Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

I am still hiring for top-tier programmers and data scientist. Please reboost, share, recommend, or reply if you know anyone who might be interested.

Fully remote! Live and work from anywhere with internet (including the beach!)

I am the company owner, and will be both your direct boss and the hiring manager.

Semantic Web, AI, and Java are some of the key techs. Open-source and Linux oriented experience ideally. OSS contributions and activity will be weighted heavily, particularly in relevant areas.

Here are the job descriptions:

https://docs.cleverthis.com/en/human_resources/organizational_structure/sr_developer

https://docs.cleverthis.com/en/human_resources/organizational_structure/sr_data_scientist

If you are interested please send an email to: jeffrey.freeman@cleverthis.com and please CC drew.morris@cleverthis.com

#Hiring #Job #Jobs #Java #fedihire #SemanticWeb #Semantics #AI #DataScience #BigData #Programming #AGI #ML #MachineLearning

We do! Weird. Unique. Made by humans.

QT: https://lor.sh/@wampusmm/111851064301687577

Russian scam for obtaining Bulgarian citizenship exposed https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/russian-scam-for-obtaining-bulgarian-citizenship-exposed/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"You have blood on your hands," Sen. Lindsey Graham told tech leaders during a Judiciary Committee hearing about large tech and social media companies including Meta and TikTok harming young users.

https://t.co/G2JDJldbFQ

In Bulgaria we have seen this type of exaggerated punitive and demonstrative treatment in cases with little societal risk. Such gestures are acts of abusing the judiciary for political purposes and are clear signs of broken rule of law.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/italy-lodges-protest-after-citizen-led-in-chains-into-budapest-court

Today’s privacy and security tip involves lying.

The kind of lying that will keep you and your data safer 🙂 https://themarkup.org/gentle-january/2024/01/30/fake-your-answers-to-security-questions

Yes this is a major problem: "I realized that despite being involved in post-Soviet research for some 20 years as a student and then professor, no university or government office has ever given me guidance about how to detect or respond to hostile intelligence interest in me, whether it be from Russia or any other state." During my research training as a PhD, I took this https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/24/we-must-accept-the-truth-western-academics-are-russian-intelligence-targets-a83837

@QOTO @mapto So our history with scholar is sadly a negative one, and it is in fact how QOTO came into existance very many years back. I'll give you the back story.

QOTO at the time was a single user instance or close to it. This was in the days of block-gab where servers were blocking gab and as "punishment" anyone who didnt block gab would often be blocked for not blocking gab. At the time at QOTO we held a public debate on our public forum as to what people wanted to do. Most of the server wanted to block gab but we had a small and growing group of LGBTQ+ activists who very vocally opposed it.

These activitsts, I find out, had recently migrated over from several servers int he fediverse (though a large part of the group were from scholar.social). They had fled other servers who were blocking gab for us because we seemed the most anti-hate speech that still allowed free federation. They were part of a group of people from the LGBTQ+ community who actively monitored accounts on GAB for doxxing and threats tot heir community nd then would disseminate that information to the wider community to help save lives.

The debate went on for some days with several alternative approaches being proposed (like RSS readers etc) but all of them were rejected for several reason, most of those reasons fell into one of a few categories, namely that it would either expose their ip address or other personal details, or it might put them at risk in some other ways. I wont go over every detail here but sufficive to say the conclusion was to priotitize the LGBTQ+ community's safety. We went on to implement several features (such as subscriptions) that would allow them to be even safer, and ultimately decided to maintain a fairly open federation policy with rather strict on-server rules.

After we officially made our stance clear that we would remain with open-federation and be a safe heaven for LGBTQ+ people in that regard the word spread around the fedi. Overnight we went from a single user instance to the center of the fediverse with people flocking in from all over in huge numbers. One of the servers most impacted by this was scholar.social as part of the huge exodus. This is because at the time Scholar.social took an abusive approach to their own LGBTQ+ community that argued against the defederation and ultimately migrated to QOTO. At first the admin of the system was just outright suspending users, often making up really nasty lies. This wasnt really good look at just accelerated the community leaving from scholar. Ultimately scholar wound up blocking our server entirely both as a punishment to the people leaving scholar, and because when you block a server people cant migrate accounts to it anymore. He even went so far as to block my account on scholar and started spreading lies.

In recent years we found scholar to be a very radicalized server so i am somewhat happy for the block in that sense. For example a few years back several of their users started promoting violance, and actively made posts calling people to be violent. May servers around the fediverse started blocking scholar, and the admin at first justified the violence, but after about 2 days of scholar getting on block lists he silently finally removed the post. So his violent extremist would have been enough to get a block on our end probably if we werent already defederated.

That said, yes your welcome to reach out to the admin of scholar and encourage him to remove the defederation, it is entirely on their end. But many **MANY** people have asked him to do that before, he usually just suspends such people. In fact in the past he has suspended people from his server simply for someone holding an account here at all. So you may get blocked if you do that.

The best 3 cross-platform text editors https://www.both.org/?p=3517 #texteditors #emacs

Privacy-oriented X front-end #Nitter is shutting down following changes to guest accounts

Nitter is dead after Twitter/X stops allowing guest accounts. Nitter was a front-end for Twitter that worked without JavaScript… @alternativeto

RIP.

#twitter #privacy #opensource

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/1/privacy-oriented-x-front-end-nitter-is-shutting-down-following-changes-to-guest-accounts/

January 28th, 137 CE—Tesenouphis renews the registration on their three camels #OTD #OnThisDay (in case you thought the DMV was an exclusively modern inconvenience)

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/bgu;1;352

How frequently do you use an RSS reader?

Please boost for more representative data.

@Daojoan sadly Apple's respect for use privacy is just a marketing gimmick that users want to believe. Here's three strikes (quite randomly collected from a single search) about it, and this excludes paywalled content (several articles on NYT for example):

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-just-traded-your-privacy-for-15-billion.html

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/04/17/apple-make-simpler-download-your-privacy-data-year/521786002/

Is ChatGPT the ultimate solution for modeling word meaning and semantic change? Check out our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14040 . We show that: when used as an 𝘰𝘧𝘧-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘧 model, with a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 prompt from a human perspective, the 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 (Chat)GPT model 🦇 doesn't outperform pre-trained BERT in capturing 𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆. #ChatGPT #BERT #SemanticChange #GPT

Със закъснение и огромна тъга научавам, че през март миналата година е починал проф. Драгомир Радев, един от пионерите в съвременната компютърна лингвистика и един от най-известните български учени в чужбина. Драго, когото познавах слабо, но на когото се възхищавам много, има огромни постижения, за които говорят множеството му публикации и поменът, написан от университета Йеил https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/04/04/dragomir-radev-computer-science-professor-and-ai-expert-dies-at-54/
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