Wait, what?

*its

We shouldn’t be in Eurovision. If the UK had any self respect, we’d be boycotting it like Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia.

All the pearl-clutching about how the product you receive may not adhere to good quality standards ignores the fact that “legitimate” companies like Hobbycraft were selling asbestos-laden products to kids right out of the brick and mortar stores until about a month ago.

You know, I read that book as a kid 'cause my grandmother came to visit annoyed that I’d published a book and not told her. I think was 17 at the time.

It was one of those books that really got to me though. It changed my entire worldview and I still think of it from time to time. I’m now 46.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

I grew up in a car-dependent suburban shithole called Langley, and moved to Vancouver at the earliest opportunity where I could commute via transit, scooter, or bike. Every time I moved after that (7 different cities so far) it’s been to places where I can safely walk, cycle, and/or take transit because not being car-dependent was a high priority for me.

I should also point out that this decision, while resulting in higher rent & mortgages than if I’d chosen suburban life, has meant I’ve not spent the roughly $10k annually to maintain a car, which meant that I could afford a to buy a good-sized home in a bike-friendly city. We expect to pay off the mortgage this year.

Car-free really is what it says on the tin: freedom.

To add to your list:

Delegating of a task to a third party allocates control of how that task is done to said party. They can:

• Vary the cost (not like you know how to do it anymore)
• Modify the result to suit their economic/political preferences
• Refuse to perform the task or deliberately sabotage the output if the task contradicts their interest.

“Hey robot, build an app that helps people fight fascism”

LOL no.

From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.

This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.

Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to “yeah, nothing we can do about that”?

Relevant.

I think he meant that if the US had just taken the entire continent rather than having to share it with Canada, they would have been even more ruthless in their genocide than we were.

He’s probably right, but saying it that way betrays how truly broken his worldview is.

Absolute hero.

The thing is, none of the suggested alternatives can do what pickle does, and the article focuses on a narrow (albeit ubiquitous) use case: serialisation of untrusted data.

There are still legitimate use cases for pickle, especially when storing, caching, or comparing objects that can’t easily be serialised with say, JSON or TOML. It’s a question of using the right thing for the right job is all, and pretending like JSON is a comparable alternative to pickle doesn’t help anyone.

FUCK YEAH! LET’S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING SPACE STUFF!*

*To be clear, I say this unironically.

Lemme guess: still no assistance for purchasing e-bikes or cargo bikes?

This might be useful: https://ffmpeg.app/

They’re on Mastodon too if you’re looking for a fedi-friendly link: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas

I keep seeing Zulip tossed around as an alternative, but I don’t know what’s up with their licencing. There’s also Framateam, but I think that might just be Mattermost as a service.

Matrix would be great if it wasnt so user-hostile, but it is :-(

A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It’s just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.

If you want to lower prices, you can’t give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.