Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org

Gearing up to start a large new project and I'm seeking recommendations for an application that I can use to highlight/make notes on web pages / pdfs that are then saved and backed up in a way I can usefully review them later.

Ideally the app would be self-hosted, and also support highlighting/note taking on a not-exactly-modern Android device.

Invidious: "YouTube legal team contacted us" https://beehaw.org/post/474448

Why do I always backspace out of everything I typed when I think I typed a password wrong, when just submitting the wrong password would be faster in getting to the same place?

Assange Loses Appeal 2023-0708

We’re looking for African researchers keen to represent their community on our editorial board.

Does this sound like you? Apply to join our Board of Reviewing Editors! https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5b024d5b/elife-latest-applications-open-for-new-reviewing-editors-in-africa?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

The importance of 1 tree. 😉

If two-year-old Mohammad al-Tamimi was named Eric instead, would his killing by Israeli soldiers have been treated differently in the international media?

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/06/palestine-letter-how-do-i-tell-the-story/?utm_content=buffer7fc4b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

SCOTUS rules agains Amgen, 9-0. An important decision because Amgen wanted to enforce a patent on any monoclonal against a particular target (the PCSK9 receptor), which would have set a terrible precedent.

"This case does not involve those antibody-specific patents. Instead, it involves much broader patents Amgen obtained, which cover every antibody that binds to the same sweet spot and works the same way, a class that includes potentially millions of antibodies."

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-rules-invalid-amgens-patent-on-cholesterol-lowering-drug/

"Compared with other bacteria, #Salmonella, a facultative anaerobe, has higher motility and accumulation in tumors and a special advantage in targeting tumor quiescence, possibly via the chemoreceptors of Salmonella"

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00189-1

Alzheimer's went into the textbooks with n=2

Many of you might know (or not) that Alzheimer's disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who first reported that the brains of some patients with age-related dementia had "a peculiar substance" (which today we know as beta-amyloid plaques).

But did you know that he found that in exactly 2 patients that he studied before his boss put it in a 1910 textbook and coined it "Alzheimer's disease"? That substance could have been a complete coincidence! (And in that case, I guess we never would have heard about it again) ...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-disease/

انتظر وشاهد معظم الشركات التي تتسابق لركوب موجة الذكاء الاصطناعي AI، وبناء حلول دون فهم حقيقي للمشاكل، وفوضى العلامات التجارية التي تبني خدمات عديمة الفائدة، كل ذلك فقط من أجل أن يقولوا:
نحن نوفر خدمات مدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي

Cela fait 20 ans que les technophiles, les geeks et les auteurs de SF vous préviennent : tout comme l’écologie, protéger sa vie privée est un acte collectif. Si seule une minorité le fait, cette minorité est suspecte.

Utiliser Signal, installer Linux et critiquer les GAFAM sont devenus des comportements justifiant l’inculpation de… terrorisme. Rien que ça.

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/

(et ne dites pas qu’on ne vous a pas prévenus)

Atomic Wallet hacks total over $35 million

June 3, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=atomic-wallet-hacks-total-over-35-million

How to deal with spam emails.

Try not to be evil https://lemmy.one/post/10801

Une poubelle connecté parce que POURQUOI PAS ?

Lemmy l'alternativa del Fediverso a Reddit sta avendo il suo momento di gloria, ma serve l'aiuto di tutto il Fediverso per far si' che questo momento magico diventi l'inizio di una nuova era!

@fediverso

Le politiche di #Reddit sulle API a pagamento stanno provocando un piccolo esodo dei utenti verso quella che oggi è la sua alternativa più funzionale: #Lemmy.

In 48h l'istanza feddit.it ha avuto le iscrizioni di 2 mesi, ma ora bisogna far si' che quegli utenti restino. In che modo?
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Who owns Bluesky? What’s the role of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? What’s Bluesky’s business model? And what prevents another Elon Musk from buying and destroying it 10 years down the line?

@micahflee answers some of your Bluesky questions. https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-elon-musk/