A few podcasts I listen to have switched to calling their bluesky handles out instead of their twitter handles in their outros. I’ll probably install it and delete ex/twitter when I get an invite.

He also shrieked about bots, and now he parades his own around.

I’m not familiar with code.golf but I wonder how whitespace is handled? I find python is very concise anyway, but I wonder how the white space is counted (single tab, four spaces for black, etc).

You just need to be a moderator of any subreddit. The subreddit itself doesn’t need to be NSFW. The idea is that moderators could have a need to evaluate NSFW content on user profiles to make moderation decisions.

Just be aware that in the fediverse everyone sees what you up and down vote.

There’s an update that makes you login again. It installed for me yesterday. After the update get an annoying locked post from u/redditmaturecontent telling you to go to Reddit access NSFW content now.

Oh, that’s interesting. I was hoping a scraper would emerge. Stealth’s scraper (currently) doesn’t seem to actually display content that is marked nsfw. Maybe they haven’t yet figured out how to detect/accept the confirm 18+ barrier on old.reddit.com.

Well, he is going to try to make a subscription Infinity.

But I’ve already moved on to RedReader because the dev is fully on my wavelength. He got the accessibility exception and continues to openly trash Reddit in a very gentlemanly, polite way. His goal now is to diversify the app to non-Reddit sites before Reddit doesn’t need him as a PR shield. Hopefully he’s able to add Lemmy and kbin support soon.

The RedReader app’s use of menus is… slightly different than apps I have used in the past but it has sort of grown on me. It has a, “yeah I can see why Stephan Hawking would have used this sort of thing” vibe, but at the same time it’s actually not tedious or difficult to use once you get the hang of it.

Are there? Must be a bigsub/shill thing.

Just about everything is modifiable in matplotlib… It may not be easy, but all plotting libraries are designed to make some things easy at the expense of making other tasks more difficult. For matplotlib you just have to think about things the way matlab thinks about things… which is more computer graphics based. It can get ugly until you understand it. But if you understand how any plotting library actually works it’s not that bad. All plotting libraries ultimately are built on graphical primitives like lines and fonts and triangles and patches computing where things belong by transforming coordinates and feeding them to a layout engine. It’s not as magical as the APIs make them seem. So if you’re willing to dig into their bowels (as OP mentions) there really aren’t any many limits. Sometimes it’s actually easiest to just declare a canvas in memory and draw it all by hand. Ultimately, things are either vector or raster formats (or some abstraction that supports both) and fed into some computer graphics engine (like postscript or some OS’s or GPU canvas).

Anyway, sometimes the easiest answer is you export and edit the labels in the final figure. One really nasty way if you don’t have PS or PDF tools is to sidetrack through Windows EMF and mess with fonts and positioning of text in PowerPoint.

For the types of visualizations you’re describing, the choice probably won’t matter. I view matplotlib as “matlab flavor” and ggplot2 as “R flavor”. For R-type work (a certain type of table-based stats) I just use R.

For matlab type work (image processing, simulations, etc) I now use matplotlib. This is mostly numpy/scipy things rather than… pandas things. Python is interesting because it has things that are beyond matplotlib (VTK, etc) and beyond matlab. Typically when you’re prototyping in matlab you’re assuming you will have to rewrite in a different system eventually, but with python you can move the prototype further down to more polished prototype easily.

I do a lot of image processing and am too familiar with matlab, so matplotlib generally came naturally for translating that prior knowledge. So really it depends on what sorts of things you are familiar with, languages you use, and would want to do in the future. I think with either choice you will eventually hit some wall of difficulty.

There are also more visualization and plot focused things (TeX family or PostScript and PDF) as well as the “processing” language.

I use R for… not-image-type analysis stats and generate plots in R using R’s plotting. I mostly use python for matlab-type things and matplotlib seems more natural for that.

Julia is on my todo-list and I have heard good things about their plotting ecosystem but I have not looked into it.

Incidentally VTK is extremely well designed for the type of language it’s based on and the problems its solving… but that’s not really 2D plotting.

Infinity (Android) is making a go at a paid subscription.

I’m dating myself but I used to run qmail on FreeBSD and loved it. When I switched to Linux postfix config and documentation confused me forever and I gave up. FreeBSD docs were so much better at the time. 😬

Receiving mail doesn’t usually seem to be that difficult, sending mail tends to be the challenge. So if you only care about receiving mail it may be easier.

I tried it a few years ago and it was fine until some asshole impersonated my domain and a major spamlist decided to hate my guts. I’m not a professional email admin so updating to the latest and greatest standards wasn’t easy. At least at the time. If you’re okay with bounces and silently undelivered mail it’s probably fine. It’s probably also a lot easier nowadays with scripts and easy how-to guides about how to setup the domain authorization. But my experience really turned me off of the “hey it’s fun to run a mail server” thing. Particularly after Google and others came out with the ability to just use Gmail with your own domain.

It really depends on who you “fear”. I mostly use Forefox Relay and have chosen Google (Gmail, Android, etc) as the “devil I know”. If I end up in a state actor’s cross hairs (TLA, etc) I assume I’m a meat popsicle. Mostly I’m trying to thwart internet randos/vigilante and marketing firms that want to violate my privacy and I think Firefox Relay is enough to trip them up.

I don’t view Google as escapable and I think they are under a lot of scrutiny. My view of Google is they want to collect and keep data and sell access as a service without losing their own control of the data. I don’t see them having much incentive to sell raw data to others.

I have a custom domain name I now use for work-related contacts and societies. Currently it runs Google Apps since I don’t want to deal with spamlists etc. But I can easily move it elsewhere with minimal interruption. I almost did during the recent Google Apps drama. I recently changed jobs after being at my previous employer for about 8 years and learned it’s a real pain/time sink to chase down contacts otherwise when you move employers. And my new employer has draconian BOFH email retention policies that maybe make sense for employee email but are just hell for my professional but not employer-tied identity/activities. I don’t use it for work that belongs to [current employer], it’s for work networking things like society memberships, certification agencies, working groups, society committees, etc. Basically work that would apply at any of my employers and would move with me elsewhere.

Are you certain it is the exact same comment or post? I think people are deleting everything (via scripts or whatever–some scripts are known to not work/only appear to be working–particularly ones that make use of pushshift which reddit destroyed a few months prior to this incident), but everything isn’t actually everything because of the way reddit hides content in certain situations. When people have posted screenshots it has been content from subreddits that had be set private during protests and reopened. Reddit annoyingly hides your own content from yourself in many circumstances.

I’m not saying these undeletes definitely do not happen, but people have needed to delete content on Reddit for reasons the pre-date the protests. The legal risks to reddit for them to be caught restoring content that a user deliberately deleted is significant. So unless a whistleblower or compelling evidence emerges Occam’s razor will go with reddit bugs and “features”. Everyone knows reddit is bug-ridden.

Leverage for what purpose? To fix reddit? Let reddit die or not die.

Reddit has always come after mirrors and they will easily get courts to take down the instances. Don’t forget that prior to the API change they came after pushshift.

Additionally, anyone mirroring reddit on the moral basis that the content is owned by the creators and reddit is an exploitative rentseeker, has an obligation to not become a rentseeker themselves. This means things like ensuring that content that users voluntarily delete is also deleted in the mirrors. Reddit in fact had a large battle with pushshift about this years ago such that pushshift supposedly now only keeps history of moderator and admin edits. I agree with that ethically.

And in many cases you may be legally required to do this. To be clear Reddit made pushshift change to respecting user delete requests because of legal exposure and compliance risks.

Not to mention that you don’t really know that anyone intends their content to be mirrored on sites they do not use. Particularly now that Reddit seems to be forcing private subreddits to be open. There’s no moral high ground for doing this.

I don’t like the idea. It seems like those fake websites that scrape stackoverflow and SEO to ruin Google search. Avoiding those sites are among the reasons people type “reddit” into searches. People want authentic interactions and I think mirroring reddit into Fediverse lacks authenticity and undermines its authenticity. Content here should be from people who are here.

If someone wants to assimilate content from reddit into something new and post it here that’s good. That means the person is here and can be interacted with.

If someone wants to repost their own content here, that’s also fine. They are here to interact with.

I just really think it’s a bad idea to deliberately build a ghost town and think people will move in.

I’m left unsure whether DBMS is fun sex for dyslexics, or BSDM is a dyslexic database.

Basically it’s what they have decided to disclose to law enforcement. So at best it tells you the baseline capabilities of law enforcement.