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Paco Hope

My 14 year old son just told me how he hacked his online Spanish assessment to get it to translate all the questions into English. He opens Firefox dev tools and disables some client-side javascript that tries to prevent him. Finally a child I can be proud of.

Then we have to have the conversation about how—while it's cool—make sure you actually learn the material. Don't cheat yourself out of an education...

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Rysiekúr (old account)

After 30 years, #Norway grants asylum to a Polish person again:
theguardian.com/world/2020/oct

> Gaweł’s case is the first time political asylum has been granted to a Pole in more than 30 years since the fall of communism in #Poland. [Observers] see it as another sign that international trust in Poland’s justice system has been undermined by the government.

> Some other courts in Europe have refused to extradite Poles, saying they cannot have a fair trial under Poland’s government.

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codelutin

The #Epic @fedilab @k9mail cases have reinforced our strong stance that we must control the distribution channels of #FLOSS and no longer depend on the #PlayStore

A major threat to the adoption of an alternative is that users expect updates to be automatic but #Google made that possible only for the #PlayStore

Code Lutin will invest on @fdroidorg to make software update possible on non-rooted #Android devices thus, allowing people to adopt #FreeSoftware

#MécénatCodeLutin #DeleteGoogle

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pine trees (real)

one of the more somewhat interesting things about being the first out enby at work is that no one knows what Dressed Up Professional Non-Binary dresses like

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ionchy@octodon.social

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
This page reads like a shitpost
(Tag yourself)

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Rysiekúr (old account)

ukpol, covid, closed-source, 🤦‍♀️ 

Which begs the question: what other critically important IT resources are not being taken care of by qualified IT personnel?

If something as absolutely crucial as keeping the COVID cases up-to-date fell flat on its face due to a *known* limitation of a desktop tool, what about more complicated issues like the *security* of *healthcare* data related to it?

This is criminal negligence on the part of whoever is in charge.

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muesli

What was the first *real* program you've ever written?

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Rysiekúr (old account)

brexit, ukpol, borders 

UK Gov't: Truckers, you need to get your shit together and finally start preparing for the paperwork and the new border checks regime that will come into effect Jan 1st!

Truckers: WE KNOW! We need info on the specifics, from you guys. Can we have that? We've been asking for MONTHS!

UK Gov't: 🦗 🏏 🦗

theguardian.com/politics/2020/

#Brexit

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ultrageranium

If, like me, you have been unable to follow in real-time the #Assange hearings currently taking place, then visit Craig Murray's blog to catch up and read his thorough and detailed daily summaries. These are not short pieces, but fairly long and complete reports about what is being discussed, presented, and challenged during the sessions, going in details of the anomalies and tactics used by the prosecution.

Currently no mainstream media, even those who present themselves as independent, are covering the hearings in any serious fashion, if at all.

Regardless of what you think of Assange and #WikiLeaks it is important that what is being discussed there can circulate as much as possible. Many things are being debunked, and overall, the outcome of the hearings for potential US extradition will have dramatic chilling effects on future efforts to publish such documents.

craigmurray.org.uk/

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haf, blurst of her name

Big Fedi energy

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I got two pieces of in the mail today, one nationalistic and another neoliberal, both on the same issue. I'm positively surprized by the quality of the nationalistic one, less than half of it was fear-mongering, and the rest even contained some not completely distorted data! The neoliberal one was predictably reasonable in these respects too. Together they pointed to enough issues and data related to the proposal, that I would know where to start research if I wanted to decide which way to vote. I cannot yet vote in , but it's nice knowing that works well here.

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crows call me breadlady

software vs writing 

software: no one knows what you do, and everyone who does including yourself hates it. there are limitless niches of valuable work to be done — valuable in a social sense, as open source of course goes unpaid — but most such niches are so obscure that the necessary connective tissue required to form the greater whole will never materialize, unless done by capitalists, who will ruin it.

writing: everyone writes. everyone writes better than you. everyone writes so much that editors beyond number are bored of stories better than anything you’ll ever write. they are so bored that even joking about the boredom is cliche. when you receive a $20 check for a work you spent a month shopping around, you will feel grateful. but at least it is much harder to write anything deadly than it is in software.

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arthur.pizza

Mass produced hardware is bad for the environment and usually involves poor working conditions for employees.

However mass production usually means accessibly. Cheap smartphones have opened the poorest parts of the world to the internet.

How to we get the best of both worlds? Sustainable and accessible. I'm going to throw privacy friendly on top of that.

I want it all.

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soft dragon

Tech opinion: we need a Linux of phones

And I don't mean like android or like an actual Linux distribution for phones, I mean the same approach to mobile development that's taken to Linux development, which is make shit that works on the worst of devices, have a million forks for users to pick from, try wacky stuff and weird configurations, and let me touch every single part of my device

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timorl

I got a leaflet in the mail warning me of the dangers of a proposed initiative to build cycling paths. Half of the "problems" listed sound very appealing to me, too bad I cannot vote in referendums yet.

I love reading stuff intended to convince me of something, that ends up convincing me of the opposite.

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timorl

My wife baked a cake! I had no idea you could make vegan kruszonka.

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Eric Buijs

I already made a toot about PeerTube v3 but here is a more elaborate blog post of mine about the v3 roadmap and the progressive fundraiser accompanying it.

homehack.nl/the-exciting-roadm

#PeerTube

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Harp :wigglytuff:

so around a century ago, there was a comic strip called The Outbursts of Everett True, where the titular character saw people being rude jackasses and decided to deal with this harshly and folks a lot of these still hold up perfectly in modern times

but i am delighted to announce

somebody's found the comics about mask-wearing

and They're Good, Folks

(uncaptioned, feel free to help out with descriptions here, i'd appreciate it)

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timorl

Two of my friend once wrote a paper that was vaguely related to intelligence, and they got it in to a quite big IQ research conference. They came back complaining how racist the whole thing was. So far, so good, maybe they are just SJWs confronted with actual Science™ for the first time, and seeing slightly shifted Gauss curves made their snowflake hearts melt into tears. But they went into considerably more detail and... yeah.

One of the main parts of the event was a talk from an invited guest, clearly revered within the community. The talk was about differences in IQ between races, and at the end the presenter went into a rant, including claims that it can be inferred from the IQ curves and the distributions of jobs in the US that the average black neurosurgeon should be an office drone (this part might differ slightly in details, as I'm relaying from memory what my friend was relaying from memory, but the gist should be intact). Now, considering that black neurosurgeons are AFAIK not disastrously incompetent, we can infer that the person giving the talk had trouble in their relation to reality in one of the following ways:

1. The influence of IQ on neurosurgeon ability is far smaller than they believed.

2. The differences in IQ are far smaller than the research indicates.

Obviously one can ask "¿Por qué no los dos?", and I suspect that is the correct answer. Influence of IQ on personal success is hard to prove (the attempt I know of produced no evidence of this, while producing evidence that average IQ correlates with quality of life within a country), and it's a simple fact that personal beliefs of researchers are biasing studies in nontrivial ways (there are some famous ESP studies that had very hard to explain and apparently unintentional problems). Considering the latter, the fact that the IQ research community (or at least a significant part of it – I'm not sure whether this was _the_ biggest IQ conference, but it was definitely mainstream enough) seems to be reality-defying racist implies that their results should be taken with a grain of salt.

And yes, I only mean a grain not completely discredited – they seem to try following proper methodology and sometimes get credible effects that are big enough that they cannot be completely explained away by their bias. Just don't believe any titles or abstracts automatically, you have to dig deeper to actually learn something.

@velartrill

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Rysiekúr (old account)

Curated list of examples of how #Iceland has its shit together:
- labour union membership is considered obvious and is widespread;
- COVID got tracked and traced basically into oblivion;
- plenty of swimming pools, open till late (including in the winter);
- ice cream parlors open an hour longer than swimming pools (including in the winter).

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