An SSC post about the theory of mind as a technological invention. Extremely interesting.
covid19, software, uk
Looks like somebody in the #UK government said: "you know what we need right now, in the middle of the COVID pandemic? a rushed, nation-wide roll-out of a critical piece of software that just got written and never got tested"
Here's my #FanArt of Phos from #LandOfTheLustrous based on part of the opening sequence of the #anime. It's from early 2018. I was still figuring out how shading worked (I'm STILL figuring out how shading works), but I'm very proud of the face and especially the "hair", which is made of a number of layers. It's got a very cool translucent look. I thought I'd shared it on this account already, but I guess not! #HousekiNoKuni #宝石の国 #MastoArt
A Dutch court has sided with a woman who sued her mother to force her to remove pictures of her grandchildren from social media, finding that the images violated the GDPR.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787
The mum said that she had repeatedly asked the grandmother to remove the pictures. The court found that the "purely personal" exception to the GDPR does not apply when large commercial platforms like Facebook and Pintrest are involved.
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Meanwhile in #Poland, a historic victory of the incumbent Andrzej Duda in presidential elections.
Not a single vote went to any of the opposition candidates: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/poland-holds-ghost-election-with-0-turnout
Russia asked #decentralized messaging platform @delta for access to data on their servers #facepalm
Their response is in this blog post
Don't you ever think that open source software activism is not a "real world" issue
"Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekgx/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible
Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.
Here's a test:
I'll keep a webcam recording myself during work for the next hour, now.
I will try to remind myself not to touch my face and will keep a tally sheet of how many times I successfully restrained myself, and often I caught myself touching it.
Then I'll review the video material and see how many times I've not even witnessed touching my own face during that hour.
[Just typing this post, I've already touched my own face 7 times]
Runners up:
Mailpile -- too unstable and the single developer (although pretty cool) is definitely not enough.
Gmail web interface -- no PGP support and, well, you are not really running it, are you?
Programmer and researcher,. Ended up working with all the current buzzwords: #ai #aisafety #ml #deeplearning #cryptocurrency
Other interests include #sewing, being #lesswrong, reading #hardsf, playing #boardgames and omitting stuff on lists.
Oh, and trans rights, duh.
Header image by @WhiteShield@livellosegreto.it .
Heheh, gentoo, heh, nonbinary, heheheh... I'm so easily amused sometimes.