Matthew @mattasdata@social.cleverlibre.org

#Mozilla has done some great things with #Firefox over the years, but Total Cookie Protection (essentially isolated cookie jars) is one of the most robust and privacy-conscious ways of handling cookies that I've seen in any browser today. It's a natural evolution of the "container tab" concept that prevents third parties from easily tracking you across the web.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

#Tech #Browser #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #CyberSecurity #DataSecurity #Tracking

Remember when the mantra was "write boring code"? Can we do that again? Seeing way too many efforts to bring unnecessary complexity to engineering.

Web browsers have had back buttons since the beginning of time. But we've spent like 15 years breaking and fixing and rebreaking their behavior to the point that it is now notable heck even delightful when they do anything remotely resembling their purpose.

the gaps between floats

I see a trip to Office Depot in my future. 😮🤓

Instead of flocking to #Substack, bloggers and online writers should experiment with open and self-organised publication. Only then will we use the internet as the digital #commons it was meant to be!

Here’s a mini memoir of some of the things I’ve managed to do… 🧵👇 1/n

Happy Ramadan to my Muslim friends 🌙

Happy Passover to my Jewish friends ✡️

Happy Easter to my Christian friends 🐣

Happy Vaisakhi to my Sikh friends ❤️

Happy Hanuman Jayanti to my Hindu friends 🌝

Happy Mahavir Jayanti to my Jain friends ☮️

Happy Days to my secular friends 😊

Much love to my friends of all of all faiths and no faith. Pass it on!

Are you using Docker Hub to store your containerized #Software? Recent attempts to change it’s pricing model have made it less attractive as a long-term repository.

Check out our #Blog post by Patrick Bos (@egpbos) to learn about some great free alternatives: https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/ditching-docker-hub-serve-research-software-with-ghcr-zenodo-2e47b8c93d88

Shortly after Twitter released the 400.000 lines of code of their tweet ranking algorithm the mastodon algorithm code leaked. It is ‘select * from toots order by publishing_date desc’

Thrilled to announce our we have received a grant from the Sloan Foundation! (Copying @iancosden's Slack post)

We will host a special Community Call on Thu Apr 20 2ET/10PT to outline upcoming plans & provide an opportunity to answer questions

Register: https://t.co/xLjPQEgE61

quoting @iancosden's post:

"Thank you all for your ongoing support of, and participation in @us_rse. Together, we can continue to make a difference for Research Software Engineers in the US."

HUGE Thank you for contributing to our #python packaging guide @tupui @HenrySchreiner3 @ralfgommers @frostming @pradyunsg @astrojuanlu @stefanv @jonny @marmochia @ocefpaf @scientific_py @nicholdav @lwasser@fosstodon.org @hugovk & so many others!

community is really a wonderful thing. #opensource #openscience

Check it out here:
https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/package-structure-code/intro.html

hey so did y’all know about the oral part of the CCNA exam?

Amazing how many brilliant scientists will look at an LLM "passing" a standardized test and think, "wow, this computer is very smart" and not "standardized tests are very bad at measuring intelligence"

A Venn diagram representing my normal evenings

Our first #RSEng Education and Training Tutorial is coming up next Wednesday March 22, 3-5 PM ET / 12-2 PM PST!

Marshall McDonnell will tell us about “Setting up a Scientific Software Project using GitLab: From ‘Zero’ to ‘Hero’.”

More information and registration link here: https://us-rse.org/events/2023/2023-03-education-training-tutorial/

Boosts appreciated!
@codebrewer @danielskatz @nicholdav

When you managed to convince your friend to join #Linux desktop cult

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