Geoffrey Thomas / is on Nostr

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2024-06-07 01:58:17

For my NY friends - I'm putting together a page explaining what is going on with Hochul's attempt to kill congestion pricing and what you can do about it: https://savecongestionpricing.org
This is all very sudden, so I'll try my best to keep the site updated with news and with actions you can take. The current news is that the governor is trying to make a deal with the legislature to take $1B from ... somewhere ... and is trying to get them to pass it before the legislative session ends tonight.

2024-05-31 00:22:06

Twitch's chat is IRC either directly over TCP or over websockets! https://mastodon.social/@glyph/112532655548560130

2024-05-30 16:32:33

A random charger I bought came with a cable with USB A on one end and USB micro-B, Lightning, and USB C on the other end.
Is it safe to plug in more than one device?
My first assumption is no, but if it's a power-only cable, they can't negotiate anything and you're just getting 5V in parallel, right?

2024-05-24 10:27:01

the jokes write themselves but the PEP does not https://discuss.python.org/t/how-to-reinvent-the-wheel/54106

2024-05-23 22:36:52

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Why test on the way out? Even more important to mask on the trip home to keep others safe (if you can't extend your travel), and it's worth trying to get Paxlovid as soon as you can.

2024-05-23 22:31:07

For anyone still at #pyconus - I have no idea how much longer they'll be there but there are quite a few rapid tests and KN95s in a box in the PyCon office (306/307) if you need them before you head out. There are also a bunch of lost and found items including a keyboard and multiple chargers. (And my water bottle, yay!)

2024-05-21 16:44:21

@npub15p6…69fj The seating in the covered area upstairs is gone now - can we get the conference center to keep it for all of sprints next year? (or even this year? :) )

2024-05-20 23:36:34

OH "Let a thousand possums bloom"

2024-04-04 02:17:50

A NOBUS backdoor is when your government spends more on cyberwarfare than public transit.

2024-03-30 22:51:12

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@npub1pfe…e2dm using the pwa was a mistake
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/187/083/124/850/936/original/1a0cfd3867a70d7a.png

2023-11-23 16:51:43

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@npub1pfe…e2dm @npub1xkg…gph9 my first binding for all three of those are pyca folks which is now making me imagine a blog about problems with Python wheels called "abi3 is going great"

2023-09-22 21:35:35

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@npub1pfe…e2dm this code is in Rust! but doing clever things with higher order functions was too much thinking for a Friday evening

2023-09-22 21:34:04

OH: "I did it in a way that is not satisfying to people who have opinions about programming languages."

2023-08-14 12:41:33

I am actually pretty sympathetic to Red Hat's stated motivation that it needs to be able to keep paying engineers to maintain the FOSS commons that nobody would explicitly pay for. It's a hard problem.
But it has to actually keep paying those engineers to maintain that FOSS commons if they want people to believe that argument. https://www.hadess.net/2023/08/new-responsibilities.html

2023-07-06 01:32:07

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Did Microsoft successfully embrace, extend, and extinguish _anything_? AFAICT they did not.