@zens @GI_Jack @vortex_egg @tfb Excellent one, yes - Early TNG made a great point-to example for a particular type of leftist futurism (one that seemed to walk a line between the authoritarian leftism of starfleet, and the municipal federal post-scarcity libertarianism of the federation). Later expressions of Star Trek got more authoritarian and drifted into mere post-scarcity liberalism in some of the more modern shows, though.

@zens @GI_Jack @vortex_egg @tfb We need to convince Studio Ghibli to make more space opera?

@clacke So the Le Pen voters were discarding the vote-part as well as the usual discard part?

@clacke What would that mean? How are discarded slips used as a proxy? I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with the idea, it doesn't come up over here in reportage.

@tfb The fact that so many "far left" voters are swinging to "far right" makes me think that a lot of them believe, against all evidence, in accelerationism. Or just that it's regular horseshoe-theory carryon of course.

But this is not going to get better. Fossil decline, nitrogen decline, accelerating inequality, peak phosphate around the corner.. we're not gonna win just by voting but if we cede any battlegrounds we'll lose for sure.

Dear #France peeps: please vote against the fascist today. And then, get out on the streets tomorrow and make it clear that Macron has no mandate for further racist, right-wing policy.

Abstaining right now is not a useful protest against Macron and his bullshit. It is pro-fascism. Voting is the easiest, most risk-free antifascist action you can take today.

@clacke @emacsen My one's issue is that if the battery runs out, it can't activate the charging circuit anymore, so you have to hard-reboot the bios to reenable charging. Undocumented issue, might just be mine.. Computers are indeed a mistake

@emacsen My (non-framework) laptop sometimes experiences a similar problem. I don't know if this works for Framework, but my one's BIOS does respond to a hold-power-button-for-a-long-time hard reset. Longer than the usual 5 second hard reset, more like 15-25 seconds.

@mc It was the impractical binary size that put me off. I offered some patches to shave 0.5Mb off most real-world binaries by removing unnecessary "fmt" imports from lots of common stdlib imports like json, and was rejected. I lost interest at that point..

If you feel like complicating things for the sake of 0.5Mb or so, I could point you at a halfassed set of patched libraries from probably ten versions ago. :)

It's actually pretty easy to do, because most stdlib imports of fmt are just for error logging, and the native error module achieves the same ends with drastically smaller binary size.

Me, to 8yo: "I don't feel like talking about Mineclone right now, please stop talking to me about Mineclone"
3yo: 🎼 "We don't talk about Miiiineclooone noo noo noo" 🎵

Russia deliberately engineering scary-sounding crises in Ukrainian nuclear plants is a deliberate psyop to discourage the EU from reversing their thoughtless flight from Nuclear Power since Fukushima, prolonging his chokehold on EU thermal and energy supply

@meena @athairbirb Time Cube Queen, four simultaneous monarchies

I have a lot of physical work on my plate lately. DIY stuff in the house that requires days of dirty, cramped attic-crawling.

And on top of that, I have to move my office, and a kid's bedroom, and my own bedroom, in a big ol' three way shuffle.

And this gets negotiated against work that needs to get done in the house by three different professional groups in the course of coming weeks.

And so, my back decided it's going on strike, and I'm unable to do anything useful until it recovers.

Maybe I'll wind up writing my first line of actual code in months, though, while I wait?

@beckett @jonny "PDFparanoia" was a project for exactly this - to strip identifying watermarks and metadata from shared academic PDFs. But it fell victim to the Python 2 to 3 transition and the mess of the PDF libraries in particular, and then fell to bitrot. Would be nice to see it brought back to health.

@meena @athairbirb @jon Apologies, it's morning and I'm defo not running at full wattage yet: tempeh *is* a fermentation, just not considered a bacterial one. I've seen a paper that discovered b12 in it but provided no explanation, and it's possible this only applies to traditional tempeh and not hyper-parameterised, single-species western fermentations of fungi only. No data there.

@meena @athairbirb @jon Let me indulge my inner angry microbiologist for a moment and just point out that Yeasts are fungi and therefore are not a source of Vitamin B12 at all, sadly. Great for many B vits but not B12.

Anything bacterial-fermented can potentially provide b12. So, yoghurts, cheeses, bacterial drink fermentations (_authentic_ Kombucha), etc. There are scant vegan non-fermented sources, Tempeh is one apparently: presumably the fungi are not the only partners in that traditional fermentation process. Strangely, nori-family seaweeds also provide b12, perhaps absorbing them from symbiotes.

@edsu Actually I have no idea how that works. I assumed it was basically a limited port-scan followed by a STARTTLS handshake attempt or something.

But now I wonder whether a DNS based solution could work even better - package login settings in a TXT record so clients can fetch them from nothing _but_ login details? (with username being full email address)

@edsu @o0karen0o Google is way ahead of you, it's officially difficult to set up standard IMAP clients with Gmail now. And I think admins in managed Gmail accounts can forbid it entirely.

@edsu @o0karen0o Pity there was never a widely used standard for "packaged server settings", so you could just provide people with a little settings file and let them pick a client, load settings, log-in as usual.