>Thats why RedHat is a business. They're not selling Linux, they're selling the reliability, longevity, services, support etc.
>In truth the license doesn't matter.
It's funny to bring that up in the context of Red Hat who have started to circumvent the GPL by terminating their relationship with anyone who tries to actually make use of the rights granted by it. "The license doesn't matter" because they've found a loophole in it, but it clearly does matter in that they had to do so in the first place and weren't able to adhere to its spirit due to business concerns.
>Starting things and not finishing them is just... The default.
Exactly what I was going to write. I don't need a manifesto telling me to do this, this is what I do naturally unless I force myself to stick with something.
If anything, the "finish rarely [NOT never!]" bit is what needs emphasizing, yet the entire page is about the "start often" bit instead.
Not just considered in PEP 722 - the uv feature is just an implementation of PEP 723 [1] (PEP 722's successor/competitor), which was accepted. Other tools like pipx support it as well.
CPython doesn't, but there is Mypyc [1] which compiles statically typed Python to faster C extensions leveraging the type information. As usual, this comes with tons of limitations [2]
Germany already has a grassroots, volunteer-run network of free WiFi hotspots called Freifunk [1], which has pretty decent coverage in a lot of the larger cities. I'm sure similar initiatives exist in other EU countries.
Does Wifi4EU leverage this in any way? Nope, there is no way for volunteer-run networks to get included in the app [2]. Instead, it looks like municipalities have to apply for Wifi4EU funding (which they currently can't because "The next call has not been announced."), set up brand new hotspots themselves, and only then are eligible for inclusion in the app's database. [3]
Volunteer-run infrastructure is fine, but you cannot rely on it. Can you really blame a volunteer if things break? No. They will hopefully fix it on they own time and dime, and that's good.
Volunteer-managed infrastructure is a courtesy. The fact that it's been reliable so far is no indicator of future reliability.
EU-driven initiative on the other hand supplies funds (15'000 euros, for proper hardware, maintenance and replacement parts) and uniformity: users in spain will have to go through the same procedures and configurations whether they are in italy, spain, germany, france or any other eu member state (does freifunk does the same?)
I don't think it would've been very difficult to include volunteer networks in the database and allow users the option to fall back on them if an EU-funded network is not available (including a warning about potential eavesdropping on unencrypted communications).
> users in spain will have to go through the same procedures and configurations whether they are in italy, spain, germany, france or any other eu member state
"The same procedures", really?
Can you use a wifi hotspot anonymously in Italy? I mean completely without the need to authenticate or provide a mobile number to receive one-time SMS code...
I know for certain you can in Germany. Join the hotspot, tick a box to accept the T&Cs, off you go....
You should if the network is supposed to be anonymous. Though Spanish law, for example, AFAIK requires you to identify customers if you're acting as an ISP (which you are when you offer internet services) or you could be liable for illicit activity. Wonder how this works, since I assume the liability would fall under the public entity who provides the service, not the company installing it.
There have been projects like this in the past. At least in some parts of Europe, they worked just for the minimum mandated period at the minimum mandated speeds. And the equipment bought was marked up heavily.
And looking at the prices for enterprise grade WiFi these days... 15K EUR goes very little.
I can't disclose many details, but at the company I work at they did some Wifi4EU installs, and use Ubiquiti hardware, without noticeable reliability issues. Installs do have more APs usually, like for public buildings, libraries... But usually no more than ten. Can be handled with one UniFi Controller and a few APs, so no worries.
I once lived in the area where one of the Freifunk core contributors lives (Mannheim / Heidelberg / Karlsruhe / Rhein-Neckar Region). For years we also talked to the municipalities and the mayors of towns around the area, especially the smaller ones that had troubles getting their internet connections and bandwidths beyond 768kBit/s because they were ignored by ISPs and are kind of the best case for mesh networks.
But, as the saying goes, with the incompetent conservatives (CDU) there's no limit on how they waste tax money. If there is a friend of them doing something for more expensive, it's getting bought; because cheaper means always worse, right? Right?
For example, in a small town with around 20k citizens, they spend more than 50k EUR per year for two Wi-Fi spots near the local library, and those are "maintained" by an energy company. They also had to buy those access points for an initial sum of 20k EUR per access point, because they were very special and integrated in the street lights (not kidding you).
Network speeds are less than 10Mbit/s. For that amount of money per year, you could've easily gotten a fibre connection to the library building (which also has less than 10Mbit/s internet connection, so they are kinda fucked once more than 5 people use the internet there).
The moral of the story is somewhat that it's so ridiculous how incompetent politicians are when it comes to tech.
I'm kind of glad that this is an EU-driven project that's delegated top-down, because that means those incompetent politicians have no excuse to buy overly expensive tech stuff from their golf buddies anymore.
Though Wifi4EU's website doesn't seem to have any clear indication on expected speeds of the networks they offer? Further, their selection criteria includes things like the historic value of the municipality rather than actual unmet demand or something connected to user desires.
> The moral of the story is somewhat that it's so ridiculous how incompetent politicians are when it comes to tech.
"Incompetent"...
Everything within Europe and especially within EU runs on corruption. You're either a parasite or a host if you live in Europe. Reap that juicy corruption money by befriending people with influence or pay the salaries and luxurious lifestyles of the people who do with your taxes.
The EU just throws too much money around without checking.
I've seen whole parks being built with a huge sign saying funded by the EU but they never opened or even built an entrance to it. Because that would mean maintenance and the subsidy had already been cashed.
I don't think it's corruption per se on the part of the EU (it is on the builders' part of course). But rather a lack of interest in how the money is spent.
I saw an asphalted road on the mountain ridge, along the E-3 hiking route, in a national reserve territory, with a EU funding sign saying that it was built "for the benefit of the local species".
The road leads to a chalet, and the only one who it benefits is the chalet's owner, making it easier for his drunkard customers to drive right to it on the weekends, with zero walking involved.
Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or corruption plays in.
The point is that the EU funders of course know this and turn a blind eye in order to keep the people in power in the regions supporting the EU. It's just how it has always been in Europe with vassals. Feudalism has always been the government of the old world, and will always be, and the people will always love it. Now get back to work so you can afford your rent or your mortgage. Funny how most all the ancestors of Europeans worked their whole life to pay the mortgage, yet it's still not paid!
That is difficult to disagree with when I see this:
> The suburb of Budapest has built a luxurious kindergarten that suspiciously looks like a private residence - with €550K of EU money. It doesn't accept any children.
When they throw hundreds of thousands of Euros around, without having the competence for spending a fraction of that for checking that it is used as intended, then they shouldn't have that ability.
Yet users will use whatever is available. E.g. people routinely send SMS with sensitive data, even though SMS is probably the least trustworthy channel.
They can only help that by securing the equipment and networks. Telling public "don't trust these because foreign hackers" is not going to do much.
Correlating sizes of data sent/received and precision timestamps is already huge intelligence. And the more entry/exit points you can tap on -- the better it becomes.
>The upside seems to be some mythical infinite scalability which will collapse under such positive feedback loops.
Unless I misunderstand something here, they say pretty early in the article that they didn't have autoscaling configured for the service in question and there is no indication they scaled up the number of replicas manually after the downtime to account for the accumulated backlog of requests. So, in my mind, of course there can be no infinite, or really any, scalability if the service isn't allowed to scale...
I’ve seen monumental engineering effort go into managing systems because for one reason or another people refused to use (or properly configure) autoscaling.
Yeah, there `sed` and `git diff` with one or more filenames in a variable might do.
Because pytest requires a preprocessing step, renaming fixtures is tough, and also for jupyter notebooks %%ipytest is necessary to call functions that start with test_ and upgrade assert keywords to expressions; e.g
`assert a == b, error_expr` is preprocessed into `assertEqual(a,b, error_expr)` with an AssertionError message even for comparisons of large lists and strings.
In PyCharm: Move cursor on any occurence or definition of "database" fixture, press the "Rename" hotkey (Shift+F6), delete old name and type new name, press Enter key to confirm.
A single fixture, yes. If there are many fixtures of the same name in different test modules, it wouldn't work, but that's not how I understood the problem in the blog post, which says
>rename every instance of a pytest fixture from database -> db
Every instance of a fixture, not every instance of all fixtures of the same name.
PyCharm understands pytest fixtures and if this is really just about a single fixture called "database", it takes 3 seconds to do this refactoring by just renaming it.
>In truth the license doesn't matter.
It's funny to bring that up in the context of Red Hat who have started to circumvent the GPL by terminating their relationship with anyone who tries to actually make use of the rights granted by it. "The license doesn't matter" because they've found a loophole in it, but it clearly does matter in that they had to do so in the first place and weren't able to adhere to its spirit due to business concerns.
[1]: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...
[2]: https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-08-redhat-gets-around...