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
In the book "Brooklyn", @builtbrooklyn@twitter.com says early aviator Calbraith Rodgers was "blogging all the way" on a cross-country flight.
I am kinda startled to find that I can't think of a non-anachronistic verb to describe what he was doing: sending regular dispatches for publication.
Citation: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Brooklyn/JHbTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=blogging
@freemo Awesome improvements. Is this stuff standardized enough that it could be supported by mobile apps? Probably >50% of my browsing fediverse is done on Tusky or something similar, so I miss out on some of the custom features of the qoto instance.
Paul Ganssle
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# Remote Timelines
I wanted to take a minute to explain QOTOs Remote timeline feature, specifically the new aspect we just released on the advanced interface: Domain Favourites.
This feature allows you to pull up a column which is identical to the local timeline of a remote instance, thus addressing the need for users to have multiple accounts across multiple instances. You can be here on QOTO and see the remote timeline as a separate feed just as if you were on the remote instance itself! For example attached to this post is what the Koyu.space remote timeline looks like from QOTO.org.
**Note:** This feature can not and does not bypass security permissions. If a user has blocked you you wont see that users posts in the remote timeline either.
There are several ways to pull up or switch between remote timelines, and you can have several remote timelines up at the same time or even combine them in a single column.
One way to do this is with the QOTO lists feature. Here you can create lists that are either collections of people you wish to follow in their own timeline, or a list of domains where you wish to follow the remote local timeline of the whole domain. Create the lists you want then open your lists and switch between them to view the various timelines you define.
You can also go into your settings and under preferences there is a subsection called "Favourite domains", you can add domains there as well. If you do this the domain will show up on the main navigation bar and you can select it with fewer clicks than through the list menu. There is also a Favourite Tags section in preferences that works much the same way.
You can also pull up the remote local timeline of an instance from a posted status itself. Simply click the three dots on a post from any user from the desired domain and one of the options will be to open the remote timeline for that domain.
That is all there is to it, enjoy!
Paul Ganssle
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I'll perform some stand-up comedy about #FLOSS at @SeaGL on November 13th: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2020/program/proposals/732
@freemo Also I'm in the 11th judicial district of NY. There are around 18 people running for 9 spots.
I wasn't able to find lists of cases for these people last time around, and I'm not especially interested in spending hours on it anyway, considering how unimportant my vote is with the hordes of party-line voters.
I think the fact that no one has bothered putting together voter guides or information about this, and that even candidates with no record seem to not campaign *at all* indicates that these are not properly contested elections and the outcome isn't really in doubt.
@freemo There are many judicial philosophies, and judges also have different different approaches to sentencing or any of the other aspects of their job where they have discretion.
Do they believe that long prison sentences are appropriate for drug possession? What is their approach to setting bail? What do they think of geofence warrants?
There is a lot of room for reasonable disagreement on first points.
@freemo I haven't been able to find that information. I tried last year (without a LexisNexus subscription), but I obviously put in more effort than 99% of other people did, and was largely frustrated.
It's not a good sign that no one even feels the need to give a summary of their positions (I don't trust any politician, but I can at least find out who they are targeting, broadly speaking).
@brainwane Yeah, were you able to find any useful information about these people's records, judicial philosophy, etc from that? For district 11 I'm just seeing links to official bios for some people, and that's like, "J.D. from Columbia, 1985" or whatever.
@freemo I guess? Doesn't seem like a meaningful choice when you cannot find information about these people and literally a million people vote anyway!
This is "pick a hand", not meaningful voting. Just seems like a waste of time.
Still, maybe we're better off. It's not clear to me that election of judges is a particularly good idea.
Another election year where I can find basically no information about any of the judges running for office.
You would think that they would have some sort of at least rudimentary campaign information, such that you could know like... their positions on issues and their track record as judges?
Talk is done!
The video is available here if you missed it (with an archive of the chat): https://youtu.be/S4TjOnkFLtI
Slides (with speaker notes) are here: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/pytexas-2020-upstream-bugs/#/
The slides are probably not especially mobile-friendly.
The beginning of my @PyTexas@twitter.com talk: "Here are a bunch of hacky strategies that you should do everything to avoid using."
Every "real-life examples" section of the talk: "Here are a bunch of my projects that use these horrible hacks!" 😅 🤦♂️
My PyTexas talk, "What to Do When the Bug is in Someone Else's Code" will be streaming in 15 minutes!
I'll be in the Youtube chat answering questions and "not really a question, more of a comment"s!
Link to stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4TjOnkFLtI&list=PL0MRiRrXAvRgAFCdfHUcw8PNPqS7ux_BK&index=20
One advantage of virtual conferences: if PyTexas had been in person, me running out of the room halfway through @moshezadka@twitter.com's talk screaming "That's a red-breasted nuthatch!" while scrambling for my camera would have been really inappropriate in person.
Fun fact: If you scatter peanuts around your yard and porch in an attempt to attract birds, it will also attract other animals.
Tonight we got a visit from a possum and a skunk at the same time!
Paul Ganssle
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"I reverse engineered McDonald's internal ordering API and I'm currently placing an order for a McSundae every minute at every McDonald's location in the US to figure out which ones have a broken ice cream machine."
😂
As promised a few days ago, we now have a 2020.4 release of the first-party tzdata package on PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/
This includes changes to Palestine's DST rules that take effect THIS SATURDAY, so a good time to upgrade this (and your system package) is now!
And for the "try before you buy" types among you, my slides are already available!
https://pganssle-talks.github.io/pytexas-2020-upstream-bugs/#/
The @PyTexas@twitter.com talk schedule is up!
If you're interested in my talk, "What to do When the Bug is in Someone Else's Code", it'll be airing from 14:00-14:30 CDT on Sunday, October 25:
https://www.pytexas.org/schedule/#:~:text=Speaker%3A%20Paul%20Ganssle
To be honest, I feel like I may have shot myself in the foot by trying to get the word out about this the last few years. It's so widely misunderstood that I may have been able to make the case for a backwards-incompatible change based on "we'd be fixing more code than we break".
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
