Dominic Duffin @dominicduffin1@mastodon.cloud
Open University student. CSS, JS, Python. Interested in cultural heritage, monarchies, mathematics, economics, decentralisation, crypto, new societies. 🇪🇺
On Thurs 5th July, the European Parliament votes on the new Copyright Directive, including #Article11 (the #SnippetTax) and #Article13 (the #CensorshipMachine).
Art13 would mean mandatory YouTube-style content filters on all websites.
Please contact your MEP *today* and tell them to vote against the new Copyright Directive.
Complete list of MEPs with contact details here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
More details on the issues involved here:
p.s. This is a useful thread on how to win MEPs over to your side:
C'est plus pour la beauté de la chose que je partage en aucun cas pour #Excel ☺
Welcome to Excel Unusual, the home of the most unique Microsoft Excel animated spreadsheets. All the animated models in the thumbnails above are created using plain MS Excel.
When explaining #MachineLearning to people, I find it useful to describe the arithmetic mean as a simple "learning" algorithm: By taking the mean of a sample from a population, you get a ~binary classifier between "above avg" and "below avg". I think it helps people to get three concepts:
* Machine Learning is not magic, it's maths
* Some forms of machine learning are actually pretty simple
* The data it trains on gives it a bias, & that bias can reinforce itself through misuse
#DataScience
Great podcast with Nathalie Mezza-Garcia talking about the Blue Frontiers floating island project: Varyon currency, sea level rise impacts, governance innovation, floating infrastructure, environmental sustainability and restoration.
#seasteading #cryptocurrency #innovation #environmentalism #sustainability #oceans #economics #politics #government #futurism #varyon
Hey all, I need some help rethinking community calls for #opensource projects.
At Moodle, as we did at Mozilla, I've been using a public Etherpad for people to:
- Sign in
- Introduce themselves
- Contribute ideas to the project
We're also using Zoom to:
- Discuss things via video and audio
- Record the call for later viewing
After a conversation with our data privacy lead today, I've got to delete the existing data we've captured in this way, and come up with a new approach.
Any ideas? 🙃
The whole "let me just pay for it, remove ads" argument against online tracking is problematic: Not everyone has the spare cash to pay for a bunch of online services.
No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.
You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.
It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.
70+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal
I'm late to the #introductions, but here it goes. I'm 30, she/her, from #Germany. I work as a environmental scientist at a university, pursuing a PhD degree. I need some #python #programming skills to do that.
I'm fairly into #crafts, especially #fiberarts like #knitting and #sewing.
I enjoy #boardgames a lot, I also started playing #shadowrun about a year ago.
#games like #citiesskylines or #civilization5 have quite a few hours on my steam account.
Plus: Trying to improve my #french ;)
It's okay to use a timer to remind yourself to take breaks.
Hello! I really like my feed: I learn lots of new things about #infosec, #crypto, #coops and #opensource.
However I'm missing some things--can you help me find them?
I want to talk more about people, working with them, their limitations and potential. I want to talk about #governance, #facilitation, #voting, #cognitivebiases and other concrete things that can be tried (and falsified) in #groups.
Let me know if you're interested, or boost if you think you have followers who are interested.
😀
This article by Alisha Drabek offers a powerful illustration of the central importance of language in the preservation of cultural heritage.
https://www.humansandnature.org/echoes-from-my-kodiak-alutiiq-ancestors
PSA: Usability testing works.
We found a bunch of stuff to fix, and a lot of it was either super important, or just low hanging fruit.
Watch people use your stuff, it helps!
@kaniini "Empathy matters in software development." - this so much, especially when most communication is through mediums that hamstrings social cues that would de-escalate and calm people down normally
It's heartbreaking to read how the priceless cultural heritage of Libya and Syria is being destroyed by war. The international community needs to confront and tackle this destruction, particularly where they may actually have a hand in it.
https://thearabweekly.com/world-heritage-syria-and-libya-agonising-under-worlds-idle-eyes
Fediverse folk!
Don't forget to boost interesting stuff.
The system relies solely on organic discovery.
We on small instances depend on boosts quite a lot!
Spring is here, at least for Northern emisphere dwellers. Take some time to enjoy the nature, since it's so pervasive. Even 60 seconds looking at trees instead of your smartphone screen is an amazing experience #spring #outdoor #italia #italy #photography
