Notices by jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)

@dalias
Thank god for DDoSecrets

Like I dont disagree the Democratic party are a bunch of corporate stooges, but to suggest the Republican party is going to "stand up to big tech abuses" rather than "bring them to heel in service of a fascist state" they are fuckin KO'd, done, finished, blaring red sirens, dynamite in the engine room, containment vessel breached, spaghettified viscera caught in the windshield wipers

Proton is cooked, RIP
https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466

Edit: post was deleted but it was real, I dont post fake posts.

If someone figures out how to do SSO with pixelfed and masto, I'd love to host an instance. One of the biggest weaknesses of current gen AP vs atproto is the "one account per instance" vs "one account on many instances" design, but it is certainly not intrinsic to activitypub, but the design of the software.

@rysiek
I need to practice my linkedinbrain writing voice because this is a very good bit

@rysiek
Pulling out my logotype book because there is something very familiar about those squared off counters in the p and o

it's especially gross because, as with the "predatory publishers" discourse, the thing that is actually being said is "the global south is publishing research, which is HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS"

extremely funny to me how most bibliometric research seeking to identify "cheating" in scientific publishing uncritically participates in creating the problem it tries to resolve.

"A company makes money by selling jelly beans, and through decades of scheming has convinced my boss that the amount of jelly beans i have is how valuable i am. This company also sells a product that evaluates how many jelly beans other people have, and I have used it to conclude that other people have too many jelly beans."

like... you can just say "jelly beans are a racket and the problem is that people must acquire them at all costs to keep their job" and that could be the whole paper, but that would require like critical evaluation of the field which does not get you any jellybeans

love how computer science profs will make a zero-css website describing this incredibly complicated thing by making a bunch of animations of their kids faces doing windmills and stuff
http://conal.net/fran/tutorial.htm

ok i'm stealing this and making a reactive system for python (yes i am still writing in that language because that is what scientists know) with signature introspection so you can just use normal functions that return things without needing to use a bunch of special event emitters

thank you haskell ppl for telling me how to think about push vs. pull reactivity and also how to deal with asynchronous forks and merges with differing cardinality. also thank you cities skylines for making me imagine it like a trolley network

i keep being like "what if i want to have a function graph but then also i can also just have functions when i want them to be normal too" and online keeps telling me to shut up

I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir on fedi, but a general PSA to never use link shorteners. In addition to all the other reasons, some ISPs including mine just straight up block link shortener domains.

New fedi phishing method just dropped and its beautiful

There is a reason we have a specific rule for conspiracy theories. They usually don't violate any other rule but the bad ones are deeply harmful to individual people and society. Following any given rabbit hole could send you spiraling towards complete isolation from everyone you love, and if you ever pull out, years of your life spent chasing ideas you have to painstakingly deprogram. To have those rabbit holes promoted to your notification bar without any prior inclination or voluntary interest is an evil, evil thing to do.

I just got a notification for "suggested content" from Instagram from a flat earth account that was a clip of Mel Gibson saying the LA fires were started/made worse on purpose to empty the state, followed by a bunch of numerology bullshit suggesting he was part of "the club" (combination Illuminati/qanon elite conspiracy). First time active misinformation promoted to me as suggested content - not in my feed, sent to notifications. Shit is bad man.

ChatGPT tells this guy that .221 is less than .08 "because there is a thousandths place, and the thousandths place is less than the hundredths place" and it almost makes the judge hold him in contempt and call a jury trial so she can give him a harsher sentence
https://youtu.be/TtcBScjCgFM

Gone is the clause saying you cannot compare women to "household objects or property." Also removed is a prohibition on claiming that there is "no such thing" as a trans or gay person.
Added in to the policy are new clauses apparently designed to explicitly allow common anti-trans arguments, such as advocating for trans people to be banned from public bathrooms, school sports, or certain jobs.

"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation," reads one exception. The same section previously said that users couldn’t call protected groups “freaks” or “abnormal”.

Meta also replaced language banning “generalizations” about a protected group’s “inferiority” on the basis of “intellectual capacity”. Now the new language merely bans “unsupported comparisons” between protected groups’ on the basis of their “inherent intellectual capacity” — seemingly opening the door to scientific racism.

Fucking awful. Absolutely do not want to hear "good thing I don't use Facebook" etc. Because your parents probably do and most of the people you grew up with do too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-fact-checking-hate-speech-meta-b2675311.html

"it doesn't work"

i have said this so many times but oh boy do i think p2p systems that tie themselves to a secondary coin economy where people sell extra resources to an undifferentiated peer mass are a dead end. just shooting yourself in the foot right out of the gate engineering scarcity into a model that can uniquely facilitate abundance.