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jonny

@jonny@neuromatch.social

Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

This is a public account, quotes/boosts/links are always ok <3.

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NireBryce, to random
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@jonny sickos.jpg watches rome burn

https://newsie.social/@bespacific/112442504363735169

jonny,
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@NireBryce
Thats literally the business model now. All those fake papers are profit

jonny,
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@NireBryce

  1. roll out new journal on journal platform
  2. publish a bunch of heinous shit priced according to benchmark expected citation counts
  3. when fraud detected, close up journals
  4. return to (1)
elduvelle, to random
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“Are you enjoying Duo Mobile” … 🤔

How can I tell you… I enjoy it as much as having to brush my teeth after each meal or emptying the dishwasher..
do I wish I didn’t have to use it at all? YES
can I do without it at the moment? Unfortunately NO because for some reason our lives are governed by the ever-present but really, really small risk that someone might want to hack my work email..

(Duo mobile is one of these #Authenticator apps)

jonny,
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@elduvelle
Duo is such a huge pain in the ass, I simply cant get into one of my work emails bc its pushes are tied to a phone that doesnt work anymore and IT has like a 7 month lead time to do anything

jonny, to random
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Just got chased out of a lab by a PI while doing a Union walkthrough. I feel bad for people in labs like that man, for your boss to be so tightly hovering over you and actively hostile to your rights as a worker must suck a lot.

jonny,
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First of all we have a legally protected right to be here as representatives of the union that represents your workers. Second of all whats the matter with you lmao

jonny,
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For the record we were being extremely respectful of the lab space and also lab members time, like we were in the process of saying "do you have a second to talk? No? Ok then we can come back later" when we got booted.

jo, to mastodon
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Good morning everyone!

I'm enjoying #mastodon more and more every day. Compared to #bluesky, which only provides a limited amount of features, this instance has granular control of the algorithmic impact of my own posts, explicit opt-in read receipts, and even mini-picture reactions! (I'm still holding out for #memoji support)

The biggest social media transformation is happening in our lives right now, and we shouldn't waste it on inferior platforms who are holding out features and ignoring their principles.

I hope that this trend continues to push out industry forward into making better software, for humans!

Love,

  • Jonathan
jonny,
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@jo
Its perfect

jonny,
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@jo
This is a masterpiece

hailey, to random
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bicycles are the linux of getting around

jonny,
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@whitequark
@scherzog @hailey
That sucks. Idk if this is still the case but there are at least used to be a ton of bikes that were well over the legal power and speed levels - just on a rocker switch for front or rear motors, each of which was legal in isolation, but the rocker conveniently had a middle position that engaged both. I have one that I ride basically like a motorcycle incl up hills and right by cops all the time. Hopefully u find something that works for u ♥

jonny,
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@bhtooefr
@aud @hailey @scherzog @whitequark
Fwiw In the places where ive lived (Oregon and California) this is essentially not enforced - I personally know about a dozen people who ride bikes that go >30mph and none of us has ever gotten stopped for it (ive gotten stopped for disobeying other traffic laws but the cop didnt look twice at the bike which is 100% illegal). Probably different in EU/UK where there actually is bike infra and thus actual safety concerns, but ya in the US you can basically do whatever for now.

There's a guy who has the same commute I do who rides a converted BMX bike that can do 45mph (72km/h) and he wheelies past me all the time.

aclark, to random
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Hey folks!

I'm the creator of Python @pillow & today is my birthday. Can I ask you for a favor?

I'm looking for a new role & I'd appreciate a boost. Check out my resume here:

I'm passionate about Python, open source & making a living with open source. What's the next move?

Thank you @willmcgugan for the nudge ❤️

jonny, (edited )
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@aclark
Thanks for making @pillow !! Edit: also happy birthday!!!

susanleemburg, to random
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OMG but I hate Python.

I just want to run some spike detection code I made a while ago.
Instead of spikes I get a weird error. So now I need to update package 1, which requires updating package 2, 3, 4, 7, and 28, which in turn want a newer version of python (except package 9 which refuses to work now of course), so I also need to reinstall anaconda completely (fuck knows why the upgrade button never works)...
And of course none of that actually runs, so I need to figure out how to make things go in a docker container that is in turn wrapped in whatever the hell a singularity is?

jonny,
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@susanleemburg
Totally hear you. This is why I dont use them and suggest others dont as well - once one piece of something gets locked into using a container or virtualization environment then the rest of it has to too, and it get unnecessarily complicated quick.

jonny,
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@elduvelle
@susanleemburg
Virtual environments are different bc they are part of how python works, conda/docker/etc. Are "on top" of that and end up ratcheting up complexity. Ill hold my tongue on MATLAB bc I think the "just works" is a short term gain and a long term huge loss

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning @elduvelle @susanleemburg @briansimulator ya it's gotten a lot easier to spec dependencies and so if you don't do that (as in the case of a private use script, which is normal) then you don't get access to all the dep resolution stuff that has been made in the last few years. so i just make everything a package now since it's so easy, but that doesn't really help if you haven't done that in the past.

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning
@susanleemburg @elduvelle @briansimulator
The way you would make this easy is to make your scripts into a package (using something like pdm you can just do pdm init) and then specify your dependencies (pdm add). Then it does "just work" because that generates a lockfile with all the versions correctly resolved that you can go back to forever. Making everything backwards compatible forever means packages cant evolve, which is one of the strengths of Python's package ecosystem vs. Static MATLAB builtins, and the alternative is to spec your dependencies which is more or less a single command nowadays.

It might seem finnicky but the intuition is basically "I have code. My code needs other code. I describe what code my code needs" - so when writing a script and you need a package, you just do pdm add package and it both handles adding that dependency and installing it in your venv. P seamless once you get used to it, but ya if you didnt do that in the past then you need to do it now which is a pain when as u say u have other things to do.

The mirror situation in MATLAB is getting a script that uses a bunch of functions that are defined ~ somewhere ~ in the PATH of the person that wrote it, but they might have only been present on that one machine that one time since MATLAB doesnt have a packaging system per se, so the appearance of "just working" in MATLAB is essentially at the expense of having any code that isnt builtin, in one of the extension modules, or hard copied and pasted into the thing youre distributing. A steep tradeoff indeed, since the depth of tool composition becomes exactly 1.

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning
@susanleemburg @elduvelle @briansimulator
Well yeah im not saying backwards compatibility is bad, but in some cases its impossible to maintain forever. Ample deprecation warnings and version range pinning addresses the problem in a way that balances dynamism of ecosystem with stability. See all CRAN or CTAN as an example that is more focused on stability at the expense of dynamism.

jonny,
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@susanleemburg
@elduvelle
This is 100% reasonable

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning
One recent example is pydantic 1->2. That broke a ton of packages, but the changes were uniformly good and made everything work better after the change was swallowed. Like it would have been better to get way more advance notice but just to say there are times when breaking backwards compat is necessary and good. It does require maintenance, but its still possible to use all those old versions with correct upper bounds in their dependencies. For people who dont want to worry about all this and dont intend their code to be used by other packages, doing exact version pins works great and achieves immortal working code.

trochee, to random
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Y'all . I feel silly for not seeing this before

A personal responsibility solution to

  • "ebooks have libraries over a barrel"
  • "ebook hold queues are too long"
  • "don't spend so much time on your phone" problems

(If you live near your local public library; e.g. most American cities)

USE YOUR PHONE TO PLACE A HOLD ON A PAPER COPY

  • shorter waits
  • library doesn't pay Overdrive/Libby rent-seeking fees
  • less time spent on screens
  • occasionally get to take a walk or bike to the library
jonny,
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@trochee
Making egregious amounts of ILL requests and then going and picking them up like little presents to myself is one of my favorite things in the world

lytta, to random
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They aren't biological clones, they're time clones. He's either doing short loops through time for work efficiency, or he's making some sort of time paradox clones. Or he made them by accident trying to get 'home' to his time.

jonny,
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@lytta this is the only thing that makes this movie interesting

jonny, to random
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Root post for where if you are not this account and you reply to it (untag me plz) your posts will show up in monsterdon feed but not your local TL

jonny,
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As usual, if u are seeing this then u will be scrolling into a timeline patch of #monsterdon posts. if you would like to not see them, plz mute the hashtag. https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

JohnAltringham, to random
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We put a few nuts on a log outside the window this evening, for any pine martens that might be passing through... #Skye #PineMarten #ScottishWildlife

The same pine marten, head in full profile.

jonny,
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@JohnAltringham
I want to live where the long squirrels live

ai6yr, to coffee

Interesting, the alcohol content in the hard cider served at La Crêperie de Paris at Epcot is only 3%. Going to brew up a batch of some kind of hard cider here today, probably, and all the recipes seem to be double that.

jonny,
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@ai6yr
Beautiful. Im trying to drink less ATM but a full carboy of Mead is one of the most wonderful things on the earth

jonny,
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@ai6yr
Fruit wines are the best. "Get fruit, clean fruit, pitch, wine" Blackberry is my favorite, just need to let it really age or aerate because it is prone to phenols (which actually sorta rock, makes you feel all tingly and warm)

jonny,
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@ai6yr
Have you been on Jack kellars wine recipe site?

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