I'm delighted to announce that my introductory #pytest training ("simple, rapid and fun testing with #Python") has been accepted for both @pyconde as well as @europython! See you in Darmstadt 🇩🇪 and/or Prague 🇨🇿?

I'm already working on the next CfP, for the CH Open https://workshoptage.ch/ 🇨🇭!

@liw I feel called out. 🙃

@RussSharek @hpk I don't think there is a good solution, other than Flatpak / AppImage / standalone binaries / etc. as a workaround for people using stable distros. But people will continue installing from repos, because for many applications that might be the right thing to do (IMHO stable distributions are the wrong approach entirely for desktop systems, but I digress).

I was thinking of adding a time-bomb that warns if your qutebrowser/Qt is too old. But that seems like a slippery slope.

@RussSharek @hpk Unfortunately not an edge case. It happens over and over again that this kind of thing gets attributed to qutebrowser (case in point, "an alternative browser can't read github issues", "I hope the internals eventually catch up"), but the issue is that your OS ships an insecure and heavily outdated *browser engine* and calls that "stable".

It's arguable if that makes sense for other apps, but it certainly doesn't for a browser, especially not when ignoring security fixes.

@RussSharek @hpk Indeed a packaging issue. Some distributions (mostly Debian Stable, and by extension Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint) give you a heavily outdated QtWebEngine/Chromium backend, and with that, a rendering engine that's more outdated than what many websites are comfortable with (plus one that lacks years of security fixes!).

qutebrowser always supports the newest Qt by the time that's released (and usually with the first Alpha/Beta release).

...whoops, I must have accidentally checked the 2024 Pretalx for PyConDE instead of 2025. At the time of writing the original toot, there was no acceptance yet, and it turns out that the basic training ("pytest - simple, rapid and fun testing with Python") was accepted for this year at #PyConDE.

⏰ Only a week remaining with early-bird pricing for my annual three-day deep dive into #pytest with #Python Academy!
📅 March 4th — 6th
🌍 Leipzig (Germany) or remote
📕 Three days of pytest knowledge from one of its core maintainers. Fixtures, mocking, plugins, …

https://python-academy.com/courses/python_course_testing.html

🎉 In related news: My "pytest tips and tricks" 1.5h training for #PyConDE was accepted, and I also submitted that plus a more beginner-focused pytest training for #Europython!

#qutebrowser is 11 years old, almost on the minute! I'm celebrating by releasing v3.4.0: https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/qutebrowser/2024-December/000960.html

@rwa This one is on qutebrowser kinda - Qt 6 support isn't ready yet, and Qt 5's webengine *is* rather out of date. Discourse does check for features rather than specific browsers, and a CSS feature it apparently needs now is missing from Qt 5 WebEngine. See https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/7572 for details.

@rc

It does not, it needs a specific CSS feature which Qt 5 (currently used by the last release / master branch of qutebrowser) does not support sadly.

See https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/7572 for details.

@73ms

They only complain when a feature is missing, rather than e.g. having a list of allowed user agents like some other websites do. Unfortunately, this one kinda is on qutebrowser, not Discourse - see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/7572.

@JustineSmithies@fosstodon.org

This is kinda on qutebrowser, Discourse is doing the right thing there (checking for features rather than the user agent) - see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/7572. I'd recommend using the Qt 6 branch until v3.0.0 is (...finally) out.

@vimja Deadline coming up on the 12th, so... nope. But if there's something between then and September, I'll most likely be in!

@Vectrex71 Hatte viel um die Ohren, dann geht Orgakram immer etwas länger... aber jetzt hab ich endlich auch mal Ticket und Hotel und alles 😅

Two weeks until early-bird pricing ends for my #pytest training with @pyacademy@twitter.com: March 7th to 9th 2023, both on-site in Leipzig 🇩🇪 *and* remote, three days full of knowledge from a pytest core maintainer! https://python-academy.com/courses/python_course_testing.html

I submitted a (shorter) training to @PyConDE@twitter.com too!

Whoa, @github@twitter.com seems to have a serious spambot problem currently...

@Wyatt @corbin @benjaminhollon

There seems to be a bookmarklet version here: https://github.com/corbindavenport/share-to-mastodon/blob/main/BOOKMARKLET.md

You can pass that to ":jseval --quiet --url", and perhaps add a keybinding or alias for it.

Happy 9th birthday, #qutebrowser (a day late on Twitter/Mastodon, whoops)! https://blog.qutebrowser.org/happy-9th-birthday-qutebrowser.html

@flub I had both disks in the same machine via SATA, can't get much faster than that really! Hit some 250 MB/s peak with bigger files. (sorry, bit late, missed your answer)

@Kensan @zekjur That sounds like a great talk! Added to the growing list of talks I want to watch some day :D