Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

#whataweekhuh

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815.

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~.

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

A blazing skull screams in X-ray at the heart of the Perseus Cluster.

Image: A. Fabian (IoA Cambridge) et al., NASA

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001031.html

A #Halloween cartoon for New Scientist

#Ruff has shipped their Black-compatible formatter to beta and declared it ready for production use: https://astral.sh/blog/the-ruff-formatter

They re-sent the “LOGIN” message an hour later, establishing a connection between UCLA and Stanford.

So technically the first three characters transmitted over what would become the internet were “LOL.”

PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) acceptance

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython-acceptance

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython-acceptance

#programming #python

Last year we released a statement in which we said we will continue “to monitor changes at Twitter in conjunction with internal discussions about whether our presence on the platform will continue.”

We now announce that as of today, 20 October 2023, all our #socialmedia engagements will be from this Mastodon account, as well as LinkedIn and YouTube, and none from our 5 #Twitter / X accounts.

Find out about these changes and more here: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/10/announcing-the-carpentries-departure-from-x-and-facebook/

#Carpentries #CarpentriesCommunity

Illusion
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/illusion
Early comics here: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics

The Unix Game

https://unixgame.io/unix50

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://unixgame.io/unix50

#commandline #education #programming #unix

I wrote about my first two months on Mastodon. I was a Mastodon hater because I thought it would be weird, complicated, or dead. It's been none of those things.

I'm ashamed I didn't join earlier and I'm ashamed I haven't been telling people to join it, because it's a version of the internet and social media I've long advocated for with my reporting: decentralized, portable, user controlled, not corporate:

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

I have no issues whatsoever with people wanting to be on Bluesky; in fact, if it hastens the demise of Twitter/X which now seems beyond repair, I’m personally all for it- as far as politics, cat pictures, thoughts on the world in general etc are concerned

but I don’t understand how moving *science discourse* to a for profit, invite only, platform is in any way compatible with the goals of open science and science reform.

am I missing something?

i feel this in my bones this in my bones, via @nctrost

Spotted on https://suppo.fi/post/430093

#Firefox #InfoSec

Given how often ML models will periodically just spit out their training data verbatim, you should assume that anything you've put into Dropbox is something somebody else might see, whether that's a problem for you or not.

https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-ai

Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet eat just entered the fediverse. You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/