rik

@rik@opalstack.social
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computer scientist, family man, lapsed academic, bicycle/motorcylist, open source/access/society/… zealot, music lover.
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Sonoma County sued for #drone flights over county residents homes searching for code violations. https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/sonoma-county-drone-aclu-lawsuit-20363620.php
NY Legislature passes law to ensure journalist access to police scanners. Gov. Hochul has not yet signed the bill. #police #encryption https://apnews.com/article/ny-police-encrypt-radio-233dae52aa5da91f53fa4258f40756d0
New York legislators vote to preserve media access to encrypted police radio communications

New York state lawmakers have passed a bill to preserve media access to police radio feeds as more and more law enforcement agencies encrypt their communications. The proposal, which was approved Thursday, would require police departments to grant journalists and emergency services organizations access to their encrypted radio communications. The bill allows for exemptions of information deemed “sensitive.” The state will need to come up with exact rules on how access will work under the proposal. The proposal now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul. Her office said she would review the bill.

AP News
i've already seen estimates of total US #NoKings attendance ranging from 7-11 million. the #oakland showing was huge! https://bsky.app/profile/jachristian.bsky.social/post/3lrm2xdhuhs2d how can we get numbers we can trust?
Jessica Christian (@jachristian.bsky.social)

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Bluesky Social

One thing I've noticed in the photos of the demonstrations today is that there seems to be far more young people than there were in earlier protests. This is a very good thing.

#Today #NoKings

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

- Admiral William Adama

I'm not believing my own eyes when reading that the Danish Ministry of Digitalization is replacing Microsoft internally 🤯

Half of employees are supposed to be changing to LibreOffice and Linux within the next month or so, and by the fall, all staff of the Ministry should be rid of Microsoft.

Source: https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet

Caroline Stage udfaser Microsoft i Digitaliseringsministeriet

For første gang bliver suverænitet en prioritet i regeringens, kommunernes og regionernes fælles strategi for digitalisering.

Politiken - Den levende avis
@baldur Baldur is really right that most issues in software engineering are horribly science-free. For any nontrivial “best practice”, an experiment to test it would require two teams, doing nontrivial work, approaching the same problem with practices that are closely equivalent except for the one under study. Which is probably never gonna happen.

how am i able to read a tweet from Newsom with a June 17 8:13pm time stamp
when it is 7:30p on June 17 for me (and I assume Newsom)?!

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114645251069223813

AkaSci 🛰️ (@AkaSci@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image LA is about to become a war zone as trump finds his excuse to deploy soldiers in California. He wants to bring CA to its knees. First the move to starve CA out of federal funds and now this. #Politics 1/n

Fosstodon

I finally sat down with htpy. Very nice. All the edge cases look covered. Has a Django template backend and support for streaming responses. The HTML to HTPY converter looks lush. I think I shall be giving it a run.

https://htpy.dev/ #Django

htpy - HTML in Python

I just filled out the Python Packaging Ecosystem Survey and you should too!

https://anaconda.surveymonkey.com/r/py-package-2025

If you've ever typed "pip install X" or clicked the install button on an IDE, you've interfaced with the Python packaging ecosystem.

Please don't worry that you don't know enough about packaging! If only super experienced people fill the survey out, then the changes that get made won't serve less experienced folks.

Cheers to Anaconda and the 30 other groups that put this survey together :)

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