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jwz, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Before they will let me publish a new release of XScreenSaver on the "Play" [sic] store, Google, the most rapacious privacy violator ever, insists that a screensaver have a privacy policy.

This is where you come in!

I'd like this policy to be a series of bullet points: "Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will not [Thing.] An endless, concise catalog of their sins.

I need both your snark AND a link supporting your snark. It's critical for the joke to land. Include both.

GO!!

https://jwz.org/b/ykUc

rbreich, 8 days ago to random

59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control.

Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling.

And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act.

Republicans are coming for birth control.

davew, 8 days ago to random

This would make a fine campaign ad.

foone, 8 days ago to random

I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

davidism, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to python

Announcing Flask-SQLAlchemy-Lite, a new lightweight replacement for Flask-SQLAlchemy that provides engine configuration and session lifetime, but none of the other custom stuff in the prior extension. It works with Flask and Quart, sync and async. I figured out the core idea on the flight to PyCon US, teased it during FlaskCon, and now it's available! Check out the docs to get started! https://flask-sqlalchemy-lite.readthedocs.io #Python #Flask #SQLAlchemy

grueproof, 8 days ago to random

Acronym: SSP. Meaning: Sesame Street Protocol.

A method of troubleshooting that seeks to determine which of these things (being examined) is not like the other ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRjQDrDnY8

SmudgeTheInsultCat, 10 days ago to random

davidho, 10 days ago to random

What if making progress on climate change doesn't mean doing everything the same way, except with less CO₂ emissions, but fundamentally changing the way we interact with nature and with other people?

indivisibleteam, 10 days ago to random

In case you were still wondering where the GOP stands on the right to contraception, look at the Senate. The fact GOP senators collectively blocked a vote on protecting access to contraception should really ring every alarm bell. No matter how much they try to distance themselves from the fallout from the Dobbs decision and downplay the deep fears over attacks on reproductive rights, their blockage of vote on a bill literally called the Right to Contraception Act really gives away the game.

tek, 11 days ago to random

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

ppossej, 12 days ago to ai

Microsoft Copilot helpfully summarizing an obvious phishing email, without alerting that it's a phishing email!

#ai #bullshit

glyph, 11 days ago to random

This is … just amazing. The pace drags a bit and is repetitive in places but it is worth bearing with it when that happens because (a) this is a very important thing that western audiences should know about absolutely wildly extreme racism in our media, and (b) the ‘orientalist’ composition of “William Wallace music” had me laughing until I cried https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU

dangillmor, 12 days ago to random

A must-read from @ProPublica: New investigation details "significant financial benefits" that have gone from Trump world to witnesses in his court cases -- is not surprising, in a way.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

Only the latest, and perhaps starkest yet, reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.

I hear that Trump apparatchiks were trying to get this article suppressed, so please read it and pass along the link to everyone you know.

9to5Mac, 11 days ago to news

Silo fans, here’s some big #news about coming seasons of the popular Apple TV+ series https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/04/silo-big-news-about-coming-seasons/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

shoq, 16 days ago to random

Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But he only served 9 months due to a sympathetic judiciary and massive public outcry from his political supporters. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, it should.

heidilifeldman, 16 days ago to random

The jurors in Trump’s New York business fraud case have demonstrated courage, integrity, and respect for rule of law. How disgraceful that no high ranking Republican elected official will call for Trump’s removal from the Republican ticket.

trabern, 16 days ago to random

I just want us all to take a moment and reflect that it has been a couple of women that brought you this at great personal cost.

Of all the things that could bring down Trump, it has been a couple of stubborn women he felt entitled to that did it.

LinuxAndYarn, 16 days ago to random

Lana, 15 days ago to random

Remember to tell the MAGA men in your life to stop being so emotional and to smile more they love that

kjaymiller, 15 days ago to random

I'm really excited to see the results of the interview that I did with #TheNewStack.

It turned out great! Even gave some good shoutouts to some communities we're heavily invested in!

https://thenewstack.io/black-python-devs-a-new-affinity-group-with-a-global-reach/

futurebird, 15 days ago to random

“Box and Whisker Plot” sounds like the name of a conspiracy among cats to steal shipments of cat food.

zzzeek, 16 days ago to random

huh all my internets seem to be heating up. what, something happen?

codefolio, 16 days ago to random

Hrm. This is a really good post about GraphQL and a lot of its problems. Lots of crunchy details.

The explanation "this solution is too complex for the presenting problem" is true, but feels glossed over. So here's the expanded and specific version for this one.
https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

GossiTheDog, 25 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

brainwane, 27 days ago to python

Here is a blog post with links and references to accompany my closing keynote today at #PyConUS , on stories from a few years working on #Python packaging.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/

#PyConStories