Wow.

Absolute home run ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell

🔥

@webology yes, yes, yes, I know what it is. 😉 It just doesn’t offer **me** anything I want. (Number of machines/servers isn’t the question.)

@webology I don’t know about that Tailscale nonsense 😜 as you say it’ll work. @ShellFish has enhanced support for resuming tmux sessions. Being me, I don’t use that either 🥳 but it sounds like it would be cool if I did.

TIL iOS autocorrect really doesn’t want me to type “tmux” 🙃

@webology @ShellFish get the Mac app too, even if only to bootstrap public key installation across your devices in the nicest way.

@webology I use, and highly recommend, @ShellFish. It’s super. Quite literally the only iOS app that wouldn’t be without. ❤️

36 Starships built. 36 failures to reach orbit

13 Saturn V launches. 13 reached orbit.

Tell me more about how private industry is more efficient.

@martinicat Thank you! I have added that to the summer reading pile. @wsvincent said I needed some lighter relief — it looks perfect 🏖️

@mahryekuh Close tab. Don't speak. Walk out backward 😅

I can recognise your expertise, and accept that our differences come down mostly to emphasis. I can understand that the pendulum swings with time, and that a diversity of opinon is a requirement of healthy discourse. I can nod along with you, at least in theory.

At the same time I can feel in my entrails that you're an ivory tower blowhard, building castles in the air.

That contrast, between the thought and the feeling, is the source. That's where I love to play.

Todays winner.

A cookie banner that begins "We Care About Your Privacy". Immediately followed by, "We, and our 224 partners..."

FFS people.

Several deadlines are approaching for deprecated setuptools features

30th Aug
- bdist_wheel with universal=True

15th Oct
- Running `setup.py test`
- subclassing wheel.bdist_wheel

31st Oct
- Running `setup.py <anything>`
- setuptools.command.easy_install, setuptools.installer, fetch_build_eggs

For more info and migration guidence see
- https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html
- https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/modernize-setup-py-project/

Thanks to PyPA and everyone involved for their dedication and hard slog.

#Python

@martinicat where’s that from?

I've been sitting on this for a while, and it's not much, but in light of Wellnhofer's contribution I'd like to propose:

"Maintenance Terms", as distinct from licensing terms:

https://github.com/mhoye/maintenance-terms

Access to code is no promise of access to people.

Because someday, somebody's going to come to you and say, I'm from Apple, I'm from Amazon, I'm from Project Zero and you need to drop everything because your project is the new heartbleed or Log4j or who knows what and the world is falling over and if that psychological offramp isn't there, if you haven't laid out clearly what PROVIDED AS-IS means and how you're going to act about it ahead of time, saying "I'll be at my kid's recital" or "I'm on vacation" or just "no" is extremely difficult.

Just used Safari’s summarisation feature on an article on a *sensitive* topic. The summary was perfectly accurate, but it’s obviously set to warn in such cases, and gave a warning alert that the summary might be incorrect. Clever. Not perfect maybe. But clever.

@konsonantenboy @webology yes, more of this.

I say down with the great PaaS con! ✊

@webology Yes… I’ve followed your pains with DO. (Like why people, why?)

I would imagine a $9 box going quite a long way. FTW