To be fair, if you live in a world where the only thing that matters is the fossil fuel industry (a popular worldview in Alberta), then the idea of pulling together with the same provincial leaders that have made it ever-so-slightly more difficult to export those fuels probably doesn’t sound appealing.

Given that frame, dealing directly with the Americans (with whom they have an existing market and distribution route) makes sense. She has something they want, and Trump is notorious for claiming that he can “do a deal” with parties legally incapable of dealing with him.

Add to that the fact that the federal government is about to be swapped out for a fossil-friendly regime, and she doesn’t need to take the other provinces seriously. It was more valuable to her politically to snub the council and win points domestically.

Is this part 2 of 3 or part 2 of 2?

This has strong Alfur energy.

Paris has had quite the face lift in the last few years, with massive expansion of parks and cycling infrastructure and heavy restrictions of car traffic. You may be pleasantly surprised.

I’ve been using Linux for 25 years. I started with SuSe, switched to RedHat after a couple months, and after a few more months switched to Gentoo… for 10 years, then did Arch for the remainder.

Frankly, I think that distro hopping is a bad idea because it means you don’t get enough time really understanding how to fix things. As a long time Arch user, it would never occur to me to throw out 10+years of tooling and scripts, muscle memory and shorthand to fix a driver issue. I would read the wiki top to bottom and then go spelunking through other sources until I find the solution (then update the wiki) before I’d switch to something foreign with its own set of problems and unknowns.

My advice is to find a distro that makes sense to you, and that has a deployment pattern you like and commit to it for a few years. Don’t switch unless you find something that fulfills those two requirements even better, and even then do so cautiously. Your experience and understanding is hard-won.

Sweet, thanks!

It’s a cool idea, but the way it tightly couples itself to a model, forcing db calls for something like this kinda ties your hands.

For high-content sites like blogs for example, the idea that a template tag would kick out to the db for every post on the page is too much.

Instead, it’d be nice to decouple the bot detection from the gibberish generation so you could do useful things like precache the gibberish in Redis or on your content object directly and then just do {% if is_bot %}{{ post.gibberish }}{% else %}{{ post.content }}

Good to know, thanks. Where do I find the complete BDS list?

Ooh! I have something for this.

This is pretty slick, but doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever? How much processing do you do of those forms for example?

YouTube link for anyone else who’s having trouble getting the above to stream anything.

Depending on how complicated you’re willing to allow it to be to run locally, you could just run a webserver right on the desktop. Bind it to localhost:8000 so there’s no risk of someone exploiting it via the network, anf then your startup script is just:

1. Start webserver
2. Open browser to http://localhost:800/

It’s not smooth, or professional-looking, but it’s easy ;-)

If you want something a little more slick, I would probably lean more toward “Path 2” as you call it. The webserver isn’t really necessary after all, since you’re not even using a network.

One option that you might not have considered however could be to rewrite the whole thing in JavaScript and port it to a static web page. Hosting costs on something like that approaches £0, but you have to write JavaScript :-(

While I appreciate any attempt to shed more light on Poilievre’s weaselly nature, this sort of heavily edited, “scary narrator” hit job is pretty gross. I’m not convinced that this will sway anyone to drop their support for him.

I always appreciate it when people build friendly Python wrappers around C code, but I suggest that if you’re going to share an example in the documentation, the answer the LLM gives should at least be correct:

Q: Name the planets in the solar system? A: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Also Ctrl+D to exit any shell and Ctrl+R for reverse searching your history!

Just be careful with files with spaces in the name. There’s an incantation with xargs that I always have to look up when I want to use it safely.

Not in and of itself, but I find that I have a handful of common tricks that I can put into aliases. Also, there’s ffmpeg.app!

You might be interested in this project where someone has hooked up a low-power system to Mastodon and is tooting through it stories about the experience. The project author may also be worth contacting.

I’ve used Starship before, and while it’s quite powerful for formatting what goes into your prompt, I don’t believe there’s any feature in there that will fix the prompt to the top of the screen. The best I could find in the docs was a feature to place some text to the right.

Yes, that’s it exactly.