Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

Zur Erinnerung
Anlässlich der Kampagne der #niemehrCDUCSU gegen das #Heizungsgesetz Robert #Habeck haben viele Leute Gasheizungen gekauft, sogar @derspiegel schloss sich an und titelte Kritik, jetzt rudert #Merz zurück und bedauert...
#Habeck4Kanzler💚

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against Google for tricking Chrome users into ad tracking!

👉 Google's so-called Privacy Sandbox is presented as a privacy feature. But when users enable it, they are unknowingly consenting to online tracking.

More details:
https://noyb.eu/en/google-sandbox-online-tracking-instead-privacy

The 2nd edition of the Berlin Single Molecule Biophysics Course will be held this september. We will charge a fee for external participants but waivers and bursaries should be available if needed. Please retoot!

#biophysics #ionchannels #physiology #TIRF

https://www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/en/groupsites/cellbp/berlin-smb-course

Der vorläufige Wahlsieger der Europawahl heißt Putin.

🚨 noyb has filed 11 complaints against Meta to prevent the abuse of people's personal data for Artificial Intelligence!

👉 We urgently request the data protection authorities to launch an urgency procedure and immediately stop the company's move!

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-urges-11-dpas-immediately-stop-metas-abuse-personal-data-ai

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

👁 - 5 Dinge, die Beamte tun können, wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt - mit Arne Semsrott von @fragdenstaat:

Idee für ein Talkshow-Format:

Jede Woche wird ein Gast aus dem Ausland eingeladen, der uns in DE erklärt, wie in seinem Land das funktioniert, was bei uns angeblich unmöglich ist:

Zum Beispiel:

• Ein Gast aus NORWEGEN, der 90% E-Autos bei Neuwagen erklärt.
• Ein Gast aus HOLLAND, der sichere Radwege & Tempo 100 erklärt.
• Ein Gast aus SCHWEDEN, der 50%-Anteil bei Wärmepumpen erklärt.
• Ein Gast aus DÄNEMARK, der ein Öl- und Gasheizungsverbot erklärt.

Via @Perowinger94

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.

@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.

https://taz.de/Massnahmen-in-Corona-Pandemie/!6005799/

Don't let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It's only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.

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!

https://deshittify.us/index.html

🚨 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/

Die Unterstellung, Wissenschaftler seien von der Pharmalobby/Illuminaten/dunklen Mächten "gekauft" könnte man ja als übertriebene aber rationale Vorsicht vor demokratisch nicht legitimierten Kräften sehen. Bis dieselben Leute Parteien voll ok finden, die von Moskau gekauft sind.

@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.