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@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-06-20 16:27:25

ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress "Hands Off Our WiFi"
(Public Knowledge and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute)
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-19 18:16:45

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: You were lucky. It could have been much worse. We've had groups of more than fifty of them in this area. [Pause] Can you close your hand?
BLAKE: [Closes hand slowly, painfully. Sharp intake of breath]
blake.torpidity.net/m/105/305

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see this appears to be from a science fiction television production, showing what looks like a dramatic scene in a futuristic or clinical setting. The image shows a person with pale, almost ethereal makeup and styling, wearing what appears to be a metallic or reflective costume. The lighting and set design suggest this is from a studio production, with the characteristic look of British science fiction television from that era. The scene appears …
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-18 19:25:20

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
We Are Scientists:
🎵 I Could Do Much Worse
#NowPlaying #WeAreScientists
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-06-29 16:44:37

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-03 16:58:01

This arxiv.org/abs/2505.19189 has been replaced.
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