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> In October 2018, Swedish ISPs were forced to block access to Sci-Hub after a court case brought by Elsevier; Bahnhof, a large Swedish ISP, in return soft-blocked the Elsevier website.

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How does one compile for arm64+musl (for & reasons)? Anybody know? When I try the binary ends up with `interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1` while there should be `musl` instead of `linux` in there. I would be fine with static linking, but I failed at doing that too. ~_~

Boosts very welcome.

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@humanetech

#Discourse also implementing #ActivityPub (joining the Fediverse) is great news! Thanks for sharing!

Here is a forum thread with more details on it. The linked post contains links to other related threads.

meta.discourse.org/t/federatio

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@jmw150 Damn, now I had to boost the new version to avoid having posted something completely without context. ;P

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Math people either love or hate statistics.

What I have found that helps me is to think of the various theorems from the perspective of functions on spaces. Instead of the messy pseudo-math that intro courses present it as, there are underlying measure spaces. Past all the word salad, spaces are what is tossed around and modified to reason about reality.

@jmw150 This exact approach made me tolerate statistics, but what finally make me respect (some of) them was expressing them in Bayesian terms. Only then they actually make sense as something that relates to the world.

Huh, why did your toot disappear. o.0

@chjara@mk.absturztau.be Ah, yes, Natural Law™.

Cryptocurrency, ECONPOL 

@urusan All this sounds much more like a critique of capitalism/free markets rather than cryptocurrencies. These are the systems that optimize and cryptocurrencies are at worst an especially potent tool for performing that optimization (is this your position? It kinda sounded like that from the last two toots, but I'm not sure).

In this context I am much more worried about advertisements, these are the things literally designed to influence what is being optimized by the system, controlled by the system. Capitalism wireheading.

In contrast most of the problems on the capitalism/cryptocurrency interface are either scams, where the judicial system has to catch up with technology (which is an actual serious problem, just not as serious as an optimizing agent going wild), or Juicero level idiotic investments, only somewhat democratized. I don't think the latter is in any way exclusive to cryptocurrencies (although right now it might be most widespread among them), see the whole GameStop stock debacle.

Cryptocurrency, ECONPOL 

@urusan What do you reckon they are maximizing? I don't quite see what it could be.

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.hg I love tooltips. It's like I'm just pointing to a UI control and asking /the software itself/ “what's this?” and /it just tells us/, and if we do that enough times with enough different controls we Learn How To Use The Thing

@gamingonlinux I follow a couple people who would post something like this as satire, so I did a double-take when I noticed that this is real gaming news. xd

@moonbolt I'd agree with this being too confusing, at a glance it looks as if the result of the function somehow depends on the result of `foo`, even though it cannot.

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Important word thing

"Human" is a species
"Person" is a moral label
Not all people are necessarily humans
Stop treating these words as synonyms

@chjara@mk.absturztau.be That's how I met my wife.

Not even joking.

@sugarbell @dwaltiz @chjara@mk.absturztau.be The headlines are actually wrong, there aren't enough idiots for that. There are like a couple hundred cases in all of the US (in a normal year there were like 15 ivermeticine poisonings, so the effect is real, just not big enough to overflow any hospitals).

@davidoclubb How do we make the rest of the british accept this way of spelling? It's just way more reasonable.

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Sci-Hub Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary By Uploading 2.3m New Articles - torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-celeb "today offers a staggering 87.97m research papers and serves up hundreds of thousands of them to visitors every day."

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I believe GIF is in the same situation: it used to be patented, with some not-very-clear general licenses, and patents have expired.

I understand the wish not to use things that weren't intended to be publicly usable by their original inventors' company, but do realise that this class of things contains many more things than one might think and that the limited lifetime of patents is designed precisely to allow such usage regardless of those wishes after some time.

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