Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

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My blue tick appears to have suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

I think that's how Elon would want me to say it.

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First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.

Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".

Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:

- https://pine64.com/
- https://beagleboard.org/
- http://www.orangepi.org/
- https://www.banana-pi.org/
- https://www.hardkernel.com/
- https://www.friendlyelec.com/

#Privacy #Security #SBC

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.

I am joining this action and have also resigned.

Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

Here's to 35 years of Totoro! Keep exploring and keep dreaming.

🌙☁️

Anime: My Neighbor Totoro (1988).

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #hayaomiyazaki #myneighbortotoro #totoro #tonarinototoro

Finally, I find it utterly mind-boggling that ready-made “GDPR-compliant/No EU data included” training data sets don’t seem to be a thing in Machine Learning. It’s such an obvious legal-compliance issue, with such a clear solution that it makes the entire field look _incredibly_ irresponsible.

Muffins
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#smbc #hiveworks #comics

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#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons

Python foundation slams pending EU cyber security rules

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/python_management_eu/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/python_management_eu/

#programming #python

I remember reading and doing exercises about ***determinants*** in high school.

The name was scary, and sadly not much context was given at the time. 😞

For a long time, I thought a *determinant* was just a value I had to blindly compute using a formula.

Here's what I would like know about *determinants* when I first started... 🧵

Both Peter Capaldi and Sylvester McCoy have been out on the picket lines supporting junior doctors. Doctors for doctors.

Via Dr Gordon Fletcher

Looks like #Codecov have not only deprecatred but completely deleted their #Python package from #PyPI:

https://pypi.org/project/codecov/ is 404

https://github.com/codecov/python-standard/issues/31

Alternatives:
https://github.com/codecov/uploader
https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action

Remember when the mantra was "write boring code"? Can we do that again? Seeing way too many efforts to bring unnecessary complexity to engineering.

Web browsers have had back buttons since the beginning of time. But we've spent like 15 years breaking and fixing and rebreaking their behavior to the point that it is now notable heck even delightful when they do anything remotely resembling their purpose.

the gaps between floats

I see a trip to Office Depot in my future. 😮🤓