Sciformation @sciformation@qoto.org

Jobwechsel? McGyver gesucht! Unsere Feldbeobachtungen und das Bodenlabor brauchen Dich. Du baust und tüftelst gern, findest Lösungen, interessierst Dich für Umweltforschung und denkst gern mit? Die Ökohydrologie an der Uni Jena sucht Dich. Oder vielleicht jemand in Deinem Freundeskreis? Gern weitersagen! Hier gibt es mehr Informationen:

https://jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/864793cd65705566fb6804027329f503cda7cb110

The dude’s rock way to identify dangerous chemical agents

This week I reviewed a 60-page project asking for 1 research assistant for 2 years.

Today, someone I never met asked me for a recommendation letter. The univ she's applying for a professorship requires 9 referees.

Bureaucrats are making an extraordinary effort to kill science.

"Nextcloud works with governments to create MS Office rival for the EU!"

https://betanews.com/2022/08/26/nextcloud-works-with-governments-to-create-ms-office-rival-for-the-eu/

@mariobarbatti This gives hope! The whole world should massively support Brazil financially in return for keeping the forest untouched, or for re-forestation. Moreover if the clearings cannot be halted at once, a clever scheme that would allow the forest to recover naturally could be implemented, like these chess board patterns for example.

Der von G. Pezzin vor 40 Jahren verfasste Comic »Die elektronische Revolution« sagt die Entwicklung des Computer-Zeitalters mitsamt seiner Vor- und Nachteile mit frappierender Genauigkeit voraus: Dagobert vervielfacht dank elektronischer Datenverwaltung, Automatisierung und Vernetzung seine Gewinne, die Entenhausener arbeiten, kommunizieren, kaufen und lernen vom PC aus, aber auch die Panzerknacker erkennen die Chancen der Digitalisierung!

👉 https://duckipedia.de/LTB_118#Die_elektronische_Revolution

#DeutschlandDigitalSicherBSI

Possibly the most annoying UI trend of the last few years is websites changing from

[username] - [ password ] -> Login

to

[username] -> Next -> [ password ] -> Login

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://winbuzzer.com/2022/09/19/microsoft-editor-in-edge-sending-personla-info-to-microsoft-could-be-putting-users-at-risk-xcxwbn/

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2

Some time ago, we argued the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework 🛡️ is not sufficient. And nothing has changed! If your organisation takes compliance serious, it keeps its data under local jurisdiction – and out of foreign clouds.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-new-transatlantic-data-privacy-framework-fails-to-make-us-cloud-services-gdpr-compliant/