It might be time to switch away from Pocket Casts since it's owned by Automattic. Any recommendations for a good Android podcast app? pxlnv.com/linklog/word...

Now I have to decide whether this taints Automattic so much I need to move away from Pocket Casts

I don't see how anyone can trust anything labeled "WordPress" anymore. It had been made abundantly clear Mullenweg owns the trademark, and so this action ties the term "WordPress" with what I would call "hijacking projects". This has gone from "petty" to "destructive".

Thanks to my GitHub Sponsors funding, I'm considering upgrading my static site hosting and analytics for my open source project sites. Thinking Plausible for analytics, but not sure for site hosting. Looking for something easy to deploy from GitHub Actions. Any suggestions?

But they hate Phyton, not Python😉

tfw when you have to use legacy python 3.12 with its prehistoric repl

a woman in a blue jacket is sitting in a classroom looking up at the sky .

ALT: a woman in a blue jacket is sitting in a classroom looking up at the sky .

Before I could even post about it, PEP 760 has been withdrawn. 😅 discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no...#Python

PEP 760 – No More Bare Excepts

** Update: We have decided to withdraw the PEP as the consensus is that the benefits doesn’t justify the cost** 👋 Hi everyone, As the evil twin of PEP 758: Allow `except` and `except*` expressions ...

I thought this was such a cool idea/explanation of what dark matter could be and how to measure it! bigthink.com/hard-science...

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter

A primordial black hole and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars could be detectable by today’s instruments and tell us more about dark matter.

(btw, shoutout to the bluesky mods for being pretty quick to take down impersonator accounts!)

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