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grimalkina, to random
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It's REALLY weird to me when people in software mine research papers for their content and say "researchers" instead of naming the scientists who actually did the work they're using. We're human beings and our work is our livelihood (at a fraction of yours I might add). Name us.

Blessed for the community around me that has this value, side eye at the content engine that doesn't.

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief @grimalkina @glyph you're right about something like 97-98% https://creativecommons.org/2004/05/25/announcingandexplainingournew20licenses/

I only vaugely recall, but I think a big part of the rationale was simplification, including for CC -- at the time it was just starting to "port" licenses to as many jurisdictions as possible, and 5 fewer was good. Of course the better simplification later was to stop porting. I was no doubt enthusiastic about getting rid of plain SA for being incompatible with BY-SA but I doubt anyone else cared.

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief @grimalkina @glyph my previous reply was a tangent. I'm not aware of research exactly, but I probably did pull the 97-98% number out of logs, and there was lots of discussion on mailing lists. https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2003-02/msg00002.html an early suggestion.

luis_in_brief, to random
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I’ll be there.
https://mastodon.social/@avilarenata/112370958652498664

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief love how whoever came up with the name dropped the l[icense].

evan, to random
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I just dropped my Summer 2024 semester class for so I can concentrate on the Summer of Protocols grant for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I'm pretty bummed; this is my second semester in a row that I've had to drop out. But I just can't hold down a day job, work a full-time role on the grant, and do graduate school classes. It's just too much.

mlinksva,
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@evan if I ran a MSCS program, I would give you credit for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I know, classes are different, probably complements to practical projects, no matter how innovative. Mostly want to leave a note of respect and thanks to you. Go Evan!

ArneBab, to ArtificialIntelligence German
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If today’s “grow or perish” is good for , how come that most of the exponential innovation in technology (in ) depends on a foundation which has in its rules to secure the right of the employees and to advance the craft — but not growth?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung#Founding

mlinksva,
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@ArneBab Carl Zeiss Foundation looks very interesting, the enwp article is very inadequate. I read an autotranslated version of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung and looked at the articles about the two wholly owned companies Carl Zeiss AG and Schott AG.

What are you referring to with ~"most of the exponential innovation in computer hardware depends on CZ"? I couldn't discern this from reading those articles or the foundation's website, would enjoy learning about it (and perhaps adding to article).

mlinksva, to random
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Rare to encounter a new-to-me take/critique/analysis of innovation policy restrictions but here's one (or two), intellectual monopolies as tax farming and off the books government debt by @DeanBaker13 (also recommend following as one of few people regularly writing about IP as a big picture policy issue rather than a niche/specialist concern) https://econtwitter.net/@DeanBaker13/111607422552692198 https://cepr.net/the-national-debt-tax-farming-and-patent-monopolies/

luis_in_brief, to random
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our digital records “don’t do justice to the wonder of what people do and have done” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I always fight to retain a sense of wonder at what we’ve created here, especially the deliberately collective triumphs like Wikipedia. We can and should dream big about creating global commons together. https://hcommons.social/@mia/111465286153806529

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief trivially true, but also, additional interrogation of the records could make the gap smaller.

evan, (edited ) to random
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What do you call this war?

mlinksva,
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@evan the "2023 Israel–Hamas war Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict Part of the Cold War (1956, 1967–1991)" per English Wikipedia, complete with en dashes.

Curiously since the above war is not within the territory of the former USSR it isn't post-Soviet, thus the non-overlapping years, cf

"Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War Part of the post-Soviet conflicts"

Wow no en dash in those names. Surely there have been massive edit wars

brewsterkahle, to random
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"Nigeria: the best copyright law in the world?

EIFL’s analysis of Nigeria’s new copyright law shows it to be one of the best in the world with respect to libraries
"

https://www.eifl.net/blogs/nigeria-best-copyright-law-world

I like the sound of this.

Copyright laws that are balanced-- wouldn't that be nice? Licensing on top of copyright is insane.

mlinksva,
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@brewsterkahle very interesting. Very idle question: Best enough to enventually open IANG?

Nigeria country code conveniently enough also expands to next generation.

evan, to random
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mlinksva,
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@evan

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legoktm, to Wikipedia
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Most of the core editors of the English 's US Roads WikiProject have forked to a new wiki hosted by AARoads:

https://wiki.aaroads.com/

The rationale was explained in the final edition of the US Roads newsletter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Newsletter/Issues/Volume10/Issue01

Best of luck to them, I genuinely hope it works out. More wikis!

mlinksva,
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@Greg @legoktm am I reading correctly that the tl;dr is deletionists drive contributors away? Sad but best of luck!

Ofc I had to search for wikidata https://wiki.aaroads.com/w/index.php?search=wikidata&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go and fooled myself thinking the sole current result was for AARoads' wiki roadmap, but am more tickled that it's an article about road maps https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/Road_map

+1 to @luis_in_brief wish for first class cross-wiki merges https://social.coop/

evan, (edited ) to random
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What do you want to do to the fediverse?

mlinksva,
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@evan I'd E-ncapsulate it. Speaking with extreme naivety, but that is to say with this half-baked allusion, rooting for whatever I imagine @spritelyinst might be cooking up.

CyberneticForests, to random
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Concerning the identification and labeling of training data for opt-in and opt-out, does anyone know why CLIP doesn't do this when it identifies an image-text pairing based on metadata? If it can cluster images of flowers, can it cluster images of CC-BY-SA and Copyright and a hypothetical CC-NAI license?

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief @CyberneticForests @creativecommons think I've seen recentish estimages of >2b works but not breakdowns; maybe https://openverse.org/about is the closest to a source? @kat is in a better place to know of course. 10y out of date page https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/metrics

[1] above is careful and informed thinking by Tilman (who I think might not be on here yet?), as always

petersuber, to random
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New study: "A considerable amount of publications from developing countries are excluded from the global flow of scientific information due to the absence of ."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2023.1207980/full

mlinksva,
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@petersuber metadata expensive, infrastructure expensive, of course costs born in unintended (I hope) ways. I guess answer here is to increase availability of DOIs globally.

But I'm idly&ultra-naively curious: how much metadata, particularly authority control, extra paricularly when ultimately gatekeeped with $, is YAGNI, or at least possibly glboal costs > benefits.

What if instead the world had invested more in say Cool URIs, 3rd party/post-publicaiton/community (eg Wikidata) cataloging?

luis_in_brief, to random
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WAT. This is great.

From: @kdrag0n
https://mastodon.social/@kdrag0n/111036694598062129

mlinksva,
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@luis_in_brief @kdrag0n TIL, that is great; how many times has my brain hurt just a tiny bit because similar numbers don't line up, one of them containing a 1 or something: many. Also I needed a reminder that computers don't just bloat, sometimes new capabilities are just nicer.

gvwilson, to random
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Spouse is worried about malware on an Android tablet; brand-name anti-virus/cleanup tools all seem to collect personal data. Any recs from personal experience w/ open source/non-surveillant tools we could try?

mlinksva,
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@gvwilson @rheijdendael I also don't have an answer, but idly interested so hope a good one is provided by someone.

Mostly through osmosis, I gather typical digital self-defense advice (eg links in https://www.accessnow.org/help/; https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-do-i-protect-myself-against-malware#what-should-i-do-if-i-find-malware-on-my-computer; https://digitalfirstaid.org/en/topics/device-acting-suspiciously/questions/android-badend/) is factory reset, though that's pretty unsatisfactory/high cost as next strep from eyeballing installed apps for suspicious ones, thus my curiosity.

Good luck!

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you own a flag?

mlinksva,
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@evan flags vex illogically me, lol.

If did own a flag, I'd need another: two semaphore flags.

Does a flag NFT count? I'll check your FAQ. jk!

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you compost?

mlinksva,
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@evan vermi

petersuber, to opensource
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New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve , particularly when combined with publication."
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1

mlinksva,
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@petersuber thanks for sharing, useful.

Mild peeve: the paper's link to its code is buried in a supplementary .docx file; download, copy paste https://github.com/bmaitner/R_citations into browser :-/

humantransit, to random
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Excellent news for the planet, if not always for you personally. Airfares need to reflect the environmental harm of flying, and that means they need to be higher (especially where they compete with trains!) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-10/airline-travelers-will-pay-trillions-to-clean-up-carbon-footprint-of-flying

mlinksva,
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@humantransit I'm 100% for higher airfares via a stiff carbon fee. This story seems to mostly be about adopting biofuels, which to date have been a massive boondoggle ($, land use, food security). Is there any reason to think this will be otherwise?

TheWarOnCars, to random
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“Tyre Extinguishers firmly believes that their action is a necessary escalation to try and stop these vehicles from wrecking further lives and continuing to push the worsening climate crisis off the cliff edge."

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/land-rover-garage-exeter-attack-wimbledon-crash-girls-school-b1099141.html

mlinksva,
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@TheWarOnCars I often wonder why there is so little direct action action against cars given the enormity of their murderous impact, though maybe it exists and is not widely reported?

Anyway, interesting data point. Their website appears to be at https://www.tyreextinguishers.com/ and are quite active at https://twitter.com/T_Extinguishers

Also, you wouldn't steal a... https://www.tyreextinguishers.com/steal-this-website

mlinksva, to H5N1
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Extremely scary spreading mammal-to-mammal. End human-other_animal contact, starting with human-mink contact https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303408120 (via https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1681999179118256129)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1#Mammal-to-mammal_transmission_(2022%E2%80%932023)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_farming

mlinksva,
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Eradicate all fur farms, immediately, your life depends on it https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1.html?unlocked_article_code=3Gw9EkQC4NSq3fSQf8r3e53ZPw3CXrgMJHgRNUJsod6IdM0VgN9qHBoarjVgpFeu2RPEwEjGs7O5DZXIbp8ZeSlymleSmd4KkllZHO8-jahK8qiPA9ODhTCguNcHy3YGsKEewSmzkATeO0GjEdAvjQRxvZ1SrD5CeAlgEyLcaR0LHekzd3rF8SQijHwMPLpBkucJz7Te_RfD9ztbdwSM5udv8RKZzjAMohzZMRvrqVXmKi5BmNyUFf-SPiMT0HgEAem0am5b87KDXZrVm2ZdRzjf2eQlemS2MD-J1qzERq280qNHNALNzz_mPJ9-RGZUFuYYfrCqvA&smid=url-share

(via https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1697234271931449478)

mlinksva,
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I think AI doomers are unhinged and have for years predicted we'll see terrorism from them, hopefully we won't be if we do hopefully/probably something pathetic a la unabomber 2.0.

However I've got a tiny bit of empathy for 'em. In a better world, a police force (UN?) would bomb fur farms in barbaric territories, not to counter barbarism, but to prevent pandemic in the rest of the world.

cf AI doomer trope of bombing data centers, that's the connection.

mlinksva,
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In the meantime, whether you're worried about H5N1 or something designed with AI assistance, it's a total no brainer to invest in air filtration/proper ventilation. Anyone not participating in the war for clean air hates me, and I take it personally.

mlinksva,
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What is the state of the war for clean indoor air? How can I find out how safe I will be in a particular location? Is there an accepted way of measuring indoor air quality/filtration/ventilation that is simple enough that every building, even every room, could be annotated with a score eg in OpenSteetMap?

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