timorl @timorl@qoto.org

#citizenscience #water #river #monitoring #odragate #priorart #openhardware

I am doing "prior art" research to find out what are reliable and open constructions of sensors (and controlling/recording) platforms used in citizen monitoring of environment.

Due to recent events in Poland, priority topic is river monitoring: water temperature, pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, ORP (oxidation reduction potential), water level (sonar?).
Also, typical weather station sensors recommendations will be appreciated.

If you know about an active group dealing with river environment monitoring, please drop a link here – I will be happy to learn from them.

At this stage, I do not intend to start any deep R&D. I need to learn about good (best!) practices and appropriate hardware, so we can deploy a network of early warning checkpoints as soon and as cheaply as possible.

Our qualitative user feedback has informed us that hijacking the "Back" button makes it difficult for users to exit the page. Our telemetry has informed us that this causes users to spend more time using our website, which means users like it.
Once again, quantitative metrics reveal the Hidden Truths in the hearts of our users. /s

fun fact: HRT is a transhumanist biomodification

Rentgen to wtyczka dla przeglądarek, która automatycznie wizualizuje, jakie dane zostały wysłane do podmiotów trzecich przez odwiedzane strony. Pozwala wygenerować raport lub treść maila, który można wysłać do administratora strony i/lub UODO. #UODO #RODO
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/rentgen/

the answer, of course, is neither: OA, which pits individual authors against one another in a race to pay more to prestige journals, is much more profitable than trad publishing. We need to end for-profit publishing altogether and rebuild our communication and review systems.

WHOA

First-ever Gitea comment on an issue from a remote instance!!! 🎉

https://git.exozy.me/Ta180m/Hello-world/issues/2#issuecomment-2914

"It’s a grim irony that, by insisting on a “feminism” without any trans women in it, TERFs have wound up constructing the tool by which fascists aim to destroy feminism altogether."

"TERFs’ insistence on “biological sex” as an immutable binary […] may make it easier to convince them of other biological hierarchies. Their insistence on seeing trans women as “violent men,” in particular, can be weaponized against men of colour and turned into overt white supremacy."

https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810

Weekdays are, like, checksums for dates

OMG! I'm so excited to announce that through my work at @spritelyinst we've published A Scheme Primer: https://spritely.institute/news/the-spritely-institute-publishes-a-scheme-primer.html
Direct link: https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html

This document manages to serve two purposes:
- As a quick skim, it's a reasonable intro to "how to start programming with Scheme with no prior experience". Hey, tutorials are useful!
- But also, in less than 30 pages we manage to compress a TON of computer science ideas in a way that I think is really, really approachable.

The document ends with a code example, and full walkthrough, of a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme... in a mere 30 lines of code! It's like 3/4 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs compressed into a document you could read in an afternoon!

I've discovered that you can in fact de-acclimatize yourself to advertising, largely from removing exposure fairly consistently over a long period of time.

The problem with that is the intense sense of alienation and distaste you get when exposed (for whatever reason) again.

Curating your own sensory inputs at the cost of being naturalized to the consensus human experience. Yikes.

made lentils and rice for lunch. I just really love lentils. they are the perfect food!

Miałem dziś ochotę strzelić sobie lufkę w miłym miejscu, więc poszedłem do pijalni. Niestety, okazuje się, że nazwa mnie zmyliła i pijalnia czekolady nie serwuje wódki… Czemu abstynenci nie mogą nazywać swoich miejsc jakoś bardziej oryginalnie i nie podszywać się pod standardy alkoholowe?

Had to take the bus into town today, and wore a kilt. Some Delores decided to take issue; which sadly I'm used to. "Why are you wearing a skirt?!" and so on. As I said, used to it (and big scary white dude, so I have some privilege to wield), so I'm calmly addressing it with her

But then she said "well how am I supposed to explain that to my kid?!", and friends, I didn't have to say a thing, because the most awesome Black lady jumped in. She turned to her kid (I'd guess roughly 13 years old) and said "hey, why is he allowed to wear a skirt?"

Kid: "he's grown enough to wear whatever the fuck he wants"

Mom: "see?! Ain't hard ma'am"

Delores huffed but that was pretty much the end 🤣

Woke up way too early as my dream got stuck into an internal monologue where I faced a hearing dad who's got a deaf toddler, and told the dad that he's wasting his boy's life by not teaching him sign language.

I got so annoyed at that fucking imaginary dad that I just got out of bed.
#Deaf