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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Ah, now we know what they're going to use to go after the press corps

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Or the more likely option, since the press failed to investigate his first staged assassination attempt, it’s now his go-to move when his pole numbers get too low.

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f800gecko@mastodon.online ("Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧") wrote:

@glyph

Numba has been a godsend for my simple but voluminous math problem (billions of tx). What took 15 minutes pure Python got crushed to 14 seconds once cleaned-up of any superfluous admin stuff and @jit'd.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Getting tired of these time travelers missing their shot. Also, given what he’s done to date, what’s left to prevent?!?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTT8YQFJDQ

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

There’s nothing worse than surprise shredded lettuce on top of hot takeout food.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Can't Find My Way Home by Blind Faith

https://pandora.app.link/JEif4SoJD2b

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yaaaaah

Message To The Messengers by Gil Scott-Heron

https://pandora.app.link/VFFFlbZID2b

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's hilarious how everything Sam Altman thought AI would become, turned out to be dead ends. He was basically wrong about everything, and now OpenAI is scrambling.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhhhhhh

Back In the High Life Again by Warren Zevon on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/dFOuFlZFD2b

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Since Linkding doesn’t offer any sane way to get lists of shared bookmarks at the individual user level (since doing it via the API requires a separate per-user API token, and there’s no user-specific attribute in the RSS feed URL structure), I worked out a simple workaround involving querying the database directly. So now in addition to feeds for tags, you can get per-user feeds of shared bookmarks with this syntax: https://feeds.later.place/adam@omg.lol

:prami_happy:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Linkding’s feed URL syntax can be a little wacky, so I put together a simpler way to generate feeds for specific tags from a "feeds" subdomain. Like this: https://feeds.later.place/pokemon

Just change the tag name at the end of the URL to generate a feed for that specific tag. The feed will include all shared (public) bookmarks using that tag across the instance.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
N33R@fops.cloud ("N33R "Herbeiführen einer Sprengstoffexplosion" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: ") wrote:

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'll skip the "comedy" tonight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/25/what-a-waste-of-an-evening/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Also Milwaukee is a cute little city. I’m gonna have to take some time off to explorer the city and not just spend all day in a convention center.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Pipelined Architecture", a well known feature of square dancing #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am learning that all things english are uncool as @danlyke explains square dancing by way of group theory. I do love the Python community.

#NBPy

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I’ve seem more trans and gnc/visibly queer people at the Midwest Gaming Classic than I do at StL Pride last year.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It's been a while since I had to ask this question too seriously, so it's interesting to see the where the ecosystem has transitioned to. Lots of new libraries (I've never used PyBind11) but also venerable ones (Boost.Python, cffi). Interesting to hear that parameter conversions are still a significant overhead. Cross the boundaries infrequently, with large values, to avoid the translation overhead explosion, which is ancient wisdom: https://blog.glyph.im/2022/12/potato-programming.html

#NBPy

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I wanna get a shirt that reads "I write in .md files and I'm really annoying about it."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now listening to Freya Bhushan Mehta asking the age-old question: what code should be in Python, what should be in C++ (or your compiled language of choice)? #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you're enjoying my somewhat disjointed attempt at liveblogging North Bay Python here, I'm mostly doing this to try to keep my famously discursive attention focused.

If you want a *good* liveblog, I have no idea how @MaggieFero manages it but their posts are the gold standard

#NBPy

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

"Angel investing is when you give away money with extra steps." - Bob Monsour #nbpy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A whirlwind tour through an autobiographical talk from @bobmonsour which has included the detail that I believe he said he programmed a device with 112 bytes of application memory (?!), a skill that I am guessing will be useful in the modern day given current RAM prices #NBPy

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

She's wrong. April 25 has been less than ideal for me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/25/what-kind-of-perfect-date-is-this/

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we have a galley of dick pix
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/25.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

And finally, the accessing software should not be allowed to *know* if they said "no".

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you are ever in the position where you are the steward of a user's consent for software to access their data, make sure that the user gets to remain in control of WHAT data is exposed. Which mailboxes, which calendars, which photo albums, which contacts. This does need to be high-level; as users do not generally want to be forced to do complex configuration as *well* as clicking through a bunch of dialogs just to get their work done, but it is your absolute duty to *give them the option*.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116467306761201245

I want to elaborate on this one a little bit. When I worked at a company that manufactured, among other things, consent modals, one of the things I tried (and failed) to fight for was the idea that no consent modal should EVER be a 'yes/no'. "Should we let this app access your contacts list?" is a form of the question that disrespects consent. The app can tell if you say no. It can extort a 'yes' from you, after that. Instead: "what group, if any, should this app be able to see?"

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nik@nkantar.social ("Nik Kantar") wrote:

The neighing horse’s timing is hit and miss, but the hilarity keeps increasing. #nbpy