeit Muster identifizieren. Wenn ich offensichtlich fuer die anderen aufgrund meine Gefuehle nicht zu ertragen bin, dann Rueckzug (Ich vertrete "Own your own shit" aus der Polyamory-Pespektive; Manchmal harsch, wenn man denkt "aber ihr habt doch das Problem"; aber meist stimmt das eben hoechstens zum Teil). Zur Bonusfrage: Ich bin ein klassischer Vermeider und Totalverweigerer. Stubenhocker/Kellerkind halt ;-)
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