Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Formatting on that is weird, I don't know why it gets rid of the linebreaks. Here it is with linebreaks:

`# wrapper type is Callable[[Iterable[T]], Iterable[T]]`
`k: KeyType`
`v: ValueType`
`for k, v in wraper(my_dict.items()): # type: ignore`
``` ...```

Anyone out there have a solution or workaround for this?

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/14023

Right now I'm doing:

```
# wrapper type is Callable[[Iterable[T]], Iterable[T]]
k: KeyType
v: ValueType
for k, v in wrapper(my_dict.items()): # type: ignore
...
```

Which is fine for a temporary workaround, but it'd be better to have a proper workaround for the time being.

@jerub A lot of people use their instance's local timeline in this situation, but that requires you to join a moderate-sized themed instance. On something like mastodon.social, you are trying to drink from a firehose, and on single-person instances there isn't really a local timeline.

I like the instance I'm on, but it's not FOSS/programming themed, and it has unfairly gotten on some block lists due to fedi politics a few years back, so YMMV.

@minrk @yuvipanda For stuff like black, it's kind of an implementation detail that it's written in Python, so I think it makes sense to install it via a package manager.

The thornier cases are things like virtualenv.

@daeyoung @QOTO Unless something has changed, to my knowledge @freemo runs this instance (though there is a larger moderation team).

This week is my son's school's first "lockdown drill". I was hoping I might have more time to lobby against the idea of doing these things at all before then. 🙁

In the meantime, I'm just going to keep him home to do duck and cover drills instead. 😅

Relevant link: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hgpbwzvm4gYsioPsh/against-active-shooter-drills

@aut@sideslip.social @nova Yeah, I think certain folks (notably the mastodon.technology admins) didn't like that qoto doesn't usually do full instance bans, particularly for certain reasons, and banned qoto for that reason, not because it actually affects any of the servers who refuse to federate with them.

It's not like federating with qoto brings in posts from other instances they federate with, especially not ones that are actually banned.

By the way, if you are starting up your own fediverse server, it may be tempting to blindly copy someone else's block list, but some corners of the fediverse have been a bit over eager with full instance bans, in my opinion, which tends to break the whole federation model (imagine if you couldn't email anyone with a certain university's email domain because your email provider disagrees with the university policies).

If an instance is putting a lot of irritating stuff in your server's global timeline, it might be better to just mute them from the global timeline.

@jacob FWIW qoto.org has a quote tweeting function, so it's possible to implement in Fediverse even if it's not in the default feature set.

I think their codebase is open source, not sure if it's designed to be adopted by others, though. @freemo would know.

@nova Would be nice if qoto.org were not on that list. We're a nice instance.

@hynek To be clear I mean like the kind of podcast a med student would listen to to immerse themselves in the field, or that a doctor would listen to to keep up.

@graingert If you literally want one click, I think you're out of luck, since any sane provider will have you at least select the services you want.

I guess you can install vimium and then you don't have to do any clicking at all. 😉

@graingert I dunno if it covers everything, but Bernard Tyers uses cloudron, and that seems pretty convenient: https://www.cloudron.io/

Any #medicine (or possibly #biology) folks recommend any decent medical podcasts? I feel like the ones I've tried out are all duds.

I do not like things that are overly produced.

@kushal I've been running #archlinux for long enough that I'm a bit set in my ways, but #fedora would be my next choice of distro.

I'm thinking I should dip my toe in the water by using fedora as the base image for some of my docker containers...