Russell Keith-Magee

@freakboy3742
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Founding Apiarist on @PyBeeWare project. @DjangoProject Core Developer. Itinerant shaver of yaks. Subject to occasional, wild, enthusiastic rants.
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Founderhttps://beeware.org

Lol… I had forgotten that the full quote of “Vox Populist, Vox dei” is Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.”

it translates to:

"Do not listen to those who say the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."

(Thanks to @goldengateblond@twitter for the reminder)

🤔 For open source/community projects, is https://fosstodon.org the better server to land on, or what is a good alternative? #python #django
Fosstodon

Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Mastodon hosted on fosstodon.org
Anyone know of any paid Mastodon instance hosting services similar to https://masto.host/ that have a good reputation and are currently accepting new signups?
Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

Masto.host
My own question about this is how this impacts on admins who aren’t located in US or EU. I’m sure it’s generally in your interests because fighting the system is never fun, but assuming you are up for a fight, and don’t plant to travel to the US/EU to put yourself physically in their jurisdiction… what’s the exposure?
Posting this link from the birbsite because it won’t reach the audience it needs to on that platform. TLDR it’s an advisory that Masto admins should register a DMCA agent to avoid liability. Other follow ups suggest doing similar for GDPR. https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024
rahaeli on Twitter

“Hey, US folks newly running Mastodon instances: do Future You a *huge* favor, mitigate your potential liability, and register with the copyright office and designate an agent to receive DMCA reports *right now*. https://t.co/HTPtaCYGBh”

Twitter

Some of us are camping out here for a bit until the next suitable thing comes along. Some of us are settling in for a longer haul. Some of us have been here for a long time.

Be good neighbours. Support the businesses and others who are doing it tough here as best you can until they find their homes. Don’t be surprised if things shift again, quickly, soon.

And don’t forget that late-stage capitalism is the real problem here.

Update on the search for a good Masto client - Metatext (iOS) has changed a *lot* in just over a week. If you tried it back when Lemon Tusk took over the birdsite and gave up, it’s worth another look.

The Python Software Foundation @ThePSF is having its Fall Fundraiser (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/2022-q4-drive/). I care a lot about the PSF and the work it does and supports, so I'm going to implore everyone to participate, and also I'll be matching donations: https://matcher.pyfound.org/match/16/

In fact, Google will match my donations, so it'll have 3x impact!

Small thread on why it matters 👇

#Python #fundraiser

Support Python in 2022!

The official home of the Python Programming Language

Python.org
Next time someone complains about singular "they" I'll point them to this 17th century rant against singular "you"

Why did nobody tell me that in #Python 3.11, datetime.fromisoformat() can parse arbitrary ISO timestamps!? #gameChanger

(Before it could only parse the output from datetime.isoformat(); e.g. choking on timestamps ending with a Z for UTC.)