Der Rohmilch-Trend: Wenn man Social-Media plötzlich eher glaubt als wissenschaftlichen Institutionen, dann endet das oft mit Bauchschmerzen. In mehrfacher Hinsicht.
Meine dieswöchige futurezone-Kolumne:
https://futurezone.at/meinung/florian-aigner-kolumne-wissenschaft-milch-rohmilch-trend-gefaehrlich-gesundheit-schaedlich/402904204
With #Microsoft doing stuff like #Recall, I see a lot of folks say, "that's it! I'm switching to #Linux!"
As someone who a) made the switch two decades ago and b) is not a computer scientist, I say: the switch is feasible!
I wrote up a little tip sheet for academics considering the switch, though it might be useful for others:
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/05/24/fald.html
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You may have heard that WordPress is now federated with Mastodon. What does this all mean?
Well, very simply, people with WordPress blogs can now automatically publish their new posts to a Fediverse address where they are available to Mastodon.
Here's an explainer: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/understanding-mastodon-federation-wordpress-fediblogs/
As an example, if you follow this address: @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com
...you will see all new posts from https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/ in your feed.
@elduvelle_neuro Not ephys, but similar problem with imaging data. Here's what I've seen working previously in an academic setting:
Solution 1: If mainly working with the data on a single workstation, you could consider buying a NAS (e.g. 8-bay like this: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-832x) and attaching it to the WS via 10Gbit ethernet. With 8x 16TB drives you get ca 100 TB useable space and some redundancy (no backup though). Ca 3k€ retail price IIRC. Fast + reliable as you can hot-swap failing drives.
This!
A NAS is the best obvious solution. But it must be properly backed up. Even if it is a RAID array.
@elduvelle_neuro
NAS for sure :) here I just made my notes on ours public:
https://wiki.aharoni-lab.com/Seedbank
Not well organized as a guide, and a lot of the stuff is mysteriously badly documented, but once you cut through that its reasonable to DIY. Lots of links to other guides at the bottom.
That machine has 30x 16.38TB drives = ~490TB total storage. Cut that in half for drive redundancy and half again for backups. Ideally you would have two of those for backups in two different places, but thats another story.
I can walk ya through the ZFS part, and once you get that it basically appears as one humongous hard drive that you can rsync to as normal/mount as a network drive on your local machine/etc. If youre interested it would be a reasonably good excuse to sit down and organize a guide.
reklame
es wäre absolut nachvollziehbar diesem meinem text vorzuwerfen dass er nicht weit genug geht und nur an der oberfläche kratzt. ich habe versucht einen großen bogen zu zeichnen in der hoffnung damit auch leute zu erreichen die dem thema eher aus dem weg gehen.
So many things, big and small have become enshittified and it can feel pretty overwhelming imagining doing anything about it.
So I decided to start disenshittifying (@pluralistic's term) stuff one small step at a time.
Starting with a QR code creator and a password generator. No ads, no tracking, no shit.
And I encourage anyone to join in, or make suggestions!
🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI
OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from.
Read all about it here 👇
https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it
Multi-Tasking with Multi-Channel LED Illumination
Check out our sponsored post from CoolLED on how their latest LED system, the pE-800, can be used for a wide range of applications including FRET, optogenetics and calcium imaging.
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/13/working-smarter-with-leds-and-optical-filters-for-widefield-fluorescence/
@flarion Bleibt die Frage: Sind Professoren, die nie selbst in der Industrie gearbeitet haben, wirklich qualifiziert, Postdocs für die Industrie zu befähigen? Nein. In der Regel muss das der Postdoc selbst erledigen, indem sie sich nützliche skills beibringt u. über den Tellerrand schaut. Das alles neben den Anforderungen der Wissenschaft. Das neue #WissZeitVG zwingt Unis nicht, zu entfristen. Resultat: Noch mehr Verheizung, Verschrottung von #postdocs. Also aufpassen, daß nix im #burnout endet.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
Also interesting for the parade of misinformation artists and useful idiots.
If your door doesn't have a sign like this, do you even science, bro?!
Get it from my store: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1412779927/everything-will-kill-you-funny-metal
*once again, I stand here as a small business owner and ask you to boost my shenanigans so that I may afford food and shelter.
The work is never just “the work” : A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation by Dave Stewart
davestewart.co.uk
https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/
When you download an academic paper in PDF form (from say, arXiV), how do you decide on the file name?
What matters to you? Full paper titles? "et al" author names? Publication date?
I'm never sure how to name these files...
#Academia #Research #Science #OpenScience #arXiv #Preprints #AcademicResearch
Eine sehr lehrreiche Woche in der Ukraine, die sich anfühlt wie ein Monat, ist jetzt vorbei. Ich war in Lwiw, Kyiv und Odessa. In Odessa gab es in der Nacht einen Angriff der Russen mit Shahed-Drohnen. Obwohl die meisten von der Flugabwehr abgeschossen werden konnten, traf eine Drohne ein Wohnhaus 12 km entfernt von meinem Hotel und tötete dort laut Berichten insgesamt 10 Menschen. Russland führt Krieg gegen Europa und nicht nur gegen die Ukraine. Wenn wir sie nicht stoppen, geht es so weiter.
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.