I know, it's been a lot the last two days, so I'm going to summarize some principles on why the "don't trust the organization" screaming bothers me:

Good orgs are _groups of people._ By casting doubt on the organization you're doubting the people in the community around you.

Good communities are built on trust. If you don't trust the people around you, you cannot be relied on by those same people. It takes a lot of effort to reintegrate into a healthy community if they're used to no trust organization.

That work is important, but it cannot come at the cost of reducing overall trust in the community. You cannot let a distrustful troll cause damage and expect to keep a high trust community.

This is the tension at the heart of community management and why folks who do a lot of it have very different ways of talking about bad actors than average.

Also, all of this should be culture. Community managers are people too, and communities should outlive their current people.

discuss.python.org/t/suspensio…

Oops, my finger slipped.

Really, just taking advantage of the fact that I am no longer formally affiliated with _any_ Python Code of Conduct enforcement to talk about the actual reality of being a Code of Conduct enforcer.

More importantly: The formal reprimand stuff? That sucks so much. No one likes doing it. It's worse because the number of cases that come back after needing a suspension are so few.

Suspension of Franz Király

I’m going to just step in as someone who has run multiple communities (including multiple Python user groups), and use modified CC for every community I’m in charge of.

^{Discussions on Python.org}

Dovolená sotva začala a už abych zase balil 😪

Teď 6 dní v Praze.

Ale stejně si to užiju. Někdo na pivko?

A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.

mastodon.social/@carlysagan/11…

#GetFediHired

Today is apparently #InternationalPodcastDay, so how about our podcast #StroongeCast?
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Andre is blind whilst Kirsten is sighted, so listen as they discuss their life as a couple, what it's like to parent when you're avoiding all the toys on the floor and so much more.
Check us out wherever you get your podcasts.

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#Politique

Bravo à #AnnePernelleRichardot, l'élue #Socialiste de #Strasbourg qui dénonce sur #X :

"Le prosélytisme de la municipalité Barseghian".

Oui c'est une atteinte à la #laïcité.

Et Oui c'est du clientélisme.

#BoualemSansal résume parfaitement bien les choses :

"La gauche a abandonné ses ouvriers, n'ayant rien à leur offrir. Elle est allée chercher un peuple de remplacement."

#Strasbourg #Municipale

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So, everyone saying that Online Safety was the reason #Imgur blocked the UK is going to update their posts now, right?

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media…

Whoah. TIL that yt-dlp (the command line video download tool) includes a crude JS "interpreter" (~1k lines of Python).

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…

via @cfallin

Open source and federated systems are all about collaboration. But collaboration is not chaos. Come listen to @dinum 's @matmaul at the Matrix Conference, explain how it's opening its private federation to a select few, securely!

🗓️ October 15 to 18
🗺️ Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France
🎟️ Get your tickets, but be quick!

conference.matrix.org/register…

Idk, but to me the main sign that the “AI” bubble is about to burst is that it’s now advertised as an investment to consumers.

If you’re a big investor, how do you unload your high risk assets that might collapse soon? You make the plebs buy them off of you.

This is the dump part of “pump & dump”

Airlines successfully lobbied Trump, so now USDOT will not only ignore rule, it will write a new rule that will almost definitely be punitive toward disabled passengers.

“US will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule”
reuters.com/world/usdot-will-n…

#accessibility

Have you noticed your Tuta Calendar widget got a nice update? 🎉 📅

Now you have week view in the widget on iPhone and Android. Enjoy ✨

Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

Přišlo mi ochranné sklo od dbrandu. Originální fólie, co instalují přímo v Samsungu, už byla dost jetá a navíc jsem ji poškrábal mikroutěrkou při čištění a už se to nesrovnalo. To jsem myslel, že ani není možné, ale asi tomu trochu pomohla IPA. Co se týče samotné ochrany tak si na ní stěžovat nemůžu. Displej mi vždy přežil.

Nicméně .. "idiot proof installation" skla od dbrandu dostálo svého jména a zatím dobrý. Žádný prach, žádné bublinky, sklo přesně vycentrované.

📢 Právě mi volali z Bubenečského pivovaru – v pátek jsme vítáni! 🍻
Třetí 🐘 Mastodon CZ sraz má oficiálně zelenou.

Tentokrát zase dole ve sklípku, vejde se nás tam až 30 – takže kdyby ještě někdo chtěl dorazit, místa jsou! @mastopivo
#mastopivo #fedipivo

now why would @Tutanota not accept a pasting of an image as adding it to the list of attached stuff ?

I've just tried, it replaces every image at the end with just the last one you pasted.

Why? I just sent an email with just the last image showing.