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Kglitch.social to be replaced with piefed.social in c/kglitchmeta@kglitch.social
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 1 points 1 year ago

There are no current plans to build an app or to make an API that Lemmy apps could use. At the moment I'm focused on getting the web-based experience as good as it can get.

For now, try the PWA, it's pretty nice.

how to install the 'app'

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Kglitch.social to be replaced with piefed.social (kglitch.social)
 

In the next week or two, kglitch.social will be shutting down, to free up server resources for https://piefed.social, a new kbin/lemmy alternative written in Python.

PieFed is currently pretty new and needs people to use it a bit, to make all the bugs show themselves. Please jump in and let me know what you find!

https://join.piefed.social/2024/01/05/piefed-begins-beta-test/

Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 2 points 1 year ago

ooo, that does sound handy!

Looks like OBS is the goto. Thanks.

Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which app do you use for screen recording? That's the only thing keeping me on X11.

To separate Email address from being an online identity, a concept I thought up, detailed by ChatGPT, in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I apologise for my dismissive tone earlier. Thanks for putting your idea out there 🙂

To separate Email address from being an online identity, a concept I thought up, detailed by ChatGPT, in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

...aaand this is why chatgpt is no substitute for expertise.

It's "generative" AI, in that it generates lists of words that fit together. But it has no actual understanding of anything so the stuff it generates is totally surface, middle-of-the-road whatever-you-want-to-hear.

How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

grow a garden. put up solar panels. go vegan. living a solarpunk life is an act of radical activism. the personal is political in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.

The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.

Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm? Scientists are already busy trying to understand whether 2023’s off-the-charts heat is a sign that global warming is accelerating. in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The IPCC report must be agreed upon by representatives from every country. Including Saudi Arabia, and USA. So you can imagine how "conservative" it is compared to reality. Anything slightly uncomfortable gets negotiated down to the point where the oil-producing countries are fine with it.

The 195 member countries of the IPCC sign off on different parts of the report. The summaries for policymakers are “approved,” meaning that “the material has been subject to detailed, line-by-line discussion” between the member countries and the authors. The synthesis reports are “adopted,” which implies “a section-by-section discussion.” And the full report, which this year runs nearly 4,000 pages long, is “accepted,” which means both parties agree that “the technical summary and chapters of the underlying report present a comprehensive, objective, and balanced view of the subject matter.”

https://qz.com/2044703/how-governments-of-the-world-have-responded-to-the-ipcc-report

If people find the IPCC reports alarming as they are, imagine how alarming the draft from the scientists is before the Saudis, Russians and Americans get out the black markers.

Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges rights group in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article claims it's source is Euro-Med Monitor but https://euromedmonitor.org makes no mention of organ harvesting. No press release, blog post or anything.

Lots of other ghastly stuff though, holy shit.

Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.

I don't know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?

Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We're talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said "lemmy devs are not concerned with..."

I'm sure there is more to be done in this area. It'd be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I'm really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere...

IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we're nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.

Tunnel Rat w/ Modified Revolver leaving Vietnamese Tunnel (60s-70s) in c/forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Near Ho Chi Minh city there are some tunnels like this which they let tourists go into and crawl along for a few hundred meters before coming up somewhere else. They were very very skinny, some of the tourists could not fit. Utterly terrifying places, when you think about the context they were used in.

Afterwards I paid $50 to fire a few shots from an AK-47. Surprisingly loud. Hard to imagine coping with several of them going off all around.

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Google’s DeepMind finds 2.2M new substances in materials science win (arstechnica.com)
 

Trove of combos is >45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.

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The Grug Brained Developer - A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained (grugbrain.dev)
 

this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer

grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused

grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digestible and funny page, not only for you, the young grug, but also for him because as grug brain developer get older he forget important things, like what had for breakfast or if put pants on

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Alexithymia is very common among people with autism (www.healthline.com)
 

Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

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Former Proud Boys leaders sentenced to 17 and 15 years for US Capitol attack (www.theguardian.com)
 

Joseph Biggs, who played leading role on January 6, gets 17 years in prison and former chapter leader Zachary Rehl 15 years

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From 'Barely Works' to Pythonic Code in 5 steps (www.youtube.com)
 

In this video, we adapt a clumsy, non-Pythonic API into an easy to use, easy to understand Pythonic one. We use magic methods such as getitem_, len, enter, and _exit to make our objects a context manager and support the len() function and square bracket indexing. And in the end, we turn what once was ugly, difficult to maintain code into something that other developers would actually want to use.

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Rawhiti Pork is dumping effluent in our rivers and it could take years to stop them (www.rnz.co.nz)
 

In the photo on RNZ there are two overflowing tanks with a bank behind them. You can spot the tanks on Google Maps, next to the middle shed:

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On the future of kglitch.social and what comes after (kglitch.social)
 

I'm currently building an open source Kbin/Lemmy clone that will eventually replace the Kbin software at kglitch.social. It is still in very early stages of development so I expect the current Kbin setup will continue unchanged for about another 6 months. Maybe longer. There is no need to immediately move.

The new system is written in Python, using the Flask framework and a MySQL/PostgreSQL database. It's code is simple and clean with few dependencies making it easy to deploy and maintain. The code will be accessible enough to new and intermediate developers that they can contribute productively with only a small familiarization effort.

The UI design draws inspiration from old.reddit, current reddit, kbin and lemmy, in that order. The issues around onboarding and discoverability are top of mind.

Rather than aiming for massive scale and cloud deployment (and all the complexity and cathedral code that come with that) it will be for small to medium servers. This will help keep the system simple and friendly.

The codebase is still too young for others to get involved - I'm still laying the foundations that will set the tone for how to proceed. Once it starts to become more real I'll share more about it.

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The Web Is Fucked (thewebisfucked.com)
 

The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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Download large file in Python with beautiful progress bar (TUI) (python.study)
 

In this article, we will explore the use of the tqdm package to create beautiful progress bars in the console while downloading large files from the internet.

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Python Web Conf 2023 Talks + Tutorials (www.youtube.com)
 

Watch 80 talks, tutorials, and socials from Python Web Conf 2023 on Six Feet Up's YouTube channel. Explore videos about Python, Django, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Big Data, CI/CD, Serverless, Security, Climate Tech, and more.

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A way to organise a very large Python monolith (blog.europython.eu)
 

Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with 400 other developers worldwide, constantly merging in code. And all anyone needs to make a change - and kick start a deployment of the software that runs 17 different energy and utility companies, with many millions of customers - is one single approval from a colleague on Github.

Now you may be thinking this sounds like a recipe for chaos. Honestly, I would have said the same. But it turns out that large numbers of developers can, at least in the domain we work in, work effectively on a large Python monolith. There are lots of reasons why this is possible, many of them cultural rather than technical, but in this blog post I want to explain about how the organisation of our code helps to make this possible.

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