If you're looking for a federated encrypted opensource messaging system, then please take a look at the #matrix protocol and it's different clients like #riot. They even release a video for news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZdmPSUUBA
Problems we are having with #Signal: * It is and will remain centralized (clear strategy of *not* federating servers) * It requires strong identifiers/selectors (phone#) to use * Author disallows distribution by anyone but Google, although free/libre * It keeps pushing away verification of fingerprint in interface * It relies on Google+Amazon infrastructure * Its funding is shady (OTF = Radio Free Asia = USG)
= clearly unethical choices, unjustifiable by accessibility or technological reasons.
Survey on questionable research practices among researchers in ecology & evolution shows that 51% used HARKing, 42% employed optional stopping, and 64% selectively reported results. @PLOSONE dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… - https://twitter.com/JelteWicherts/status/1019114278689935360 This is why we need #OpenScience
I'm going to write a lot more about this in the coming days but the most important takeaway from my first few days of switching my main development machine to Linux (Pop!_OS 18.04)?
I. Do. Not. Miss. The. Mac. One. Bit.
Everything Just Works (tm), including my USB-C-only LG external monitor (which doesn't even work with Laura's older MacBook Pro), Magic Trackpad, etc. And there are things I actually enjoy more about the experience. Never thought I'd be writing this about Linux. Exciting times!
@rixx I would be interested, if you could predict if it's a European City or an American only with this information (because: US = more Grids, EU = Historically grown).
Look, I made a thing! After I saw the awesome blog post on city street orientations, I generated some charts for European and German cities (and refactored Geoff's IPython notebook into a script on the way). If you want to see a map of your favourite city in this style, tell me about it and I'll see what I can do.
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