Notices by stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host), page 6

"Here, sir, I've double-bagged your purchase, just in case the first bag fails to choke a turtle"

If you're going to put "Thinker" in your bio, why not add "Breather", "Pooper" and "Eater"?

@neauoire @elementary you should be happy it doesn’t say the generic “bug fixes and improvements”!!! You ungrateful human.
😅
No I agree with you. All machines in excess of 10 distinct components should be launched into the sun.

What’s the deal with food labelled “vegan-friendly”? Why not just “vegan”?
Sounds a bit like “not _actually_ vegan.”
Sounds a bit like “I’m not racist, I’ve got a black friend.”

@Zoidtes 😍 💚

Aaaaand more security concerns with #Zoom.
Some encryption with a hard coded passphrase, crash reports potentially sending screen captures to Zoom, and a bunch of outdated libraries with known vulnerabilities:

https://dev.io/posts/zoomzoo/

Please someone (who knows about #infoSec more than I do) update the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

@meli_melo je l’utilise à moitié en Australie. C’est un terme qui est un peu promu par notre groupe d’allié•e•s QUILTBAG à mon université. J’aime bien pour la facilité de prononciation, mais c’est vrai que c’est plus utile aux anglophones.

A worked example of putting a network visualisation on a map with #RStats and #OpenRefine (i.e. a "flow map" I guess). This is for visualising collaboration between institutions on a sample of journal articles.
Still needs refining, but might be useful to some!

https://gitlab.com/stragu/r-collaboration-flow-map/-/blob/master/process.md

@rstats

OK my challenge for today is to contribute data to as many different #OpenData / #CitizenScience projects as possible. Who's joining me?

#OSM and #iNaturalist done, next are #OpenFoodFacts, #MusicBrainz and #Wikipedia.

@lj_writes maybe...... probably?

@devinprater what are the tools that you love because of excellent accessibility for you? I am particularly interested as, as a technology trainer at a uni, I’d like to really take that aspect into account. (We are supposed to anyway, but it seems it’s often forgotten about when people purchase a licence for or adopt the latest shiny tool.)

@lucidiot @vantablack what do you mean, “theory”?

@vantablack I believe you mean 90/11 as you only need to multiply the numerator. Which, of course, takes us to the 90:11 psalm of the word of the Lord:

“Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?”

😱

It looks like it is penpenultimate “ok, last coffee” o’clock.