yeroc @yeroc@social.cleverlibre.org

The reason many bosses don’t like employees working from home has little to do with productivity and more to do with the fact they hate working from home.

A lot of trappings of power from corner offices to large staff meetings are lost when they WFH.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-return-to-office-sexism-women-bosses-employees-2023-4?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-author-post

My one-liner pull request for Mastodon's online documentation is now open for more than three months. Anyone here on Mastodon that has capabilities to have a quick look at it and approve this change (or at least tell me, why it is not merged)? This would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E. 🙂

https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/pull/1143

#Mastodon #Documentation

Hello Fediverse!

@Flipboard is currently a walled garden.

It's a beautiful, highly curated walled garden filled with content from the worlds best publishers and creators curated by Flipboard's editorial team as well as our community of magazine makers.

But it's still a walled garden. Today that begins to change.

We've moved four of our most popular #curation desks into the Fediverse for you to enjoy.

@NewsDesk
@TechDesk
@CultureDesk
@ScienceDesk

Details below:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-editorial-curation-comes-to-mastodon/

"Kids will teach you, if you let them. They'll teach you that getting born is the easy part. Anyone can do that in a day. But becoming a well-adjusted human being? That'll take the rest of your life." https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-talk-to-human-beings/

Whew! By the time it was my turn to speak to Bill C-11, I knew I had to cut some of my text, and speed up my delivery - because we had a hard stop at 5:15, for bells and a vote. So...this goes a little bit faster than usual. I made it 20 seconds to spare. I hope you can still make out my arguments and my explanation of why I cannot support C-11 - not without that clearer exclusion for user generated content. https://youtu.be/1uCr3iUvV3g #BillC11 #C11 #SenateofCanada #SenCa #cdnpoli #YouTube #TikTok

Hi folks! I'm a journalist in Montreal covering the climate and environment beat (and sometimes other stuff too). I work for the CBC News online interactive team, but I also regularly report for our national TV and radio shows. #Journalism #CdaPoli #CBC #Mtl

This is the most fascinating thing I’ve read this year.

It seems it’s common for people in hospices to have dreams that predict their death. And this is common knowledge in the industry but not widespread knowledge to most people.

thinking about trying to define a "safe zone" and a "danger zone" for floating point. maybe something like:

safe zone:
* all integer values (like 1.0, 234.0) behave 100% exactly the way you'd expect, UNLESS (!!!) they're more than 2^52. You can check for equality, it's fine.
* adding up ~100 numbers and rounding the result to 4 decimal places or so is going to work fine, as long as the numbers are roughly the same size

The woke mind virus claims another victim

Dolly 2.0 is a really big deal: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm

"The first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use"

My notes so far on trying to run it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2

If NPR getting ~1% of its revenue from federal grants qualifies it as "government-funded media" in the eyes of #Twitter, then many (most?) news organizations in Canada would also meet that bar.

CBC obviously chief among them, as a Crown corporation, but newspaper, magazine & digital publishers in Canada now also receive federal support in the form of wage subsidies, tax credits & direct grants.

I'm not sure #Musk understands the realities of modern #journalism, especially outside of the U.S.

This is pretty clever... using a platform like Reddit (and API traffic) for your C2 channel (and maybe exfiltration) is a pretty interesting way to avoid detection. Another example of how we as defenders have to "think evil..." https://www.kitploit.com/2023/04/redditc2-abusing-reddit-api-to-host-c2.html?m=1&utm_source=pocket_saves

Did you a pepper becomes a chile when it is picked & dried?

A green jalapeño or cuaresmeño becomes chipotle. A poblano turns to an ancho.

This infographic from El Jornalero provides a simplified look at some of the most common names of Mexican capsicum peppers & chiles. #food #science

"What we know is not nearly as sensitive as how we know it." -@NSA_CSDirector

For now #sad #mentalhealth #Emotions #feelings #ymhc

@lauren @locksmithprime

Exactly so. Blocking completely aside, Mastodon does not federate properly, and replies in threads are invisible, for a multitude of reasons to lots of users, in ways that can be very difficult to understand, especially for users. To further the confusion, what can be completely visible in one direction can be totally invisible from the other. This creates a feeling of being ignored, when they in reality are invisible (so they ARE technically being ignored, but not based on ill-will).

The first bug reports for this ("backfilling") were filed 6 years ago. They are still not fixed in Mastodon. Some Fediverse services have fixed this (Pleroma, and thereby its forks like Akkoma for example) by simply doing non-destructive additions to the Mastodon API (which they too are based on). Calckey also has started fixing this problem.

Given those things it, to me, is a complete mystery why/how Mastodon has become the poster child of the Fediverse, especially when most of the competing Fediverse services out there actually has all the things you ask for. I think the answer is "marketing", or even "non-existing marketing".

Pretty please Mastodon maintainers, add the features underprivileged communities need to move on from Twitter:

- Quote posts to add context
- Restrictions on who can reply to a post
- Add a "catch-up" timeline to see popular posts from people you follow
- Better, less technical onboarding & directly integrate e.g. fedifinder as a one-click checkbox without tech jargon "[x] Automatically find who I'm following on Twitter"
- Better support for higher quality media

Pinging @Gargron.

Hey there -- we're Let's Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority serving over 300 million websites worldwide. We're new to Mastodon and are excited to get to know the infosec community in this new space!

https://letsencrypt.org/

#opensource #TLS #PKI #infosec

My wife says that any time someone proposes doing anything with an ML model, you should replace “AI” in the proposal with “trained weasels” and if it still sounds like a good idea you can go ahead with it.