Notices by Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@social.coop), page 2

https://kyraneko.tumblr.com/post/755500691886325760 humorously commenting on what counts as insider trading reminds me of https://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/21/wall-street/ @dsquareddigest analyzing the 1987 film "Wall Street" to propose: "very few of the actions which bring down the whole house of cards on Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko were actually illegal under securities law at the time. In fact, I’d make a case that any sequel to this film would have to start with the premise that Gordon Gekko was acquitted on all charges of securities fraud."

@anildash I appreciated this one, especially on stocks vs. flows.

per https://union.place/@fastmailunited/112678247307466252 , the Fastmail union is NOT calling for a boycott, but it's fine for Fastmail customers to speak to Fastmail leadership expressing concern about the recent layoffs https://union.place/@fastmailunited/112672408714595554

am considering what to say in my own message to them

This afternoon I tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time.

I tested positive on a Metrix molecular test; also, on an antigen test, the positive line showed up within a few minutes.

I woke up this morning with a dry/sore throat, fatigue, & some nasal congestion. Symptoms currently remain mild.

Yesterday I spent multiple hours indoors (masked) & outdoors (unmasked) with several people at the #Fastly event in New York City; if you spent time near me, please test. I've tried to email also.

"A sick person does so enjoy hearing good news:—for instance, of a love and courtship, while in progress to a good ending.....A sick person also intensely enjoys hearing of any *material* good, any positive or practical success of the right....tell him of one benevolent act which has really succeeded practically..." - Florence Nightingale, "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not"

I would benefit from hearing good news right now. I may not reply but I'll appreciate it.

there must be a documentary somewhere that illustrates and analyzes the history of Silicon Valley oratory

I want to watch rhetoric researchers discussing:

* early role models who influenced the speech/presentation styles we're so used to now
* changes in mics, slide/video tech, and staging/venues and how they affected speaker capabilities and audience expectations
* what speakers from marginalized groups did to overcome or play with audience bias

I started thinking about this as I sat in the audience of the @devs #Fastly live event on Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNjS1_kOW8 during which they announced some no-kidding good things, such as a significant new service donation to some open source projects.

And: a curtain was rigged up to add polish to entrances and exits. And speakers asked us to shout "instant" at them.

A proper product launch, these days, is accompanied by a dramatic ritual, and Jobs and Engelbart were not the only forebearers.

I gather that pandoc doesn't read *from* OpenDocument presentation files or else I'd use that.

Right now, I figure the answer will either be a LibreOffice extension, or a script to stitch together all the img7.html and text7.html pages..

If anyone here has a tip for an easy workflow to export a LibreOffice Impress slides + speaker notes file into a single HTML page that's organized something like https://www.changeset.nyc/resources/quick-intro-to-grants.html (slides side-by-side with speaker notes), I'd love to know it. The default HTML exports, at least in LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, don't do what I want.

@zarfeblong @feoh Based on https://mastodon.social/@glyph/112486254989826748 and https://cloudisland.nz/@chelsea/112469542787863670 it looks like at least there will be a bit more *live sung music* at tech conferences in the next year than there otherwise would have been!

For some prior art also see https://www.harihareswara.net/ArtofPython2019/ -- I was also one of the causes of https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/07/02/tail-call-optimization-the-musical-bang-bang-con/

@feoh I now have shared the lyrics to the "Wellerman" filk I wrote (the sea shanty about the pip resolver overhaul) in the slides-and-transcript of my talk (see pages 46-47 of the PDF):

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/

@zarfeblong

I've now published the transcript and slides of my #PyConUS keynote, "Untold stories from six years working on Python packaging". It's a PDF linked from:

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/

This includes:

the lyrics to the pip sea shanty (a filk of "The Wellerman")

annotations marking where the audience laughed

at least ten intentionally blank slides

#PyConStories

@leahawasser Thanks for the kind words!

I:

logged into Hubilo
found the video of my talk
downloaded the video file
ran it through Whisper on my computer to get an automated transcript
rewatched/listened to my talk and hand-corrected and annotated the transcript
split the transcript into chunks corresponding to my slides
edited my slides in LibreOffice Impress to add each transcript chunk as a speaker note
exported as PDF (checking the box to only export notes pages)

@leahawasser I hope to work out a reasonably convenient way to export to HTML for web publication, partly for aesthetic/ideological reasons and partly so I can provide alt text for each slide. But at least this is something!

My previous notes on this sort of thing:

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/speech-to-text-with-whisper-how-i-use-it-why/

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2021/if-you-give-a-speech-you-care-about-post-a-transcript/

My friend made https://amtrack.live/ and it's neat!

If you take Amtrak and want info on train status/delays, it's annoying that the official Amtrak website is slow to load & doesn't have train status perma-URLs to bookmark/share. https://railrat.net/ is pretty good but has ads. amtrack.live is faster & has no ads.

I enjoy https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , a timeline trivia game that sources its data from Wikidata.

Some cards have incorrect or invalid dates on them, and the game creator asks players to complain by commenting on GitHub:

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wikitrivia/discussions/41

I did so last year.

Which means that, every once in a while, I get an email notification on that thread that reads like someone's coming out of nowhere to correct me about something I never said. Just now: "The guillotine was invented long before 1792."

Here is a blog post with links and references to accompany my closing keynote today at #PyConUS , on stories from a few years working on #Python packaging.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/

#PyConStories

Glad so many people enjoyed my #PyConUS keynote sharing stories from several years working on #Python packaging infrastructure.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/ has a bunch of links and other references, and I hope to post a fuller transcript with slides within the next few weeks. If there is anything you particularly want sooner than that - or anything you want to tell me you really liked! - please let me know.

@doy I use Dreamwidth, and yes it's too rare for social networks/platforms to properly understand how people want to do access control. And yet I do think Danny is also saying that LJ-style access filtering is more on the "secret" than "private" side

@danny feel free to correct me here or elsewhere in the thread of course

@VeryBadLlama This is hilarious, and based on the replies, *might actually work* if implemented just right!!