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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-22 at 14:08

@stronglang Starting soon in Helsinki and online with the Cursing Hedgehog:

"Nordic swearing: Contemporary trends, English and media"

16.30-19.00 EET (14:30-17:00 UTC)

https://www.nkk.org/evenemang/svarande-i-norden-samtidstrender-engelska-och-media/

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-18 at 07:22

@marieroald @yngvem You may be interested in https://genomic.social/@jdliechty/113808105858102668 🌱🌿🌳🌲🌴

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-14 at 19:49

Just released: Python 3.14.0a4 🚀

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-0-alpha-4/77112

https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html

Here's one amazing reason to try it out! 🗓️🎨

[#]Python #CPython #Python314 #release

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-03 at 14:20

A company called Edgio have gone bankrupt and the azureedge.net CDN will be going away on 15th January 2025.

It's used for .NET and Azure things. if you're using it, Microsoft has a replacement CDN:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/critical-dotnet-install-links-are-changing/

https://build5nines.com/retirement-of-azureedge-net-dns-edg-io-business-closure-and-what-you-need-to-know/

Search your codebase for azureedge.net or change sample to your org name:

https://github.com/search?type=code&auto_enroll=true&q=org%3Asample+azureedge.net

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-02 at 10:28

Pillow 11.1.0 is out!

One of the cool updates is we're using zlib-ng 2.2.2 instead of zlib 1.2.8/1.3.1, which is more than twice as fast at saving PNGs at higher compression levels.

In more detail, zlib-ng has the same file sizes for compression level 0 and bigger files for level 1, but if you care about size, any higher level gives more or less the same file size, and zlib-ng is much faster.

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/8500

https://fosstodon.org/@pillow/113757790051979210

[#]Pillow #Python #release #zlib #zlibng #png

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2025-01-01 at 22:45

🤖🖋️ An exciting thing last year, one of my #NaNoGenMo works was published in "Output: an Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953-2023"!

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549813/output/

Dear Santa is an epistemological novel sourced from tweets containing "I want". (Not in the book, one output is from a certain election result day in Nov 2016, capturing a grimly familiar mood: https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/138)

It's a fascinating book with a wide range of pre-LLM works by many brilliant folk, I'm proud to share the same pages.

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-31 at 14:15

"There's something behind you..."

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-30 at 17:37

🇵🇱 "Witamy! To jest oficjalna dokumentacja Pythona 3.13.1."

The Python docs are now officially available in Polish! 🚀

https://docs.python.org/pl/3/

Thanks to Maciej Olko and Stan Ulbrych and indeed all the translation teams! If you want to help with an existing translation, or even start a new one, please see https://devguide.python.org/documentation/translating/

[#]Python #docs #Polish #polski

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-29 at 20:57

@philgyford And some more!

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-29 at 20:56

@philgyford Here's a #CrazyWall from Inside No. 9, S07 E03 "Nine Lives Kat"

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-28 at 20:48

This is a fascinating #38C3 talk about how generative AIs coined the word "arafed" when describing images, how real people use it to make AI images look "better", other real people try hard to scrub the word, and which model is responsible for coining it and words such as araffe, arafficial, araful, arafly, arafective.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/arafed-futures-an-artist-dialogue-on-chip-storage-and-ai-accelerationism/

Video here, the "arafed" bit starts at 37m 50s:

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-arafed-futures-an-artist-dialogue-on-chip-storage-and-ai-accelerationism

cc @simon

[#]arafed #etymology #AI #LLM #wotd

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-26 at 19:54

@jessesheidlower The missing text:

"... mission from The Boss , to slow up man's hectic rushing around . The result is al- together happy . " Lust " is a powerful serio - comic drama of bittersweet adolescent love and full- blown adult passion - with a hint of the destruction unrestrained appetite may bring an innocent bystander . " Envy , " based on a story by Colette , is a deliciously witty tale of a young wife . consumed with envy of her painter - hus- band's aristocratic cat ..."

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-26 at 19:52

@jessesheidlower Regarding the 'Further Antedating of "Sci-Fi"' on ADS-L, I've excavated most of the page in question.

The top six snippets are contiguous, as are the last two.

I couldn't get the image to join the cite to the date, but found the text in between (see next toot).

But we get the full text for the "scifi-drama" review (and a couple of "scifiads") for the Magnetic Monster (US release Feb 18, 1953). Other films Split Second (May 2, 1953) and Seven Deadly Sins (May 13, 1953).

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-23 at 22:07

I also made a ridiculous 4,000-page dictionary of the not-a-words for #NaNoGenMo complete with definitions sourced from @wordnik and with the original citations :)

https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/90

HTML: https://hugovk.github.io/lexiconstruct/a-dictionary-of-not-a-words.html

PDF: https://hugovk.github.io/lexiconstruct/a-dictionary-of-not-a-words.pdf

But go and check out https://wordnik.com/ and adopt your own word!

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-23 at 22:02

I was going to share this @grammargirl podcast anyway because of the brilliant @emckean and the wonderful @wordnik but:

"ERIN: We had a couple of people who set up some little automated scripts that looked at Twitter, and anytime someone said "that's not a word" on Twitter, it added it to a list, and these lists got huge. And the lists were really entertaining, but technically they were difficult for us to maintain and load."

erm, sorry! 😅

https://wordnik.com/lists/twitter-isnots

[#]words

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-20 at 18:41

🐍🇳🇱 Pythonistas of #Leiden and #Amsterdam! There's a new #Python user group starting up in in Leiden! Follow @pythonleiden and check out https://pythonleiden.nl!

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