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Diversity in tech isn't just good - it's vital. PureOS: Secure, private, and free from Big Tech monopolies. #ChooseFreedom
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Avoiding a Monoculture with Secure Diverse Technology – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#choosefreedom

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Who needs Project 2025 when The Donald could be so easily swayed to return us to 1925, halfway through the forced sterilization of 30,000 Americans in the eugenics program that influenced the Nazis.

“My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’”
time.com/7002003/donald-trump-…

#accessibility


My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’

Fred Trump III describes conversations with his uncle about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Fred C. Trump III (Time)
#Accessibility
in reply to Sean Randall

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Sean Randall

Great fun watching the Archery at the #olympics yesterday, and more qualifying for GB this morning.
The skill and focus needed is impressive, I've only personally done rifle shooting and that was taxing too. The noise of archery is very distinctive, though, and easy to follow by ear.
Tennis again this evening. If Dan and Andy - Dandy? Can pull off another win, well. Hard to imagine how that'll feel.
GB are also in the rowing for a title today, among plenty of other things.
#olympics
in reply to David Goldfield

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Brian Hartgen

@DavidGoldfield No I don't think it says that. Sometimes even some Americans mispronounce that word to my ears anyway. Where I had an issue was when we got to the bridge onward. Despite my original document having no spelling errors, the AI tool insisted on singing, Tors for Windows. That tune was too good to lose, so I simply edited it and substituted the T sound for a J. Strange it did that, but AI can do interesting things.
@David Goldfield

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Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more

By Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Here's my advice on how to design your course to be more ADHD-friendly. Many of these tips will help students regardless of #ADHD diagnosis: scaffolding large projects and being abundantly consistent about instructions.

#Academia #UDL #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #DisabledInSTEM

theadhdacademic.weebly.com/tea…

Check your assumptions. Instructors may assume ADHD students are lazy, immature, rude, inattentive, or not taking the course seriously when the reality is often ADHD students are overwhelmed when given poorly organized instructions, excited to learn, making many connections very quickly, struggling to remember and work with all of their creative ideas, and frustrated because their brains don't fit the system.

Course design - ways to help ADHD folks

Learning environments are often not created with ADHD learners in mind; struggles with working memory, regulating attention, and executive functions create different challenges for us. Making your...
the ADHD Academic
#adhd #academia #academicchatter #highered #DisabledInSTEM #udl
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Ryan Randall

@matt 1) Having assistance breaking large projects into smaller tasks is something that ADHD people can often receive as workplace accommodations, so this is an acknowledged problem in the work world rather than something exclusively expected of individual employees themselves. (See askjan.org/disabilities/Attent… as an example.) Workplaces, like many instructors, are invested enough in people's success that they will work with them to help make it happen.

2) Just like any other skill, most learners will acquire the ability to break things down into smaller chunks if they have it explicitly modeled for them, rather than absorbing it through osmosis.

3) Almost all learners—ADHD or otherwise—will produce work that's more what the instructor has in mind if they receive some degree of formative feedback along the way. Chunking projects helps this feedback be more manageable / useful for everyone.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Accommodation and Compliance: ADHD
askjan.org
@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell

@PacificNic @KitMuse @belehaa I don't believe either of those things. But I wonder if ADHD requires accommodations from teachers, employers, etc., or if it only requires the people who have it to know how to work around their own disability.

I'm legally blind. I understand why a sensory disability requires external accommodations. I just wonder if the same applies to ADHD. I should probably go off and learn more about this on my own before I say anything more.

@B Haas @Kit Muse @Nic, Fermenting The Vibes
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Kit Muse

@matt @PacificNic @belehaa I appreciate your willingness to learn. Speaking only as someone who wasn't diagnosed until they were 48 and in the final semester of a dual major bachelor's (I'm now a graduate student), learning that I was ADHD changed me from believing I was broken to someone whose mind worked differently. It literally facilitated the healing journey I'm on, moving it from fumbling around feeling like I was broken by trauma to understanding why it happened.
@Matt Campbell @B Haas @Nic, Fermenting The Vibes
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theADHDacademic

@matt Why should it be up to the teacher to teach how to write a project proposal, how to evaluate a project's success, how to work as part of a team? Aren't these skills that the student will need to learn to do for themselves when they want to take on a large project in the workplace?

Read more about scaffolding as an educational term. It's about gradually removing support over time so that the students work independently eventually rather than chuck them off the deep end and see who swims.

@Matt Campbell

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OpenAI Just Released SearchGPT. It’s Already Error Prone. (...The tool then pulls up a list of festivals that it states are taking place in Boone this August, the first being An Appalachian Summer Festival, which according to the tool is hosting a series of arts events from July 29 to August 16 of this year. Someone in Boone hoping to buy tickets to one of those concerts, however, would run into trouble...) theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

OpenAI Just Released SearchGPT. It’s Already Error Prone.

OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.
Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
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Did you know Tuta offers discount plans for NGOs?

We spoke to the Committee for Justice, a Swiss-based Organization who use Tuta Mail as their end-to-end email provider.

Find out more on the CFJ, their work and why they chose Tuta: tuta.com/blog/how-tuta-helps-o…
#givingback #nonprofit #privacy

The landing page image of the Committee for Justice (CFJ)

How the Committee for Justice uses Tuta Mail to fight for human rights.

With Tuta Mail, the Committee for Justice ensures private and confidential communications for sensitive matters related to human rights and the United Nations.
Tuta
#privacy #nonprofit #givingback

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Guide for Using Mastodon Search. It’s easier and more powerful than you… | by Mark Wyner | Jun, 2024 | Medium markwyner.medium.com/guide-for…

Guide for Using Mastodon Search - Mark Wyner - Medium

One of the biggest complaints I hear about Mastodon is that its local search is unusable. It certainly was. But not anymore. Now it’s quite powerful, if you know the basics. So here’s a primer for…
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This has been out for nine months already, and the feedback has been very positive. With airplay on BBC 6 music among other stations, it's garnered quite a lot of attention in the media.
The track is called 'Deusa' and is one of my absolute favourite things to have made in a while. I imagine hearing this as you walk down the street, coming out of a restaurant, clothes or shoe shop or in someone's car on a Friday night.
Roberta Silva is a fantastic Brazilian-Portuguese singer that lives in London. I first heard her at a gig and when I told Cian (aka Bruk Rogers) about her after he wanted us to find a singer, said she'd be the absolute best fit for the job, which she is.
Listen on your music platform of choice here: truthoughts.ffm.to/degl.OTW

Deusa feat. Onj & Roberta Silva / Get Low

Choose your preferred music service
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#PEP517 build backends with the same .gitignore related bug:

* poetry (github.com/python-poetry/poetr…)
* maturin (github.com/PyO3/maturin/issues…)
* hatch (github.com/pypa/hatch/issues/1…)

... 🙄


Maturin uses .gitignore from the incorrect context when used in out-of-project build environments such as conda · Issue #1911 · PyO3/maturin

Bug Description The PR #695 causes maturin to ignore files that are gitignored. This generally makes sense when maturin is used in an isolated context. However, when a package-builder such as conda...
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#pep517
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A FOSS project like OpenSSL should be able to explain their choices without resorting to unverified, wishy-washy statements.

This has gone on long enough. Debian sid is now shipping curl with gnutls to enable HTTP/3. Gentoo is considering its options.

Talk to your distro of choice, if you want access to modern internet protocols. The alternatives are there.
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daniel:// stenberg://

2024-07-25 21:02:46


I could not resist responding to the #openssl thread on #lwn:

lwn.net/Articles/983380/


Will not change anything [LWN.net]

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Wyciek danych nie jest udostępnieniem danych - tak wynika z ostatniego wyroku Wojewódzkiego Sądu Administracyjnego w Warszawie.

Pewna spółka, zajmująca się obsługą płacową, została zaatakowana przez ransomware. W rezultacie dane jednej z firm (kontrahenta spółki) zostały zaszyfrowane. Poszkodowana w ten sposób firma zwróciła się ze skargą do Prezesa #UODO.

Organ nadzorczy stwierdził jednak, że odpowiedzialność za naruszenie ponosi... firma, która (zdaniem PUODO) udostępniła dane osobie atakującej i to właśnie ona została ukarana upomnieniem.

Decyzja organu została zaskarżona. Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w orzeczeniu z 25 lipca 2024 r. (sygn. akt II SA/Wa 2430/23) przyznał rację firmie. Wskazano w szczególności, że Prezes UODO nie wykazał, by w sprawie doszło do udostępnienia danych osobowych.

Szczegóły: rp.pl/abc-firmy/art40866771-sa… #RODO

Zbliżenie na pomarańczowy, płaski klocek LEGO (o wymiarach 4 na 4) na tle dużej niebieskiej płytki.

Sąd: firma, która zleciła ochronę danych, nie odpowiada za ich kradzież

Firma, która zapłaciła za to, by administrowane przez nią dane osobowe były właściwie chronione, nie może odpowiadać za ich wyciek w konsekwencji ataku hakerskiego - orzekł w czwartek Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w Warszawie.
Nadia Senkowska (Rzeczpospolita)
#UODO #rodo
in reply to Ondřej Profant

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Martin Wenisch

Tak ted uz alespon rozumime vyjadreni pana Mesrsmida, proc by jim zverejneni zdrojovych kodu "velmi zkomplikovalo situaci".

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Martin Wenisch

2024-02-05 12:37:07


Na Lupe se Martin Mesrsmid vyjadroval k problemum eDokladu. Co se stalo tak nejak vime. Jako novinka padla otazka: "Planujete zverejnit eDoklady jako open source?" Na cez jednoznacne odpovedel:

Velmi by nám to zkomplikovalo situaci.

Kdo nekdy neco programoval, tak tusi, o jake komplikace se jedna 🙈. Pro IT netknute jsme poprosili Yenerator, aby nam situaci priblizil. Dekujeme!

Vyzblepty Yeneratoru a nazory na stav Ceske IT infrastruktury najdete na diskutuj.digital/

#it #dia #meme

Meme muze ve strednich letech ve vysilani CT24. Chysta se zverejneni zdrojoveho kodu eDokladu? If (ridicak) then { auticko brrm brrm; }

Diskutuj.Digital

Digitalizace v Česku
Diskutuj.Digital

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From EYB re #AsmaKhan's new book, #flavour
[My comments are in square brackets.] It sounds interesting, especially as I have #MasalaLab by #KrishAshok on my desk at the moment.

Asma Khan, creator of Darjeeling Express in London, thinks that the idea of what Indian people eat at home is so wrong. “No one in India eats naan at home,” she says. “You need a tandoor. Your bloody house would catch fire. People’s idea of what we eat is so warped.”

Her two #cookbooks focus on Indian home cooking. Her upcoming book, Flavour – Discover the Elements Behind Delicious Indian Cookery, is different.

It is structured around the six core #ayurvedic tastes: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal. [These aren't actually the 6 Ayurveda tastes, which are Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Pungent, Astringent.]

This book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving the foundations needed to build balanced flavours, dishes and sumptuous feasts. [All from a Bengali perspective, of course. Each region in Indian has very different food and approaches.]

With core techniques including roasting, grinding and tempering spices, how to cook with ghee, chillies, and onions, and what to add and when to re-balance flavours in a dish, Flavour will have home cooks applying fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking of Indian [Bengali] food.

#IndianFood #BengaliFood #Food #Cookbooks

Asma Khan's first two books.
#food #indianfood #flavour #asmakhan #masalalab #krishashok #cookbooks #ayurvedic #bengalifood

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According to #NS, people on the go are not used to returning deposited bottles at the stations so it makes no sense to deploy more reverse vending machines there.

nos.nl/artikel/2530271-verkoop…

How come that often three out of four machines at Amsterdam Centraal are full? And what would it then look like if people were used to returning bottles at the station?


Verkooppunten van flesjes en blikjes willen geen verplichting tot inname

Dat komt naar voren uit een rondvraag van de NOS onder grote verkopers van drankjes. Op dit moment zijn er veel te weinig inzamelpunten voor een goedwerkend inzamelingssysteem.
Merel Stikkelorum (NOS Nieuws)
#ns

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I have been travelling the past few weeks, and have not yet had the time to fully digest the recent announcement by Deepmind of how their two new #IMO problem solver engines, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2, were able to between them solve 4 of the 6 problems at the most recent International Mathematical Olympiad: deepmind.google/discover/blog/… . But I can record some preliminary impressions.

1. This is great work, shifting once again our expectations of which benchmark challenges are within reach of either #AI-assisted or fully autonomous methods. For instance, IMO level geometry problems are now effectively a solved problem for specialized AI tools; and it seems now that IMO problems that can be readily formalized and with formal proofs that can be located through a reinforcement learning process are now at least somewhat amenable to AI attacks (though currently requiring genuinely significant amounts of compute per problem, and human assistance on the formalization side).

2. There may be side benefits of this approach into making formal mathematics easier to automate, which could in turn facilitate mathematical research methods that contain formal components. In particular, the database of formal proofs generated by this effort could be a useful resource if shared more openly.

3. The approach (based more on reinforcement learning than large language models, somewhat in the spirit of AlphaGo, and heavily emphasizing formal methods) is clever, and makes sense in retrospect. As per the "AI effect" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effec… , once explained, it does not "feel" like an exhibition of human-like intelligence; but it is still an expansion of the capability of our suite of AI-assisted problem solving tools.

phenomenon that onlookers discount the behavior of an artificial intelligence program by arguing that it is not real intelligence

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#AI #imo
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"We estimate that the decline in Nuclear power Plants caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally".

So, for the slow kids, let’s spell this out:
1. Chernobyl happened
2. Many countries close down nuclear or no longer build it
3. Instead fossil fuel plants get built
4. Air pollution is spiking
5. 318 million life years are lost globally (thus far)

All because of fear.

nber.org/conferences/si-2024-p…

Abstract: The rapid growth of nuclear power plants (NPP) declined dramatically after Chernobyl, especially in countries with democratic governments which had the highest number of NPPs at the time. To understand the mechanisms driving such change, we examine two case studies in detail: the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.S., we document that: (a) after the Chernobyl accident, campaign contributions to House and Senate races from fossil fuel special interest groups became strongly associated with negative votes on nuclear-related bills, and such donations increased significantly; and (b) newspapers with more fossil fuel advertisements published more anti-nuclear articles after Chernobyl, while we do not observe significant changes in advertisement spending by the fossil fuel industry. In the U.K., MPs sponsored by mining unions were much more likely to give anti-nuclear speeches in parliament after Chernobyl. We examine air pollution as a downstream outcome of reduced nuclear investment. We estimate that the decline in NPP caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally.
Some graphs showing the development of the nuclear industry before and after Chernobyl.

SI 2024 Political Economy

NBER

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Kačica detektív.

dennikn.sk/4110761/pripad-unos…


Prípad únoscu študentky v Bratislave môžu znovu otvoriť. Nové argumenty spochybňujú jeho nepríčetnosť

Bratislavská krajská prokuratúra súd žiada o obnovu konania a umiestnenie páchateľa do väzby. Zásadnú zmenu pre prípady nepríčetných páchateľov priniesla kritizovaná novela Trestného zákona.
Ria Gehrerová (Denník N)

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Takže "Internet je naše moře", pojďme si to shrnout:
- digitální stavební řízení nic moc
- evidence ubytovaných je WTF
- #eObčanka taky průser
- v ochraně před copyright lobby se vůbec nic nestalo
- v oblasti drogový politiky je úplný ticho

Možná se pletu #Piráti, ale nezačínali jste jako strana, která má problém s velkýma bratrama a podobnýma srandama? Kde je důraz na soukromí?

Ano, práva LGBT, sociální role státu a všechny tyhle věci jsou důležitý, ale kvůli tomu vás nevolim. Dělá něco #Šalomoun? Dělá něco dobře #Bartoš?

V tuhle chvíli jedinej důvod, proč vás znovu volit je #Lipavský.

Nevim, jestli mi to stačí...

eObčanka měla chránit soukromí, přitom odesílá, kdo se kde ověřuje. ‚Sběr dat omezíme,‘ slibuje agentura

#pirati #Bartoš #eobcanka #Lipavský #Šalomoun
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