Posts by ambv@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APWqobRK2rWhC91qMK by ambv@mastodon.social
2022-11-11T22:54:47Z
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I see an ongoing culture clash between the Old Mastodon and the Newbies fleeing Twitter. The Old believe in heavy self-moderation by way of using Content Warnings for a lot of things, using "unlisted" posts to keep the timeline clean, silencing other servers to avoid even a chance of witnessing interactions of users of that server with users of yet another one that we disapprove of. Heavy self-moderation.1/3#mastodon #culture #moderation
(DIR) Post #APWqoc0PwNbCwzRs3s by ambv@mastodon.social
2022-11-11T22:55:53Z
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The newbies are chaos incarnate. Let our feed be everything from food I ate through tips on getting a promotion to onlyfans bait. One feed, nothing is sacred.I'm sitting here in the middle and wonder if there could be a middle way. A compromise that beats both extremes. Let people post whatever. But let them LABEL what it is. Not "warn", label. Then let my client mute messages by label. Food? Boring, never show it to me. Onlyfans? Sorry, I have this tab open all day and I work at home.2/3
(DIR) Post #APWqocT8DcZGO2snom by ambv@mastodon.social
2022-11-11T22:57:55Z
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But the label wouldn't hide messages by default because this makes some interactions pretty annoying. "stuff about cars"? Sounds fine, why even cw? Clickety click. "uspol". Yeah, what is it? Clickety click. "About twitter". Did it burn down yet? Clickety click...But that's not all. If labels could be applied to posts by others POST FACTUM, this would allow the community to moderate itself even if the original author didn't think to do it.Anyway, just thinking out loud.3/3
(DIR) Post #APWqodPygpdhKYPnXc by ambv@mastodon.social
2022-11-12T13:26:40Z
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@minder @freemo you'll have to be more specific than that.
(DIR) Post #APWrUfoYAdjavPxDe4 by ambv@mastodon.social
2022-11-12T13:35:24Z
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@freemo @minder Ah, that makes sense. Well; I wholeheartedly agree with you. Directly blocking accounts who are harmful is not controversial. Directly blocking servers which allow harmful behavior is also understandable if done with care. But blocking servers that don't block some servers is not sustainable, breaks federation, and smells of The Minority Report.I can't add much more as I'm not an admin and I'm a newcomer (used to be on mastodon.technology, now dead).
(DIR) Post #AXUMc9e1HkIjoFmC1Y by ambv@mastodon.social
2023-07-08T12:00:48Z
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Wow. Meta commits to dedicate three engineer-years to implement the removal of the GIL from #Python and fix upcoming compatibility and performance issues with it.All this dependent on whether the Steering Council accepts PEP 703.https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-threading-python/27903/99?u=ambv
(DIR) Post #AXWLOQGB09CDeJQpyC by ambv@mastodon.social
2023-07-09T12:33:19Z
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A courtesy reminder to avoid "private" conversations on #Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #AYAJDrEhSnHtMvDxYm by ambv@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T20:56:50Z
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WOW! IT'S HAPPENING: the Steering Council posted their "intent to accept PEP 703", in other words to allow for a version of #Python without the #GIL.Sam Gross' heroic effort to prove nogil is feasible will be paying off.As they say, "Now the real work begins!"https://discuss.python.org/t/a-steering-council-notice-about-pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython/30474
(DIR) Post #AYxeYHbGFeZEdQsQpk by ambv@mastodon.social
2023-08-21T16:35:47Z
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Pro-tip if you're using #VSCode and #Python: use snippets to speed up things that you often want but “it's too much typing”.It feels great to type >>>[TAB] and get the full invocation for the interactive console in that line of code.
(DIR) Post #AYxetnMVM9P3DyEU2S by ambv@mastodon.social
2023-08-21T16:40:26Z
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@jbowen Ha, good eye! The newer thing would be to have a __main__.py in your package but my favorite thing is to use pyproject.toml and expose functions via [project.scripts] which gives them nice short names.`python3 -m something.something` sure is unambiguous but I really prefer short tool names. `black` instead of `python3 -m black`. This sort of thing.
(DIR) Post #AhwejXpo1gLZRLQVbk by ambv@mastodon.social
2024-05-04T22:20:19Z
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How was *your* Saturday?#Python #GitHub #CI
(DIR) Post #AoCzxoh5DWhen1JvDU by ambv@mastodon.social
2024-11-19T17:07:22Z
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There's a new episode of the core․py podcast! This time we're talking to the newest member of the #python committer team, @savannah.We're covering her work on argparse and the JIT, but also talk about maps that lead cars into lakes, as well as reforesting drones, and Chipotle!https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SHuzU0SyJ5dKUyoROj5Hf
(DIR) Post #ApmbFHrWvOGd5k2WEi by ambv@mastodon.social
2025-01-05T16:09:35Z
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#genuary5 prompt: Isometric art.It's game of life. History goes down. I've seen a visualization like this last year and wanted to recreate it.Made with #PyScript: https://ambv.pyscriptapps.com/genuary-prompt-5/latest/#genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python
(DIR) Post #Au446KJkkzd8j9ciGm by ambv@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T18:52:37Z
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Stoked for my WebGL tutorial on Thursday morning at @pycon. 3:30h to show all the basic components of 3D graphics? Might be ambitious! But I'll do my best.Hopefully the conference wi-fi won't betray us 🤞🏻🤞🏻#PyConUS #PyConUS2025 #Python #PyScript #Threejs
(DIR) Post #Au446Q1XXccuQP9FiK by ambv@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T18:56:59Z
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Weird how Mastodon couldn't just let the animated GIF be an animated GIF. They let video uploads up to 40MB and yet they were unhappy with a 6MB GIF. Now it looks way worse.