"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
@thirstybear@matthewskelton@tdpauw So, perhaps one explanation for some instances of "women tend
to receive better job performance ratings than men" is a kind of survivor bias ?
Part of me hopes that the doing-less-well men are in that state due to effects of the patriarchy on them. Thus, they would also improve if progress is made.
But, if in the end it turns out to just be true that women (whatever definition is applicable) are better in these roles, then I'm angry that we keep on wasting the potential ! Give me "80% of top rated programmers are women" if that's what gets it all done better!
For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.
From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.
@GossiTheDog Yup, I figured you knew this, just it bears stating for anyone else.
If people start thinking "oh, just nuke the screenshots folder manually" they might get a surprise when a bunch of data can still be pulled out of the SQLite database.
@Kurt I wanted to be sure someone wasn't pulling our leg about this, so tried the search myself. That was a few hours ago now, and I just couldn't get Google to show anything like what's in the image.
NOW it has the top result being about this AI brainfart.
“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”
@markmccaughrean I'm not so sure about nuclear power being the solution.
If we're talking full-on nuclear reactor then we've never run one for that long, and refuel them much more often.
If this is an RTG, then is there an isotope that would both deliver enough power (and not too much initially) and stil be doing so 100+ years later ?
Nuclear energy solutions have a great energy density, but for anything practical I don't think their lifetime (without refuelling) suits this use case.
@gsuberland I get the attempt at a joke, but really it would work better if the weak link was random binary, scribbled out, with 000000000 writte in place of it.
@fanf FWIW I migrated to using dnssec-policy with "v9.16.37-based version of BIND9 in Debian 11/bullseye" and so far I've not spotted anything in your write up of it that seems to differ from what I found.
I might review the internal docs I wrote for this and publish them, but don't hold your breath.
@fulanigirl@inthehands Perhaps you're remembering when Patreon proposed moving to charging each supported person a patron signed up for individually, which would have also entailed passing on more of the charging fees (from credit, debit, paypal etc), rather than just a single monthly charge per patron ?
Patreon proposed this due to a phenomenon of people signing up, getting some of the perks then cancelling before they were actually charged.
But, yeah, there was so much outcry from the creators, given it would have cut down the amount they received due to all the extra charging fees being passed on to them, that it got reversed.
Why Patreon couldn't have done something like "first month is charged pro-rata, to a minimum of 50% (to prevent people signing up for only a single day, taking the perks, then cancelling), then will be a part of your overall charge" I don't know.
All that universal use of sudo does is encourage everyone to be in the habit of prepending "sudo " to any system-level command, without actually thinking about if this is a good idea. See all the tutorials that just assume you're using sudo always, so include "sudo " as a prefix on the commands.
If you'd always "sudo <command>" where someone else would "<command>" in their root login, then the only real difference is the logging. If that logging is of little value, then what's the real difference ?
Use of sudo makes the user's password in effect a root password, actually expanding the attack surface for gaining root. You'd better be sure that the user's password is always transmitted/used in a secure manner. No TLS-less anything.
#Bing (search) being down, and causing #DuckDuckGo to throw "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again." is demonstrating that even if DDG say they also use other sources they're 100% dependent on Bing to actually have their search work.
So, are those 'other sources' only used to augment results ?
If I copy the post link and open in a new tab I see this is hosted on a very different looking UI, with a 'show context ->' link which does what it says on the tin.
thanks to @dwm for the bug report that prompted it!
maybe it would be less faff if i did a release more frequently than every 2 years, but on the other hand this is software that is very close to being done (tm)
@fanf Is one of those worked around things git log mentions:
Use of uninitialized value $3 in numeric lt (<) at /usr/local/bin/nsdiff line 149.
? It seems harmless, but I get it as part of the post-edit output on any nsvi -k <key> <domain> invocation. I think I emailed you about it.
In case you were wondering about threads, the timeline is full of shit I don’t follow and it isn’t chronological. So it’s just Facebook made to look like twitter.
@mattgrayyes If y'all insist on continuing to use Facebook then at least:
Stop using their mobile app, use it in a browser instead...
... and start using the Social Fixer browser extension, or similar.
Yes, unfortunately this does mean you'll only be able to use Facebook on desktop. Oh noes!
It's what I was doing before I stopped any Facebook usage other than checking for DMs eveyr few days (family members and the like might use it to contact me).
Random thought about UF tropes: werewolf packs—a not-uncommon plot is "pack B wants to come into pack A's territory, kill the males, and steal the females". (It's a very American sub-genre.)
But werewolves are human most of the time. They talk, they drive SUVs, they wear clothes. So why doesn't pack A simply load up with AR-15s, go round to pack B's clubhouse, and pop a cap in their ass? None of this bullshit alpha dominance wolf-fight nonsense, just good old-fashioned bullets!
#GoldsmithsStreet#Norwich won the Stirling prize for architecture in 2019…the only time social housing has won this prestigious prize. But now thanks to #Tory#RightToBuy they are being sold off…this communal asset will be in private hands and how will it be replaced?
@JugglingWithEggs We really need a law that when any social accommodation is sold the proceeds have to go into a fund to actively build more social accommodation. No exceptions.
Also, if not setting rents so low that they only just cover maintenance, any rent on social accommodation should go into the same 'build more' fund.
I'm aware I'm probably preaching to the choir here ;) .
@RogerBW@nyrath This is being a little disingenuous with not expanding "ICPS". It stands for "Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage". It was never intended to be the final upper stage.
I also feel that "NASA insists that astronauts fly SLS" is misrepresenting the situation. It'll be Congress that mandated this, political meddling.
But, yeah, SLS largely sucks.
And the whole SpaceX HLS scheme is just insane. So much riding on them magically developing not only in-orbit refuelling of cryogenic propellants, but being able to keep enough from boiling off before used. SpaceX and NASA are suspiciously not forthcoming with details about how the test during IFT3 of Starship went.
we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)