Statistics/Data Science/#rstats instructor at
Ghent University (BE 🇧🇪).
Toots in English and Dutch. And on a saxophone once in a while.
Donate to help girls get an education: https://malala.org/donate?sc=header
Genuine question here for Linux users and musicians, composers, guitar players etc. I am being told by several mouthy people online that "nobody uses linux" & "nobody would use linux for music making"
How many of you use or have used Linux as a vehicle for recording music?
Please retoot/repost to help get a handle on this, cheers!
#linux #music #musicmaking #DAW #ubuntu #debian #linuxmint #recording #homerecording #homestudio #guitar #piano #musictech #EDM #electronicmusic #metal #ableton
What in the cinnamon toast fuck?!
From a friend on Facebook:
Civics is now considered a sensitive subject
Civics
So just a heads up for people who aren’t queer, this Pride eve; Pride is around the corner and it’s probably going to feel a little different than usual.
• Expect it to feel angrier. We joke that July is Wrath month, but don’t be surprised if people at Pride events are a bit more on edge, our signs punchier, and our jokes sharper.
• Allies: more than ever before, be aware that you are guests in a queer space. Many of us are going to need the space to feel safe and comfortable for us now, more than ever.
• We have a gay agenda (see the above quote), don’t try to distract from it with platitudes. With trans people under an organized, legislative attack and nearly 60% of Republicans being against same-sex marriage, none of us are safe this year.
• Let’s not do the “Pride events need to be family friendly”. They generally are, but our family is angry.
There are four high-quality gravitational wave detectors in the world: one in Italy, one in Japan, and two in the US. The Trump gang's new proposed NSF budget would kill one of the US ones.
While these detectors were expensive and difficult to build, they've *been built*. They are working. They are seeing amazing things, like the collisions of black holes in distant galaxies. Losing one will make it harder to study these events. We need several observatories to even locate them!
But the Republicans say: "Let's poke out one eye with a stick".
It's a small thing compared to the rest of the damage they're doing to the US. Just typical of their wilful destruction.
From the proposed budget:
“NSF supports two large physics experiments – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). LIGO is the most sensitive detector of gravitational waves ever built and leads the worldwide effort to study the structure and evolution of the universe through gravitational radiation. LIGO makes use of exquisitely sensitive optical interferometers at two sites – Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana – to detect gravitational waves and, in collaboration with other, similar experiments in Italy and Japan, to determine the part of the sky from which the radiation originates. Past efforts by LIGO have led to the detection of hundreds of gravitational waves originating from the collisions of black holes, neutron stars, and other celestial objects. In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites and will support a reduced level for technology development."
Also 60% cuts at ATLAS and CMS.
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entire-Rollup.pdf
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
@the_wub @WildEnte @wonkothesane you don't seem to realize that it is not me objecting, but my employer telling us they're not going to take the legal risk. So take it up with them.
The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, just keeps getting worse.
She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications and threw her in a detention facility in Georgia.
Her case is getting a decent amount of media attention, with petitions circulating to get her released.
But did you know it’s not the first time she’s very nearly faced deportation?
In 2020, she was a key witness in a legal battle against Irwin County Detention Centre.
She helped blow the whistle about a doctor performing unnecessary hysterectomies and sterilizations on immigrant women detained in the facility.
This is Nazi level eugenics.
They’re grabbing people off the streets. They’re disappearing them. Many die in custody and/or are never seen again.
Sterilization of ‘undesirables’ is sadly nothing new. It’s a way to push white supremacy.
It takes a lot of courage to speak out against such practices, and it’s horrifying that she’s again sitting in a detention centre without due process.
https://fightbacknews.org/articles/free-alma-bowman
#almabowman #ice #immigration #fascism #uspol #disability #ableism #eugenics
Hey, listen. #Codeberg is being spammed with LLM bots right now. They started like an hour ago. Each bot is opening up one issue in a random tracker every minute.
I have no idea what the spread is, but each individual bot has like seven pages full of issues now. PieFed and FEP are both starting to see issues piling up because of this.
RE: https://social.wedistribute.org/objects/771856be-078f-4022-9971-7fd4b283426d
Insane.. The plan of the US gov to buy a shit ton of #Bitcoin over the upcoming years is thr actual intention of the hardcore Bitcoin nuts
At first they where anti-govt but knowing that if the gov buys a LOT of BTC, they will become instantly rich since the price will go up massively
It's not a "strategic reserve", it's a PUMP in a "pump & dump" but on goverment level because that where the most money is
This is not a secret either
DOGE goon fired after admitting that he was surprised to find that "government works" and is "not as inefficient as I was expecting."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad
Dit is een relevante crowdfunding. Er is een eendebek (speculum) ontwikkeld, die inwendig onderzoek voor vrouwen minder vervelend en minder pijnlijk maakt.
Maar er is een ton nodig om het in productie te kunnen brengen. https://www.supporttudelft.nl/project/lilium
Update: het streefbedrag is royaal binnen! 🎉
There is a sad and frustrating repetitiveness to my cartoons about Gaza, but still I think it's important to keep drawing them, just as it's important to keep sharing the images from Gaza.
Today's cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
Irish peacekeepers in #Lebanon fired at by #Israeli troops while on patrol.
The event happened on the #InternationalUNPeacekeepersDay ...
Would this have been reported more widely if the shots had been fired by #Hezbollah or #Hamas ?
#UN #Israel #UNIFIL #unifilpeacekeeping #Ireland #peacekeepers
@jorntw Ik ben er heel tevreden van. Het enige waar je op moet letten, is dat je goede stopcontacten hebt en er niet te vaak zware verbruikers mee schakelt. Ik heb een plug doorgebrand door er 2.5kW van de boiler door te jagen op een versleten stopcontact. Dat ding werd te warm door de contactweerstand en heeft het opgegeven. Maar dat ligt vooral aan mij :-)
We made a comic about textbooks.
@fazalmajid @siguza Suspicion is the proxies are embedded in a seemly innocent "free / gratis" software. Mostly Brazil at the moment.
@carlosefr We have a good regex match on the abuse. 32,000+ IPv4 /24 ranges now blocked. Requests being proxied via 2 million+ unique IP addresses and growing.
Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos
Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban
