Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

So, dear #tangara lovers and MP3 enhtusiasts, it finally is ready!

*Build your own Tangara*

Do you prefer to assemble devices yourself rather than buy them ready-made? Attending the #38C3 ? A group of electronics hackers from https://ZTL.space and coredump.ch are offering a DIY Tangara workshop at the Hardware Hacking Area, on day 1 only.

You can register here: https://events.ztl.space/9cklb/

All the information is in the pretix, please read carefully :)
Feel free to ask if you have questions!

"the forces of racism have regrouped on the borders of legitimate science and transformed themselves into a dynamic and creative citizen science movement capable of exploiting features of human genetics"

"If only American billionaires could buy the EU, like we bought the US presidency, stealing people's data while destroying planet Earth would be so much more profitable."

I went to #Switzerland, the world's greatest railway nation, and got to ride some of its lesser-known trains.

I started with the Belle Époque train from #Montreux to Zweisimmen.

Its “Orient Express”-inspired carriages are run 4x a day—same price as 1st or 2nd class tickets on a regular train.

🇨🇭🚆🧵

US strangling science funding and about to lose too many to count years long investments in science, NZ defunding social sci, Canada holding sessions RIGHT NOW about EDI in science where people testify with erroneous readings of research meant to *show evidence of disparities and inequity* arguing that based on identity some scholars are less worthy than other scholars, can't even list all the ish happening in the UK, it's all happening pretty fast good luck everybody

Great weekend of training wrapped up, and another new class of volunteers is qualified to respond to missing persons in county (full state-wide certification doesn't happen until they've completed the other half of the training program early next year).

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to serving alongside all of them.

#SoOthersMayLive

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Framasoft the non-profit behind Peertube which is a free and open source YouTube alternative is looking for donations to reach their budget for 2025.

Please donate if you can!

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#tech #technology #OpenSource #DonateNow #Peertube #degoogle #framasoft

Work agreed to explore meshtastic as a possible option for emergency communications and sent me a pair of these little gadgets to try out.

Now i just have to figure out how they work

#meshtastic

This was such a boring little bottle before I glazed it, and I used it for a glaze experiment.

The glaze totally rescued it

Only 10 more days until the 11th session of the @‌IPBES Plenary.

At #IPBES11 scientists & policymakers will consider 2 major new assessment reports to inform global #biodiversity policy & action:

📘#NexusAssessment Report

📗#TransformativeChange Assessment Report

someone posted this on bsky and it helped me a lot:

just one more LLM bro. i promise bro just one more LLM and we'll automate away all our problems bro. it’s just an Al chatbot bro. please just one more. one more Al and we'll save another 12 minutes/month. bro cmon just give me 9 millions gpu and we'll acheive AGI i promise bro. bro bro please we just need to build one more

Please google Great Barrington Declaration. If it had been implemented, millions more people would have died at the start of the pandemic. Now, one of its architects will lead the National Institutes of Health (if confirmed), the largest funder of biomedical research in the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/politics/jay-bhattacharya-nih-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🚨 Delete Your 🧬 Data from @23andMe NOW! 🚨

Share, warn, educate!

The company is about to go under, all assets will be sold off. Whoever buys it will have your DNA and PII, and no responsibility towards you.

They can publish it, sell it, abuse it. Because it's their ownership

federated twitter, federated insta, federated tiktok. when are we gonna get what's really needed: federated linkedin

Bluesky is a proprietary service operated by a single company, but with an unusually good "API" for plug-in 3rdparty tools. As with other sites that previously had "API"s, that API remains valid only as long as—and only in the ways which—the parent company feels like them being allowed to work. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/113541079428044213

If you read the bluesky developer documentation, you'll find lots of verbiage asserting something different from the above. But I assert my frame is closer to accurate than theirs

By the way: If you're a "News Consumer" or someone who "Follows Politics" and you have recently cancelled your subscription to a newspaper in anger, can I again recommend a really good destination for your money is https://www.propublica.org

Not a general newspaper, doesn't have an opinion section or tell you what random thing the President of the United States did today. Just a steady stream of raw investigative journalism. The Good Stuff, the stuff you used to admire That Paper You Cancelled for

Science only exists if people see it. I pour time and effort into writing things like open access preprints, far more swiftly than the slow scientific publishing process, with the hope that these will reach someone who needs it. Sharing and amplifying work like this really directly helps me.

Here's our citation for now: Hicks, C. M., & Hevesi, A. (2024, November 21). A Cumulative Culture Theory for Developer Problem-Solving. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tfjyw

@anthrocypher