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@boud@framapiaf.org

cosmologiste; en faveur de l'accès ouvert au savoir et des prises de décisions publiques structurées, libres et informées

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boud,
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@tiago @onisillos

This is a issue.

Codes of conduct have started to become close to ubiquitous in academic conferences (my impression in astro).

If we could get software ethics into codes of conduct - making it clear that the choice of software and servers is ethically significant for the role of academic enquiry as part of the wider community, then arguments could start to become as unacceptable as bigotry.

@academicchatter

boud,
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@tiago @LukasBrausch

Social media often includes opinions and sometimes rants, not just arguments and external evidence. Wikipedia !voting in 'WP:' space favours arguments+evidence.

Seems to me it's an issue of dominant influence on a conversation, by switching between groups of followers:

' When people use quotes to reply to other people, conversations become performative power plays. “Heed, my followers, how I dunk on this fool!” ' [1]

[1] https://fedi.tips/why-cant-i-quote-other-posts-in-mastodon

@academicchatter

boud,
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@tiago

I'm only presenting the argument, not the evidence. Many people are convinced of the evidence from personal experience on the birdsite (not me - no birdsite experience). I seem to remember that proper research has been done, but I didn't store the URLs - someone else can point to them. I vaguely seem to remember that the evidence was mixed and nuanced.

@LukasBrausch
@academicchatter

boud, to random French
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L'Église catholique-romaine polonaise tombe-t-elle ?

Depuis longtemps, l'Église prétend que 90%, voire 95%, de la population PL est catholique. Or, selon le recensement décennal PL de 2021 [1], seulement 71% ont déclaré qu'iels sont catholiques dans le recensement.

21% ont choisi de rien dire ; 7% sont non-affilié-e-s (et 0,006% pastafarien-ne-s [2])

A mon avis, c'est un coup de tonnerre socio-politique.

[1] https://stat.gov.pl/spisy-powszechne/nsp-2021/nsp-2021-wyniki-ostateczne/tablice-z-ostatecznymi-danymi-w-zakresie-przynaleznosci-narodowo-etnicznej-jezyka-uzywanego-w-domu-oraz-przynaleznosci-do-wyznania-religijnego,10,1.html

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarisme

pl: https://pol.social/@hrysku/111143319158951587

rysiek, to random
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I don't think people appreciate what "abstractions are leaky" means in practice.

The higher in the stack, the more layers of leaky abstractions a piece of software has to deal with.

Ignoring them means weird errors and unexpected behaviors as assumptions break down. Working around them means maintaining random workarounds.

The higher the abstraction level the more workarounds there are to maintain and weird errors to contend with.

"Let's move to the browser" means "more of these, please". 👀

boud,
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@rysiek @smokku

This whole thread was too abstract for me. After reading the leaky details, it groks better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction

hrysku, to random Polish
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Dzień dobry.

GUS podał dziś surówkę ze spisu powszechnego z 2021r.

I ze spisu wynika, że katolików w Polsce jest 71%. To jest proszę państwa ten moment, kiedy przecieramy oczy ze zdumienia. Głównym powodem spadku są wielkie wzrosty osób odmawiających udzielenia odpowiedzi i nie identyfikujących się z żadną religią.

Przy poprzednim spisie katolików było 88% [ale metodologia była inna, a sam Kościół podawał GUSowi szacunek na ponad 95%].
ALE wynik 71% też nie jest dokładny, bo często jedna osoba wypełniała spis całego gospodarstwa domowego.

Także w ciągu 10 lat dokonała się niesamowicie wielka przemiana. Jesteśmy już w zupełnie innym miejscu jeśli chodzi o stosunek do Kościoła. A przecież te 71% to nawet nie są już nawet aktualne dane.

PS. Mamy 2312 pastafarian. Mniam ;3

https://stat.gov.pl/spisy-powszechne/nsp-2021/nsp-2021-wyniki-ostateczne/tablice-z-ostatecznymi-danymi-w-zakresie-przynaleznosci-narodowo-etnicznej-jezyka-uzywanego-w-domu-oraz-przynaleznosci-do-wyznania-religijnego,10,1.html

boud, (edited )
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@hrysku

Briefly in English for non-PL speakers:

  • the results for religion from the 2021 Polish census were published today [1]

  • the result for people stating that they are Roman Catholic has dropped to 71%

  • the 2nd and 3rd biggest groups are those refusing to state their religion (21%) and those not affiliating to any religion (7%)

  • 2312 people (0.006%) declared that they are Pastafarians

[1] https://stat.gov.pl/spisy-powszechne/nsp-2021/nsp-2021-wyniki-ostateczne/tablice-z-ostatecznymi-danymi-w-zakresie-przynaleznosci-narodowo-etnicznej-jezyka-uzywanego-w-domu-oraz-przynaleznosci-do-wyznania-religijnego,10,1.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

boud, to random
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Finally got around to migrating all my non-trivial git repositories from MS/GH to - just before the 2FA-MS/GH-probably-will-require-your-telephone-number deadline. :) I'm keeping my account there since some communication [1] with people can still be useful.

@Gargron 's branch of Mastodon still has issue 22572 of migration unsolved [2].

[1] https://github.com/broukema/transition_off_github

[2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22572

boud,
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There was a thread on this earlier this month: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/111007428064776624

evacide, to random
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In the year 2023, an Egyptian politician had malware delivered to his phone via MITM when he visited a website that was not using HTTPS.

This is why we must finish encrypting the goddamn web.

boud,
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@big_louse

Ahmed Tantawi is not a member of the Egyptian government; he's a former member of parliament [1] who in 2019 tried to get el-Sisi's term to finish in 2022 instead of 2024 [2]. Tantawi's party - the - is explicitly pro-democracy: "25-30" refers to the period from overthrowing Mubarak on 25 January 2011 through to the coup d'etat against Morsi on 30 June 2013 [3].

@evacide

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Tantawi

[2] https://www.madamasr.com/en/2019/11/09/feature/politics/mp-referred-to-ethics-committee-for-proposing-reform-initiative-calling-for-sisis-early-departure-from-office

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25-30_Alliance

boud,
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@evacide @internet_nl

Those types of smses with "Dear user, we detected a login from a device ... If that wasn't you ..." look exactly like the sort of message that colleagues who say there's no alternative to clicking on links in emails/smses would easily fall for. The messages from someone supposedly at FIDH look convincing too (I'm going by the English translation), and specifically tailored to Tantawi.

This is an illustration of the risks of the .

pvonhellermannn, to mastodon
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Interesting piece by Carole on Yanis ’s latest book, “Technofeudalism: what killed capitalism”.

Maybe is its latest reincarnation rather than the end of , but a good term nonetheless to describe our age. Just a shame that neither Varoufakis nor Cadwalladr seem to have made it to yet (maybe not even left #X? I don’t know) - maybe soon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-capitalism-ukraine-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

boud,
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@Loukas @pvonhellermannn @aral

Building transparent institutions with participatory decision-making based on rational, evidence-based discussion, together with non-authoritarian, effective conflict resolution mechanisms is difficult. Apart from the Usenet, Debian, Wikipedia, FOSS in the online world, some of the Pirate Parties are effective in the formal political world, especially in Czechia, Iceland and the European Parliament [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

boud,
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@Loukas @pvonhellermannn @aral

The response [2] does contain several valid points, but the PS contains a critical point of the dispute. The author doesn't understand that in a 60,000-person organisation, "given enough eyeballs, all [decision-making and conflict-resolution] bugs are shallow" [3]. (Appropriate structures, transparent moderation and so on are needed). Julian Assange made the point about secrecy leading to inefficiency.

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220601164024/https://ar.al/downloads/diem-reply.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law

boud,
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@pvonhellermannn If someone knows Varoufakis or Cadwalladr personally, then recommending the Fediverse to them personally would help. Both are busy people and likely only hear arguments from people whom they know directly with sufficient tech knowledge.

Maybe @VaroufakisDE could pass on the message to Yanis Varoufakis? (Though I vaguely seem to remember some blocking controversy about kolektiva.social ...)

boud,
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@livus

I would rather word that as "a second genocide".

Deliberately killing 10% of the Tigrayan population from Nov 2020 to Nov 2022, by: systematically executing males of teenage age and above, massive systematic sexual violence, looting of most food/agricultural/industrial resources and holding a very tight siege is argued by several researchers as showing intent [1][2]. Clearly that was the .

@tallwookie

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Tigray_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_northern_Ethiopia_%282020%E2%80%93present%29

boud,
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@livus

The report itself ([3], point 72) finds (by ENDF + EDF + Amhara/Afar Special Forces + 'fano'), not . Tigrayan forces committed (not crimes against humanity) (point 71).

@tallwookie No, a "UN invasion" would solve nothing. The question for rich-country outsiders is which local/regional/continental groups/institutions should be supported. African civil society has plenty of ideas and is very active.

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230920032323/https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/chreetiopia/A_HRC_54_55_AUV.pdf

boud, to linuxphones
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Did your screen sometimes go and stay dark while you tried to make/receive your first few calls? and you thought it had turned off?

If you want to help collect value data so that the @mobian / PP (and beyond) community can choose a default NEARLEVEL setting based on evidence, please browse the 'proximity_raw_collect_data' script and if it looks OK, run it to collect data and provide your data file as a CC0 merge request [1]. Thanks! :)

[1] https://codeberg.org/boud/pinephone_hacks/src/branch/main/proximity_data

crawfordsm, to Astro
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Reflecting on reproducibility in space science:

My second major paper was reproducing another result on galaxy cluster populations and my results were the opposite of the original work. I was using a different sample and techniques, and I did not attempt to directly reproduce the original work. At a much later point, I had a discussion with some of the original authors about swapping samples but we never found time for that.

boud,
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@crawfordsm @agata

In our reproducible cosmology papers [1][2][3] with we follow the Rougier+2017 definition [4], which in the @turingway diagram puts 'replicable' in the bottom left instead of 'robust'.

I generally say 'reproducible' for 'same data, same analysis', and 'replicable' for the other 3 cases.

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.505.1223P

[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022CQGra..39u5007B

[3] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.525...91P
(use the ArXiv versions for clickable links for reproducibility)

[4] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170704393R

boud,
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@crawfordsm

It would be cool if you could test one of these three papers on a posix-compatible machine with sufficient RAM and disk space. [2] should be doable on any typical recent laptop; all should be doable on a modest cluster.

In principle, just a few commands are needed as ordinary user, plus patience :). Success or failure reports should go to the 'Issues' of the Codeberg repository of the project.

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.505.1223P

[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022CQGra..39u5007B

[3] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.525...91P

Khrys, to random French
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    boud,
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    @seanfobbe

    Is this a world first? A legal case in France against an arms dealer, "Eurofarad" aka "Exxelia", for « complicité de crime de guerre et homicide involontaire » – "aiding and abetting a war crime and manslaughter" of a family in Palestine?

    This could set a huge precedent, it seems to me.

    The arms dealer itself is secretive - it doesn't have an entry in either the en or fr Wikipedias in either its earlier or current name.

    @Khrys

    https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/06/29/crimes-de-guerre-une-famille-palestinienne-va-porter-plainte-contre-une-entreprise-francaise_1462796

    https://www.humanite.fr/monde/armee-israelienne/enfants-tues-a-gaza-en-2014-cest-la-premiere-fois-quune-plainte-est-deposee-contre-un-marchand-darmes-pour-complicite-de-crime-de-guerre

    fedor, to random

    GitHub is "The AI-powered developer platform".

    Not the "Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects." we signed up for years ago. (github's main page from webarchive).

    boud,
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    @fedor

    That just adds one more reason to :

    and to support :

    @forgefed

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    boud,
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    @PGResearchHub @academicchatter

    @switchingsoftware recommends Matrix or Mumble:

    https://switching.software/replace/discord

    and there's also (GPL-2+):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_%28software%29

    !=

    After all, here we're in the free world trying to build a federation of ethical communities. Discord not only uses proprietary software - which is not part of the Commons - it also has other problems:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord#Criticisms_and_controversies

    Discord's abuse of the term "server" does not help knowledge.

    batalanto, to humanrights

    I bring you yet another ironic display of . The UN’s Universal Declaration of has recently become an access-restricted document. If you are in the excluded group you get a error. And worse, if you try to fetch a copy using the , /everyone/ gets to see a copy of the 403 error instead of the human rights declaration because the is blocking the (effectively, the UN has become anti-Library).

    boud,
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    @batalanto

    You're right: dig www.un.org gives

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    www.un.org. XXXX IN CNAME d1z8tokz9k79tw.cloudfront.net.

    Some of the Wayback snapshots got through, e.g. [1].

    What alternatives to can be proposed to UN web sysadmins? Recent thread including @selea @martijn has suggestions such as https://noc.org and

    apt install fail2ban crowdsec

    in [3].

    @beto

    [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811040727/https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

    [2] https://social.linux.pizza/@selea/110843731792358387

    boud,
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    @selea

    Whoops! I didn't realise that... Thanks for the clarification. I see that Cloudfront is in , and Amazon is clearly opposed to most of the UN principles [2].

    @batalanto @martijn @beto

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_CloudFront

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon

    timnitGebru, to random
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    ""As I refreshed my news feed, I saw my father's dead body lying there," he told the BBC's The Comb podcast.

    Not only was Mr Moti devastated by seeing such a horrific image, but this was how he found out that his father had been killed.

    "I kind of froze at that moment. It was really shocking for me," he says."

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64518964

    boud,
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    @timnitGebru

    Is the BBC denying genocide? It says "the majority of those deaths caused by hunger and lack of medical supplies as a result of the fighting" - as if "hunger" just happened without intent. of : there was "not just an attempt to starve six million people but an attempt to cover up what's going on." [1] Also [2][3].

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_northern_Ethiopia_%282020%E2%80%93present%29#Claims_of_intent

    [2] https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2021/04/Starving-Tigray-report-final.pdf

    [3] https://archive.today/20210122115938/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/01/23/after-two-months-of-war-tigray-faces-starvation

    cabd, to Mushrooms

    Boost please British folk. Woods here are FULL of death caps. Amanita phalloides. In decades of picking I have never seen as many as here on Cambridge today. It not even usually common here. It's brutally poisonous, please share a warning to avoid it #mushtodon #fungi #mushrooms

    boud,
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    @zleap @cabd

    A more encyclopedic overview is available in Wikipedia [1] (experts can debate which is more encyclopedic, or even better, improve both of them ... ummm, well, improve one of them further). Although mortality was still in the 10s of % or so in the late XXth century, there's at least one Italian hospital claiming 100% cure with no sequelae for patients hospitalised within 36 hours of eating the mushrooms [2].

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides

    [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650701365834

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