Stefan Scherfke

@sscherfke
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Senior software and platform engineer (Python) at energy & meteo systems

Follow @sscherfke at Pixelfed for nature (and cycling) photography.

Websitehttps://stefan.sofa-rockers.org
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/sscherfke
GitHubhttps://github.com/sscherfke
Typed Settingshttps://typed-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Feeling cute, might publish later: https://github.com/Tinche/pytest-typing
Scientists have determined that it is impossible to measure the weight of a rainbow. Although they have determined that it's pretty light.

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

From my original profile:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@Janeishly/114235187781140336

Janeishly (@[email protected])

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like "I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

Mastodon App UK
One of the best essays on the GenAI hype I have read so far: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/ by @baldur
Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Lmao.

Coming soon to Python 3.15: frozendict

The Steering Council has just accepted @vstinner and @dongheena's PEP 814 "Add frozendict built-in type".

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-814-add-frozendict-built-in-type/104854/121

https://peps.python.org/pep-0814/

#Python #PEP814 #frozendict #Python315

PEP 814: Add frozendict built-in type

After careful deliberation, the Python Steering Council is pleased to accept PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type. The absence of an immutable dict counterpart has been a long-standing gap in Python and has been requested for a long time in different forms. We agree this is a clear net positive for the language. We are accepting this PEP with the following modifications: Performance should not be framed as a goal or motivation. The value of frozendict is in its immutability semantics, not i...

Discussions on Python.org

I think it's interesting how software engineers are (among?) the most eager working class group to replace themselves with LLMs.

It's interesting because LLMs do a worse job than us, we lose ability/skill to do our job the more we use it, lose our jobs, produce worse software, are less satisfied with our work, etc.

Yet so many of my peers seem to be super excited about and advocate for it, while other working class groups at least detest LLMs if not even consider organising themselves to protect their trade/jobs from LLMs.

Are we becoming the cops (read as: class traitors) of this techno-fascist dystopia?

Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added. Unified chargers, free roaming, travel, study and work everywhere in the EU, simple bank transfers with SEPA and Wero. EU makes life better. It' definitely not GoodEnough™ in all parts.Work remains to be done. And that's worth doing!

Originally from a Facebook post by the EU Commission, ALT text added by me.

#ThanksEU

https://mltshp.com/p/1RJ8T “it was ours”