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• Post #4282328

  "My training data has a cutoff of September 2021. Therefore, I have no knowledge of events that occurred after that date." Lucky bastard LLM.

• Post #4258865

  "Imagine if the police had this diligence to track down your stolen bicycle." https://www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-deputy-searched-83000-flock-cameras-to-track-down-a-woman-who-had-an-abortion

• Post #4097489

  "There's a great restaurant called Karma. They don't have a menu but you get what you deserve." #PyOhio puns while getting A/V issues resolved.

• Post #4097487

  "A group of musicians call themselves Duvet. They're a cover band." #PyOhio puns

• Post #4094641

  Every computer science degree from 2028 on is going to be worthless.

• Post #4028090

  Flock Cameras Keep Getting Smashed, So Now They’re Hiding Inside Speed Signs https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-cameras-keep-getting-smashed-so-now-theyre-hiding-inside-speed-signs

• Post #4003116

  How Fascists Construct Scientific Ignorance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTh4y2wABrA

• Post #3977928

  Python strftime/strptime Cheat Sheet: An interactive reference https://inventwithpython.com/strftime/

• Post #3935657

  A redditor sent NYC Mayor Mamdani a decorated "Good Luck" dollar earlier this year and just got this response.

• Post #3862831

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116929767967871102 There's no point in hitting the brakes if you refuse to let up on the gas. There's no point in hitting the brakes if you use that as an excuse to push on the gas even harder.

• Post #3861043

  🗺️ July 16, 2026 1/5 countries in 6/13 guesses 🟢⚪⚪⚪⚪ https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts

• Post #3720129

  I'm going to start selling homeopathic gambler's fallacy dice to tabletop role players: Dice that have been pre-rolled until they came up 1 three times in a row, meaning they're ripe to have good rolls next.

• Post #3591747

  I never stopped to think about how the name "Fugitive Slave Act" frames the enslaved person as the criminal. Plus ça change...

• Post #3540203

  Hey, there's a lot of bots pretending to be Gazans seeking donations. Be careful before you boost or repost.

• Post #3403214

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

• Post #3389527

  Someone left the comment "They don't know how to do anything if someone isn't actively bribing them and telling them what to do" and I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life.

• Post #2786481

  Thank you to all the committee chairs who make #PyConUS possible.

• Post #2786480

  No Starch Press has all their books sale at 40% off until May 26th. You can get my books and many other great titles at https://nostarch.com Use code LONGWEEKEND

• Post #2786479

  OH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"

• Post #2786478

  Last day of sprints at #PyConUS

• Post #2786477

  Someone noted that the people praising AI as an "exciting new technology" in graduation speeches and getting booed are just as clueless as the "plastics" guy in The Graduate.

• Post #2786476

  Non-software engineers will use AI to create software the way Elon Musk created the Cybertruck.

• Post #2786475

  I want to make freeware apps that are like how software used to be before enshittification. I'm trying to come up with a name. Good Old Ware? I don't want it to be just for nostalgic nerds though. I need a name with mainstream appeal.

• Post #2786474

  I have thought up a new side project and I have resisted the temptation to buy a domain name as the first step. Please clap.

• Post #2786473

  RE: https://mas.to/@truthout_rss_bot/116621181685552067 This is how they tell you that America is going to invade Bolivia for its lithium deposits, a key ingredient for EV batteries.

• Post #2786472

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116621177143881696 Is it weird that my first thought is that journalists should check the "prediction market" bets that this disaster was going to happen?

• Post #2786471

  Updated my whatismyip Python package. It does what it says on the tin. It's been two years since my last update. It's all minor bug fixes. Feels good. https://pypi.org/project/WhatIsMyIP/

• Post #2557244

  Want to double your donations to PyOhio? I'm matching donations to PyOhio up to $1,000 this year. Make your donation could twice as much by donating to this great conference in Cleveland, OH July 25-26: https://www.pyohio.org/donate

• Post #2486851

  Could someone who doesn't know how to program vibe code a software library?

• Post #2486850

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pyohio/116556304094333508 Hey, just as a reminder that I am matching donations made to PyOhio up to $1,000. Now is the time to make your donation count twice! https://www.pyohio.org/donate