George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Whoa, cool blog post summarizing a bunch of available studies on quote tweeting behavior -- research that I was unaware existed!

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/

No silver bullets that will end any debates here but, you know, here's some data at least

Reminder: The Pre-defined Compiler Macros wiki is a treasure trove for us cavemen working on portable C programs: https://github.com/cpredef/predef

#firewall 🤭

The sunset sky is getting hazy. At least I don't smell the volcano. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1613746046651498497

Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54 https://www.voanews.com/a/lisa-marie-presley-singer-and-daughter-of-elvis-dies-at-54-/6916681.html #voiceofamerica #voanews

Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:

Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon

It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”

It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.

Here goes: https://searchtodon.social

if you're wondering how he learned it, this was the chain of events:
1. when the dogs barked, my mom would yell "shut up!" and whack them with a slipper
2. the parrot, having little concept of slipper-based violence, believed that "shut up" is what made the dogs quiet
3. one day when the dogs barked, the parrot said "shut up" and the dogs, expecting slipper-based violence, stopped barking
4. parrot gradually applied this concept onto other annoying noises, such as my mom being on the phone, to similar effect

The reactions to ChatGPT in education, both at the K-12 and Higher Ed level really remind me of some prior technology wars going back to...
Calculator bans (students will forget or not learn how to add and subtract)
Graphic calculator bans (students will store formulas and forget critical math formulas)
Word processor/typed paper bans (students will forget how to write in cursive and how to spell and do grammar)
Laptop bans (students will just cheat and Google everything)
Wikipedia use ban (students will use unreliable and entirely too easy to access information)
I know ChatGPT is "different" from these, but it's also the same.
What other "tech innovations" fall under this history?

@edutooters #edutooter #edutooters

"Connected car skeptics have a right to be concerned about the widespread problem": Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/hackers-discover-that-vulnerabilities-are-rife-in-the-auto-industry/

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1. For years, @walgreens@twitter.com and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business.

The claims generated a MEDIA FRENZY

Now, Walgreens is quietly backtracking

https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media

Crazy!

A 150 ft. Iceberg passing through Iceberg Alley near Twillingate, #Newfoundland, #Canada. A great view for your morning coffee.
More images/info on Iceberg Alley: https://bit.ly/3HhjdcX

*NOTAM pilot info system goes down, grounding flights nationwide*
TV pundits: this could be a cyberattack
Engineers: somebody probably saw a beige 486 in the corner of the data center and unplugged it

@whereisthespai @hacks4pancakes you need to have 3 password managers going so that each manager contains the master pw of the other 2. Like RAID5 for passwords!

"Self-Hosting Is the Ultimate Privacy Power Move"

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, you’re always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

https://www.howtogeek.com/846979/heres-why-self-hosting-a-server-is-worth-the-effort/