Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Ya boi got sued for libel, got a writeup by @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/12/would-you-trust-a-cryptocurrency-whose-operator-sues-journalists-for-reporting-on-lawsuits-calling-you-a-scam/

If I have to write one more citation-filled-paragraph about why reporting demographics might be important IN MEASUREMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTS I am just going to turn into a social science version of that Liam Neeson monologue, "SKILLS THAT MAKE ME A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU"....!

I spent a lot of time reading this weekend, and it got me thinking about epistemology, knowledge acquisition, mental models, and belief systems.

We constantly encounter, evaluate, and integrate new information into our mental models, whether consciously or subconsciously, but we don’t always take the time to re-examine our deeply- and long-held beliefs in the context of that new information.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #Beliefs

Ready, set, go! Euclid begins its dark Universe survey

Euclid will follow a so-called ‘step-and-stare’ observation mode. This means that the #telescope will stare at one area of the #sky for about 70 minutes, producing images and spectra, and it then takes four minutes to move to the next area of the sky. During its entire mission, #Euclid will perform more than 40 000 of these ‘pointings’. 

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Ready_set_go!_Euclid_begins_its_dark_Universe_survey

#ESAEuclid #darkmatter #darkenergy #cosmology #space #telescope #astrodon

Skiff raised ~$14m in VC to build an open source alternative Google Suite. Now it's being acquired by Notion and the code has been taken down.

All software is ephemeral. File over app.

BBC says it’s going to continue its Mastodon trial “for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and the Fediverse.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

"Oh, good, you're here. Now the council will decide your fate."

New #Homestar days are few and far between, and we must cherish those we have left.

Today is such a day. NEW #HomestarRunner!
https://homestarrunner.com/toons/frontfacing

#StrongBad #TheCheat #Ruffle #MillennialCulture

Here's my lastest blog post from my RE:privacy project where I discovered a simple IDOR vulnerability leads to userbase dataleak in women's health fertility app Glow Inc.

URL: https://www.0x0v1.com/re-privacy-glow/

With comments on the research by @evacide & @aral they speak to how this is yet another example of how data-as-commodity projects such as this are risk to our digital rights.

This work was also featured by TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/fertility-tracker-glow-fixes-bugs-that-exposed-users-personal-data/

just learned about Google Season of Docs 2024, where OSS projects can apply for funding to hire a technical writer to help with their documentation https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/announcing-google-season-of-docs-2024.html?m=1

update: now the Mastodon docs explain under what circumstances your replies show up on your followers' Home timeline! https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#home-feed-visibility-for-replies

(thanks to @Claire for explaining to me how it works so I could make a documentation PR!)

(4/?)

losing your work in git

"Five steps for astronomers to communicate climate change effectively" by Alison Anderson & Gina Maffey

▶️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01481-2 (open article!)

-- this is a great article, also applicable to other areas than astrophysics. I've got reminded of this when writing an upcoming article of my own - it grew from an invited talk A. Anderson gave at an EAS session that Astronomers from Planet Earth organized.

So why astronomers? And what are the five steps?
1/5

#astrodon #VicisAstro

This just keeps getting funnier every time I remember it

One of the most embarrassing things I have read

Why ProPublica Focuses on Issues You May Not See on Cable #News
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ProPublica’s mission statement encourages “using the moral force of investigative #journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”

Recently, that impact has been significant — and a bright spot in a dark #media landscape.

https://www.propublica.org/article/investigative-journalism-impact-democracy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"Pay us more money or we will degrade the service we provide" is the very essence of enshittification.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2024/02/11/amazon-prime-videos-new-ads-based-subscription-has-a-surprise/

Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Streisand Effect time:

"Would You Trust A Cryptocurrency Whose Operator Sues Journalists For Reporting On Lawsuits Calling You A Scam?"

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/12/would-you-trust-a-cryptocurrency-whose-operator-sues-journalists-for-reporting-on-lawsuits-calling-you-a-scam/

Can the Apple #VisionPro run VIRUP? No? Aaalllrighty then.

What is VIRUP? It stands for Virtual Reality Universe Project. It's an immersive/interactive VR software/app that visualizes the entire known universe in 3D, including billions of galaxies & thousands of known exoplanets, etc. Developed by Swiss university, EPFL. Best part is it's free. Link to the download (via GitLab) in the article below:

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-big-picture-swiss-unveil-vr.html

#VR #Apple #Software #Programming #Astronomy #Science #Mastodon #Space