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You have a coding assistant with 500 billion parameters. I have a rubber duck. We are not the same.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Retraction of a paper from the lab of a Stanford Nobel Prize winner. The PI dismissed our combined concerns as 'micro-duplications that are typical image processing artifacts'. But after consulting with an 'image analysis expert', the authors retracted the paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Das hier sind die letzten Bilder, die es von meinem Opa gibt.
Entstanden im Frühjahr 1942 in einem Gefängnis in Wilhelmshaven. Theodor Franz Maria Hespers, geboren am 12.12.1903 in Mönchengladbach war ein politisch aktiver Mensch. 1/12

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

Am Vormittag den Opfern der Faschisten von gestern gedenken, um am Nachmittag den Faschisten von heute die Hand zu reichen. Ein zutiefst beschämender Tag für dieses Land und für eine Partei, die sich immer noch christlich nennt.

submitted 29 days ago • 109 comments

Given that I am pretty sure NPR will remove the Capitol Riot page they have, here's a lightweight backup https://never-forget.hrbrmstr.app/

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A moderator deleted my request to remove the “X” links from Stack Overflow… by saying that my request constituted “harmful content”. I’ve flagged this ludicrous action but my flag is being ignored. If you can see the deleted post, feel free to also flag it to raise the priority […]

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Stack Overflow is still prominently displaying links to the far-right social media platform X in user profiles. X has no place in polite conversation. Let’s kick it out.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Go is a programming language with a strange property: The more I learn about it over the years, the less I like it.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Should it surprise me that the #rstats seq.int() function has fractional output? … of course it shouldn’t. 🤦‍♂️ > seq.int(1L, 5L, length.out = 4L) [1] 1.000000 2.333333 3.666667 5.000000

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

TODAY: Declining a journal review because the authors write "data is available upon reasonable request" Shown: my email to the editor Feels bad and good at the same time Whatever happened to opennessinitiative.org anyway? #OpenResearch

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

It’s great to see @deevybee take a principled stance and resign from the Royal Society over the failure to expel Musk over his behaviour. I wish more academics had that much of a commitment! http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

The ‘TSP’ #rstats package gives different results from ChatGPT for calculating optimal routes. BRB, filing a bug report.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Send some love to your favourite Open Source software maintainer. ❤️

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The most brazen attempt I’ve witnessed so far to spread malware via #StackOverflow.

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

JFC. The #rstats function `unlink()` expands globs instead of treating its filename arguments as-is. So use `file.remove()` instead. But wait! `file.remove()` silently removes empty directories on POSIX filesystems, but not on Windows.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I just learned that the “React table” control is not, in fact, an HTML table … and my disappointment is immeasurable. (Why this matters: copying & pasting such table into a spreadsheet does not work. Accessibility sucks. Everything sucks, and my day is ruined.)

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

The UI of the official Android #Mastofon client really needs to make actions more obvious. Boosts and Likes do not give any visual indication that an action was performed, and the button status only looks imperceptibly different afterwards (almost identical shades of grey). … I just noticed […]

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Balmflue #sporespondence #SilentSunday

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

1998: Cool URIs don't change 2024: lol just kidding https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/113272616968966433

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Musk is directly campaigning for Trump. He's doing all the things he falsely accused pre-Musk Twitter of doing. Anyone who fell for that shit, especially the idea that he was just really passionate about free speech, was a dupe. It would be a similar mistake to think he actually cares about […]

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments