Ben Taylor @VoxDei@social.cleverlibre.org

“We did NOT know and were never notified that personal tax information was being collected by Facebook from the Pixel,” the statement said. “As soon as we found out, we immediately informed TaxSlayer to deactivate the Pixel from Ramsey SmartTax.” https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook

a rough diagram showing how #Eratosthenes was able to 1) discover the earth was round and 2) calculate its radius... 2000+ years ago

However your November has gone, it's gone worse for whoever runs the Telegraph's newsletter.

OMG I just realized Mastodon is what Twitter would be if it were Canadian

Hello 👋 here's our #introduction.

🌈 rainbowR is a community that supports, promotes and connects LGBTQ+ people who code in the #rstats language.

We have a Slack group (see link in profile to join) and we also meet once a month or so on Zoom to chat and share what we've been working on.

We'd love to grow the community and our activities and get more people involved so looking forward to meeting and connecting here

(@ellakaye)

Hi tech peeps, if you’re looking for stocking stuffers, I’ve these cute programmer & command prompt pin available for 50% off!
I’ve q few of them left and need to make space for all the new goodies coming 😊

I also added some other super cute stuff on sale!

Grab a bargain at https://fluffmallow.com :)

#mastoart #etsy #smallbusiness #shopsmall #tech #cute

A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/

No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.

Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...

... the *algae* is producing the electrons.

Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8

A map of every European City 🤓

Needed some pictures to illustrate a semi-serious presentation, so I finally gave Dall-E 2 a shot, and what can I say, the Hacker Cats of Dall-E are quite good.

Super Star Trek, which I have converted from the original 1970s (80 column printer terminal) source code. Now for the #Commodorer64 with some sympathetic enhancements such as NAVigation and TORpedo helpers. It's not perfect, but getting there. Still deliberately terminal based!

One day, a team of embedded system developers have a problem. They thought, "We know, we should use a watchdog timer." Now, they have a have a problem have a problem have a problem have a problem have a problem have a problem have a problem have a problem

Researchers used our #privacy inspector, Blacklight, to look into the websites of multiple addiction treatment providers.

Every one was sharing visitor data with third parties. https://www.wired.com/story/substance-abuse-telehealth-privacy-tracking-tech/

Historian Thomas Zimmer puts the the Muskification of the birdsite into a broader context.

' Twitter has enabled people with absolutely no traditional access to power to speak to powerful elites directly, criticize them in the public square. How valuable this has been is evidenced by the fact that many of those elites are so consistently bemoaning “persecution.” '

#twitter #PoliticalPower #ThreatsToDemocracy #RightWing

https://mobile.twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1593636623211630593

Really interesting example of the evolution of the English language. Old English really is a foreign language!

A nervous DDR4 RDIMM walks into a bar. Bartender asks what's wrong. "I'm okay, just feeling a bit off."

watch a 2 layer neural network learn to separate two classes to the left and right

#MachineLearning #math #MathGIF #CreativeCoding

I did some more work on #DOStodon, the #Mastodon client for #MSDOS.

I added a splash screen, a busy indicator for network access, you can scroll the entries now, there is a profile viewer and you can like and boost.
Image attachments are now displayed, too.

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

He's photomatt on Twitter, or look here too: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr