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ራስ ባሪያው Rass Bariaw

@Sundae_Gurl Stepan Bandera's slogan is Sláva Ukrayíni and Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian Nazi

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@mhoye

Much of the misunderstood danger is determined by the fact that we are used to selecting information and forgetting almost every unimportant detail; while a smartphone can store enough data to know the user better than themselves and whose predictive capabilities because of statistics exceed the imagination of the ordinary person.

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mhoye

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

#Browsers, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed. :rss:

It's long past-due!

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Sasha Rush

Named Tensor Notation (TMLR version)

A rigorous description, opinionated style guide, and gentle polemic for named tensors in math notation.

* Macros: ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/la

Named Tensor Notation is an attempt to define a mathematical notation with named axes. The central conceit is that deep learning is not linear algebra. And that by using linear algebra we leave many technical details ambiguous to readers.

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(λ. borkdude)

TIL: bb-excel: read Excel files in #babashka

github.com/kbosompem/bb-excel

#clojure

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Nicole van der Hoeven

For some people, the gap between drawing an idea and writing an idea is a technological one:
- All tools accept text input, but not many accept freeform drawings.
- Text is searchable.
- You can link to/from text.
- You can embed parts of text.

@zsviczian 's work on Obsidian Excalidraw addresses all four of those issues. I've been taking his Visual Thinking Workshop (ok, I'm still catching up) and it's got me rethinking how to bridge the gap: youtu.be/GqrczIftYyA

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(λ. borkdude)

The next version of #babashka will have up to 5x faster Java interop due to caching of reflective method lookup.

#clojure

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@ErrataRob

So you could replace all the mention of "conspiracy" with "corruption" in your article and posts and their meaning would remain the same?

Or maybe you've subconsciously tried to support your thesis by using "conspiracy" instead of "corruption" because maybe people are more inclined to dispute allegations of conspiracy instead of corruption?

Something like: let's frame this in a convenient way to oil the argument and make the conclusion seem foregone.

If you ask me, this surgical substitution of "corruption" for "conspiracy" has skyrocketed in recent years.

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@markmcelroy no problem ;-)

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@markmcelroy

Those are namespace though and like namespaces in coding they are meant for (content) disambiguation. Trying to use them to organize pages and tags hierachically is shooting yourself in the foots because it's a too much strict structure you can't modify later...

Check this write up on how namespace and other structures work in :

discuss.logseq.com/t/different

And here there is a proposal for implementing relations like parent/child between pages/tags:

discuss.logseq.com/t/specify-a

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@Bro666 @austinkocher @Mastodon

Or even better: everyone with its own domain like it was with blogs you can follow with RSS feeds.

Do you know what Mastodon did wrong? Too many users on instances that blocks entire other instances for ideological reasons and their users are not aware (or fooled into thinking their instance is kindly blocking "bigotry", "fascism" etc).

This is why the "United Federation of Instances" initiative recently started: ufoi.org/

To understand the size of this "war" between people fragmenting the Fediverse and people trying to stop this trend, be aware the a person from the latter side was harrassed by people from the former to the point of having a seizure when was messaged with the image of a man violently killing a woman and the text "kill yourself".

Is this whole thing worse than Twitter? If you consider the impact of Twitter on the whole society maybe no, but from a human point of view what these Mastodon pioneers did is much worse.

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@ErrataRob

Can you explain where the line between corruption and conspiracy is?

It seems that the latter category is used to delegitimize protests against the former when it suits on ideological/political basis.

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@rastinza and it's a giant set of tools that physicists have accumulated over the years championing inconsistency and bad practices (because developed directly by physicists and not by software engineers).

I don't know the situation now, but some time ago it was a problem to have this giant installed by those who had to do even just a few small calculations.

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Ivan Čukić

A long long time ago, during KDE 2-3.x years we had aRts sound service which was easily set to redirect sound output from an application to go over the network to another system's speakers. Doing similar today is a pain. Why #linux #audio world, why!?

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homo stultens

@freemo @ufoi I'm extremely new here but if one of the oft-repeated criticisms of what seems to be some kind of network of admins with a shared strategy of cooperative moderation that has gradually become quite large and influential (the name of which that I haven't yet clearly been able to identify - fedifence? fediblock?) is that it creates a walled garden and as such is anathema to the free and open principles of the fediverse, proposing a competing system of large coordinated cooperative moderation strategy but it's better because it's run how i like it not how they like it will likely result in an outcome that is not appreciably different.

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

The group of people who are trying to divide the fediverse seem to have reached a new low.. They have a tool that lists how many instances block a particular instance, but it is highly manipulative.

For starters it is hand curated.. so they exclude blocks against their own instances and only includes instances they actually dislike.

Worse yet they curate a list ordered by "most blocked".. problem is they use the number of instances that block. They game the system by having large number of single-user instances. So instances in the top 50 may only be blocked by a few hundred people but still appear as if the blocks are significant....

This is why we need transparency, its why we need the UFoI.org

@ufoi

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Nick has moved to Mathstodon

"LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and other data stored in customer vaults."
arstechnica.com/information-te

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@freemo @mandlebro @antares @fourmajor

Federico Faggin (Olivetti, Intel, inventor of CMOS transistors, pioneer of x86 arch, founder of Synaptics, inventor of touchpads and touchscreens, early believer in neural networks as future of AI and even tried to implement them with anolog processing decades ago) has written a book on this that is skyrocketing in Italy (and I suspect it is available only in Italian).

The book is named "Irriducibile" (irreducible in Italian) and it explains, thanks to the Operational Probabilistic Theory developed by a Quantum Information professor from Italy, that it's impossible to reproduce consciousness artificially.

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Rokosun
@freemo @tio @admitsWrongIfProven

Say if I joined an instance and my friend joined another, if one of our instances block the other then we can't communicate anymore, this is a big problem with defederation. I can of course ask my friends to join the same instance I'm on, but this will lead to centralization which is bad for fedi. This is where #UFoI comes in, its a group of instances that I know for sure will be federated with each other, so I can just ask my friends to join one of the instances listed there.

And the transparency bit is something I really appreciate, I know there are some bad actors on fedi that engage in slandering and false accusations without any evidence backing their claims, so I hope #UFoI can solve these issues.
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