Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Why do #mastodon users retoot their toots?

I'm setting up a new M2 MacBook Pro, and it's been smooth sailing so far... until I tried to run "pip install lxml" and ran into some hairy error messages

The solution was to switch to a virtual environment created using a version of Python installed using Homebrew (I had accidentally been using the /usr/bin/python3 Python 3.9.6 that came with the system) - then everything worked fine

Wrote a quick TIL for the next person who gets stuck on this: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/lxml-m1-mac

Today: some nice goblins, and some foreshadowing of things to come later.

#Dungeon23

More newly identified Soviet #SpaceJunk, this time dating back even further, to 1978.

ID 10937, at bottom center. Perhaps it is "flaring".

Now up to 6,058 #satellites identified, freely avaliable at
https://spacecruft.fit/sats

Yandex developers used racist slurs in the source code and tailored search algorithms for propaganda purposes

https://ain.capital/2023/01/27/yandex-developers-used-racist-slurs/

#Russia #Yandex #Ukraine #war

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. … When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must … become the center of the universe."

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

#HolocaustRemembranceDay

Citizens! *Puts on steel toed boots* I urge you to remain calm at this moment! *loads rubber bullets into launcher* violence is not the answer! *Hangs night stick from belt* We grieve with your community! *Pulls reflective visor down on helmet* Peace is what this moment calls for *climbs into tank* The great MLK Jr said and I quote: I love police, and they are our friends! *diesel engine roars* So obey, comply, and remember we are in this together! *Tear gas launcher slowly points towards crowd*

I enjoyed doing this, but it is mostly irrelevant for the rest of the dungeon.

#Dungeon23

If you turned 50 recently and you live in England, get your covid booster before the booster programme ends on Feb 12. (source: my pharmacist)

You might be relatively ok with getting covid, but your vax helps protect others. (And if you have time to get sick, what's your secret?)

Infection rates in England are around 1 in 40 - down from the Christmas wave but still not great https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/20january2023#covid-19-by-uk-countries