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boud

@boud@framapiaf.org

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

#LogicielLibre #FreeSoftware #Debian #Mobian #cosmology #OpenScience #HumanRights (#fedi22)

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boud,
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@melmi @FallGuy217

"" - nice term. :)

On the technical side: I'm doing this toot from the Mastodon side. I used

https://MYINSTANCE/authorize_interaction?uri=LEMMYCOMMENTURL

where MYINSTANCE is the instance I'm on (https://framapiaf.org) and LEMMYCOMMENTURL is the comment I chose to reply to (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/90402).

If I understand federation correctly, my reply should/could turn up on the lemmy instances involved in the thread - even though I don't have a lemmy account.

civodul, to random
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IT: We noticed connections to our services over Tor; it’s a likely sign of malicious activity.

me: Nope, I do use Tor and it’s a sign of privacy protection.

boud,
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@rml @civodul

Tor is but one tool among many:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cryptographic_software

boud, to random
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@nemobis @legoktm

(WMF) has apparently just launched a lawsuit against Russian prosecutors and [1]. No info on the obvious place on the WMF site itself [2], though.

Any solid WP:RS info (Meduza [1] counts, but it's in Russian)?

[1] ru: https://meduza.io/news/2023/05/29/fond-wikimedia-foundation-podal-v-sud-na-genprokuraturu-rf-i-roskomnadzor-iz-za-blokirovki-statey-vikipedii

[2] https://archive.today/2023.05.29-173839/https://wikimediafoundation.org/news

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boud,
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@rmounce

Under the section "Why doesn’t OASPA allow CC-BY-SA", there's no actual evidence-based justification given there, there's only a theoretical explanation.

CC-BY means that the content can be re-used in closed-access publications, and the original authors can be e.g. forbidden from access to/redistribution of the new articles that use their content.

@creativecommons A "CC AGPL" would be good!

@adam42smith @talestomaz @communicationscholars @commodon @academicchatter @academicsunite

boud,
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@adam42smith

"restricts how something can be re-used"

  • Yes, it's analogous to the question of whether intolerance should be tolerated (refusing to tolerate intolerance is a restriction that is accepted in the Fediverse).

Should there be freedom to take away freedom?

As OASPA points to in Wikipedia [1]:
" 'Viral license' is a pejorative name for copyleft licenses."

Hinting that CC-BY-SA is bad is not evidence for it being bad.

@rmounce @talestomaz

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Debate_and_controversy

boud,
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@adam42smith

I don't see any aggressivity in seeking clarity. The analogy seems valid to me. Another analogy is whether democracies should allow anti-democratic political parties to exist. In each case, the theoretical arguments go both ways, and the empirical evidence may or may not support the theory.

As for maximising re-use of content, PD = CC0 (theoretically) maximises use of content, not CC-BY.

CC-BY limits re-use to publications willing to attribute.

@rmounce @talestomaz

kravietz, to random
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media actively distribute a video of GUR head Budanov, who seems to say that after liberation of Crimea there will be a "physical liquidation" of pro-Russian civilians. I was personally sent this video by one Putinist on Telegram yesterday and he was absolutely certain of its genuineness. But I have watched the original interview with Budanov on Crimea and clearly such phrase was not there. They apparently took Budanov's voice from two different interviews and mixed them to construct this "physical liquidation" phrase.

First interview of 30 April where Budanov said:

> Anyone who has committed war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ukraine, particularly very egregious ones such as gang rape or the killing of civilians and children, will be found and liquidated anywhere in the world.^1

Second interview from 19 May where he speaks of Crimea and Sevastopol — this is a TV paraphrase but almost literally quoting what he said:

> Kyrylo Budanov stressed that there were several million Ukrainians who had their psyches warped by Russia. He said that those who can be reformed should be reeducated. All possible ways will be used for that: both stick and carrot.^2

Possibly third interview from 7 May, where he speaks about recent killings of Russian propagandists like Prilepin, Tatarsky etc but it's less likely as it doesn't contain the phrase about "physical liquidation":

> I will comment on, is that we have been killing Russians and will be killing Russians anywhere in the world until Ukraine wins out completely. They have been trying to accuse me of terrorism since 2016. But I want to start by saying that what they call "terrorism", we call liberation. And it didn't start because I went crazy and started killing people in Moscow. It happened because they stormed into our country back in 2014.

boud,
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@kravietz

It would be good if Budanov made a public statement withdrawing his 30 April (2023?) promise to carry out . And someone should educate him: he needs to understand what international humanitarian law and international human rights law are and why they exist.

AlisonCreekside, to random
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Prof. Julia Steinberger reports
that for 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth, but says every single journalist there she spoke to said, "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
She is asking people to spread the word about this.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1659429887751405569.html

boud,
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@AlisonCreekside

For a meta-review of 3 decades of research on the decoupling hypothesis, see https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/345840/Vaden_etal_2020_ESP_author.pdf

sounds like a rational, ethical response to the evidence.

Pinging a few random journalists:

Why are editors so frightened of criticising economic growth? Are they worried about ad-funded journalism collapsing completely like a house of cards? Should the lack of evidence be hidden?

@jperlow @fulelo @winnipegfreepress @StellaArnaldo @pbump @nickkristof @hedtk

rysiek, (edited ) to fediverse
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Well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the . 👀

I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of checks notes 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps? :thinking_rotate:

Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!

boud,
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@rysiek @hrefna

"If ... built a single, reliable, safe, and usable entry point to the Fediverse ..."

Done:

** apps: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous

** servers: https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers

@tchambers @FediThing @Lucinda @ramsey @strypey @feditips

boud,
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@rysiek

I don't follow.

Is one of these criteria missing?

  • reliable
  • safe
  • usable

In terms of "all the rest of fedi ... banded together", isn't a git repository about the best way to band together in an open, transparent, participatory way that can easily be forked in case the maintainers become authoritarian?

@lightone @hrefna @tchambers @FediThing @Lucinda @ramsey @strypey @feditips

boud,
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@FediThing

The Fediverse.party list of instances is curated by humans including @lightone :

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commits/branch/main/source/en/portal/servers/index.md

As for safety or reliability assessment, people active there may wish to speak for themselves, but recent edits such as

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commit/d285473ffb9dc2176a3767910d6a1ac10b3f2eb0

seem to mostly be for instances that are listed as safe spaces and/or for minorities.

@rysiek @hrefna @tchambers @Lucinda @ramsey @strypey @feditips

boud,
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@FediThing

The top of

https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers

says "Information about adding a server can be found here" which links to:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/src/branch/main/ADDING-SERVER.md

The history of changes to that criteria page is here:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commits/branch/main/ADDING-SERVER.md

I don't see those two criteria in the list.

@lightone @rysiek @hrefna @tchambers @Lucinda @ramsey @strypey

boud,
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@FediThing

If there are people willing to do the work to make realistic assessments of moderation + reliability, then it's worth proposing those as criteria.

People willing to do that work could post an issue at

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues

or find out from @lightone about using complementary communication such as fediverse threads.

My guess is that Fediverse.party people don't want to state criteria that sound good but are not checked in reality.

@rysiek @hrefna @tchambers @Lucinda @strypey

boud,
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@FediThing

I forgot about https://fedi.garden, sorry! And it looks like you're doing the work of checking these individual instances for reliability and moderation. I proposed including fedi.garden as a curated list on fediverse.party:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/pulls/145

Are https://joinmastodon.org/servers, https://pixelfed.org/servers and https://mastodonserver.ca curated?

https://mastodonserver.ca/?page_id=2 has a bad typo: lists are added on a "fist come first serve basis"... @mike

@hildabast @jdp23 @rysiek

rysiek, to random
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RIP Metaverse
An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard
https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

> Zuckerberg declared in a March update that Meta's "single largest investment is advancing AI and building it into every one of our products." Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told CNBC in April that he, along with Mark Zuckerberg and the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, were now spending most of their time on AI.

:chefkiss:

h/t @intelwire

boud,
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@Natanox

Even a strictly open market (without "mysterious ways") is a trickle-up economy if there is no wealth redistribution. You can run a model with octave in a few seconds [1]. The code is just a few lines.

[1] https://codeberg.org/boud/yardsale

@rysiek @FediThing @intelwire

MarkRubin, to science
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Open Science and Academic Workload

New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error:

“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”

Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5








@stsing
@academicchatter

boud,
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@fresseng @mike @MarkRubin

Hostler's overall arguments are valid.

A good followup paper could consider the obstructive role of "software controls us" proprietary software in contrast to FOSS "we control software" - both for administration and research.

He gently hints that FOSS is needed: "teaching reproducible analysis software like R". Making R reproducible in practice also requires some work [1][2].

@stsing @academicchatter

[1] https://codeberg.org/boud/maneage_dev/src/branch/maneage/reproduce/software/make/r-cran.mk

[2] https://git.maneage.org/project.git/tree/reproduce/software/make/r-cran.mk

axbom, to random
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”By donning a second-hand hat, a 74-year-old man is about to become monarch of a small island kingdom”

As expected, the best reporting on today’s coronation comes from @thecontinent

While many mentioned atrocities are well-known, this part of erased African history is rarely talked about:

”While England has records of who lived in what village in 1068, its empire was quick to destroy the histories of those it colonised. These could then be overwritten with Protestant orthodoxy and white exceptionalism, banning things like queer love, once part of Africas cultural fabric.”

https://www.thecontinent.org/

Article: Time to turn that crown upside down By donning a second-hand hat, a 74-year-old man is about to become monarch of a small island kingdom. Sipho Kings in Europe “You can shove your monarchy up your arse,” sang the supporters of Celtic football club in Glasgow last weekend. It is safe to say that there are few people in Scotland who will be obeying the official exhortation to swear “true allegiance” to their new head of state. King Charles III is the newest head of an unelected family that has ruled the country and its empire for generations – term limits don’t apply here – and who built their wealth on empire, slavery, mass killings, weaponised rape and the calculated devastation of entire cultures. British taxpayers will pay $130-million for the pleasure of watching his coronation which just 9% of them “care a great deal” about, according to the latest YouGov poll. Over the centuries, the British royal family have made Africans – and other imperial subjects – pay a far higher price. Not that it is easy to pin down the details. While England has records of who lived in what village in 1068, its empire was quick to destroy the histories of those it colonised. These could then be overwritten with Protestant orthodoxy and white exceptionalism, banning things like queer love, once part of Africa’s cultural fabric. It has worked hard to forget the details of its past. In Kenya, colonial officials burned 3.5-tonnes of documents that allegedly detailed atrocities by British forces. With their history overwritten, Africans are left rebuilding, and contesting the dominant, Western narrative of Africa as a self-inflicted basket case. The family that drove this generational injustice has held on to what it stole, refusing to acknowledge responsibility, or make things right. At this weekend’s coronation, far from hiding its sordid history, the family’s ill-gotten gains will take centre stage. Charles and his wife will wear crowns with hundreds of precious stones plundered from around the world. The largest, the Star of Africa, is embedded in the royal sceptre, the symbol of his sovereignty over country and commonwealth. It’s the world’s largest diamond, a “gift” in 1905 from South Africa, which England had just conquered. The blood of Africans flows deep behind the glitter of gold leaf.

boud,
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@axbom @aral @dgavin

Leaving aside the serious questions, can you imagine having to wear a 2.2 kg crown [1] for however long Chazza had to wear it and keep your head+neck perfectly balanced so as not to have the embarrassment of dropping an object worth megadollars? A single bad sneeze and there disappears another big chunk of the UK budget for repairs ... And the symbolism would have been ... interesting ...

'The Continent' looks excellent: @thecontinent

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edward%27s_Crown

nemobis, to fediverse
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Social issues require social solutions. Technology alone never suffices.

Wannabe "competitors" always failed to learn this simple lesson. Now proprietary "alternatives" to the make the same mistake.

boud,
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@nemobis

Fully agree. A lot of the key processes in Wikipedia are conventions that were not initially constrained technically but evolved socially. Bots got written to support conventions that were accepted socially.

elizabethtasker, to random
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This is a brilliant article that combines the search for dark matter with the day-to-day battle of living with long covid for @AstroRoyalScot, Catherine Heymans.

It's amazing, inspiring, shocking, hopeful and terrifying all at the same time.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/02/catherine-heymans-dark-universe-the-cosmologist-battling-long-covid

boud,
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@elizabethtasker @AstroRoyalScot
@stephenserjeant @cartographer

So I wonder if mentioning @cosmology will start off the "content" of this group?

https://a.gup.pe/u/cosmology

https://a.gup.pe

https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110301424218417321

gwensnyder, to random
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Do masks work?

Antimaskers point to a thoroughly dubunked study.

Mask defenders point out that the study has been thoroughly debunked.

A REAL MYSTERY

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/opinion/masks-pandemic.html

boud,
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@rysiek @palafo @gwensnyder

I don't see debunking of "We don't know":

The Conclusions start:
"The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

The Plain language summary starts:
"We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed."

NYT archived: https://archive.today/2023.04.30-141750/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/opinion/masks-pandemic.html

boud, to random
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@nemobis @OliverEscobar @kamil_bernaerts @OtwartaNauka @civodul

1/4
Could Polish universities implement authentic ?

'Innovation and Conservatism 2.0' [1] collects in-depth analyses of Polish universities' implementations of the 2018 Ustawa 2.0 [2] that radically restructured the system, increasing per-university centralisation via the Rector. Chapter 4 (Democratic aspects): how unis reorganised to conserve or recreate some aspects of democracy.

spaceraser, to random
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So, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m going to go out here on a limb and say that it seems to me that the majority of good faith criticism of the vibe on mastodon, calling it “stuffy” and “no fun”, comes from people who joined mastodon.social, after complaining loudly that there was no default instance to quickly onboard people to the new service.

So like, the irony, I guess, is what hit me this morning.

boud,
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@batalanto

What non-free software is Fosstodon forcing people to execute?

The 'view source code' on fosstodon.org points to Microsoft, and todon.nl's 'view source code' points to Microsoft too - this is a known bug [1]; framapiaf.org does not point to MS.

@amoroso @spaceraser @fullyabstract @mike @kev

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

boud, to random
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@dasaptaerwin

is not going to get many reviewers for its system if after two and a half months, a review of version 2 of a paper is still not published:

https://f1000research.com/articles/11-344/v2

Receipt of my second review was confirmed by email on 6 Feb 2023 ...

had a nice idea, but currently it doesn't seem to be working.

https://framapiaf.org/@boud/108669474100439567

mtarr, to random

What is Mastodon for? Self promotion or constructive engagement? I wonder about scientists that discuss/critique other's work in their own work, but then won't engage when queried about it here. Or journals/editors that promote their journals/positions in Mastodon, but then won't engage in any discussion that challenges any of their policies, etc? Maybe there should be a separate Mastodon server instance entitled something like "neuromatch.promotion" or "scientific.promotion" where they understanding is that authors, journals, etc can post their self-promoting toots without any expectation of responding to comments, questions, etc. Then we can decide who or what we want to follow on that server, but for the .social instances, we can focus on actual discussion?

boud,
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@maegul @NicoleCRust @mtarr @elduvelle

The only engagement that seems to have followed posting [1] is views on Zenodo (and a discussion) - there's not much of a Fediverse response that can be given to the number of Zenodo views ...

[1] https://zenodo.org/record/7792910 = https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00591

boud, to random
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@cartographer @stephenserjeant @NatureAstronomy

Could galaxy motions detect ?

Yes: is known since 2007 [1]. But Newtonian approx. to gravity in S^3 requires replacing

F ∝ 1/r^2

by

F ∝ 1/(sin r)^2

and 1/(sin r)^2 in S^3 gives paradox: repulsive point mass @antipode [2]. A better Newtonian-like limit is needed. For a hint see [3][4]. :)

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...463..861R

[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009A%26A...502...27R

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09102

[4] https://codeberg.org/boud/topoaccel

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