35 mins till Debian gaming conference 2020
https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org
How to decrease likelihood of experiencing illusions of correlation or causality:
Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00888/full
Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelated.
We cannot think of a better safeguard against the illusions of causality than scientific thinking, which involves skepticism, doubt, and rigorously applying scientific methods, particularly the experimental approach.
I can’t seem to find any way to get a flu shot for my 2 year old without going to a pediatrician (we don’t have a pediatrician in the area yet, since we recently moved). Pediatricians won’t give the shot unless you are a patient, CVS won’t do it, urgent care doesn’t do vaccines.
This seems less than advisable for a public health measure. I’d think that for something like preventing a kid from being a vector for a deadly disease, you’d want as little bureaucracy as possible. 😕
"Dear #Singapore, You Can’t Welcome Talented #LGBTQ+ Tech Folks and Deny Them Queer Rights"
Both the hardware and software design is focused on respecting the end user’s freedom and giving them control over their privacy and security.
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-mass-production-phone-has-begun-shipping/
I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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Just finished speaking at Chicago’s #python meetup Chipy.
One nice thing about virtual meetups — no waiting for the video to be processed and released!
Stream from my ChiPy talk is already up. Full meetup: https://youtu.be/8JFUgAJLoQE
My talk starts at ~41:53: https://youtu.be/8JFUgAJLoQE?t=2513
Slides: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/chipy-nov-2020-zoneinfo
📅 International Effective Giving Day 🌐
A free online #event giving you the chance to hear from some of the world's most eminent thinkers in #EffectiveAltruism. Keynote address: Nobel Laureate Professor #MichaelKremer. Supported by the world’s leading organizations in effective philanthropy and charity evaluation. Also featuring: Johannes Ackva (Climate Lead Founders Pledge), Leah Edgerton (Executive Director Animal Charity Evaluators), Neil Buddy Shah (Managing Director, #GiveWell).
Nov 30 2020 @ 18:45 CET
https://effectivegivingday.org/
'A nosa prioridade non é Madrid-Lisboa, é Lisboa-Porto-Vigo', di o Goberno portugués https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/social/nosa-prioridade-non-madrid-lisboa-lisboa-porto-vigo-di-goberno-portugues/20201025170950107605.html #nósdiario #galiza
“Sr. Feixoo: combata o virus e non o galego”: chamada nas redes a desmentir as afirmacións do presidente da Xunta https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/lingua/sr-feixoo-combata-virus-non-galego-chamada-nas-redes-desmentir-afirmacions-do-presidente-da-xunta/20201109114518108554.html #nósdiario #galiza
Fran Alonso suma-se à reclamaçom de 2021 para Carvalho Calero https://pgl.gal/fran-alonso-tambem-se-suma-a-reclamacom-de-2021-para-carvalho-calero/ #pgl #galiza
New life for XMPP. Build your own decentralized messenger!
The idea of building decentralized messenger run by users, not corporations, is not new. But the process of building it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time. But what if we take the old good XMPP protocol, which has everything already implemented for us?
#i2p #i2pd #xmpp #federation #decentralization #p2p #privacy https://i2p.rocks/blog/new-life-for-xmpp-build-your-own-decentralized-messenger.html
Corker of a line from https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic01.html
“And the story of computation has been about the evolution of this very novel and peculiar form of human expression we call code. I suspect being a programmer in the 21st century must be like what being a royal scribe was like in Ancient Egypt in 3200 BCE. There’s this new modality of communication that most of the population is unaware of, yet it’s existence simultaneously enables commerce, culture and civilization to flourish.”
Kids, please use #Linux (or *BSD).
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it.
[Book] Evidence-based software engineering
From the book itself:
This book discusses what is currently known about software engineering based on an analysis of all publicly available software engineering data. This aim is not as ambitious as it sounds because there is not a lot of data publicly available.
The analysis is like a join-the-dots puzzle, except that the 600+ dots are not numbered,some of them are actually specs of dust, and many dots are likely to be missing. The wayforward is to join the dots to build an understanding of the processes involved in buildingand maintaining software systems; work is also needed to replicate some of the dots toconfirm that they are not specs of dust, and to discover missing dots.
Basically drug gangs and academia are both able to attract young members to low paying difficult jobs with the prospect of possible future high paying jobs
Dreamer | Adventure seeker | Serious thinker | Galego