Notices by David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)

@marialeal oooh snap 😂

I suppose it's not inconceivable that the Firefox marketing team came up with that phrase independently, but it sure looks suspicious.

@clacke Ah yep that sounds more like it. Though even with the plugin I wasn't able to reproduce it. I ran this shell script:

python3.12 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install flake8 flake8-import-order
cat >something.py <<EOF
from flake8_import_order.styles import Cryptography
import sys
print(sys.path, repr(Cryptography))
EOF
python -m flake8 something.py

and it gave the expected error message about the imports being out of order.

@clacke Yeah I think that's right, they dropped setuptools from some default configurations on 3.12+. Or at least that's when distutils was removed from the standard library, and I *think* removal of setuptools from places happened at the same time, but don't take my word for that part, I might be misremembering.

I wasn't able to reproduce the problem you described, though. I made a 3.12 venv and installed and tested flake8, both from PyPI and from source, and it works fine. Could you share more details? I wouldn't mind filing a bug report if you want, but I'd have to know what I'm reporting and be able to trigger it myself.

#Python

@janbartosik Generally both. Although I happened to notice that all the books I read last year were printed books. (Mostly because they were ones I expected to like enough that I bought them.)

Once again I failed to achieve my reading goal this year 😭 so close though... I thought about scrambling to get those last 400 pages in but it would be miserable to do that in the last few hours before midnight here (if it's even possible), so I'm calling it quits.

This was the year of Brandon Sanderson's cosmere for me, and that kind of world-spanning epic fantasy was fortunately exactly what I needed. Good times! 😀 I definitely want to read at least one more long series during 2026. (Maybe a reread, I have a bunch of good ones on my bookshelf (well actually they're on the floor, for now))

https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/diazona

#books #bookstodon #reading #fantasy

@ireneista @Taweret I have to wonder how often it is that a startup explicitly intends to make military products and just advertises something else at first to get name recognition, versus how often it intends to make something useful to ordinary people but eventually finds that the only customer willing to pay enough to sustain the business is the military 🤷

@anildash It's so nice to see someone saying this! I am definitely in that majority.

One little thing I'd chime in from my perspective: there's some portion of tech people (or is it just me?) who aren't talking about this view not because we're afraid to, but because nobody (ish) listens to us average tech people, so it wouldn't matter.

#tech #programming

@RamenCatholic @_L1vY_ I'm not even sure I'd still be on Mastodon if not for @Taweret

#Monsterdon

"skipped a chapter of evolution" oh dear

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #RevengeOfTheCreature

When trying to lift up a piece of wood I would generally suggest not parking a boat on it

#Monsterdon

@RamenCatholic @nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret P.S. The closest I have ever come in my life to experiencing what I imaging being wasted feels like is after watching Turkish Star Wars

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret 😂

I guess I see where you're coming from there

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret yeah fair, I can see how modern special effects could kind of ruin the vibe

But I'd like to think something like that could work if it had some awareness of being a parody

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret oh Star Trek 😢 you might be right, but I haven't watched any of the recent ones

@RamenCatholic @nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret Asking the most important question, I see 😀

As much as I like to cite https://xkcd.com/653/, I think the Star Wars Holiday Special actually has better production values than Turkish Star Wars, but makes for a worse viewing experience because it has just enough elements of a legitimate movie (well-known actors and characters, fully decorated sets, and a pinch of plot) to lure you in to trying to take it seriously, but it winds up being inane and pointless. Whereas with Turkish Star Wars, there's nothing for the logical brain to get a handhold on. It's just completely bizarre nonsense through and through. Without having even the slightest pretensions to being a legitimate movie, you get to turn your brain off and just laugh at it.

@RamenCatholic If so I am totally down to make this an unofficial special-edition #Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic Technically all you'd have to do is ping @Taweret. I rarely see suggestions show up on the polls, though, so I'd imagine there's already a long list of candidates.

(It wasn't Turkish Star Wars, was it? If so that's already been suggested a few times)

#Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret oh no you do not understand the depths of brain-melting terrible reached in Turkish Star Wars

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182060/

But yours looks like it could be in a similar class of so-bad-it's-good 😁 I'll have to watch it sometime!

#Monsterdon

If the bear chomps the helicopter before we end at least I can leave happy #TeamMonster

#Monsterdon

@RamenCatholic Choosing people over swamp monsters? What is the world coming to these days 😂

(enjoy!)

#Monsterdon