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The Python Software Foundation just had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the PSF drop any DEI efforts, and if this condition is violated, the NSF can claw back the money even if it's already been spent. That clawback is too risky, so the PSF had to pass on the funding. (This is pretty shameful: PyPI security is a broad benefit, but of course the administration prefers to grind its own ax here.)
If you develop #Python code or rely upon it for your business, it'd be great if your company could become a sponsor of the PSF, or if you could donate personally to the PSF.
The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.
I would be glad to donate to the #Python project, but doing so requires me to divulge my name and contact information as per their 501(c)(3) charitable organisation status:
"Contact information is required for tax reporting purposes and will be shared only with the US government."
Considering the current status of the US government, I don't feel comfortable doing this. Are there some other ways to donate to Python project without getting the US government involved?
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Finally, we have an internet connection worthy of 2025. But the story behind it...
Our LTE connection was originally 50/10 Mbps, and the actual speeds remained the same even after increasing the speed to 100/20 Mbps. I spent a lot of time with O2 support, got a more expensive plan with unlimited speed, and a new, expensive 5G modem. But the actual speed was still 35/8 Mbps. I was losing hope.
Until today, when I discovered that in the Unifi Dream Machine settings, there was the Expected ISP Speed item with 50/10 Mbps values, which I had set there for the original speeds 3.5 years ago. All this time, I thought it was there to just set the scale of the chart, but it also works as an upper limit. 🤦♂️
@jwildeboer I would if I had contacts of the individuals I spent time with. On the other hand, they all started support calls with sales pitches "Before we get to your problem, can we offer you another phone plan? For kids, parents? No? How about our IPTV?..." I think we're even. 🙂
i had noooo idea that those settings actually affect the speed! ...now i'm tempted to set it to at least double what would be expected to ensure it'll never ever cap speeds.
@bastilian if you don't know your official/theoretical internet connection speeds, it's really better to set the values rather higher than lower. I really thought it was just for informative purposes. To set the right scale for speed test charts, to tell you what is your actual speed compared to the official.
I also disabled smart queues which they don't recommend for speeds above 300 Mbps, but I don't think it had any significant effect.
it always seems like pragmatic, well organized, and beautifully written and managed projects understand the DEI is important and not just some political buzzword.
I'm not really sure how to feel about this personally. Coming from a country with a lot of affirmative action, I've always seen it as incredibly harmful. You should always try and treat people equally, instead of putting on a racial lense when hiring and making those sorts of decisions.
I'm honestly a little disappointed to see the Python foundation go a different route.
The PSF's commendable action aside, it is interesting that the US government is implicitly saying that they *want to* surrender open source security safety, security, for attacks on DEI. That means they figure that less ethical organizations will fill the gap, or they dont really care about security, etc in the first place.
I always really enjoyed Python for many reasons. Now I have even more reasons. That is strong show of force of maturity in the world where lack of principles is regular. Will consider automated payment 🙂
When did large companies ever do the right thing - at anytime - for anything ? It is the responsibility of the individual to speak up before its too late to speak.
Một chút hương, một chút thương — gửi tặng cùng Hẻm Nhà Boo Có những điều điều nhỏ bé, nhưng đủ khiến ngày thường trở nên đặc biệt. Như một hộp quà thơm gói bảo vệ, kèm theo vài cánh hoa khô và tấm hoa nhỏ xinh. ✨
Cung mình — Hẻm Nhà Boo — tin rằng, món quà không chỉ là vật chất mà còn là cách để nói: “Cảm ơn”, “Mình nhớ bạn” hay đơn giản là “Chúc bạn một ngày thật thơm.”
"Đặt set quà sinh nhật gấp mà shop vẫn chuẩn bị rất nhanh, phối màu tinh tế, thiệp viết tay xịn. Bạn mình mở hộp là ‘wow’ ngay. Sẽ ủng hộ shop dài dài! Đặc
@PadraigOCinneide We should all donate to the foundation to show support of their spine. Make it so they ended up with MORE funding as a result of this decision than if they had taken it. Lots of small donations can add up to a lot quite fast based on my experience on Kickstarter of the years.
Jesus H. Christ! I logged onto Wise to see I had a balance of negative 1 grand. It was over charges I did not authorize, but the fact that they could let my balance go that low is just alarming. I filed a dispute. My money is protected. But I am just in awe. And not in a good way.
This one's personal for me. @sethmlarson and I went through months of intense, complex work to climb a steep and slippery learning curve, only to be stopped short at the very end by a hard ethical line we couldn't cross—it was gut-wrenching.
I'm proud of what we did and I'm proud of what we didn't do.
The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.
I won't lie. I'm feeling a bit down today. Because the only contact it feels like I've gotten lately is just people trying to hit on me. That's not really what's happening. That's just what it feels like. I miss the days when I didn't have to worry about who's going to decide to treat me like a piece of meat next. The random calls have stopped. I'm just over the boundary setting. It feels like batting flies away. You swat one, and there's another trying to get into your hair. Hope everyone is having a good Monday.
I politely tell people like that I am busy. And I give them the most boring ways one could make a person bored out of their mind Or, in extreme cases, I don't bother with humans.
A student in my functional programming class is also in the poetry club. The other day, he was late to class because he was working on this:
O Caml! my Caml! our functional program is done, The variables are immutable, the functions take only one, The syntax is clear, its elegance revered, its rules designed so plainly, While follow eyes the consistent types, which ensures you program safely; But O heart! heart! heart! O in binary terms of terror, Where in the terminal my Caml claims, Failed: type error. O Caml! my Caml! rise up and fulfill your task; Rise up—a function recursively done—cleverly pattern matched, The final case a wildcard—this makes it all exhaustive, I’ve checked my list; it ends with nil, if it doesn’t than I’ve lost it; Here Caml! dear function! Born by your programmer! It is some dream that in the terminal, You’ve returned a type error. My Caml does not budge, the cursor cold and still, If the compiler could return remorse, its value would be [], It hath misled, the function name; I am not having fun, If I could somehow trace my types, the problem would be gone; Exult O professors, and resolve O piazza posts! In arrogance thought I be right, When all along Ocaml knew, My code was poorly typed.
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.
As it seems, you have to go back more than once, as I seem to remember to have it switched off, and today it was switched on again. I used to be an avid poster on LI but I was paying a lot, was swamped with ads on my FYP, and was only getting connection-requests by people wanting to sell me shit. I have yet to get anything off of LinkedIn, of which I am a patron since a decade (or more?)
question: If our account was deactivated "specifically stating the platforms aggressive AI push as the reason," will those account's data also be opted in?
Like others here I doubt it will not push it into AI anyway probably if your data is shared with anyone in your network that has AI eneabled (like someone that died or retired), then it will just steal your data true that profile. But anyway my linkdin is just public data. I do not post anything there that I do not want to end up on the internet. So I really don't care. I'd love to move that info to my own website, but sadly it is impossible to get any reach with my own website.
J'aide mon père (91 ans) à obtenir une carte mobilité inclusion (la carte « place handicapés »).
Après avoir rempli les trouzemille pages de dossier, identifié le bon interlocuteur et renvoyé le tout, on reçoit des mois plus tard un courrier physique demandant d'importer une photo d'identité sur un site Web, avec un identifiant de 16 chiffres et un mdp de 12 caractères alphanumériques.
La photo scannée doit faire moins de 2 Mo (l'aide préconise d'utilise Paint pour recadrer) et à la fin, la photo est affichée « non valide » sans spécifier pourquoi. J'ai rogné de quelques pixels et ça a été accepté 🤷♀️
Excusez-moi, c'est vraiment pas pour vous agacer, mais n'aurait-il pas été beaucoup plus simple d'amener votre papa pour le faire photographier à un photomaton ? J'ai téléversé une e-photo scannée et ça a passé sans aucun problème. Mais la paperasse… oui, c'est vraiment trop « commode » quand on est aveugle comme moi.
Libreitalia Conference 2025 was organized by Marco Marega – a LibreItalia and TDF Member – in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, in Gorizia’s province. Gradisca is a very nice fortified city surrounded be beautiful parks.
пиздец как у меня пригорает по поводу этого ебаного буревестника.
на всех сука каналах о полете буревестника рассказывают как о свершившемся факте и даже чтобы ни у кого сомнений не возникло, дают под это картинку с запуском каких то ракет.
люди ебанулись. точнее ебанутые в медиа делают ебанину для всех остальных ебнувшихся людей.
в принципе там же и «60 000 убитых палестинцев» которых ни кто не видел и не считал но что мешает подложить рандомные картинки под заявления «минздрава хамас»
As a Black software engineer and leftist in the United States, I contend with the notion that generative artifical intelligence can be used in a materialistic way that moves the needle forward for progress without intrenching the power of capitalists…
I've reached that age where I hear younger people on podcasts/radio say things like 'I'd never heard of George Harrison, but apparently he was in a famous old band'; 'My granddad watched Spielberg films when was a boy'; 'Found this at my gran's. Not sure what it is; it says 'VHS' on the back'; 'According to Wikipedia, Hitchcock was a film director in the olden days. I tried watching one. OMG, it was sooo slow and boring. Nothing happens!'
Just curious: Can Station playlist use Asio imputs and outputs? Thei state that Asio is supported, but on my windows 11 with asio4all enabled SPL doesnt see asio devices.
"Like all of neoliberalism, the last five decades of health care debate was a deal between the right and left to have social goods distributed through increasingly powerful corporations instead of directly through the state. Progressives got something close to universal health insurance 'coverage,' while the right got a privatized system with no limits on corporate power and no price transparency."
With big health insurance hikes coming, another health care crisis is here. Where's all the money going? And what comes now? Plus Argentina votes for the Trump bailout, Warner is for sale and more...
In 1995, Hillary Clinton as first wife, proposed universal health care. She was reviled with "government death panels" and howling by republicans.
At that time, republicans and their think tank, Heritage Foundation, proposed an alternate plan that had markets, health plans, etc.
This noname guy from Massachusetts took this plan and ran it in his state. Ever hear of the republican Mitt Romney? Yeah, that nobody.
Then Obama wanted to take Romneycare and the Heritage Foundations plan and make it national. And gee golly, howls of socialism... From a republican plan.
He instituted it, barely. But "Soshulism" screams are now regularly made. Nobody remembers the history:
"Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda "ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds."
For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House roof and addressed the nation on TV about saving energy while wearing a sweater so the White House thermostat could be set lower in the winter, and all the schools had stickers on the light switches reminding you to turn the lights off when leaving a classroom empty. Energy conservation was huge when i was growing up. Now it's "go ahead and use enough electricity to power a house for a month so you can make a video of a three eyed cat playing a banjo"
If you know Swedish (with parts of it in English), here's 98 minutes of video from the 106th gathering of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) from Friday, including the medal ceremony:
@KingmaYpe at 31:07 starts the video about me, but I did quote the entire justification from the Academy in a blog post last week: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/21…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl.
If you have a static website, it should be able to scale from 0 to "it's the first Google result for the question which is currently on 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' with no hitch."
It's not hard. It's a problem we've solved a few dozen times by this point, and the solutions are free and widely available.
You just have to stop hosting it on an old PowerPC Mac behind your carefully-crafted router running OpenBSD 4.
What prompted this? I think we should encourage *more* self-hosting on home servers, less use of centralized providers. And I consider CDNs a form of centralization, since while the network is distributed, it still represents an accumulation of resources and power under one company. Maybe being able to handle a spike in traffic that most websites never see isn't the most important consideration.
And yes, to address your hyperbolic self-hosting description, we should also consider more creative use of old hardware and less popular operating systems. Even running OpenBSD 4 on the router might not be so bad if there are no security holes affecting that specific configuration.
@matt This was prompted by somebody on my TL complaining about the "HN hug of death."
I'm not a fan of decentralization for decentralization's sake. With a website like that, you can decentralize at the domain level. As long as your hosting provider doesn't control your domain and you have the ability to move your content somewhere else, there isn't much evil that the provider can do.
Has a self-hosted *static* website actually succumbed to the HN hug of death? If so, it would be useful to analyze that site's setup and why it couldn't keep up with the load.
@matt Also, what the pro-decentralization folks are completely ignoring is that there are a lot of free speech / human rights arguments in favor of centralization.
No single server will withstand the might of the Chinese government if they decide to launch a DeDoS attack. Cloudflare? No problem, they'll even do it for free.
That comes at the expense of giving Cloudflare itself too much power, though. And in the current US regime, I might be more concerned about what Cloudflare, a US company, can do to my site than what the Chinese government can do to it.
@matt Whatever Cloudflare does to your site, you can always redirect your DNS records away from it. The ability to migrate matters (and this is where Mastodon fails catastrophically).
Random thought: there needs to be a service where blind folks can ask a sighted person to do something on the internet that isn't accessible, but is embarrasing as fuck. Need to verify yourself on Fetlife because of age ID issues? Need to take a picture of something medical to send to your doctor? How about getting a description for a sex toy picture that the AI describers say they won't touch?
BeMyEyes should do this. They're also the only org with enough connections and standing to start a discussion about AI discrimination in terms of sensitive things the AI won't describe for the blind.
I have been up more or less for the past 24 hours straight trying to update my #Friendica instance, only to have a break several times to the point of even having the database messed up and needing to get my hosting provider to do a database import for me, what keeps happening is every time I do the update even though I have my customized theme completely renamed the update removes my top navbar so I lose all functionality to post or do anything it's very annoying I can't update because it breaks and when I try to import my custom theme over the broken it does not fix it I'm not sure what @Friendica Support has done to the RC to cause this and I wish I knew so I could update but I can't.
@Michael 🇺🇦 everything's been changed I've got everything back the way I had it after getting the host server tech support to re-import my working database because I lack root privilege, and restored all my other files to the backup I did before all this catastrophe, whatever has changed in RC alters customize themes that are saved in a different name and have no name hook to the original so I had frio and I made a few changes that I liked to it that I was able to do and I saved everything and changed in every single file in that theme folder to frio_custom but every single time I do get pull and go through all the steps to update I lose the nav I have no way of composing no way of doing anything I have the very top bar but not the main nav bar and then it got so messed up that it screwed the database up and I couldn't even roll back on git, basically had to do a full-on surgical transplant of everything and I just going to stay on the latest development and not move up ever unless somehow I ended up meeting somebody that's remotely close to me that is very familiar with this and can walk me through it personally because everything I have read and everything I have known to do just breaks it it's kind of ironic it's kind of a straightforward instance yet mine is really apparently different. Whatever Friendica has done and her latest updates for RC it totally negates your customizations and what makes it worse is I can't use the new frio because it also is missing the top nap bar now just for information my local config is set to frio custom but when I try to also and configuration on the database set it to free of custom the whole site breaks I have to change on a database on config to just frio, anyways I have everything working at the moment so I guess I'm just going to give up on trying to update I was going to try to create a local instance on my computer to keep battling it and see if I can't figure it out so that I can push it to my server but it appears that my computer can't handle setting up a home instance so for now I'm just stuck, last development stage oh well I still like it.
Sorry, I totally loose focus when trying to read your text. I wasn't able to read the whole text. Please add line breaks at appropriate places, otherwise it is extremely hard to read for me.
Concerning the problem: I still don't understand how you were able to do something to your database. Nonetheless: When you try to update the next time, please be sure that you don't apply your changes immediately and even more important: You have to clear your browser cache to make sure that you don't use old code.
After that is done, you can try to apply your changes step by step while in parallel checking if everything still works.
@Michael 🇺🇦 the entire updates where via ssh git pull, I committed my changes and even tried to cherry pick my commits, every time upgrading from Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2025.02-dev - 1583 to the new RC, I lost the nav bar both in stock frio and my custom frio, and as to the database I have no clue what went wrong, never could figure that one out, anyways, I guess I am going to just stay with the version I have from now on, as i really dont have a way nor the resources to set up a test instance to work the kinks out and have something of value to report.
I may have nearly knocked out my gynecologist by shooting a speculum at his head. It wasn't my fault. He made me laugh, my muscles contracted, and suddenly my twat was a cannon.
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