Ida Ebkes @ida@social.nasqueron.org
Transclusionist and open-end web-dev @Berlin. <3 #OpenSource, #UNIX, #Python.
Meh in german: ida@social.tchncs.de
Another #intro:
As a four year old I was told that the meaning of the word philosopher is "friend of knowledge" and also "friend of butterflies". 🦋
Thought it was very wild that mere thinking can be a job and who doesn't like butterflies? So, after finishing school, I started studying it and it was the best preparation for the later coming C.S.-studies.
Delayed #intro:
I grew up in times where anyone saying xenophobic/antisemitic/pro-nazi stuff would have outed themselves as complete idiots.
These days I hear shit like "it wasn't all bad, they also built the Autobahn" and similar creepy things on the streets.
Don't stay silent, #resist, oppose, if you're safe enough to do so.
Oh and hi #fediverse! Love to see so many different, interesting people here and *not* be confronted with murderous propaganda, like it happens elsewhere.
I think you'll find this free software app, RSS Box, useful: https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
With so many lives at stake, computer scientists and healthcare IT pros are motivated to develop strategies that keep patients safe from medical device hackers. They’re making progress. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/medical-device-security-hacking-prevention-measures-1806.html
For anyone using #Friendica, you can follow any RSS feed as if it was another user, just add the RSS feed's address as a new contact.
From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:
Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.
This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."
Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag: We're not sleepwalking into a dystopian future, we're there today
“In order to make any meaningful progress, we must at least agree that the Googles and the Facebooks of the world are not forces for good.”
I’m very happy with how this interview we did with Nesta ended up. Laura and I will be speaking at Nesta’s FutureFest conference in London next week. (https://www.futurefest.org/)
Apparently #Facebook freezes people's accounts for posting unseemly content to completely closed groups.
Two different women I know personally had this happen to them recently, for posting content nobody in the groups would have had any problems with.
This isn't a surprise to us geeks, but it really makes it obvious to the normies that their private groups aren't private after all. 🤔
The speed of the blocks and the false positives described imply morality robocops 🤖 are at work.
Yowza. A bug in macOS can expose the contents of a user's files -- including document text and photo thumbnails -- even if the drive is encrypted. https://www.zdnet.com/article/macos-quick-look-bug-leaks-encrypted-data-researchers-find/
PSA for fellow instance admins:
If you are in a dispute with another instance admin and feel like you need a second or third opinion or appraisal of the situation, feel free to reach out to me for advice.
E2E contact methods are available upon request and my discretion can be vouched for.
My modus operandi is always to mend bridges where possible and if I can help out with that on here, I feel like I should.
Feeling ethically compromised at my job as I have been asked to bring a comment section into existence
YouTube’s algorithms block also MIT Courses:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/
@steckerhalter @jomo that was an interesting read with a dystopian vibe. But the mention of JIRA made it all oh so plausible.
RP @jomo
"The Machine Fired Me" https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
https://mstdn.io/@jomo/100237292420140043
"... I was fired. There was nothing my manager could do about it. There was nothing the director could do about it. They stood powerless as I packed my stuff and left the building.
Over the next 3 weeks, I was CCed on the emails about my case. I watched it be escalated to bigger and more powerful titles over and over, yet no one could do anything about it ..."
.@mhall119 is developing an ethical alternative to #MeetUp called #GetTogether.
There's already a flagship site up and running:
https://gettogether.community/
The dev is working on #ActivityPub support and is requesting feedback on what more needs to be done:
https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60
If you're interested in helping federate GetTogether, join the discussion at the link above.
