Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I find myself exhausted when scientists talk so much about replication crises but so little about the heterogeneity of resources and training.

I mean, the choices made in the lab are not happening in a separate reality from the pressures on grad students and the training they have available to them. All things are environments as well as individuals.

Caring about equity in education and access and shared open resources in science IS caring about the trustworthiness of our evidence.

Prof. Inna Zakharevich joined Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris( @stoneymonster ) to talk about Turing complete origami crease patterns.

Listen to episode 474: It's All Chaos and Horror: https://embedded.fm/episodes/474

These are alt titles that were in the running for show title:
-The Apocalypse Rule
- Not that kind of topologist
- Sounds like Magic
- Tiny ant on the donut

Which would you have gone for?

Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring this week's show.

#embedded #origami #math #professor

Over the weekend, I wrote about some of the details of the culture at @oxidecomputer:

https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about cultural idiosyncrasies, both at Oxide and elsewhere. Come for the hot takes on formal performance review -- stay for the hot takes on engineering metrics!

Join us, today, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/GUcd6c8a?event=1224394765261475880

Being unexpectedly out of work is a mixed bag for me — no surprise, I have a lot of projects that could use the attention. But it's also a tough job market, especially for a neuroatypical person at the staff+ level.

If you want to help —

Schedule a time to chat: https://calendly.com/aeschright/30min
Even if your company isn't hiring at the moment, I'd like to hear what you've been up to. Particularly if you're in DevOps, dev tools, or something else in that vein.

Support my projects (pick whichever appeals to you most 🥰)

Music:
Streaming on Twitch https://twitch.tv/audrey_eee
Releases on Bandcamp: https://audrey-eee.bandcamp.com/album/dreamtime (follow me there to get notified about the new EP I'm working on)

Writing:
News Not Doom: https://www.patreon.com/news_not_doom
Weekly-ish updates on themes in the news I think are worth digging into. Ships may feature prominently for a bit. It's not the only writing I'm working on, but this is where you'll see the most frequent updates.

Code:
Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/aeschright
In addition to open source work, I started a new secret project that I think people will be interested in. It's going to take a few months to get off the ground, so this is where your support makes the most difference for me right now.
* Waiting for sponsorship approval, I'll update this once it's live *

Thank you!

On balance, do you think you look younger, older or the same age as the people you went to school with?

(Would you mind boosting this? I'm curious about this.)

#poll #boost #aging

Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource dev that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

It seems my employer doesn't want to wait around for my shoulder to heal and has helpfully given me an exciting severance package!

Anyone hiring people like me, ideally remote?

I've got 15 years experience with Scala, among other things. And doing a lot of observability related work the past few years.

This is due to something I call #KoboldLetters. By cleverly (mis)using CSS, attackers can display completely different emails to different recipients.

The problems with HTML and CSS in emails have been known for a long time, but the security implications have usually been underestimated or actively downplayed. That's why I wrote an article explaining how HTML emails can be used to deceive recipients into becoming part of an sophisticated #phishing attack.

https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/

Symposium — Assembling Intelligence: Alternative Perspectives on AI through Art and Design / HEAD

→ https://www.creativeapplications.net/events/symposium-assembling-intelligence-alternative-perspectives-on-ai-through-art-and-design/

24–25 April 2024 / onsite + online 🎟→ https://assembling-intelligence.ch/

Do you think an average #Mastodon user with a couple hundred followers could post a silly #poll to the #Fediverse, and get a million or more votes in 7 days?

Please boost to widen the sample. ;-)

#polls

Do you know what day it is today?

That's right! April Cools'!

We're in the process of publishing some projects; follow along here: https://www.aprilcools.club/

(I will also toot about them here)

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Account is named "heavy light". Hundreds of videos, all of them are about a minute long, always totally silent on the audio, all of them look sort of like this but also they all look a little different from each other. Look at this other one. This one is absolutely beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk4yLq1JsU

Kerry Howley out there on the front lines, exploring the current outer limits of Californized Celebrity-Academic Self-Help Podcast Psychopaths. It’s a relief that she’s such a good writer because honestly these people are just batshit weirdos who insist on talking about themselves like space aliens. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html

So uh whats the profit story for astral.sh. I am not gonna be using any of that shit until I understand what the worst case is for capturing basic python infra. They say "we'll keep making FOSS but sell services on it" but what kind of services can you sell on a linter and package manager that would attract a couple million in VC?

Hello fediverse, lil cry for help: I’m looking to speak to someone with vitelliform macular dystrophy caused vision loss, so I can ask about their experience with the onset of symptoms. I was diagnosed ~3 years ago and until recently hadn’t experienced symptoms, I believe I now am but would love to chat to others about their experiences. Compulsory masto disclaimer: I’m not looking for advice other than the specific ask above, thank you. Boosts much appreciated 💖

@b0rk Am I in “detached HEAD” state, if I am in a rebase?