Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I am so sad and angry about being increasingly shut out of most communal Jewish life, starting in 2016 thanks to Trump, seguing into the pandemic, and more recently escalating thanks to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Fun thing I learned today. To normal people "ethernet" sounds like some kind of wireless network. And they will tell you that the wifi isn't working after selecting ethernet in the Windows 11 installer (since they don't know ethernet needs a cable). I can't even blame them, "ethernet" does sound like some kind of radio thing ("in the ether").

This week, we talked about the Embedded Online Conference and our experience learning Zephyr.

Listen to episode 475: https://embedded.fm/episodes/475.

We also talked about writing vs reading code.

Here's Chris' take:

#zephyr #embedded #engineering #conference

it's so strange that despite being fairly tired (after a 3h train trip today) i'm... not in acute pain? even at the trough of the painkiller concentration? (i am not actually confused) how is this possible?? is this real??? did someone substitute the universe around me with a fake one that's inexplicably better????

Neural Networks on #RISCV CH32V003

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/implementing-neural-networks-on-the-10-cent-risc-v-mcu-without-multiplier/

#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion

not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)

looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...

there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too

For context: A lot of R API stuff got marked as "non API" or "internal", which then precipitates a lot of new NOTEs for established packages.

See for example the CRAN check page for {rlang}: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rlang.html

Lots of packages are using SETLENGTH() (for example) - should it be part of the public API since people need it to write packages?

#RStats

Some days ago, the CRAN check with R-devel started to raise "Found non-API calls to R" NOTE. I'm not sure if they are serious on disallowing these not-so-minor APIs, but what should I do? Do you take some action or just wait? #stats

For example, rlang package now has these NOTE:

File ‘rlang/libs/rlang.so’:
Found non-API calls to R: ‘R_ClosureExpr’, ‘R_PromiseExpr’,
‘SETLENGTH’, ‘SET_ENCLOS’, ‘SET_ENVFLAGS’, ‘SET_TRUELENGTH’

https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rlang.html

I really do miss Swiftkey which was superior in almost every way, but I'd rather use subpar software than live in fear of more Microsoft "AI" features being turned on one day without me knowing it

It orders a beer.

A negative leap second walks into a bar.

hire more angel girls, we're good at cloud deployments

I have my first of three content reviews for my Figma Config talk today. My first draft uses the Humane Pin as a negative example of product strategy and execution.

If it doesn’t survive the content reviews and two rehearsals, would anyone be interested in a post on the topic?

@spoltier no exactly! Like it's relevant and real based on your experience but I'M CRAWLING UP A WINDOW HERE

Final coffee thought for this morning is this image popped into my head while someone was giving me unasked for advice and now you must be subjected to it:

imagine I am climbing up the outside of a skyscraper mission impossible style with all kinds of wild gear I made for myself and from inside the skyscraper on the other side of the windows, which they can't perceive, people yell advice based on their experience of navigating to the top by pressing elevator buttons

As you were

I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987

Hear me out:

Cross-posting is killing the challenger social media platforms.

Why? Well, when I visit [whatever-trying-to-grow-platform], 80% of the content I see is stuff I've already seen elsewhere. Sometimes several times already. It makes it unsustainable to use more than one platform, and if people get pushed to choose a single platform - well, it's going to be the biggest one.

🕵️🔎🔎📱 The “repackaged” EU Council version of #chatcontrol still includes #MassSurveillance & serious threats to #encryption. Fortunately 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇷🇦🇹🇳🇱🇪🇪🇫🇮 have acknowledged the severe concerns. We call on EU Member States to reject this dangerous position.
https://epicenter.works/content/open-letter-eu-councils-chatcontrol-is-still-mass-surveillance-undermining-encryption