I've just pushed Tor integration in Libervia (first step of the NLnet metadata reduction and serverless grant). https://nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMPP/ This has been done thanks to the work of @meejah on `txtorcon` and of course of @torproject and the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Thanks for the hints and push @shapr -- Rust line-coverage showing up in the Emacs fringe: https://meejah.ca/blog/rust-coverage-emacs

Considering revamping my website. Would anyone _else_ use a Web hosting thing that that served directly out of Git blobs? Currently, I "git push" to publish everything via RST, HTML or MarkDown .. the server side re-renders if the git blob has changed since last time). This has reduced my […]

What even is an "extra", #python? Is it "part of the package"? Is it just some fluff that can be ignored? Motivation: what happens when you say "pip install foo[quux]" .. all good if those two things exist, but what if there is no "quux" extra? What if there _was_ a "quux" extra last release […]

i finally gave in and started using uv to manage the dependencies for my Python scripts and it’s great https://jvns.ca/til/python-inline-dependencies/

"jj absorb" is a bit of a mind-bender .. but it just correctly did "a thing @shapr and I expected" when we ran across a thing to try it on

Really incredible Norther Lights a couple weeks back. There really was this much pink "live".

Really incredible Norther Lights a couple weeks back. There really was this much pink "live".

The #ucp gov of Alberta claims the #notwithstanding clause was put there to prevent judicial over-reach. They have that exactly wrong and backwards: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was formulated precisely to prevent bigoted numpties from trampling all over the fundamental rights of […]

This could be the beginning of the end for the Canadian Health Act. We have to push back as hard as possible on this. Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services | Globe and Mail (Gift article link) #ableg #abpoli #abhealth […]

Reminder: The #internet was built to route around damage on a communication route. By centralizing on #cloudflare , #aws, #azure, and #googlecloud#internet#cloudflare#awse've removed the redundancy model that was core to the initial internet principles […]

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

One Internet Point to #incus for having some very nice documentation, from what I've seen so far. Says what it does, then tells you how to make it do that. And it does that! So many of these "container"-adjacent things are like: FreeFutz is a continuation of OpenFutz, after the forking event of […]

All this news about Watson and I still haven't heard a single report yet say the words "Rosalind Franklin"

Fans of ASCII art you must check out https://adelfaure.net/ which has expanded my mind about what is possible with interactive #ascii style art! Amazing stuff ♥️ Great work @adelfaure

[can pol] from the letter: Please help us share this letter with your colleagues before November 4th. If you have applied for Tri-Council funding in the last 25 years, all of your data is at risk of being included and sent to an unnamed researcher and MPs on the committee. If you disagree with […]

[can pol] I got my first email back from an MP about this, and they said out of respect for my privacy they can't share my letter with the committee. If that ain't ironic I don't know what is. I need to take a break before I get myself in trouble by writing a really rude response to that email.

Wab Kinew's gov't tabled bill 50 in Manitoba that won't allow any future provincial gov't to use the notwithstanding clause for provincial legislation without going through the courts first. This is what a true leader does for his constituents. Alberta's and Quebec's leadership pale in comparison.

[can pol] Just got an email about an open letter for professors to sign, because the Standing Committee on Science and Research just decided to grab personal demographic info and the EDI portions of tri-council research grant from the last *25 years*. This is really bad. Please please please […]

Warrantless wiretapping?!? Encryption backdoors?!? Read the submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security of Bill C-8 from The Citizen Lab and the concerns raised by our own privacy commissioner. Thank goodness for @citizenlab and @OpenMediaOrg. Thank you for the […]

Cutest trick’or’treater tonight was the little girl in the princess costume who came as we were getting to the bottom of our bowl. “How many pieces?” she asked quietly. “Just one. We’re running out and there’s still a lot of kids.” She looks at us with an earnest expression “Do you want some of […]

Good news! #chatcontrol has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way […]

Am I doing the survey right? (Canada doing a very one-sided and leading "survey" on how to bury our heads in the sand more effectively ... oh I'm sorry I mean "sustainably encourage AI") "How can we encourage sovereign infrastructure" they wring their hands […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In a surprise development on #chatcontrol, the Danish government has sent out a press release that it will drop mandatory detection orders, and instead propose to make the current voluntary detection scheme permanent […]

Very disappointed by today’s ‘announcement’ by Gil McGowan representing the AFL and the Common Front. Alberta needs action and needs action NOW. Not just conversations, not just talk. Maybe a general strike can’t happen this week, but *something* needs to happen this week, and something as big […]

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

New releases of Fowl, ShWiM (shell-with-me) and Git-WithMe https://github.com/meejah/fowl https://github.com/meejah/shwim https://git.sr.ht/~meejah/git-withme Includes cool new ANSI logos from @littlebitspace which I'm personally very excited about :) #python #magicwormhole #infosec

New releases of Fowl, ShWiM (shell-with-me) and Git-WithMe https://github.com/meejah/fowl https://github.com/meejah/shwim https://git.sr.ht/~meejah/git-withme Includes cool new ANSI logos from @littlebitspace which I'm personally very excited about :) #python #magicwormhole #infosec

Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where […]

• Makes it illegal to strike or lock out at all going forward for the duration of the Act. • Imposes a mandatory collective agreement — teachers do not get to vote on ratification. • The agreement is retroactive to Sept 1, 2024 and will run until Aug 31, 2028. • The terms are taken from the […]

The Alberta #ucp has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked […]

Some images from the teacher rally today. Estimates 35,000 people in attendance as Danielle Smith glared from her office window. #ableg #abpoli

Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far. Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hey gang! We're now at over 450 SVG icons on #supertinyicons Each one is *under* 1KB. That's right, a max file size of 1,023 Bytes 🙂 Someone pointed out that we don't have our own logo - so if you'd like to suggest one, get cracking: https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons/issues/1017

Woah, this is a new-to-me concept. I like it. Spotted in @attoparsec’s video about walking around SF Bay. #cargobike #biketooter

Nose Hill #yyc city park. Tiny piece of prairie but always neat to feel very far from "city" in 20 mins of riding...

In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains. Now the program is permanent. Ireland becomes the first country to prove that supporting […]

@meejah It pays to be kind to future-you. Practice positive self-karma!

RE: https://toot.cat/@rnd/115373770116783710 Honestly, this. There is a whole _class_ of things I just don't need to worry about on Debian, and it's so...freeing.

@shapr and I re-started our "reading something interesting" group, this time https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html I was puzzled by 1.1.10 but working out this #python snippet helped:

I’m sure that meeting with the writers of Project 2025 has nothing to do with _waves wildly_ everything Marlaina is doing right now. Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | @thetyee #ableg #abpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli […]

Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps: I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop. Framework's whole *thing*, their […]

ShWiM in action. Although this is between two terminals on the same computer, this works the same between any two computers (behind NATs, whatever). #magicwormhole https://github.com/meejah/shwim

@meejah Really appreciate all your effort on these wormhole projects (and posting about them here)! In the readme for the mailbox server, it says, "Note that the standard Magic-Wormhole command-line tool is preconfigured to use a mailbox server hosted by the project, so running your own server […]

New rule: the static friction of your toilet-paper dispenser must be greater than the weight of 1m of toilet-paper...

ShWiM in action. Although this is between two terminals on the same computer, this works the same between any two computers (behind NATs, whatever). #magicwormhole https://github.com/meejah/shwim

Just added #python 3.14 to the testing matrix of magic-wormhole, magic-wormhole-transit-relay, magic-wormhole-mailbox-server and fowl with no issues 🥳

Very excited about some new ANSI goodness coming in the next https://github.com/meejah/fowl release (along with some "real" enhancements and bug-fixes). Art by @littlebitspace

I learned way too much about terminal colours and escape sequences and blogged about it (for future-meejah when I forget again) https://meejah.ca/blog/terminal-colors #terminal #linux