Notices by David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social), page 2

@catsalad hmm let's see

> "⁠:minecraft_dirt:⁠"

@molly0xfff "Note to self: if you’re going to write code to do fraud, make it messy and unreadable to reduce the chances it’s later put in front of a jury as evidence." 😂

@forteller Unfortunately I can't give an authoritative answer because I don't use Windows, but from a bit of quick research it sounds like there are a couple more steps, at least for the first time you want to run a .py file:

1. download the Python installer
2. *run* the installer
3. right-click on your .py file, choose "Open With", choose Python (or python.exe or whatever it shows up as) and select "Always use this program for this file type" if that's an option
4. then you can double-click the .py file

But steps 1-3 only need to happen once. So in the future, if you want to run any more Python scripts, you should be able to just double-click them.

Whether the script actually does anything useful when run in this way is a whole separate matter, of course....

Info taken from e.g. https://learnpython.com/blog/run-python-script-windows/ and https://stackoverflow.com/a/1934695/56541

@DisplaysName

@feditips is run by a community volunteer, so I wouldn't say exactly "the hands behind #mastodon". Although the people actually working on Mastodon probably have some of the same tendencies - I mean, they're certainly worlds more open and honest than the ones running Twitter.