Jhagas Hana Winaya @jhagas@qoto.org

"Police are warning students and universities not to access Sci-Hub, an "illegal website" that allows users to download scientific research papers normally locked behind expensive subscriptions."

Very bad indeed. That name again: Sci-Hub. Remember it so you can avoid it. Ahem.

After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.

Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

https://github.com/cselab/aphros/wiki/Aphros-Explorer
Gallery of interactive fluid simulations. They are configured with plain text, run in the browser, and can be easily shared
#CFD #WebAssembly #fluiddynamics

Audacity v3.0.0 has been released! Looks like a great upgrade for that free audio-editing software I love so very very much. ​

Get it: https://audacityteam.org/download/

Release notes: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_3.0.0

New features: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html

2021-03-14, 16:45, Sunday

You know what would be cool? If governments or political parties flexed not just their programs and ideologies, but their resources in terms of mathematicians and supercomputers. Hey, we can run these supercomplex simulations instead of blindly picking whatever looks like a decent option! Would save some trouble for average folk that faces the consequences of the decisions made by politics. Not a solution to all the problems, but it would be nice.

Hi everyone @Science !

I'm in the process of writing (and hopefully aggregating contributions for) short scripts to help academics/researchers do various things more effectively. This is still very much in its infancy, but considering how often I tend to automate things, I expect it to grow at a pretty steady pace.

Current examples include short API wrappers to query different journals for given search terms and date ranges to pull pdfs directly, and a modular RSS helper to redirect to papers directly from your feeds. I'm currently working on scripts for remote cluster execution, traversing and executing code on git experimental branches and more!

I've started a repo here https://github.com/johnabs/ASR, and if anybody has ideas for scripts that researchers could use to help with their workflow, that would be awesome, and it would be great if people are willing to contribute.
#Science #research #coding #automation

Water electrolysis in your web browser. Interactive real-time chemistry and fluids.
https://cselab.github.io/aphros/wasm/electrochem.html
#simulation #chemistry #cplusplus #webassembly

how most #blockchain tech is described
vs
how the apps actually work

For all the talk of tolerance and diversity conformity of thought is rigourously enforced in the mainstream.

It's only taken a few hours on Mastodon to appreciate once again how heterogeneous people's views really are.

Tradition of removing shoes in home. Green: shoes removed; Blue: shoes not removed.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/176735487615/world-map-of-tradition-of-removing-shoes-in-home

#fedorahints #fedora #linux

How to make a gif file from video file?

As simple as it never was.

Open terminal app, install ffmpeg:
sudo dnf install ffmpeg

then:
ffmpeg -i input_video_file output.gif

We're using low-cost speaker technology to restore Australia's most threatened marine ecosystem 🔊 🌊

Can you guess what it is?
Learn more here:
https://blog.ausocean.org/2020/06/how-the-sounds-of-the-ocean-help-oysters-select-their-home.html

#technology #opensource #marinerestoration

South Australia is home to the worlds only known giant cuttlefish aggregation. Or, as we like to call it - Natures biggest orgy 💙

Read more here: Beneath the Waves at South Australia's Giant Cuttlefish Marine Spectacle https://bit.ly/3tBJXLT

#cuttlefish #cephalopods #orgy