R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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Well, finally after all these years, someone's got an intuitive explanation of the moves required for Rubik's cube!
RT @jagarikin@twitter.com
あの伝説のルービックキューブをさらにわかりやすくしました
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1593771091738374144
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As Harvard tax-law prof Mandi Matlock told Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher, this #DataValdez is the "almost inevitable consequence of relying on for-profit companies to handle a government requirement. It’s a process that provides users little choice but to hand over their data to Facebook if they want to comply with the law."
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@shay @cemerick Maybe only instances run by hobbyists should have private messaging. As shown by today's news about H&R Block sending the personal finance data of their customers to Facebook, for-profit companies are untrustworthy custodians of confidential data, because selling it is often profitable.
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birdsite
Just seen Twitter described as $8chan and now I can’t unsee it.
(H/t @gossithedog)
@nmoo I understand that you can include a limited set of HTML tags in your #ActivityPub posts that syndicate to Mastodon (@enkiv2 says the mastodon.py docs describe this but I don't see it in https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#writing-data-statuses) but apparently the #Markdown we're using here on #Qoto gets stripped out on Mastodon instances.
(Also, Qoto's Markdown implementation is massively broken.)
birdsite
@frauenfelder I hope so. But Tumblr joining the Fediverse may push things the other way. We'll see.
Just now it occurred to me that optimizing a social network for engagement is almost precisely the same thing as trolling: showing people the things that are most likely to react strongly to.
The only difference is that trolls write their content themselves, while social networks promote content written by others.
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@frauenfelder Maybe you don't troll hard enough for Twitter to promote your posts.
@BleepingComputer This hasn't happened on F-Droid, or yes? The file managers on F-Droid are still okay?
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@frauenfelder But actually we have to absorb the massive influx of ex-Twitter people replaying the aggression they're accustomed to on Twitter.
@publicvoit @squirrelmonkey Is pretty similar to FidoNet in some ways.
@elsantonegro @mergerson Most instances are in the US and Europe, so is not surprising if popular ones are racist, because those cultures are fairly racist.
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This looks like an important report:
Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free
https://zenodo.org/record/7212922/files/Against_Parasite_Publishers__Making_Journals_Free.pdf
It's interesting that in 1886 the Berne Convention said articles "may be reproduced in original or in translation in other countries of the Union, unless the authors or publishers have expressly forbidden it." But in 1908 the rule was flipped - so that articles "may not be reproduced in the other countries without the consent of the authors".
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Excited to share the Complex AutoEncoder (CAE):
✨ The CAE decomposes images into objects without supervision by taking inspiration from the temporal coding patterns found in biological neurons. ✨
Now accepted at TMLR!
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2204.02075
with @phillip_lippe, Maja Rudolph, and Max Welling
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You can define operations on [-∞,∞) depending on a positive real number called the 'temperature' 𝑇 in such a way that:
1) for any 𝑇 > 0, you get a rig isomorphic to [0,∞) with its usual + and × . (A 'rig' is a ring without negatives.)
2) in the limit 𝑇→ 0, you get a version of the 'tropical rig', where addition is min and multiplication is + on [-∞,∞).
Yeah, the terminology is bad: the 'tropical rig' is a low-temperature limit! They should have called it the 'arctic rig'.
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@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Your analogy is wrong.
You don't need to understand PAL-M to watch TV usefully, but you do need to understand that different TV channels are operated by different companies, which are granted government monopolies on transmitting on those channels, and that they're heavily regulated and mostly ad-funded.
If you're sharing photos of mass graves in Ukraine or taking part in protests in Iran, you probably need to know if your instance is run by the Russian, Ukrainian, or Iranian government. You definitely need to understand that it's a possibility, and that the instance owner can read your DMs, trace your IP address, and take over your account.
Keeping activists, journalists, and their sources safe is more important than being appealing to the masses.
@larsks how about "hellsite"?
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Need a disposable root server for quick experiments? `ssh root@segfault.net` (password: segfault).
@RaphaelWimmer @thc you might also like https://sadservers.com/ - you get tossed into a shell of a malfunctioning server and need to figure out the problem.
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
