Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

It would be good if more people aspired to be kinder than to be filthy rich.

Just in case you are spending the next couple of days with people who are not on #XMPP yet and have some time on your hands. 😊

Conversations is currently available for free on the Google PlayStore.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

@aral Frankly, we need to socialize the notion that the Fediverse itself shouldn't centralize around one singular app or service.

Let's start using as many apps as we can!

As Christmas present this year I would love to have somebody who knows about stochastic calculus/statphys to answer a pair of questions about noise interpretations in conserved systems (when a white noise field has a multiplicative term and both are *inside* of a gradient).

I have been searching in the literature for weeks and I'm stuck, please help :)

Glassfrogs Hide Red Blood Cells in Liver to “Disappear”

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/glassfrogs-camouflage

"Glassfrogs, nocturnal amphibians named for their see-through bellies, attain a special type of camouflage by temporarily storing nearly all of their red blood cells in their reflective livers"

Sure, neat trick, but can it move its testicles like that guy in Born Invincible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNDM3NB9yk

#science

Nasal Vaccines Are Here

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-mucosal-vaccines-protection/672544/

Yikes. I didn't even know people were getting extra noses! But at least now there's a vaccine.

#science #pandemic

Legit science journals are disappearing from the internet. Will Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, ACS exist in 100 years? Do they have policies to prevent the loss of papers?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02610-z

#chemistry #science #chemiverse #chemtoots #journals #publications #STEM #library

Apparently some dickhead (or dickheads, as the case may be) uploaded malware into an issue on Codeberg and shared links to it and managed to get Codeberg onto a number of block lists so some folks can’t access the site now because their ISPs are blocking it.

If you know the folks who run these lists and can help remove Codeberg from them, I’d appreciate it.

More details: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/850

CC @Codeberg

#codeberg #infosec #foss #freeSoftware

People are posting "2 sleeps till Christmas!" But really you can have as many sleeps as you want over the next 24 hours there's no rule

PARENT: "Have you finished writing your letter to Santa?"

CHILD: "I don't believe in Santa anymore. Now I believe in a decentralized network of independently operating elves who federate using an open protocol called ActivityPub to share information about children's Christmas wishes and source gifts to fulfill them"

@zleap @godlessmom The UK government has subsided employers for decades. Since 2012 it has slowly dismantled the social safety net, sold off social housing and its answer now in response to abject fuel poverty, where pensioners are travelling around on busses to stay warm, is to claim credit for pensioner’s free bus passes and introduce ‘Warm Hubs’

This after tanking the economy and giving billions to their rich friends with PPP contracts.

Criminal enterprise springs to mind.

The situation regarding IT management in many schools is well-captured by the hypothetical (and sarcastic) Putt’s Law. According to Archibald Putt, “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand” (Putt, 2006, p. 7). Further, Putt articulated a corollary, “Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion” (p. 7). While these words are intended to be humorously cynical observations, they do describe the current state of IT management in schools:

• Technology professionals configure IT systems for students and teachers, but they are unfamiliar with emerging technology-rich pedagogy. In Putt’s terms, IT professionals are managing devices for purposes they do not understand.

• Educators complain about the IT systems in schools, but they don’t understand the complexity of managing IT systems, the potential conflicts and threats to the operation of enterprise IT, and general chaos that can result when enterprise networks are not tightly controlled. In Putt’s terms, educators seek to manage IT they do not understand.

• School leaders make budget and personnel decisions that impose unrealistic limits on IT professionals and they advocate for practices beyond the capacity of the available IT or are contrary to the professional tendencies of the teachers.

Reference

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s law & the successful technocrat: How to win in the information age. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Affaire Cambridge Analytica : Facebook accepte de payer 725 millions de dollars pour mettre fin au procès
Facebook n’a reconnu aucune infraction, selon les termes de cet accord, rendu public jeudi, qui doit encore être approuvé par un juge.
Accès libre
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/12/23/affaire-cambridge-analytica-facebook-accepte-de-payer-725-millions-de-dollars_6155532_4408996.html

Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling & Public Health March 27-28 Boston

Deadline Jan 15
@epiverse
@idjclub
#IDMastodon #epiverse #MathModeling

https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/increase-diversity-in-mathematical-modeling-and-public-health

One of the keys to research is asking Why? See my thoughts on this here: #research #science #creativity #discovery https://brentstockwell.medium.com/a-key-to-making-discoveries-ask-why-8fc52291eba1

#introduction

We're a collective of black hackers run by @nullagent & @rekcahdam.

We love ethical hacking, video games, Hip Hop and cinema!

This instance is hosted https://partyon.xyz/about as a supportive place for artist and technologist. Feel free to request an account!

We're building a lot of projects (link in bio). All open source, some commercial. We'll post updates on them from time to time.

Happy Holidays and PartyOn!

#BlackMastodon #MastodonAdmin #PartyOn #BlackFriday

I just walked into my local public library with a curiosity and walked out with a bag full of books to satisfy it.

And they say magic isn't real?

Treasure, use, and support your libraries, folks. They're the heart and soul of a civil society. ❤️