TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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the autistic urge to buy coin batteries just to verify that they do in fact taste bitter

hey all, if you’re using Windows 11 I highly highly recommend that you run O&O ShutUp 10 on it in order to disable as much spyware as you feel comfortable disabling. this isn’t just about protecting your own privacy but also about protecting the privacy of anyone you communicate with

O&O ShutUp 10 doesn’t require any technical skill to set up other than understanding its UI. it should be relatively simple to run it and disable what you want to disable

if any aspect of the UI doesn’t make sense to you, or anything about my post doesn’t make sense, here’s a video that hopefully does a good job of explaining why and how to use O&O ShutUp 10

also, one more thing to keep in mind: sometimes Windows will reset your privacy settings when it updates, so be sure to re-run O&O ShutUp 10 periodically (maybe once a month?) to make sure that your privacy settings haven’t been reset. from what I understand O&O ShutUp 10 will automatically detect that your settings have been changed and offer to change them back for you

in kaslisp yesterday night I finally added 'foo as a shorthand for (quote foo) and omg a lot of my unit-tests are so much simpler to read and write now T_T I had no idea how much of a big change that would have

I was dreading implementing this in my parser because I wanted to generalize it for both lists and symbols, but actually implementing it was surprisingly simple once I had conceptualized exactly what I wanted to do correctly

I’m kinda curious if there are other Lisp prefix characters that I could implement next, but I have a suspicion that ' is all I need for now

also I think I’m getting pretty close to when I can call kaslisp feature complete! and then I can start implementing a kaslisp interpreter inside of kaslisp lol

I don’t want to implement the parser inside of kaslisp too (that sounds like a fucking nightmare lol) so I’ll probably create a Lua-style (dofile) function that I can use to evaluate other files

i often see and hear a lot of talk about community and what it means: its something like a group of individuals with a shared identity or goal that value one another. it’s often held up in an unambiguously positive light and everyone wants to belong to one. i agree – community is wonderful and vital to our survival no matter what the threat level to our existence is. unfortunately, something i think that many aren’t ready for is how messy communities are. we have friends which are closer than others. we have partners that we want to spend most of our time with. sometimes we’re just scared or uncomfortable. there is always that one or few individuals we tolerate or just dont like. some will get jealous, some will feel betrayed. moreover, i think that most individuals belong to communities that they aren’t even aware of.

i value social bonds and community more than anything else. to me, my community is everyone directly in my life, everyone who shares my ideals and values, everyone who shares my struggles, and generally anyone i feel i can positively impact. im told im optimistic to a fault and that im going to be hurt and betrayed. and theyre right – i am. but the alternative is just not acceptable to me. i would rather be hurt for my optimism than to feed the atomized doomerism that seems to be so pervasive. i am strongly of the belief that most individuals want to care for others, want to be cared for, and want to do right by others – even if they fuck up sometimes. i am betting that my faith in others will often pay off more often than it wont.

what i want to see is more faith and trust in others. im not asking anyone to be like me and open themselves up to infinite amounts of hurt and betrayal based on a vague notion that People Are Generally Good ™ – but i would like to see others reaching out to people who they think are kinda neat. or opening up and being a bit vulnerable to that friend who they’re not exactly sure where they stand with, but they wanna be closer. i wanna see just a little bit of faith that others aren’t too busy for you or out to hurt you. not always.

I just had an evil idea lol. so I live in a white suburban American neighborhood which is full of deeply suspicious Christians. it’s even a “gated community”

so for Halloween this year I’m going to find an ornate glass bowl (I’m sure there’s one somewhere in this hoarder house) and put it on this altar cloth that I just ordered

and then I’m going to decorate the whole thing with (fake, electric) candles, fill the bowl with candy, and put it all outside for trick-or-treaters

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely.
➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

I want to get a big tattoo of a demon binding sigil, so if anyone asks me about it I can be like “yeah this isn’t my body. I was possessing it and some fucker trapped me here so now I’m just stuck looking for a way to escape” which is honestly not far from the truth

I've thought about this video at least once a week since I saw it

https://youtube.com/shorts/D6NhvJ406vc

Something in my house is sucking a *lot* of power and I would like to find it and make it stop doing that. Anyone have specific recommendations for multi-circuit power-usage-tracking devices? (I have 13 240V and 18 120V circuits across three panels, suggesting I will probably need three such devices; the most populated panel has 10 120V and 2 240V.)

Other requirements: ideally #homeassistant compatible, not internet based (currently have devices on zwave and non-internet-facing wifi, adding zigbee soon for unrelated reasons), works with normal US split phase power. Assume I am a reasonably competent electrician and am comfortable putting a current transformer around a wire.

#homeautomation

hey!! reminder to back up your drm-free media!! bought something on GOG? cool, download the installer!!! bought some music?? save it locally!!

just because it’s drm-free doesn’t mean the download can’t be revoked!!!!!

scifi is too broad of a genre lol. I got excited because I saw someone on Taimi who liked scifi and I was thinking “omg they also like nerdy {fiction that is about science} like me!” but what they actually like are action-y emotion-heavy space operas. which is perfectly valid! but not what I was expecting or hoping for

Which brings us to the age-old question:

Has nobody done this before because it's hard?
Or because it's really fucking stupid?