Yeah, it’s bad. Surprised they’re still serving that crap in their own bundle but i guess some things don’t change.

Filezilla is no relation to mozilla. But yeah i moved away from it years ago. The general recommendation I’ve seen is “anything but filezilla”. Personally i use winscp for windows, and will have to figure out what to use when i switch my daily driver to Linux.

They have bundled malware from the main downloads on their own site multiple times over the years, and even denied it and tried gaslighting people that AVs were giving false positives because AV companies are paid off by other corporations. And the admin will even try to delete the threads about this stuff but web archive to the rescue…

https://web.archive.org/web/20180623190412/https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=48441#p161487

This gives some better context. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553327/why-is-except-pass-a-bad-programming-practice

But essentially ignoring every single error a program could generate is not great. It’d be better to know what those errors are and fix/prevent them from occurring in the first place.

I wish there was one about vegan pizza 69 though

So i recently learned that counting cards isn’t illegal-- its just that casinos will kick you out for counting cards. I’m sure that’s obvious to some people, but it was new to me. what i find interesting is that you can play a perfect game counting cards and still have a smaller chance of profit than the casino gets against normal people, yet they’ll treat you like you’re doing something illegal?

Fuck casinos, especially online ones.

Still a decent post to raise awareness about vendor lock in i guess

Given the timing i suspect this was the article that drove the change. It was shared quite a bit over past few weeks.

It’s the version from when you paid your annual subscription (or 12 monthly payments ago) plus any bugfixes.

So you buy 4.3.2 and you will always have access to 4.3.Z

2 months later they release 5.0.0. Your subscription let’s you use 5.0.0. If you cancel your subscription then can go back to your perpetual version 4.3.Z

At least that’s how it’s supposed to work

Basically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.

My team lead: “I’ll 🙈 review”

Idk about self study workbooks, but i used cs50p.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/ Free lectures from harvard’s David Malan, there are problem sets to work through which let you test your answers, and a free certificate at the end if you care for that.

I know not quite what you asked for, but thought id share in case it sounds interesting. I found the lectures very engaging and the problem sets were great way to practice what is being taught

My general dev experience is limited mostly to python but with pandas one thing you can do is set up a jupyter notebook so you can run just the parts you want until it’s working as expected, then you can move it over to your python script when you’re ready.

But working with pandas does get easier with practice. If you’re wanting to dive in a bit more, the “getting started” page has a tutorials section which features a 10 minute high level overview, a cheatsheet, and link to some community tutorials.