I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs:

https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc

I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks:

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

Suggestions and corrections welcome!

#internet #resilience #digital #independence

- Luigi Mangione was not a leftist
- Both of Trump's would-be "assassins" were conservatives
- ICE is actively kidnapping hundreds of thousands of people in broad daylight. Be grateful we only want to dox them drag them into court for their crimes, and not worse.
- The assassination of Rep Hortmann and her husband, and the attempt on the Senator and his wife was done by a far right Christo-fascist conservative
- A conservative tried to murder Nancy Pelosi and her husband in her home with a hammer
- A conservative tried to assassinate Kamala Harris at her home with a sniper
- Thousands of conservatives tried to murder democracy on Jan 6

Other than that, good tweet.

Here is some code I am going to merge soon into a widely used open source project, relied on by many very large corporations:

```
def noop():
pass

import threading
threading._after_fork.__code__ = noop.__code__
```

Some interesting things about this:

1. Just in case you don't understand what this is doing (this is a good thing, you're better off not knowing): this is a terrible terrible crime against abstraction. I am changing the code of a function so the function does nothing when called.
2. I doubt any LLM coding tool would generate this code without a human doing all of the heavy lifting to figure out why _this_ is the fix, however hideous. That's good! You really don't _want_ code like that.
3. Except that sometimes you _need_ code like this. Due to technical decisions made 20 years ago (monkeypatching the Python stdlib to implement green threads), compounded by many bad decisions made hither and yon for decades (fork() without execve() is the worst - https://pythonspeed.com/articles/python-multiprocessing/), this is the most straightforward way to proceed.
4. Which is to say, part of being an good engineer is knowing when the rules need to be broken. In this case, it's what I've dubbed "transgressive programming", a thing you really don't want to do... except when you have to. https://pythonspeed.com/articles/transgressive-programming/

This is, thankfully, a stop gap as we work towards sunsetting the project; we already have an off-ramp, but there's still a large userbase that depends on it. So for now bugs need to be fixed, one way or another.

And if your organization needs some help with open source maintenance, I might have a little free time in my consulting schedule. In addition to helping migration off projects, I've also revived a project, which is now happily puttering along without my help, and more broadly done decades of maintenance.

#python

Anybody here works at Calendly & would consider giving a referral?

Please share, this could be really helpful after being laid off <3 #FediHire