@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzSo... I'm visiting the US. And can I just say one thing: FOX News appears to be doing more than just about anything else to hasten the demise of an empire already primed for destruction with its massive inequity, broad-spectrum disaffection, and staggering ignorance. Never mind the laughably stupidly huge (and, let's face it, butt ugly) pickup trucks and SUVs.
@beaware@social.beaware.liveI can't wait to *not* be effected AT ALL by whatever Meta decides to do with Threads Federation...
It just won't effect me or the way I use Fedi one bit.
Let them adopt Fedi features and then turn off federation....who cares? It'll be their loss...🤷♂️I'll federate till they give me a reason not to. And when they do, it won't bother nor effect me in any way.
That's the beauty of Fedi. Them federating or not changes nothing about how I use Fedi.
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIf you were even wondering why #Gentoo python-exec is sitting in dev-lang/ rather than dev-python/, that's actually a curious story of a hack.
#Python script wrapping dates back to the original python.eclass. The idea was sound: you'd rename scripts installed by Python packages to "foo-2.6", "foo-3.1", and then install a new wrapper that selects one of these versions. If this may sound unnecessary, remember that scripts need to be run with a Python version that has all its dependencies installed, and that different scripts could technically be installed for different versions (especially in the early Python 3 era, when using 2to3 was not uncommon).
The first version of dev-python/python-exec built on that concept, optimizing it in a few ways. It would install a shared wrapper as a separate package and use symlinks, whereas the old wrappers would be installed separately by every package. It would introduce a C executable to remove the overhead of starting a Python interpreter to determine which interpreter to actually start. However, it did copy the idea of suffixing scripts.
In the long run, this turned out to be a bad idea. Some scripts expected specific names, and we'd ended up hacking and patching things around. So I've made python-exec 2 that used a slightly different approach, and rather than renaming scripts, it moved them into a per-interpreter directory. This not only preserved the basename but let us make things simpler — we could just override the script install directory rather than having to rename stuff!
Migration was the problem. Two different approaches meant that packages built against python-exec:0 would have to continue depending on it. Originally, I've added a `:=` dep to the eclass but this couldn't solve the problem for packages already installed, and Portage ended up removing old python-exec. It wasn't good.
After some tinkering, I've figured out that the best approach is to add both slots as a new package, have the eclass depend on it with `:=` operator going forward and have the old `dev-python/python-exec` pull both slots for compatibility. This is what gave birth to `dev-lang/python-exec`.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/489440#c20
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@cliffwade@allthingstech.socialGood morning #Fediverse
How is everyone doing today and how was the weekend?
It's a new week, a new Monday, so let's talk about what the day has in store for us as well as the week ahead.
For me, it's work stuff and of course there is a meeting at 12pm EST, but it should be a good one so nothing to stress over.
I have a work assignment due by end of da…
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@jamesgleick@zirk.us“As Bob Dylan might say, let us not talk falsely now. He really proposed a Muslim ban. He really did try to steal the vote in Georgia. He really did want the rioters to hang Mike Pence. He really did rape E. Jean Carroll.
"And he really is running for President to ‘terminate’ the Constitution.
"He is, in other words, an insurgent. In a sane legal system, he would be under house arrest awaiting trial.”
Constitutional scholar Garrett Epps is not mincing words.
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@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaFeeling rather good. Did a short summary for an application replacement. Security was the first item and the reasons why. It also helps that I am the one sending out regular notices on CVEs that may impact us so I am more than aware than some about why we need to address security up front for new apps let alone existing apps. Team lead likes it and will be sending it up the chain of command. If it goes well we will need to define the specs for an app replacement.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieIf you are an academic, particularly one in the US, let me know what sort of prevailing norms on guest lecturing there might be.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Most of the executives hoping to profit off AI are in a similar state of mind. All the free money right now is going to AI businesses. They know the best way to chase that money is to throw logic to the wind and promise the masses that if we just let this technology run roughshod over every field of human endeavor it’ll be worth it in the end.
This is rational for them, because they’ll make piles of money. But it is an irrational thing for us to let them do. Why would we want to…
@cdarwin@c.im“I want to be clear,” Move On's Epting said.
“Robert Kennedy Jr’s ill-fated run for the presidency is helping put Donald Trump back in the White House and we’re going to work to stop that.
Just as we organised against No Labels we’re going to organise against Robert Kennedy Jr. We’re going to let folks know we can’t win, but he can help Trump win.”
@MediaActivist@todon.euI can't thank everyone enough for all their help and input on my quest to find an inexpensive XLR to USB adapter for my Stagg dynamic microphone - so many lovely people on Mastodon and the Fediverse! I'm definitely keen to grab a Pyle XLR-to-USB signal adapter but the only one I can seem to find in the UK (link below) still needs to be shipped over across from the US, so if anyone knows any good UK sellers (or any equivalent item in the UK) for the same price range, do let me know! T…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of Bakkhos [#Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs, leading the same life as the Erotes, the darling of Kythere [Aphrodite as goddess of pleasure]."
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