Notices by agaric (agaric@social.coop)

@technomancy 100% cosign, the democratic assembly structure for the Codeberg Association - https://join.codeberg.org/ - is great, with one minor additional point— GitHub from 10 years ago was not that great to use compared to easy alternatives like GitLab (which was good at the time but is also getting worse) and so there are so many avenues open for Codeberg to be much better than GitHub or GitLab!

https://social.coop/@agaric/115012077339262408

@dalias @copiesofcopies @mttaggart

Whatever legal language may or may not give cover, the *spirit* of GDPR is to say precisely what information you collect and for what reason, and if you do not have a good reason, do not collect. Not "use everything everywhere for anything" just in case.

Government of #Switzerland arrests director of a #news org long reporting on Palestine.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

#Signal #Lifehack. When you register as new user, Signal asks you to provide "a" phone number where it can send a confirmation code to finalise the setup.

Know that it asks for "a" phone number that can receive messages. It doesn't have to be YOUR phone number. This is not a new feature, it has always been like that. I registered my Signal account using the phone number of a prepaid SIM in a cheap burner phone. I have never used that number since.

@dee We recently learned about https://london.hackspace.org.uk/ from @BillySmith, perhaps that longrunning non-profit hackerspace would be interested!

Scanning for “appetizer” quotes —

‘Technical debt is how we describe the lack of cohesion in the system.’

— I hear @diana ’s voice in my mind, especially at parts like the last phrase in:

‘Donella Meadows defines systems thinking as how “parts together produce an effect
that is different from the effect of each part on its own.”

Relationships produce effects. Software becomes a system of software when “parts together” achieve something that could not exist without the “together” part.’

Proud of our client, California Rural Legal Assistance stepping up when it is needed:

https://crla.org/articles/post-election-2024-statement-we-are-ready-meet-moment

Does anyone know of an #OpenAccess full-text #PDF #search engine/tool using which I can search for relevant PDFs from a self-hosted #database?

Context: we have a curated database of #research articles but so far our search capability has been limited to tagged keywords or title and abstract field search only. We'd like to be able to search the entire PDF.

Side note: I know that PDFs are not a great way to store scientific information. I'd prefer not to use a proprietary #LLM if possible

#LexicalSearch #SemanticSearch #AskAcademia #academia #science #sciences #ScienceMastodon #AskFedi #OpenScience

@simon_brooke @BellaCaledonia

Related (saying much the same but we like the shout-out to convivial technologies), https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right

Regarding last re-post:

We donated to @PixelFed via @opencollective to help it compete with Instagram even more— seems Facebook is scared.

Want to match us?

https://opencollective.com/pixelfed/donate?interval=oneTime&amount=50&contributeAs=me

Thanks to @mastodonmigration https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113822682112072218

@dalias

@arisummerland

there is free public hosting i've used a little with mutual aid groups in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and @agaric we like to use the paid hosted plan in order to support development of the Zulip software (#LibreSaaS !) and to not add to our pile of self-hosted tools. EDIT to add, the ability to have guests on the paid plan we've found consistently more generous than documented.