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mainec

@mainec@fromm.social

Search, text mining, machine learning aka statistics; Open Source governance; Director InnerSource Commons Foundation; The ASF member

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mainec, to random
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Lovely children's book explaining the link between data privacy, AI, third party data collection and how that causes trouble for people deviating from the normal distribution of values:

https://www.carlsen.de/hardcover/spooki-den-geist-aufgeben-gibts-nicht/978-3-551-65521-9

Including a ghost family raising a human boy and a girl helping the family with her coding and hacking skills - she moved to Germany from California obviously.

mainec,
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@levampyre https://www.youtube.com/live/hDmgI269Vjw?si=Jtk9UAa7y4VGnCjw ... Might be helpful to explain the real world incentive behind a lot of time stealing apps, assuming she speaks German.

There's also lovely pixi books on data protection and related topics from BfDI for free: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Publikationen/Pixi/Pixi_node.html

janl, (edited ) to random German
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It begins.

mainec,
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@janl ist das Kleber, was da daneben steht? (Hier fliegen zuviele kleinere Modelle rum, die sich mit der Zeit auflösen ...)

janl, to random German
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So, relativ wichtige Reise mit dem Auto heute Morgen einmal 100km längs durchs nördliche Brandenburg nach Berlin und mittags wieder zurück (Bundesstraße, nicht Autobahn).

Machen oder lieber lassen?

Unwetterwarnungen sind auf Stufe 2 von 4 und es ist feucht und knapp über dem Gefrierpunkt.

Wie würdet ihr das entscheiden?

mainec,
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@janl @cjk nach alternativen Wegen Ausschau halten, falls ein Baum auf die Straße fällt und die blockiert, oder verunfallte Autos anzutreffen sind.

Decke im Auto (liegt vllt eh im Kofferraum zum Schutz desselben vor Schmutz) sowie etwas Verpflegung.

Vorausschauend fahren. Auf Sperrungen achten (einschlägige Maps Apps sind da gerne erst lahm).

P(Ast trifft dein Auto) < P(Ast trifft ein Auto) < P(Ast blockiert die Straße)

Letztlich würde ich persönlich das aber vom Reisegrund abhängig machen.

astefanowitsch, to random German
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Ein Bundesland, in dessen Dialekt die Nachnamen von Frauen mit der weiblichen Nachsilbe markiert werden, will also das Gendern verbieten.

mainec,
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@astefanowitsch @necrosis Danke für den Link. Wieder was gelernt.

Ich kannte das bisher nur aus anderen Gegenden in abschätzig: "Die Meiern hat mal wieder ..."

Jetzt frage ich mich nur noch, warum es in anderen Gegenden "das Anne" heißt...

gamingonlinux, to random
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People and SEO Spam like this are ruining the internet. Fuck this shite.

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mainec,
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@dalias @gamingonlinux likely that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Back when everyone was impressed about Google's reaction to ChatGPT and taking that as a sign that Google feared a competitor coming up with a better interface to search I kept wondering why nobody saw the much more immediate thread of LLMs used for SEO...

mainec,
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@dalias @gamingonlinux what surprises me though is that this SEO approach wasn't spotted automatically and the effect throttled.

siderea, (edited ) to random

There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se.

The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.

🧵

CC: @Gargron

mainec,
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@siderea I really appreciate your thread. In particular as it is much easier to think about remedies while it's still quite as opposed to when the storm starts.

Things I would add to the list: People, trying to game the system to spread their knowledge are not only attracted by the size of the platform but also the influence people have elsewhere, think journalists or polititions active here.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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been thinking about this very common git workflow and how git doesn't do much to help you ensure that if you're using this workflow:

a) you never commit to your local main branch directly
b) you regularly pull from origin/main to keep your local main branch up to date

you just need to be careful

branch protection on github/gitlab helps with this, but I don't think there's much in git itself

mainec,
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@b0rk whose maintaining git these days?

Iirc it's original author wasn't and likely still isn't a huge fan of GitHub. So added features there might depend on maintainership.

For anything GitHub specific I believe there's a GitHub provided and maintained commandline tool.

b0rk, to random
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we initially printed 1500 copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging and in less than a year they all sold out!!!

we've ordered new copies so they're back in stock now :)

get it here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/

mainec, (edited )
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@b0rk @AndreasZeller somehow I can't help but think 'that's a lovely and detailed description of scientific debugging' that I first encountered in one of your books years ago when I started my career.

jwildeboer, to random
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I am full of stories from the past in Open Source and Free Software. And at some point I will write a book about all of that. But right now I try to focus on stories that help with solving current problems. Stories that teach a lesson you can use RightNow(tm). The fun anecdotes also have their place, but let's focus on telling stories that break the 20 year cycle of repeating the mistakes we already made but with new tools :) Because that IS a pattern I see. Package managers, anyone? ;)

mainec, (edited )
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@jwildeboer have you thought about writing these stories in pattern/ anti pattern language?

We did this for several OSS best practices to translate them to InnerSource over at the InnerSource Commons (far from exhaustive collection of patterns so far). Phrasing problem and solution when writing them greatly helped me get the learnings clear even in my own head.

davidho, to random
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Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

mainec,
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@davidho .oO(and during the pandemic even several production sites shut down for several weeks - at least in Asia and Europe, so it already was more than individual action)

mainec, to random
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Wie jetzt - "Die drei Ausrufezeichen - Gefahr im Netz" erklären mal eben nebenbei den Ablauf bei "responsible disclosure" von vulnerabilities?

mainec,
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@littledetritus https://www.diedreiausrufezeichen.de/lesen/die-drei-68-gefahr-im-netz/

mainec,
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@littledetritus immer wieder ganz hart an der Grenze zum Klischee aber erstaunlich wenig böse Fehltritte bis zu der Stelle an der wir sind.

mainec,
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@Natureshadow @littledetritus nee, an den Teil kann ich mich nicht erinnern, jedenfalls nicht im Hörspiel...

mainec,
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@Natureshadow @littledetritus es sei denn, du meinst die allererste Ausgabe von den Ausrufezeichen - die kenne ich nicht, haben irgendwo mittendrin mit einer Folge angefangen zu hören

mainec,
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@littledetritus zweite niedliche Perle: Folge 72 dazu, was Spielzeug warum nicht darf (alles mithören und die Daten übermitteln) und wie hoch der Wert dieser Daten ist ;)

Keine Ahnung, warum hier gleich die ersten beiden nur nach Titel rausgesuchten Bände so passten.

mainec,
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@Natureshadow @littledetritus cool, danke für den Tipp

mainec,
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@Natureshadow @littledetritus na bloß gut haben wir mittendrin angefangen....

mainec, to random
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When your decades old Google alert triggers and shows you a list of the ten best machine learning toolkits for beginners - including the project you co founded 15 years ago :)

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/10-best-open-source-machine-learning-projects-for-beginners/

mainec, to random
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I'm bumping into nerds who are looking for literature showing children examples of non stereotype role models. Starting a collection, feel free to extend.

scy, to random German
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Ich so: „Smarte Beleuchtung wär schon nice, aber ich hab gerade keinen Kopf dafür, mich für ein System und konkrete Hardware zu entscheiden. Später mal.“

Lampe im Flur: popp

Und nein, ich hab keine Ersatz-E27-Birnen mehr da.

Was habt ihr so? Ansprechbar mit Open Source (z.B. HAss) ist ein Muss, dimmen auch. Flackerfrei, ich bin da empfindlich. Einstellbare Farbtemperatur (zwischen kalt & warm) wär super. RGB brauch ich nicht unbedingt. Wi-Fi oder mit Hub, mir halbwegs egal.

mainec,
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@scy https://youtu.be/-yiuAFoPX0g by @stevel will at least make you laugh and likely it has a detail or two relevant to your smart light question ;)

mekkaokereke, to random
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Sharing in case this helps someone.

The last time someone in our household got Covid, we were able to keep it from spreading to anyone else. ♥️🙏🏿 This time we were not so lucky. My Covid high score streak is finally broken! Rona got me y'all!

Completely unscientific observations of how this thing looks to have beat our mitigations:

Day 0: Contagious. No symptoms. Negative tests.

Day 1: Contagious. Slight symptoms. Negative test.

Day 2: Contagious. More severe symptoms. Positive tests.

mainec,
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@mekkaokereke thanks for sharing, that is an interesting pattern as originally, negative rapid test would have meant 'maybe positive, but not contagious for at least X hours after negative test result'

janl, to random
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Back in Berlin o/ what did I miss?

mainec,
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@janl went to Scandinavia a year ago - crossing the border, noticed the substantial increase in EVs - I'll never forget how that big difference felt like automobile Germany has been glued to the past.

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