Seth Larson

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:python: Security, Fellow @ThePSF 🐍 Trans rights, BLM, Minnesoootan, he/him https://sethmlarson.dev [bridged from https://fosstodon.org/@sethmlarson on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

Table showing Pikmin 2 treasures, regions, and areas along with collected datetimes. Some of the treasures have been collected, some haven't yet been collected.

NTSC disk is all lime green where the JP disk is yellow and dark green in two halves.

William Woodruff giving a talk "Attestations a new generation of signatures on PyPI"

A mirror surrounded by the words "You are the future of Python packaging"

Seth jumping like a plumber at a question mark block with a pixelated retro gaming style.

Seth and Mike hacking in the PyCon rooftop track

Table of security events at PyCon US with room numbers and times. Click into the link for the full list with content.

PyCon US sign outside the convention center next to Liberty Ave street sign

Croissant on a red decorative plate with sunrays scattered across the edges.

Animal Crossing character set in a table being mapped to Unicode characters on a web page.

Single maple bacon donut on a yellow detailed plate

A graph showing "diversity of mediums" being high in the past and then all converging to "TikTok" as time goes on.

Pastry on a plate! Not a donut unfortunately

Wall of donuts including holes, raised glazed, and what I purchased: two brown butter glazed

Seth and Justin smiling with two bags of Bogarts Donuts

Slowly spinning chocolate Oreo cookie that looks like a record. In the center are the words "OREO" and "POST".

Google Cloud "unsubscribe from emails" form with "Unsubscribe from all" selected. Hit the submit button to the next screen.

This Reddit comment thread from the GameCube subreddit was the initial inspiration for this entire series. The post is about someone's niece who just started playing Animal Crossing for the first time. The Redditor asked folks to send items to their nieces' town using the secret code system.

This ended up surprising many folks that this system still worked in a game that was over 23 years old! For reference, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and Nintendo Network were only available for 8 and 13 years respectively. Below are a handful of the comments from the thread.

Email from PyPI reading:

" A Trusted Publisher for project truststore was just used from a CI/CD job configured with a GitHub environment. The environment used was: Deploy.

Since the Trusted Publisher is configured to allow any environment, for security reasons we recommend constraining it to only one.

If you are an owner of this project, you can automatically constrain this Trusted Publisher to 'Deploy' by following this link: constrain publisher.

Alternatively, you can do this manually by going to the project's publishing settings, deleting the existing Trusted Publisher and creating a new one with the environment set to 'Deploy'."

Email from GitHub reading:

Hi there,

Thank you for renewing your free access to GitHub Copilot. Your access to GitHub Copilot will be reviewed on 2025-03-07. GitHub Copilot checks eligibility monthly per our policy. No steps are needed on your end.

We hope you enjoy using GitHub Copilot and participating in the developer community.

Two graphs showing a centralized client-server-client connection model, one where users are on the same local network and other where they are not. An insert for Animal Crossing showing GameBoy Advance connectivity is shown. The text of the blog post excerpt reads:

With this model users not in the same local network can send data to each other. This was revolutionary and no-doubt connected millions of people across the world.

But what if users are on the same network? What if the internet isn't available? Or what if the server is taken offline?

In these scenarios users can't connect even if they share the same local network because the software was designed to require an intermediary.

Seth taking a selfie with a stack of Gochujung Spam crates in the background

Error message showing Safari not able to open a page.

Hotpot, KBBQ, and Korean seafood soup

GitHub Copilot Individual is active for your account, but I can't disable it no matter how I try.

Spreadsheet showing a list of web creators along with balances of $0.25. Budget per month is $30.

Unstyled HTML tables and buttons showing a web content creator payment bookkeeping tool

Solitaire E-Reader card posing in front of an Nintendo E-Reader. The game is playing on a yellow Analogue Pocket nearby.

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

Twitter landing page with the "official website of the United States government" banner at the top. This image is not real, meant to be satirical.

Twitter landing page with the standard "official website of the United States government" at the top. This image is not real, edited as satire.

Nintendo e-Reader sticking vertically out of a GB Operator on a laptop track pad.

Jimmy John's pickle-wich which substitutes the bread for a gigantic pickle that's been hollowed out and filled with sandwich fillings. We went with the "Vito" which is an italian sub sandwich configuration.

GitHub Universe presentation showing Python as top language used on GitHub

Seth and Nik Everett waving at the camera in front of the Elastic booth

Sleeve of stickers with the "urllib3" stylized name including a red, yellow, and green "L", "L", and "I". These stickers were printed using Sticker Ninja!