‚Zachránil mnoho bojovníků.‘ Zraněný český medik, který pomáhal na Ukrajině, zemřel
(iRozhlas / ČTK)
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The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.

It's that they followed through after they became professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%8…

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Not only does the Science story fail to call them on this; its author falls into the one of the oldest and most pernicious traps around algorithmic bias.

The author contrasts the use of "automated methods" with reliance on "human prejudice", entirely overlooking the fact that the automated methods proposed here are nothing but the explicit and fully-descirbed instantiation of human prejudice.

It's truly an embarrassment all around.

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UPDATE: The paper is on pubpeer, with a response from lead author Sabel.

I find it to be a completely unsatisfactory effort at misdirection, but decide for yourself.

The irony of this guy writing a preprint that spectacularly overestimates the frequency of fake papers using ridiculous methods, getting Science and NPR and a host of right-wing news organizations to pick it up, and then saying "The loss of trust in science is the key issue we should worry about."

pubpeer.com/publications/0CE23…

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Nabízím turistickou navigaci Garmin GPSMAP 66sr

Je to jedna z mála navigací, podporující původně letecké pásmo L5/E5. Tedy má vyšší přesnost v členitém terénu.
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@Marco
SocialHub admins are looking for people to join their Wellbeing team. People who can mediate conflict in a calm and reasonable way, and tell the difference between temporary grumpiness and patterns of trolling.

This explains pretty well why SocialHub exists:

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

Are you interested?

Can you think of anyone else who might be a good candidate? They're looking to diversify the team a bit. So particularly keen to welcome people who aren't straight, white, and cis.

in reply to Strypey

Thanks, and I appreciate the team wanting to diversify the moderation team. However, since I no longer work, for health reasons, and that work involved quite some stress with W3C procedures as well, I do not think me joining this social hub thingie would be a good idea. Not only would it probably not do my mental health any good, but it would also mean I could get unreliable, which would be unfair to the team. So I must decline.

Welcome Thomas Taylor as #curl commit author 1142: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1111…
#curl

software engineering; empathy; #NeverWorkInTheory
"Empathy Models and Software Engineering" neverworkintheory.org/2023/05/… As generative AI takes over the routine aspects of writing code, the ability to understand people's viewpoints and needs—in short, the ability to empathize—is going to become the key skill for software engineers.

Uni. Helsinki

I can't believe what I am reading.

My home university is ditching physical diplomas for digital ones. I sort of see the upsides from the sustainability and e-authentication POV, but the printed diploma with all the twirls, embossing and ornaments is so cool. Sometimes having a physical symbol of your achievement is important. They suggest showing your diploma to relatives "from a laptop screen" or printing it on normal printer paper.....

studies.helsinki.fi/instructio…

¿Alguien me explica esto para que lo entendamos los de la España profunda?

20 minutos, ; Sánchez anuncia dos nuevas medidas que beneficiarán a los enfermos de cáncer y a los discapacitados

20minutos.es/noticia/5128092/0…

Today's #AndroidAppRain brings you 58 updated and 1 added (*) app at F-Droid, plus 11 updated and 1 added (+) apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* Smart Dock: a desktop mode launcher
+ WireGuard: WireGuard Secure VPN Tunnel¹

¹ already at F-Droid, but added at authors request to keep up with the apps release pace. Install from F-Droid first, update where it arrives first (reproducible build)

Enjoy your #free & #foss #android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

V západních městech se opravdu jezdí na kole a se sportem to nemá co dočinění. Kola se používají levná, aby je nikdo nekradl a klidně je lidi nechávají na vlakových stanicích S-Bahn a vlastně všude.

To je celý super 🙂

Jenže protože jsou kola levná, tak se občas nevyplatí se už pro něj vracet. Nikdo ho nechce, neukradne... A tak zůstane někde prostě opřené nafurt. Takže jednou za čas se sešrotují. Tolik k ekologii a plýtvání zdroji.

#Bonn

#bonn
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Yes I think so. However for autocompletes, the WAI-ARIA authoring practices also have some good examples. The "dangers" involving menu and menu item roles, as well as screen reader behaviors, are still valid and haven't changed. See also: marcozehe.de/wai-aria-menus-us… which is also still valid. And don't expect much change in that regard anytime soon, either. So yes, listbox and option it is.

We're spreading the news! Check out our latest blog, "Follow Freedom Scientific on Mastodon:" blog.freedomscientific.com/fol…

#FreedomScientific #Fediverse #Introduction #Introductions #FreedomScientificTraining

We've reached a new peak for #adware intrusiveness.

More and more businesses that rely on ads and data collection for their revenue are struggling to prove the sustainability and profitability of their model. As a result, they're becoming more and more aggressive in ads and data collection. With the discreteness of their data collection programs gone long ago, their new goal is to make a world full of adware and spyware the new normal.

Google is now showing ads in the middle of your emails, and YouTube is disabling streaming unless you disable your ad-blocker.

But it's hard to think of an idea more intrusive than PlutoTV's new marketing stunt. They're giving away 500k smart 4k TVs for free, with an embedded Chromecast included.

The catch? Their 55-inch TVs will have a secondary 9-inch display physically soldered on top that you can't turn off and that displays ads 24/7.

Anyone else feels some echoes of 1984 at the idea of a display in your home that you can't turn off and whose content you can't control?

entertainment.slashdot.org/sto…

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#Tusky 22.0 beta 3 is out.

- Fixed crash when viewing a thread
- Fixed crash processing Mastodon filters
- Links in bios of follow/follow request notifications are clickable
- Android notification for a Mastodon notification should only be shown once
- Android notifications are grouped by Mastodon notification type (follow, mention, boost, etc)
- Potential for missing notifications has been removed

Full details at github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele…

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in reply to 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊

@selea Yeah, sorry about that. I've put some suggestions in github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu… until the fix is rolled out.

New Igalia Chats Episode: Steam Powered Open Source

@Meyerweb and @bkardell sit down to chat with fellow Igalians @samuelig and Clayton Craft about the Steam Deck and interesting work that Igalia does to power it.

igalia.com/chats/steam-powered…