Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

The robustness principle: "Be meticulous about your appearance and never tell anyone when they have food in their teeth."

@design_RG Thanks for working on this! Sorry that it doesn't seem to have had a happier ending (though there's always hope)!

@design_RG See this thread: https://mastodon.technology/@pganssle/103199195138668923

It seems unlikely we'll be unblocked.

@design_RG This is actually why I switched to qoto.org. They seem to want to defederate from anyone who doesn't believe in defederating from gab et al.

It's a bit sad and honestly one of the most offputting parts of the fediverse for me.

@bitecode Haha, definitely don't use this.

@freemo Depends on what you are backing up. A few seconds in most cases, but if you hit something with hundreds of thousands of little files and directories it can be minutes or more (in my case some deduplicating backups).

In my use case backing those up isn't that useful anyway, so a way to exclude them is probably a more fruitful way to speed up my backups.

I did some basic profiling and I think the multi-threading behavior is actually not buying me much, because a lot of the time is spent doing the zip encoding.

Not sure if there is a simple way to parallelize that or if it's even worth doing.

I soft-launched this a few weeks back, but here is my most polished (i.e. not very) @rustlang project to date: metadata-backup, a tool for backing up your file system metadata.

Contributions welcome!

https://gitlab.com/pganssle/metadata-backup

@toast Yeah, well that's another way that Python 2 has been increasingly already dead. The latest releases of matplotlib, ipython, Django and pandas haven't supported Python 2 for a long while.

Python's killer feature for me is the third party ecosystem. Even if core python delayed Python 2's death officially, are you really better off with frozen versions of all your dependencies?

@toast Personally I think the "end of life" date was a pretty arbitrary epoch anyway. Management types like firm dates and deadlines so they were given one.

In reality, Python 2 has been increasingly unsupported over the course of a few years. Some distros will probably make half-hearted efforts to patch it for a few years hence.

@toast I suspect we'll do things like close all the open Python 2-only bugs as wontfix as part of the wind-down. After January 2020 release manager has to approve anything that goes into the release. I can't speak for him, but I think the assumption is that we'll only be merging bugs introduced since the last release.

@toast @nik It's not actually bumped, Python 2 is just such a low priority that it's not worth making the release manager work over the holidays to prepare the final release.

Blog post: Testing an Arch Linux package in Gitlab CI

This is basically the blog post I was hoping to find when I was struggling with permissions issues in my new CI pipeline. It's a bit outside my comfort zone, so I'm especially keen on feedback (e-mail is best, but twitter or mastodon works in a pinch).

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/12/gitlab-ci-arch-pkg.html

#archlinux #linux #gitlab #docker #testing

@bitecode Looks like the quine goes in alphabetical order, too. Wow.

#PyO3 is considering dropping support for Python 3.5, but is looking for feedback from users. See the issue here: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/685

#Rust @rustlang #Python

I see no mention of translations in the Wikipedia article for the episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hat