Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

@siderea in the commercial world they call it "community management". Without the context this term is as good as equivalent to "social engineering"

@siderea in this line of thought, don't you agree that the pluralism (as in democracy, and as in free market) afforded by decentralisation, is a big problem-solver? Some instances will fail, others will thrive. Some people will drop out, others will stick... and this is where the rest of your discourse tells the rest.

@siderea this is how I met the admin of my instance: They threatened to block me because someone else reported I'm too passive and thus probably a bot reposting from somewhere else.

@craftycat @Remittancegirl hello again! I came across a very interesting thread that I think might help us understand each other better by reducing the personal stakes:
https://universeodon.com/@siderea/111479082776819115
I really hope you share at least this view with me.

@siderea this is also entirely true for nation states. E.g. in Europe typically northern countries are wealthier, but in many cases this has to do with a homogeneous society. Nowadays this model breaks, but so do stereotypes of what it means to be German or Finnish (just examples).

@siderea this is actually not true anymore. Traditionally viruses were written for fun as described here. By now it has become a very lucrative business. Once a system is compromised, there are a number of ways to monetise from it, depending on what system it is. Certainly ransomware and botnets are two widespread businesses.

@Gert addirittura forse anche questo coso qua: https://github.com/bertrandmartel/plot-sdl

@Gert secondo me non ti serve lavorare con il stack di OpenGL direttamente. È un livello troppo basso. Ti proporrei SDL come alternativa. Al tempo era l'alternativa FOSS di DirectX, ha preso una sua strada e sempre si utilizza tantissimo per giochi. https://www.libsdl.org/

@ECONdailycharts How did they even come up with such a measure? Completely pointless...

@ianwelsh the problem is that an autocratic state cannot be an alternative to a (even if mostly by pretense) a democratic one. Intelligent people around the world aspire to freedom, not resourcefulness of home-grown oligarchs.

@litteracarolina Well, no doubt attempts are being made. This upcoming event (https://2023.computational-humanities-research.org/) held two weeks is indicative of the trend in the wider Digital Humanities field. If you mean the narrower field of Paleography, I have become part of an interesting experiment.

More than 10 years ago, a Paleoslavist colleague of mine collaborated with a more computer-science-savvy peer to develop a tool to help extracting word indices of parallel bilingual texts with multiple manuscript copies. That tool died out at the end of the project. Now my colleague approached me with new funding for a similar (more-complex) task. Together with the two of them we decided to take a more open approach, using Python instead of Java, making it open source and putting an effort to make it more accessible. We are at the end of the funding.

My impression is that the tool is flexible enough to be used for other projects, but the demand for this type of work is very limited. This is mostly so because it is part of very tedious hand work and a historic field that doesn't have money flowing in. This is even more so after the invasion of Ukraine which finally wrecked the already dissonant academic community.

If interested, here is the project site: https://uchitelnoevangelie.eu/?lang=en
and here the software code: https://github.com/mapto/UchitelnoEvangelie