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On Saturday, Dec. 14, Zooey (@zoandbehold.bsky.social) and I celebrated our wedding in Missoula, Montana, in front of friends and family. We plant our flag together, for those we care about, and face the future side by side, grounded in an unimaginable love. Our story and photos:

Our Wedding, From The Woman Wh...



Just released: Python 3.14.0a2 πŸš€ discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... 🐍 PEP 649: Deferred evaluation of annotations 🐍 PEP 741: Python configuration C API 🐍 PEP 761: Deprecating PGP signatures for CPython artifacts 🐍 Improved error messages 🐍 And more! #Python #CPython #Python314 #release

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🐧 Small and large 🐧 You can come and visit both of them at our museum during our opening hours 😍 #linux #tux #computermuseum



Choisissez bien vos assos. Certaines sont absolument catastrophiques, gèrent très mal les dons et sont maltraitantes envers leurs bénévoles.

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Tomorrow Zooey and I will share some incredible wedding photographs from our amazing day. For now, watch this video of our bridal photoshoot at the Missoula Butterfly House for a teaser. I love you so much baby.

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Because what the Democratic Party needs is subverting one of the biggest up and coming stars of the party for a 74 year old shoehorned to take her place. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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The Washington Post is shifting right in its coverage of transgender people. It's latest article from the WaPo editorial board attacks trans care with misleading references and extreme double standards. The latest from guest writer Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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I think the most likely scenario is that Meta aggressively and opportunistically copycats TikTok, either as a standalone (like they did with Threads trying to capitalize on the Vichy-ification of Twitter) or by bloating Instagram. And does it passingly well enough that teens grudgingly shift.

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Of course this all hinges on what happens with the Trump admin, which in turn hinges on who's offering the most on pay-to-play going forward. There's mega-donor Jeff Yass who is heavily invested in TikTok and is in Trump's one ear likely asking him to kill the TikTok ban...
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...but then Zuck went and kissed the ring at Mar-a-Lago and promised who knows what for the ban to stay in place. I would guess it all depends on who is offering the biggest bribe.



Three incumbent city council members go down in Odessa after they institute a $10,000 bounty on transgender people in bathrooms. This could be a strong rebuke of the acceleration of anti-trans panic in Texas we have seen and are poised to see more of.

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In Tennessee, when Republicans passed their bill, Bo Mitchell offered an amendment to ban all elective cosmetic surgeries for minors - not just the one for trans kids. Republicans voted it down. It’s about attacking trans kids. www.them.us/story/gender...


The first warm rays of sunlight illuminate The Diamond, the sheer granite east face of #LongsPeak (14,259 ft / 4346 m) in #RockyMountainNationalPark. This massive face is one of the largest alpine rock walls in #Colorado and a world famous climb first ascended by Dave Rearick and Bob Kamps in 1960.



"Copenhagen’s city government reported in early July that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike β€” an increase from 52% in 2015 and 36% in 2012." (and most of the rest by public transportation)www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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Interesting read! I haven’t looked at what happened to the Web Monetization API. I do think that meta tags or a file in site root are the right spot for this: you can already put written text in a page and this is primarily for programmatic usage. Or… an #atproto solution! 🧡

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Briefly, the ILF is currently rebuilding the Coil system, except with real money. That requires us to comply with a lot of rules and regulations, which is why it took so long. But we're getting somewhere.

Link to the write-up, please? I am not familiar with it.

I don't know what GNU Taler is, though I can ask internally.

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> the ILF is currently rebuilding the Coil system, except with real money

Ah, so the original Coil was just a PoC?

> Link to the write-up, please? I am not familiar with it

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Fediverse presence here;

@write_as

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"GNU Taler is a privacy-preserving payment system. Customers can stay anonymous, but merchants can not hide their income through payments with GNU Taler. This helps to avoid tax evasion and money laundering."

taler.net/en/features.html

#payments #DigitalPayments #privacy #GNUTaler

@ppk @write_as

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I believe Taler are currently doing Proof of Concept experiments in the EU, working with some banks and vendors. Here's it is;

tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news…

At some point I'm meaning to do a deep dive into digital payment systems. Mapping out all the various layers involved, and where existing institutions and projects fit in the stack. It was one of a number of deep dive research projects that got shelved by 2020 ; )

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Yes, Coil was a proof of concept. It worked with "donations" because it didn't have the correct licences to truly work with other people's money.

The system described in the article is exactly what we're trying to recreate.

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> The system described in the article is exactly what we're trying to recreate

I'll be watching with interest. I'd very much like to see simple web payments integrated into TakahΔ“ using vendor-neutral open standards. Like what @write_as described in that piece.

It could also be a boon to projects like OpenCollective and the various fiscal hosting services that grew out of it.



Something for brave souls. πŸ˜‰A new development version (10.6) of #steamsky #opensource #rouelike #indiegame is available for download. More information about the latest changes, and download links: thindil.itch.io/steam-sky/de...

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