barefootstache @barefootstache@qoto.org

Why does it take soooo long???
#academicpublishing #retractionwatch #academicchatter

‘All the red flags’: Scientific Reports retracts paper sleuths called out in open letter – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/11/11/all-the-red-flags-scientific-reports-retracts-paper-sleuths-called-out-in-open-letter/

We have all the tools needed to avoid the coming #ClimateCrisis. Don't let anyone tell you we can't or we shouldn't.

#ClimateAction

High-resolution of cancer. Unprecedented. A brief review of what we've just learned from 17 new papers in the latest edition of Ground Truths.
It's free, open-access.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/cancer-science-in-on-a-tear

i'm so glad the RISC-V vendor ecosystem has embraced reasonable and easy to remember extension names

Finally, maybe, it seems like the EU is waking up ... 🤔🇪🇺🐧

Sovereign OS "EU Linux"

https://lab.abilian.com/Tech/Linux/Sovereign%20OS%20-%20%22EU%20Linux%22

#linux #opensource #foss #oss #eu #europe

We all have this colleague
#cybersecurity

The internet of things

I tried to drive within the speed limit at all times however my main motivation for this is not because that's the law. It's simply because I like to see the faces of the irate drivers behind me getting all annoyed because I've made them slow down to the speed limit.

#ShitIFind #TimeMachine

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re doing a good job, you have a nice butt, and your enemies deserve to perish.

"Hard times are coming when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom-poets, visionaries-realists of a
larger reality." - Ursula Le Guin

#humor #foundontheinternet #genalpha #skibidi #toilet

I really need to get around to publishing my "#Microsoft are bad landlords" post where I rip into them for doing absolutely nothing with #npm to make it more secure (and also owning VSCode, GitHub and all the other tools that make supply-chain attacks easy)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/javascript-developers-targeted-by-hundreds-of-malicious-code-libraries/#comments

Right now, here is the real problem - all the major cloud vendors are US companies.

Even with data centres in Europe, these companies will be complicit in whats coming - like IBM of the 1940's - they will enable Project 2025 to fulfil it's needs through technology.

They've set the whole system up so their is no choice, and Europe has been absolutely useless in setting up anything independent of this.

Prototype Fund is going on!
We can now officially confirm that we‘re continuing to fund #OpenSource software projects over the next 4 years.
While some things will stay the same, we‘ve also changed a lot: There’s more money for teams, new funding sums and scope. You can apply as an European team as long as one of you lives in Germany and there‘s also no need to (AI) translate your applications anymore, as they are accepted in English too.
More in our blog:
https://prototypefund.de/en/the-prototype-fund-is-going-strong/

Smart TVs use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to track what’s on screen—shows, ads, movies—and build user profiles. Opting out can stop ACR data traffic, though privacy settings are often hidden. Do you trust your TV? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203v1

#ReligionIsPoison