gatoesceptico @gatoesceptico@social.privacytools.io
MĂ©dico residente en psiquiatrĂa con muchos intereses: matemĂĄticas, filosofĂa, sociologĂa, FOSS, conlangs. #ancom
Joined Oct 2020
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Speckled Mousebird, in Kimeru language they are known as âMuthumbiâ
Tembea #Kenya
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Digital security trainings have a better chance of succeeding if all learners have a similar threat model, but sometimes trainers are asked to work with broad audiences. Here are some tips for what to do when that happens. https://sec.eff.org/articles/different-threat-models
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A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25980901
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While many people rightly are concerned with the power of companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, the uproar around Section 230 is misplaced. Itâs not 230 that is the problem. Itâs oligopoly. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/its-not-230-you-hate-its-oligopolies
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What is an acceptable amount of insect parts and rodent hair in your peanut butter? If you're in the USA and eat food from commercial food sources, the answer probably isn't "none". As it says on the site, the amounts are expected to be less than the amounts listed: they're "defect action levels" meaning it's something the FDA would act on if that amount is detected, but it's worth thinking about the fact that we're accepting these limits already.
Prompted by https://freakonomics.com/podcast/disgust/
#freakonomics #usa #food #usgov
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Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
Link: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940676
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The problem with with designing metrics is that behavior ends up being optimized towards what's actually being measured as opposed to what was intended. The same problem exists in the context of machine learning and managing human organizations.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-surprise-us
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The ongoing events around /r/wallstreetbets teaches us, once again, about the value of open platforms, and the tremendous risk involved in using proprietary platforms. The economic elites who control those proprietary platforms, backed by their venture capital interests, will shut us down if we threaten them. Weâre taking serious risk by casting our lot with them.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/28/Use-open-platforms-or-else.html
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When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it, just as we will come down hard on companies that do the wrong thing.
Here, Apple is right and Facebook is wrong.
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How SEO is ruining everything you love about being online.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet
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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
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How âengagementâ made the web a less engaging place
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Nice resource for finding Open Science tools
research paper on tool accessibility (broad, non-disability sense):
https://f1000research.com/articles/9-1292/v1
interactive graph of tools and their relationships: https://kumu.io/a2p/dost#dataset
#opensource #openscience #openaccess
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âI passionately believe that science - all this wonderful knowledge that humans have come together to create - should be open to everyone.â
â Prof. Alice Roberts
@theAliceRoberts@twitter.com
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Hiding messages in images: steganography with Python and Repl.it
Link: https://docs.repl.it/tutorials/13-steganography
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25859891
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Finally back to LineageOS, I've had it previously on my Nexus 5 (RIP) but I haven't been using it since I didn't have phone which supports it. Now I've finally unlocked Xiaomi Redmi note 8 pro with little hassle but trouble was worth it. Lineage seems very fast although some functionality is missing such is selfie camera (feature?) and fingerprint unlock. Anyway if anyone needs help unlocking xiaomi or have questions about functionality feel free to ask.
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Buenos dĂas, el tema de la manta elĂ©ctrica es mĂĄs delicado de lo que parece...voy a tener que agenciarme alguna mĂĄs.
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US Defense Intelligence Agency admits to buying citizensâ location data. The agency claims it doesnât need a warrant to collect the info.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-memo-admits-buying-smartphone-location-data
MĂ©dico residente en psiquiatrĂa con muchos intereses: matemĂĄticas, filosofĂa, sociologĂa, FOSS, conlangs. #ancom
Joined Oct 2020
