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Gooey is a decorator for (and includes a drop-in replacement for) #Python's argparse that lets you offload argument handling to a graphical interface: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

‪For a scary moment I thought that our robot vacuum had attained consciousness during the night and fled our house to join its mechanical brethren to overthrow humanity but it turns out it was just stuck under the bed.‬

Verizon bought Yahoo under the corporate cryptonym “Oath”. And they are living up to the Orwellian tenor of that name by deleting over two decades of Yahoo groups with barely a murmur.

Yahoo groups is a resource of history for ordinary people: everything from community messaging to obscure DIY solutions.

But it is “old” social media, with low monetization (surveillance) value. That’s the real catch, isn’t it?

A library of Alexandria up in smoke. Poof. With a flick of a corporate switch.

Hey Mastodon, lets play a game. 🎲

1) Name something you are manually maintaining or updating that you really should automate, but haven't put the time to do yet.

2) How long have you been lying to yourself about getting around to automating it?

Whoa, #ProjectTrident is rebasing away from #TrueOS / #FreeBSD and instead rebasing to #voidlinux

https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/

As everyone knows there are two obvious ways to put together a simple CRUD (Create/Retrieve/Update/Delete) database app: curses based terminal TUI apps and interactive parser-based terminal apps.

What do you mean those aren't-- GUIs? Web apps? *walks away muttering and shaking head*

I’m no longer on the development preview of #ubuntu 19.10 ;) just saying #linux

@ajroach42 Last week a customer called in about repairing a hand vacuum with worn-out built-in NiCad batteries. I checked with the manufacturer and they said they didn't sell replacement battery packs because it wouldn't be economical to repair.

Today the customer brought in the vacuum and some new NiCad packs he found online. They weren't exactly the same physically so I had to dremel the case a little, but it made me so happy to help someone stick it to the man like that.

Guile and Guix are two of the nicest places to be in GNU currently, and quite frankly some of the most interesting; as far as relevance of GNU as an organization that does new and interesting things, there's only a small handful of projects that I really feel excited about the developments of. (GNU in its early days, was a very innovative project, but after some time I think stopped putting effort there.)

If there's a future to hope for in GNU, its path forward is lead by those projects.

It does my heart good to see what our netizens are doing and discussing.

there are some strong minds here.

me: snow I need some shit on prime can you get it on your account
snow: should I just give you my account details
me: Amazon employees will never ask for your account password.

Wishlist items for a command-line shell (not POSIX/Unix-like)?

#Rust question!

I've got a `message` that says it's a `slack_api::Message`, which is apparently an enum of many types https://docs.rs/slack_api/0.21.0/slack_api/enum.Message.html

I'm just trying to get the `text` of the message, regardless of it's type. What should I do?

message.text gives error: "no field `text` on type `slack::Message`"

You've been waiting patiently and here it is - a "past year" filter for DuckDuckGo search results! Previously the maximum time length was one month - we've now upped that to 12

I wonder how many ways are there to build a website fully embedded in an executable. All the CSS, JavaScripts, and other static content included.

(I think that) I found a way to do it in Rust, using Rocket, maud, and some include_str!s but I'm curious what other languages and libraries can people use to do these kind of things.

(I haven't tried doing images yet and I have no idea how that would work. Except when all your stuff is SVG. Then it's basically another text resource, right?)