Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 6

I have a CS degree, that means for the most part, I already know things that it would take you literal MINUTES to look up on the Internet.

Nice site http://10x.engineer/

the alternate present in which every workplace is unionized because, what, are you just not gonna listen to workers when they tell you about the work? who else could be more knowledgeable about it?

urls often contain tracking information added to the end of them. when you are linking articles, stuff like the "utm_source" and "fbclid" sections allow people to track where you got the link from and how you are spreading it. this allows cops & corps to map out social groups.

while you can remove that stuff by hand, there's a firefox/chrome addon called "neat URL" that comes with an existing blocklist that automatically cleans off a lot of that stuff.

Has anyone done a visualization of how the different spheres of #language overlap on the #fediverse? I seem to remember one attempt but would love to see how that has been evolving.

A plugin for a fediverse server that gives each user their own Bayesian network, to do with as they will. Tag posts you don't want to see one way, post you do want to see another way, and train it to filter out what _you_ consider pointless.

(And special timelines containing the 'spam' and 'ham' so you can check on it periodically and re-train the classifier as needed...)

I have found one person who is taking a stab at fediverse dating software: http://www.gottahavacuppamocha.com/2018/12/18/thats-amore/

The project is called #Amore, looks like it's in the very early stages with the first commit only 3 months ago, but it might bear watching. I have some very particular ideas for how a dating site should operate, so I might be interested in a different implementation even if this gets off the ground, we'll see.

@deejoe @feonixrift

I'm still not convinced that Google hasn't reached sentience.

consuming all the data.

influencing all the actions.

Land of the Free?

There are more prisoners in the U.S. than at the height of Stalin's gulag archipelago.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-americans-in-jail-2012-3

Here's an interesting failure mode for FOSS/community software dev:

Over time, the most stubborn people who are good at ignoring criticism (e.g. by not listening at all), will end up running all the projects.

The folks who actually listen to their users get burned out by all the negativity...

The deciding fitness criteria over time is not skill or competence. It's obstinance. 😱

(I'm not talking about my users. I don't have enough users for this to be an issue yet. 😆)

If you do a thing in an open source project, and you have a hard time doing it because it's not documented, after you finish doing the thing... document it. If the project has a wiki, put it in the wiki. If it has a docs repo you can write to, put it there. Or at least blog about it so search engines can index it.

Please don't leave the solution to languish in a chat log somewhere.

Census data was used to identify Japanese Americans to Secret Service for incarceration
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/11/1870952/-The-danger-of-the-citizenship-question-Census-data-was-used-to-identify-Japanese-Americans-in-WWII

We have just provided a progress report for the first week of #Glimpse project!

https://getglimpse.app/posts/a-hectic-first-week/

Thank you so much to everyone that has expressed interest and contributed so far. The links in this post should answer some of your FAQs and direct you to our project communication channels.