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i use transit.app unfortunately it uses navigation via google so if i use it on e os or on a devolved android it will tell me stops but it can’t tell me how to get there. i found it to be okay when i knew where the stops where but annoying when i didnt. would love an alternative too
If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
worth noting that the voters database doesn't seem to synchronize with other Ontario data, as we moved five months ago, and updated our healthcards and drivers licences, but the voters list still had us at the old address.
@mariellequinton Right, plus registering is a convenience, not a requirement. If you’re not registered, you can still go to the site in a few days, enter your postal code to find out your polling place, and show up on voting day with ID and you’re good to go.
Having said that, my newly-18 year old twins were excited to go register over the weekend…
@david Yeah, that's just looks normal. If you've moved or just turned 18 you should check the website, otherwise you don't need bother. Elections Ontario is independent and not something DF can mess around with.
You don't have to go online to confirm and get your card. You'll get it regardless unless you've moved or have just turned 18. And Elections Ontario is independent.
@mariellequinton here is from Elections Ontario and it’s definitely feeling like you *NEED* to confirm it to get the card. Wording feels weird to me, likely because the word “Register” is a proper noun in this case.
@mayintoronto My notice says to "confirm, update or add your information". I have never been asked to "confirm" my information before and the notice is unclear as to whether "confirmation" is a prerequisite for "registration" or whether voting cards will be mailed as usual without "confirmation ". It is at best ambiguous and 16 days before the election, unnecessarily confusing.
@WhistlingStella That's how it has always been. You're automatically registered to vote and your card goes to your last known address. They've now just made it super easy to update it if you've moved.
Your voter registration card also doubles as a proof of address if you need one. It's handy.
@kicou @RandomCanuck lol yes sure, not Doug’s fault. But the wording is insanely confusing. Here is a screenshot from elections Ontario website and I have another screenshot that says the same from another part of the site.
@WhistlingStella I know the people who work at Elections Ontario (and who build their website), and I really can't imagine that they'd do this on purpose. They'd likely quit before they'll be a party to voter suppression like this.
I have never before in my life touched a sewing machine, but now that I have one, I decided that the first thing I'd try to make was a pen roll for my #FountainPens (one of them is a ballpoint, but we don't talk about that). There are definitely some things I'd do differently the second time around, but I freaking love this machine!
I have acquired what I believe to be a high-quality hand-me-down sewing machine from my mother-in-law. Now, apart from thread and fabric I only need to have one more thing...
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The map() function is used to apply a given function to every item of an iterable, such as a list or tuple, and returns a map object (which is an iterator). Let's start with a simple example of using map() to convert a list of strings into a list of
@flyingsquirrel Yup. And there's a multiprocessing version which can be useful if you're doing a very large csv but you probably want imap() for that one.
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If you're looking for a function that applies another function to each element of a list and aggregates the results, it'd typically be done with a list comprehension:
[your_function(item) for item in your_list]
But you can also use list(map(your_function, your_list)) if you want. Basically, it's a built-in function rather than a method of the list class.
There's also a whole discussion to be had about lists vs generators and why you often wouldn't even need to make a list in the first place, but I won't get into that unless you want to know more.
the logic being that `map()` take any iterable, jot only lists, but sets, dicts, and anything that complies with the iterable protocol. I'm not saying you have to _like_ it. See also `str.join()`.
@Marcos Dione Yeah, in hindsight, that makes sense. I'm usually a Haskell programmer, not a Python programmer, so I don't usually have to deal with the question of whether a function is on an object or not.
I understand. I get similar issues when I jump to other languages. The ones I had more impedance has been golang for certain decisions and rust because of the "harsh" syntax and verboseness.
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LB I do not understand at all how people are arguing this is GTS behaving badly and not scrapers like...
FediDB: how many users do you have GTS: I'm not telling you don't crawl my page FediDB: I'm going to do it anyway how many users do you have GTS: Fifty billion FediDB: okay thanks FediDB: hey wait you lied to me!!!
Like idk sounds to me like you should have walked away at "don't crawl my page" and if you get the wrong numbers after that that's on you
Honestly looking at FediDBs GitHub there's a lot of complaints about it's scraping behavior in general. Like it will keep repeatedly hitting domains that don't even have fedi servers anymore
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Hi! I'm not very techy so this might be a dumb question, but. On your popular fediverse accounts list here: https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts Where's George Takei? He's at @georgetakei@...
Ultimately the real problem we aren't discussing though is that Dansup is accusing the GTS devs of doing this "for clout", when they are doing this for "leave me alone", which is the opposite of clout.
It's complete bullshit and he should be embarrassed to say it.
Guy steadily gaining more influence over the fediverse with his software and massively unmanageable instance sizes spends most of his time beefing with other fedi devs...I don't think this is actually GOOD for the fediverse.
"This isn't about my scraper ignoring robots.txt and pounding instances that don't even exist anymore with requests indefinitely, it's about them trying to get clout by randomizing numbers (that I shouldn't have been scraping) so big nobody would even believe them!"
i said this before on a standalone post but if theres one thing he could learn from his idol gargron is to shut the fuck up and actually work on his bullshit software (that doesn't even do its job properly lmao)
seriously say what you want about website boy but at least he was smart enough to back off and do his shit instead of acting like the next jesus christ
@chkdsk it's funny because about a month ago during a meltdown Eugen literally told him DIRECTLY and PRIVATELY "hey man quit posting right now you're not doing yourself any favors" and he proceeded to post that message and keep posting for a bit and making everyone mad before he finally listened
A ton of his recent posts, including this GTS one, are full of nothing but people trying to tell him "hey man please stop posting this it's such a bad idea"
@jeremiah @chkdsk I think the posts he deletes have a bigger effect than the posts he keeps, because if he left half these posts up for people to see he'd get way less attention
personally while an instagram-like service has its use (visual artists would like it a lot) even though just making an alt frontend for mastodon/other existing softwares would do the job as well...
loops was a fucking grave mistake. not only because that form is an evil product of modern internet designed specifically to addict you and worsen your attention span, but also it just Won't fucking Work. tiktok is a cash cow because it has an algorithm designed to keep you sucked in for hours
so its just a dumb fucking thing that makes no sense. and i think posting short vids on existing microblogging side of fedi software is good as is
@chkdsk @jeremiah anyone who cares about fedi would have cloned vine instead
Small file sizes, hard to monetize so no big financial incentives, and in 6 seconds you can tell one tightly thought out joke or show your dog and can't spread weird misinformation
i haven't used the app myself but vines were actually fun. tiktok is just straight up brainrot (and while its sometimes funny it literally fucks up your brain)
@chkdsk @jeremiah out of the tiktoks I've seen the only good and memorable one I can think of that couldn't have fit in a vine is the "it goes in the square hole" one
@chkdsk @jeremiah I have a burner tiktok account that I only made to keep an eye on people buying plots of land in the desert or swamp attempting to build communes with absolutely no skills in anything
@chkdsk @jeremiah in a way, my interest in people building ill advised communes and my interest in people building ill advised online communities are the exact same interest, just one is more likely to end in someone going to the hospital
@gildilinie oh I've been into commune people on and off since well before Cohost the problem is you have to find the ones that spend enough time online that they post enough about it that you get the details
Luckily these days more and more ill advised communes are being started by tiktok people
@gildilinie Cohost should have been a commune tbh they at least had the money for property that isn't ten hours away from a water source and maybe some infrastructure
@chkdsk When you formulate it like that, yeah. You're right about loops.
I care more about Instagram because I've got artist friends who rely on Instagram for studios sales and courting galleries, and I mostly just want institutions and artists to be off big tech.
I've got a Pixelfed account on the flagship instance that I'm migrating now (didn't realize Dan never worked on meaningful export functionality until I went to use it).
I do like having a photo focused account/app separated from the microblogging one.
@jeremiah @chkdsk I keep wondering why we need servers dedicated to image posts instead of like...front ends
Maybe there's something I'm missing but it feels like you could just have Mastodon or GTS or whatever and just have a front end that filters down to just image posts, or a front end that shows your posts in a portfolio view
@jeremiah @chkdsk Most people I know who are trying Pixelfed (and are familiar with fedi meta in general) are trying it *despite* Dansup's posts, not because of them.
Making the pictures actually fit on my screen rather than posting through daily bouts of main character syndrome would be nice I guess, but what do I know 🤷
It makes me think that his goals may be aligned with the "silicon valley exit strategy": - start any project - make drama - pose as a disruptor, opposed by various groups - inflate own audience numbers - sell
I don't run a fedi server, but I do run a regular website and any crawler that disobeys my robots.txt gets severely mistreated by me, without shame. If you break the well-established convention that robots.txt represents -- I don't care why -- then you get what you get.
This feels very firmly like the FO side of FA, FO.
A lot of people's first reaction seems to be "your server should not react to crawling this way" when I feel like the real question should be "why is the crawler not respecting robots.txt?", which just seems wild to me. Literally blaming the victim.
@Lnklnx :sdf: @lori If I'm not mistaken, one of the original purposes of robots.txt was to warn crawlers about things which might cause problems. If they ignore it, that's on them.
It haunts me that he didn't even say that, he said "spread tea," this language is so appropriated he doesn't even know how to work it properly.
Altho, speaking of language, he calls this an "inconvenience" here, when instead it's "lack of interest in shared values including on technical basics so basic even I, who doesn't touch computers, knows is basic."
@tully @bright_helpings and this is exactly why I feel strongly about calling this shit out at this point because he keeps saying shit and deleting it and thinking he won't be held accountable for anything. Unless you pay attention his timeline is basically always just good looking PR speak posts, but we all know that's not the reality
Right? I'm watching this whole thing and don't understand how it's a controversy because GTS is doing all the right things regarding this, but then again, the Fedi is crawling with tech bros. Some hide better than others.
What I don't get is why the same ire isn't being directed at Misskey and its forks? Misskey (and Sharkey) accurately report the total number of registered users, but they do not accurately report the monthly active users. On FediDB, some Misskey instances show 0 MAUs (even big instances with a lot of users), while some report a frozen value based on what their MAUs was before Misskey switched to not reporting it.
@2something if i had to really speculate, it's because the misskey devs didn't call dansup out on appropriating AAVE about a month ago, which he absolutely was doing
Just to provide some perspective here, the endpoint in question exists specifically to be crawled by robots, nodeinfo is not a user-facing page and does not serve a purpose for federation. GTS could remove the endpoint if they’re not interested in it being crawled or serve 0s. The proposed behaviour seems to be more punitive than reasonable.
@Gargron but the real problem isn't what the software is doing, it's the extremely public accusation that another dev was acting maliciously at him personally
@chkdsk @jeremiah @Kiloku I'd say most people trying pixelfed have no idea who dansup is, most people couldn't tell you who runs any website unless they're billionaires. I guarantee most Tumblr users can't name the guy running that because he's not in the news every other day like Elon or Zuck. Dansup is a non entity to them.
TIL that my local library has a recording studio that you can book. I don't really have an immediate personal use for this, but it's pretty cool that it exists.
I know this is very first-world-problem, but now that I have my favourite #FountainPen back in working order, I had to make a tough decision about which pen gets the boot from the limited pen slots in my messenger bag. I imagine it's a bit like choosing favourites amongst one's children.
@R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 I've actually gone down the rabbit hole of potentially making one. I do have a sewing machine available. I just need to learn how to actually use one.
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could you help a black trans au/adhd plural gal out?
another month and more expenses. I still need to cover my bills, debts and trying to save something to save me from my imminently crumbling living situation if worst comes to be.
since I'll be mostly in vacation from college this month I'll be trying to put some projects in action so that I can try and get some money coming in.
my father did already start demaning another 200 USD for living expenses and I feel it in my bones that I'm just one step from him completely kicking me out of here for petty reasons so I do really need every penny I can get.
every donation helps immensely and so does every boost.
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could you please give me a boost? I'm begging you. 🥺
shit did really hit the fan hard this week. my mother had a terrible fight with me and my sister. she said a lot of awful stuff to both me and my sister which included telling my sister to "go and die then" when she said how just keeping alive every day is a struggle.
on thursday we went out with some friends and it started all over again when she just suspected we told them what she had done to us. she called me again many terrible names and confirmed my suspicion that me having really bad memory, specially the fact that I have almost no recollection of anything from before I was 7 years old, is just PTSD because she told us of a terrible case of my father kicking me that caused a depressive episode on her just to try and gather some fucking pity and I can't even fathom what the fuck else I forgot.
we need to move. as soon as possible. my sister has a 1 year old baby and we are actually afraid of she doing something on one of those "episodes" of her.
this current amount is to cover the expenses of buying the basics (oven, refrigerator, etc) so we could live somewhere. we don't even know if any place would even accept us because we both got bad credit but we need to try. this is impossible to keep going.
please help a black trans au/adhd plural gal system out instead of burning it buying ads on the superbowl for someone that could afford it either way 🤐
could you please give me a boost? I'm begging you. 🥺
I still need to move ASAP but another pressing issue came up.
baby zap (one of my cats) got really sick. it was unable to pee. I had to take it to the vet and I had no choice other than to stay at the clinic for a couple days so that they could unblock it, run some tests and see if everything cleared up.
luckily, everything worked out. it got sent back home and it is recovering nicely (even tho the other cats seem to be mad at it for some reason) but... it all cost a lot of money. lots.
the clinic stay was a lot but I also had to buy special food and extra medicines for it and right now I have no fixed income. (family said they'd help with costs but I doubt it and I'll try and update anything they help me with).
I haven't got any new donations in the last few days >.>
please help a black trans au/adhd plural gal out instead of burning it buying ads for someone that could afford it either way 🤐
every donation, boost and share does go a long way and I need every help that I can get.
The month is almost ending and I'm still far from my goal
I do really, really need help.
I need to move to escape my parents abuse and it is getting worse by the day. I need to take my sister and my baby nephew with me
I still need to pay for my monthly expenses, college transport and food and debts.
one of my cats needed to do some procedures in the vet clinic and that really did cost way more than I could afford but I got it all on a borrowed credit card.
I'm desperate trying to do something about all this:
I'm trying to graduate from college (currently I'm at my last semester)
trying to work on my game, to try and apply to a grant in the coming months or try and monetize it somehow.
I do really need to pay the vet bill and to be able to move out of here before worst comes to worst.
please help a black trans au/adhd plural gal out. I'm really desperate.
every donation, boost and share does go a long way and I need every help that I can get.
okay so, I've got my goals covered an my plans are in motion and even tho I've got some to spare, I've set them aside because I could still be kicked out any day. (haha, fun /s).
but this is still my birthday month and... I haven't really gotten me anything besides something I really really needed (like walking shoes... and walking shoes again...) forever. so I'll leave my links up this month and I'll use anything I get to get me something nice for my birthday!
my birthday is tomorrow and I'd love to try and get me something nice for a change instead of just expanding everything I have on surviving. hahahaha 🫠
could you please give me a boost? I'm begging you. 🥺
I've got my goal for the moving funds met. I'm working on my escape plan but while at that I need to pay for my college and the monthly bills plus the vet instalments and other funds.
I've got a breather last month but I forgot to budget money for this month in advance so I don't have anything unless I tap into the saved funds for the move which I don't want to because even tho I'm planning any of my parents could flip the fuck out any moment and kick us out.
I'm currently unable to pay for anything as the month goes on and I really need to pay my bills 🤐
anything helps, every donation and boost. thank you very much for your continued support >.<
I ran out of the fancy medicinal cat food for my recovering cat last month and I wasn't able to buy more because I also ran out of litter and the normal food. I was hoping I could get some this month but the reality is that I haven't got enough even to cover my expenses and my credit card is already maxed.
I am afraid that it can get sick again and I haven't even paid the last of it's expenses yet so I've made this goal exclusively so that I can buy the food that should last me for 2 or so months.
While I try to survive till I am able to graduate and sort out how I'm moving I still have lots of expenses to cover. mostly which are related to my current housing situation. haha 🫠.
I'm working on my projects when I can but I absolutely need help of I am to survive.
any amount helps. every donation and boost. thank you very much for your continued support >.<
my plans for moving are finally in motion and I will move by the middle of the year no fucking matter what and I'm looking for some work and it's been some hard as fuck days.
sleeping has been very hard and I've been once again subjected to direct abuse from my father. I also need help since my glasses broke last year and it is glued and holding on but I don't know for how long (and incidentally I found out I have this pair since 2017)
any amount helps. every donation and boost. thank you very much for your continued support >.<
I'm a black plural neurospicy trans woman struggling a lot.
I am still moving, slower than I wanted, with my plans to move away from my shitty parents and to move on with my life while I continue to study linguistics after graduating and try to get some form of work to sustain myself.
currently my anxiety is through the roof not only due to money, but my health is going really bad and shit is ugly and it is destroying me. It makes it so much harder to persevere and to try and pursue my objectives and project but I still am doing my best to achieve everything and I definately will.
I need help paying for my glasses replacement installments, paying for my monthly expenses and what wasn't met on the last two months because I was so burnt out that I couldn't even fundraise properly 🤐
thank you very much for your continued support >.<
More dead tree spam from the Conservative party addressed to my father (who has never lived here). This one was labelled "compliance request" with a red military stencil looking font that said "URGENT: CODE RED". This speaks to the way they percieve the intelligence of their supporters. I weep for the state of politics in this country.
Is there a way to tell #Emacs #org-mode to omit yhe TOC and headline numbers when exporting to a text or markdown file? I'm trying to implement a #JohnnyDecimal system, so I'm supplying my own numbers and the 00.00-index.org file essentially is the table of contents.
Edit: Because not all replies federate, here's the solution I ended up with:
Sorry I don't have an answer. Nonetheless as an Emacs user (albeit only rarely in org-mode) I'll be interested in the responses you get. Cheers, -Randy
I got a new phone because my old one was giving out on me. This one is a decided downgrade from the last one, but that's (mostly) fine.
Anyhow, the new phone doesn't support wireless charging. Because of this, I can no longer charge it on the night stand breside my bed. When I wake up in the morning, my impulse in my half-awake state is to just grab my phone and go, forgetting that it's now tethered to the wall. This was not going to end well for anyone, most especially not my charging cable/port.
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I run a pretty tight budget. Twice a year, I get a fun surprise from my domain registrar (because I have two domains with them). They both come with a "free business card generator" that I have never used, but whatever.
Anyhow, every time a domain comes up for renewal, it's expected, budgeted, and paid for. All is good.
Then, about a month later I open my email and see an unexpected additional "receipt" from them. This sends me into a brief panic until I realize it's a $0 receipt for the business card bullshit.
Not my circus, not my monkeys: good luck with all that My circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey circus Not my circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey-rental service My circus, not my monkeys: oh no, oh man
hey everyone, noelle (a friend here in phoenix) needs $400 by sunday to not be homeless for February. it REALLY doesnt leave a lot of time but if youve got anything it would be greatly appreciated
Its been over a month since I was let go and I still haven't found a lot of prospects for a new job. If you know anyone who is looking for an #iOS Developer for remote work I really could use the contact. Please boost.
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in reply to Brian Sullivan • •@Brian Sullivan I'll have to have a look at that. I wonder of my city is big enough to make the cut.
Edit: They seem to think I live in Toronto (which is news to me) but they do seem to have the local transit routes.
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