A_Derg
@awesome-dragon.science
Gay Derg, Libera.chat staffer, and I write lots of code. Sometimes the code even works!
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November 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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VOY S02E21 is absolutely fantastic. I did not remember it _at all_ and being able to watch it "for the first time" was an absolute treat.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
VOY S02E21 is absolutely fantastic. I did not remember it _at all_ and being able to watch it "for the first time" was an absolute treat.
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Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help.
We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.
If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.
If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
The good advice
First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who donated since our last post. Our income on Liberapay has roughly quadrupled from what it was before the post. We have also had people reach out to us ...
libera.chat
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help.
We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.
If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.
If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Decided to start a Voyager rewatch; forgot a lot about just how good the show is
October 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Decided to start a Voyager rewatch; forgot a lot about just how good the show is
Today on work being dumb: apparently "the practical limit of this is the hardware of the machine" does not correctly parse to "this will scale until the machine crashes" in some people's minds. Worse still, it seems they want to make this change late on a Friday. I hope they don't have plans...
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today on work being dumb: apparently "the practical limit of this is the hardware of the machine" does not correctly parse to "this will scale until the machine crashes" in some people's minds. Worse still, it seems they want to make this change late on a Friday. I hope they don't have plans...
Had a blast at @za.pycon.org this year. Looking forward to more!
October 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Had a blast at @za.pycon.org this year. Looking forward to more!
Had the delightful experience today of being told a pile of metric pages in grafana were useless, followed by an outage that was clearly understandable through the aforementioned pages.
Did I take great pleasure in using them to describe issues towards the person that hated them? Absolutely.
Did I take great pleasure in using them to describe issues towards the person that hated them? Absolutely.
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Had the delightful experience today of being told a pile of metric pages in grafana were useless, followed by an outage that was clearly understandable through the aforementioned pages.
Did I take great pleasure in using them to describe issues towards the person that hated them? Absolutely.
Did I take great pleasure in using them to describe issues towards the person that hated them? Absolutely.
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At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.
libera.chat
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.
14 years and he finally made it all the way to the farlands.
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
14 years and he finally made it all the way to the farlands.
Having a job that makes time vanish because you're enjoying it is great. Just uh. Remember to eat and drink water on occasion
August 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Having a job that makes time vanish because you're enjoying it is great. Just uh. Remember to eat and drink water on occasion
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Print your own #NASAWebb! These downloadable files allow you to print each component individually on a 3D printer to produce a full, detailed 3D model of the telescope: webbtelescope.pub/4kuLuxo 🔭 🧪
July 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Print your own #NASAWebb! These downloadable files allow you to print each component individually on a 3D printer to produce a full, detailed 3D model of the telescope: webbtelescope.pub/4kuLuxo 🔭 🧪
Well done Hannover. 10/10 displays
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Well done Hannover. 10/10 displays
This already looks great; the performance improvements are a fantastic extra touch
Announcing RimWorld - Odyssey!
Full announcement: store.steampowered.com/news/app/294...
Build your own ship and travel across the planet. Explore fungal forests, volcanic fields, and frozen ruins. Raid bunkers, tame new creatures, and launch into orbit to scavenge tech from space wrecks.
Full announcement: store.steampowered.com/news/app/294...
Build your own ship and travel across the planet. Explore fungal forests, volcanic fields, and frozen ruins. Raid bunkers, tame new creatures, and launch into orbit to scavenge tech from space wrecks.
June 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This already looks great; the performance improvements are a fantastic extra touch
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social the station computer seems to be constantly beeping at me. Is this your doing?
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social the station computer seems to be constantly beeping at me. Is this your doing?
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Every June I dig this up: hachyderm.io/@nedbat/1105...
Ned Batchelder (@nedbat@hachyderm.io)
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Do you have interns at work this summer? They may find this helpful (created by a summer intern at edX a few years ago):
hachyderm.io
June 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Every June I dig this up: hachyderm.io/@nedbat/1105...
Operations: turn off this alarm it's too noisy
Us: that's a really bad idea.
Operations: we can monitor this ourselves! The alarms make our KPIs look bad!
Us: why don't we fix the actual problem?
Operations: just turn it off
Under a month later .... 16 hour unnoticed outage! I hate being right.
Us: that's a really bad idea.
Operations: we can monitor this ourselves! The alarms make our KPIs look bad!
Us: why don't we fix the actual problem?
Operations: just turn it off
Under a month later .... 16 hour unnoticed outage! I hate being right.
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Operations: turn off this alarm it's too noisy
Us: that's a really bad idea.
Operations: we can monitor this ourselves! The alarms make our KPIs look bad!
Us: why don't we fix the actual problem?
Operations: just turn it off
Under a month later .... 16 hour unnoticed outage! I hate being right.
Us: that's a really bad idea.
Operations: we can monitor this ourselves! The alarms make our KPIs look bad!
Us: why don't we fix the actual problem?
Operations: just turn it off
Under a month later .... 16 hour unnoticed outage! I hate being right.
So I spent today just cleaning up code, making things nicer to work in. I think it's the best time writing software for work I've had in a few weeks.
May 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So I spent today just cleaning up code, making things nicer to work in. I think it's the best time writing software for work I've had in a few weeks.
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social chief, there's something up with the monitors down on the Promenade. They all show an earth sky and say something about "Installing Microsoft Windows ME"?
May 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social chief, there's something up with the monitors down on the Promenade. They all show an earth sky and say something about "Installing Microsoft Windows ME"?
Well that was fun. Built something to slice time ranges in just jsonata. Given a start, stop, and step in seconds, it'll return a list of dates step apart until the end of the range
May 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Well that was fun. Built something to slice time ranges in just jsonata. Given a start, stop, and step in seconds, it'll return a list of dates step apart until the end of the range
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Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.
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Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.
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OSUOSL is worth saving
Hey everyone,
libera.chat
May 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL.
Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page.
Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.
🕖🕘🕚
libera.chat/news/osuosl-...
#OSUOSL
Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page.
Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.
🕖🕘🕚
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#OSUOSL
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Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL.
OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.
Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.
OSL is worth saving.
osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...
#osuosl
OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.
Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.
OSL is worth saving.
osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...
#osuosl
Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab
A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
osuosl.org
April 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL.
OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.
Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.
OSL is worth saving.
osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...
#osuosl
OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.
Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.
OSL is worth saving.
osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...
#osuosl
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Listen most carefully to those whose voice is seldom heard, is downplayed or suppressed. The quietest words may be the most important for you to hear.
April 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Listen most carefully to those whose voice is seldom heard, is downplayed or suppressed. The quietest words may be the most important for you to hear.
You know you're having an interesting day when you celebrate seeing a firewall reject log
April 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You know you're having an interesting day when you celebrate seeing a firewall reject log
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social Why does every third light on the promenade now have a latinum deposit slot to turn it on?
April 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
@annoyedobrien.bsky.social Why does every third light on the promenade now have a latinum deposit slot to turn it on?