Natasha 
🇪🇺The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.
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Definitely a human. Certainly not just two droids in a lab coat.
#SciFi, #3DPrinting, #Electronics #ProductDesign, #Linux, #SysAdmin, #InfoSec, #Privacy, #AntiFascist, #ElderNerd
I hope the Astral team got a decent payday. They deserve it.
But I also can’t think of very many alternatives to OpenAI that could have been worse for the community. Perhaps most Microsoft or Broadcom.
sigh
God. Damnit.
Even if they don’t destroy it, this is incredibly disappointing.
dmi 💽 judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@ojala/116219852164476296
Strong agree - LazyVim for ambitious devs was super helpful for me when I was getting started with it.
I live & breath the LazyVim + tmux essentially every day now.
That force multiplier combo is critical to offset the fact that I’m slow as hell when actually writing any kind of code 🙃
Lady Laura 
✨ Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️⚧️✨Reddit seems to have deleted a post with 7400 upvotes and the title:
"I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"
.... US Corpos do not want us to see this but luckily we still have this github repo.
Here the relevant reddit post that was removed:
And here the github repo
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Ah. Delightful. A screw puncture in a (nearly new) tire is exactly what I was hoping to deal with today.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116154869257564913
Absolutely everyone should be using a password manager. There are a lot of good options but I have two specific recommendations regardless of what you use:
Avoid password managers built directly into a web browser (or your OS). It makes portability a huge headache and in most cases you won’t be able to access it from a mobile device. This will be especially important as passkeys become more prevalent because they aren’t (currently) portable at all.
Make a point to get a pair of hardware keys** (one as a backup) and add them to your account. They are relatively inexpensive and help prevent a bad actor from gaining access to your vault even if they somehow get your master password.
** I like #yubikey from @yubico - they are well supported with all the major players - but there are definitely other options here.
#yubikey #passwordmanager #privacy #1password #vaultwarden #keepassxc
I definitely just #nerdsniped myself.
I’ve been using #Selenium & #Python for a browser automation side project at work) because that’s what the previous guy recommended) but I screwed myself by investigating #Playwright - because it’s clear now that a full refactor using playwright instead of selenium will definitely solve some issues I’ve been having.
Craaaaap.