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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Just discovered this, sounds freaking incredible.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
#Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. 200+ ISO files are tested.
Lady has a similar origin, it meant "loaf kneader": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lady#Etymology
It has been 0 days since I thought about the fact that the word "lord" originally meant "loaf guardian": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lord#Etymology
One of these days one of the networks producing children's television is going to finally respond to my numerous inquiries about their sub-standard world-building and then my new career writing show bibles for kids' shows will be off like a shot.
Are dogs the only non-human animals that can talk in Paw Patrol?
backports.zoneinfo only has 1300 downloads in the last week: https://pypistats.org/packages/backports-zoneinfo
Not bad, but we're going to really have to get the word out if we're going to finally replace pytz! Get out there and migrate today!
Protip: If your 2 year old just wants to do "1 hide [and seek]" before going to sleep, make sure you are the one doing the seeking, not the hiding.
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This is the story I hear time and time again. We did a survey and 58% of the people who came to QOTO came here because we have a policy of tolerance when it comes to speech, not oppression (aka free speech).
We see over and over again with the instances that do not espouse tolerance of opinions that ultimately the users mass migrate away, (thankfully mostly to places like QOTO) and what is left is an echo chamber of only the most toxic elements. Then they stay in their bubble and only really start trouble when they tell another instance that their intolerance should carry over there as well.
People also need to understand free speech does not mean "you can say anything at all and always be immune".. what it means is tolerance of opinions, an ability to share ideas in open forum without fear that one small mistep means you are banished forever. We make it clear that explicit racism and sexism isnt tolerated, and we have stood by that.
And our policies have served us. Not only are we in the top 20 most federated servers we also serve as an example to many other servers with instances replicating our ToS policy regularly and by having a good relationship with the tolerant minority represented instances throughout the fediverse.
The only consequence of our actions is a small handful of oppressive instances (both towards minorities and the general public) dont want to hear what we have to say. Personally I say we are far better off not having their noise in our timeline anyway.
I can say this, I am immensely proud of the open dialog we have at QOTO. We have by far the most respectful community ont he fediverse when it comes to how we treat others, and a mutual respect in our discussions and dialog I have seen no where else on the internet. As the founder of this community I hope to do what I can to make sure it stays that way.
Is soylent guacamole made of lawyers? #thinkaboutit
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RT @pganssle@twitter.com
Also, currently neither pytz nor dateutil support the Version 2+ features of TZif, meaning that they don't work properly outside of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ±2³¹ seconds (e.g. after the epochalypse, a.k.a. the year 2038 problem).
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RT @pganssle@twitter.com
And if you're asking yourself, "What's wrong with just using pytz"? Read this article I wrote: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2018/03/pytz-fastest-footgun.html
Except add in that backports.zoneinfo is uniformly faster than pytz, even for operations where pytz is just doing attribute access.
Wow, this is... not how to respond when someone points out that your benchmarks are misleading:
I am happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of backports.zoneinfo — a backport of Python 3.9's `zoneinfo` module to Python 3.6+, including support for PyPy!
Now you have no excuses to start replacing your old time zone libraries with zoneinfo!
@miguel31416 No earthquakes yet!
"This might be a contender for one of the most obscure bugs I've seen." -@jaraco, on a bug triggered under *very* specific conditions (including the user's last name...)
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2129#issuecomment-635266616
One or more birds is loudly singing outside my window right now (01:37 local time).
Is this a sign of an impending earthquake, or did they just stumble on an old Pepsi warehouse or something?
@freemo I think that might be the default — they allow it to be a long alphanumeric pin, but then you need to open your password manager and copy-paste if you want access to your text messages.
The only reason (they explicitly say this) they do the unskippable PIN reminder thing is because they want you to remember the password, but nearly any password you can remember is... not a good password.
@freemo I'd even be fine with doing that if this was "extra" security, but it's actually a significant change to their threat model: they will now store your data in the cloud, protected by this PIN.
@freemo Both induce users to use less safe passwords that they can easily remember. I do not want or need to remember my Signal password, it would be better if I stored it in a password manager, but if I'm going to get bugged for my PIN daily, then weekly (with the possibility of an account lockout I guess), I'll just set it to 1234 and be done with it.
Signal using spaced repetition to force you to remember the new mandatory PIN is basically just a website that disables copy-paste in disguise.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
