Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕ @[email protected]

"TMYK: unix greybeards get their grey from staring into the abyss of Lovecraftian horrors which is the history of all computing machines, and keep their beards because they don't trust themselves with blades near their throats after the things they've seen."

Cory “All Cats Are Beautiful” Altheide‏ https://twitter.com/coryaltheide

For now, installed Firefox. Switched default search to DuckDuckGo, disabled all the other search engines except for Wikipedia, enabled Offer to Open Copies Links, enabled Close Private Tabs, set Block Lists to Strict, disabled Send Usage Data.

This is a thread about computers.

I have a lot to say.

I might not be able to finish right now.

I'm going to post unlisted.

I trained a recurrent neural network on all of the titles of papers in my Zotero and my research and practice got completely roasted https://gist.github.com/aparrish/3d95be5f2505c9743c5c254706e16509

@fruchtblase @DialMforMara no a large part of why I use LaTeX is that it's far easier to write in in the first place. depending on what I'm writing of course. it's spell check isn't nearly as good to be honest, but it doesn't randomly screw things up on me or try and be clever, and actually writing anything with chemical formulas or math is just plain easier.

Any scholarly tooters have opinions about zotero as a reference manager?

I LOATHE the user experience of endnote, and I just realized that mendeley (which I've been using for years) is run by Elsevier. This makes me sad, and I would like to start using something else.

Within freedom of speech, there are four essential freedoms:

The freedom to speak — Individuals may express all ideas without hindrance or punishment.

The freedom to listen — Individuals may listen to all ideas without hindrance or punishment.

The freedom not to speak — Individuals must not to be required to express any ideas or speak to any person.

The freedom not to listen — Individuals must not to be forced to listen to any ideas or any person.

https://areomagazine.com/2018/04/07/freedom-of-speech-and-the-fallacy-of-demanding-to-be-heard/

Someone once posted an infographic of what all the directories at the root of a Unix/Linux operating system are for, and it was beautiful and instructive, but I did not save it and now it is gone forever

I should probably do a proper masto #introduction

I'm Vicky. I'm a librarian focusing on research reproducibility + research data management.
I gave an interview about me/my work recently: http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2018/04/04/repro/

I love FOSS, open access, open educational resources, open EVERYTHING

I hate the corporate capture of scholarship

I co-founded an open source, open access repo for LIS scholarship: lissarchive.org

I also love my super cute black cat Little Boss & my partner @remram44

To me it is obvious what happened: it was a knowingly forgetting of a working class organizer and publisher. He was a key figure of the anarchists before WW1, and was withdrawn from history on purpose.

So today I found this book, a collection of social features/reportages from 1880-1918 in the dumpster section of the library. It contained one by Albert Weidner and the editorial apologized not to know anything but the name, the publisher was aligned to the social Democratic Party.

Spent a good part of the morning consolidating passwords. Cleaned everything out of the browsers, merged it all with an export from a recent 1Password test. Imported all that into LastPass and crawled through that to reduce the entries from over 1,000 down to a mere 573.

Most of that was leftovers from my previous I.T. job and a stint as a front-end web dev. Still *way* too many left in there.