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Charly Coste 🇫🇷

@Changaco.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy

Founder and maintainer of the open source crowdfunding platform Liberapay. I'm interested in too many things, including politics, economics, history, physics and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.cloud/@Changaco, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Charly Coste 🇫🇷 @changaco.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

If like me you still use #Firefox and you find the new way of selecting a search engine in the URL bar to be annoyingly inefficient, you can get the old way back by toggling the browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride setting to false.

Screenshot of a Firefox window with the Advanced Preferences (about:config) page opened in its only tab, showing the browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride setting toggled to false.

Screenshot of a Firefox window showing the result of typing a random word in the URL bar when the browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride setting is toggled to false.

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Charly Coste 🇫🇷 @changaco.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

I've just published a new Python module: github.com/Changaco/python-memory-i… It's an interesting little tool that tries to find all the Python objects in memory and compiles statistics on them. Did you know that Python creates quite a few […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

Screenshot of the top of an HTML page generated by the memory_inventory module, containing a table listing the classes that could be optimized by giving them slots. The third and sixth rows of the table are for “classmethod” and “staticmethod”, two builtins usually called as decorators.

Screenshot of the top of another HTML page generated by the memory_inventory module, containing a table listing strings that appear multiple times in memory. The first string in the table mentions PEP 585. Its 44 duplicates waste 6.38 kilobytes of RAM. The second string is “encodings”. Its 122 duplicates waste 6.1 kilobytes of RAM.

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