Notices by Ronaldo V. Lobato (ronaldo@mathstodon.xyz)

Exploring shared philosophies in #Julia and #Emacs

https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-julia--exploring-shared-philosophies-in-julia-and-emacs--gabriele-bozzola--main.webm

@thearchangle yes, they are (it would be good to have them in the download page). Thanks

@bookwar Thank you so much for pointing it out.

Why don't #fedora have magnet links on the download page, therefore BitTorrent for its ISO? Some random CDN that takes years to download...

One of my papers got declined today by the journal I submitted it to, with a polite letter saying that while they found the paper interesting, it was not a good fit for the journal. In truth, I largely agreed with their conclusions, and the paper is now submitted to a different (and hopefully more appropriate) journal.

Rejection is actually a relatively common occurrence for me, happening once or twice a year on average. I occasionally mention this fact to my students and colleagues, who are sometimes surprised that my rejection rate is far from zero. I have belatedly realized our profession is far more willing to announce successful accomplishments (such as having a paper accepted, or a result proved) than unsuccessful ones (such as a paper rejected, or a proof attempt not working), except when the failures are somehow controversial. Because of this, a perception can be created that all of one's peers are achieving either success or controversy, with one's own personal career ending up becoming the only known source of examples of "mundane" failure. I speculate that this may be a contributor to the "impostor syndrome" that is prevalent in this field (though, again, not widely disseminated, due to the aforementioned reporting bias, and perhaps also due to some stigma regarding the topic). So I decided to report this (rather routine) rejection as a token gesture towards more accurate disclosure. (1/2)

I can't do better than quote @pluralistic:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

(7/n)

While the CEO of Bluesky, Jay Graber, has good intentions, she doesn't own the company. Bluesky's operation is funded by investors who are pumping in money now, but hope to get more back eventually. At that point, Bluesky will start getting worse.

(6/n)

"Zoom is now an AI-first work platform"

Mostly academics use Zoom, however there are plenty of better
alternatives, one can use #signal, #matrix using element web for example (I have been using for years
with my collaborators). Would be easy for universities to implement a
#Jitsi instance or a #Nextcloud (and use talk). It seems that we are
getting lazy and lazy...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305942/zoom-communications-rename-ai-first-company