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
@gpshead I think the main reason Signal has taken off so much is that it was effortless. It was a better SMS client than the default one *plus* it did opportunistic encryption.
Anecdotally, it seems to me that Signal adoption is lower among iOS users, and I've always attributed that to the fact that they have a basically degraded experience, since they can't set Signal as their SMS app.
@gpshead I don't really understand this. It sounds like you are saying that I should disdain SMS so much that I don't care about my client, but it's not like I can stop using SMS.
I'm almost certainly going to need to start using SMS *more* now, because a good chunk of the people I talk to on Signal are people where I went to send them a text message through Signal and I got a "blue send button". Now I'm just going to go straight for the SMS app, and all those communications will be unencrypted.
OK, I upgraded to the latest Signal and it still works as an SMS client.
Kind of a twist of the knife that they are also prominently pushing "stories" in this update, which.... does not seem like it was any sort of user-requested feature.
#Signal users on #Android, anyone have a suggestion for a decent replacement SMS client? Looks like I am going to have to upgrade the app soon. 🙁
@jerub I don't know, I think I used Google Voice before Signal, and I actually really like Signal as an SMS client. I assume Messages is not good because I'm not sure I've ever liked a default app, but maybe it's OK?
@obi What does direct APK mean? If I upgrade today through the play store is that the same thing? I'd be happy to delay this decision a while.
@offby1 I've got some vague hopes for this: https://arewep2pyet.com/
I'm thinking 5% chance it will happen, but it would be cool if it did.
Paul Ganssle
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I'm translating an #svg figure for a #Wikipedia article. I have an alignment problem due to the #font being not available everywhere. Is there a way to right-align text boxes independently of the actual font being used? I want them to remain editable as text. I'm using #inkscape.
This is the file's page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D
In my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), the text is misaligned (image 1). Image 2 is the screenshot of the relevant SVG code.
From what I can gather, text-anchor:end is indeed what we want to ensure right-alignment but it's not working. Any idea on how to make this work?
I kinda thought Amazon was just completely neglecting Goodreads, but they've recently been doing a bunch of messing around with the front-end in a very "likes are now florps / timeline goes sideways" way.
Possibly this is related to the fact that Goodreads is the *slowest website I use regularly*, and has been for many, many years?
Goodreads, I've regularly used your website for *13 years*, and reviewed over 1000 books. I've got librarian privileges and I'm not even using a bunch of weird IP addresses.
Why do I need to complete a captcha every time I submit a review?
@tonwood Qoto also has a bunch of nice to have features like **markdown** and quote tweets, plus the very roomy 65k character limit.
Python packaging
@pradyunsg Yeah, when I deploy PyPy a bunch of stuff builds from source, including SqlAlchemy. `backports.zoneinfo` also has no PyPy wheels because it is not possible to specify that a wheel is a generic PyPy wheel (see: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/311 )
I suspect there's low coverage for PyPy because of some combination of PyPy being a different beast, people not wanting a combinatorial explosion on their CI builds and people just not bothering.
Python packaging
@pradyunsg I'm pretty sure this would be *massively* disruptive to anyone using pypy.
Paul Ganssle
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New post:
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/speech-to-text-with-whisper-how-i-use-it-why/
I've started regularly using OpenAI's #Whisper to make transcripts and captions/subtitles, and am writing to share how, and why, and my reflections on the ethics of using it.
A lot of HOWTO in here, but the last section dives into @simon's #ML #machinelearning #AI vegan analogy in a way you might find interesting even if Whisper isn't your thing.
Paul Ganssle
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TIL: you can use `shell: python` in GitHub Actions to run #Python code directly
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/.github/workflows/check.yml#L77-L83
When you're doing walking lunges next to someone doing high steps and another person doing lateral band walks.
Paul Ganssle
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I’m happy to announce #Python attrs 22.2.0!
The headline feature is certainly the `alias` argument to fields that allows you to freely set the __init__ name for attributes (e.g. if you don't like attrs's behavior of stripping underscore).
But there's also a lot of under-the-hood improvements around performance and typing.
This is the last version to support Python 3.6. 🫡
@xarvos @gforsyth @tacaswell @tomasino I don't think that's going to solve any of the problems around semver-based pinning.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
