Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
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@jscholes @elthenerd I mean, I've participated in events which were actually a rough summary (e.g. the language summit, which has been blogged but not recorded for many years now) and I was fine with it.
If I were only able to get access to talks via captions I would be ok with them not being verbatim as long as no points are missed.
Times when I have needed captions (usually like TV shows with horrible audio mastering, TV shows in other languages), it has been frustrating when the subtitles don't match the words the characters say (usually, I think, because the thing I am watching is a dub and the subtitles are an independent translation, or possibly because the subtitles are based on the script and not a transcript), but that is mainly because I am using the captions to figure how how to parse the audio. If I could not hear the audio I'm not sure I would care if someone had said, "I've just gone to the store" vs. "I've just been to the store" or something.
@elthenerd Do you only want us to answer if we need the captions? For me the captions being auto generated or non existent is not a big deal but that means I'm not the target audience.
Also, is there an option where they get posted with rough transcripts and later corrected (possibly crowd sourced)?
P.S. Thank you for doing this hard work! I have often found it to be the case that editing audio / transcripts / etc takes much longer than actually generating it, which stops me from making more content than I otherwise would have!
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Reviewing talk videos at the moment, just wanted to take a quick straw poll based on initial viewing.
For context, it took a good 5 mins to go back and forth adding missing captions to the transcript I was provided per 1 minute of talk.
Accessibility in the digital video space has been something I have been pushing at day job, so I'm incredibly bias, thus I'm looking for what people are thinking these days.
Maybe I'm over-thinking it?
@baconandcoconut We haven't been able to install central air in our new house yet and we don't have any window units because we are planning to have it installed soon, so, uh, wish me luck.
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Join Cristián Maureira-Fredes (@maureira.dev@mastodon.social) at EuroPython for "Understand and expand Python: a hands-on experience on Python internals". talk: https://ep2026.europython.eu/K7XNTF
Plus more people than usual helped me with this one and very few of them were able to make it to the talk, so I'm looking forward to sharing it with them. ♥️
This is the most impatient I've been for #pyconus videos to come out in several years. I know I will probably not like hearing myself speak Spanish, but I am still very curious to hear how it turned out from the outside.
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I wonder who I know that knows someone at HackerOne that can convey the message that PyPI explicitly disallows security research packages, and bans users who upload them. Put that in a notice to your users somewhere prominent - since it's become pervasive and a drain on resources.
This also takes time away from legitimate security incident response - so it's a net negative for the world.
@jonafato When people see my bag though they already think it is a comically large bag, so I really need to be slimming down not building out. 😢
@jonafato Is the travel pillow for the plane? Which one did you get? I have not found any of the ones I've tried to be a game changer for me.
@jonafato@mastodon.social Is the travel pillow for the plane? Which one did you get? I have not found any of the ones I've tried to be a game changer for me.
I think from now on every time I see a "YouTube face" thumbnail with some clickbait nonsense title, I'm going to click and bounce immediately. From my understanding this hurts the algorithm ranking more than my normal strategy of not clicking at all.
Real reason it took so long to complete the Sagrada Familia: architect wanted to be long dead before any architecture certificate critics could use the line, "Gaudí? More like gaudy"
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You still have several hours left to nominate someone as a PSF Fellow for Q2 of 2026 https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/
@ubernostrum @hynek BRB sending a PR to change packaging.python.org into a linktree of Hynek's projects.
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I'm giving a lighting talk about gh-profiler this evening. If you've been curious about it, come to the lightning talk session at 5:45!
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
