We decided to get a puppy. I wanted a puppy since forever, so you'd imagine I'm very happy about it. But now my broken brain is sitting there telling me all the millions of different things that could go wrong, and it's completely ruining the experience.

He could get sick, might have genetic issues (even though the parents are completely clean), might miss us when we go to work, might cry all day, might not get along with the cat...

It's so frustrating 😔

@Elendol That doesn't sound great but an internal wiki sounds awesome to have. We don't have anything similar so we do whatever and it's a mess

@Elendol Where would you deploy it? And for whom?

Here it is! Fist post on my #degoogle journey: how I migrated away from Gmail, with numbers!

https://mrhedmad.github.io/blog/posts/goodbye_gmail/

#privacy #google #proton
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P.S: I'm trying to get better at writing, so if you have notes on the prose, please let me know.

@jimgar Hugh, thanks. I'll check again. After a while it all becomes a word soup and typos get missed.

Here it is! Fist post on my #degoogle journey: how I migrated away from Gmail, with numbers!

https://mrhedmad.github.io/blog/posts/goodbye_gmail/

#privacy #google #proton
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P.S: I'm trying to get better at writing, so if you have notes on the prose, please let me know.

Meryl Streep singing "Last Midnight" is my spirit animal.

Context: I'm trying to de-google my life but I have money spent on one of my many Google accounts, so I have to keep one.

Ok so you can't change the email associated with your Google account if you created your account by making the email (like most people do?). But what you *can* do is delete the Gmail service from your Google account - Google will then ask you for an alternative email address to associate with the now email-less account since every account has to be associated with an email address.

Since I don't want to use Gmail anymore, I guess this is the way!

:flag_un: :freesoftware: Announcing the first 15 endorsers of the United Nations #OpenSource Principles" – 8 practical ways for groups around the world to promote global digital cooperation through free and open source software.

✍️ Like software freedom itself, these principles are for everyone, everywhere - and the orgs you support can join a list of endorsers today.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated - spread the word!

https://unite.un.org/news/fifteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations

I've started to DeGoogle my life. Bit late to the party, but with the current political climate I don't think we can rely on US based stuff anymore.

Anyway, I've switched over to Proton, and I've been migrating my accounts or deleting them with my GDPR rights.

I have dug to the depths of my email accounts and have dredged up about 300 accounts all over the Internet. Many of them I couldn't even remember creating, and have info like where I live or my bank accounts.

Be careful people!

@Cyrge Heya! Due to very low engagement I closed the server about a month ago. Sorry!

@chartgerink YES - Typst all the way baby! I was so glad to finally have an alternative to latex that wasn't just a new "we wrap the ugliness behind a very pretty facade" type of thing

Burn it all down

Clarivate is the content-hoarding corporation that owns ProQuest, the Web of Science and EndNote, among many other services widely used in academia. Plus a ton of content. Today’s announcement, “Introducing ProQuest Digital Collections, a new library subscription offering unparalleled breadth, value and access”, sounds nice, doesn’t it? And the first few paragraphs are certainly full of praise for the changes they’re making.

Those changes amount to: libraries will no longer be able to buy books. Specifically:

Customers can continue to purchase content via perpetual archive license through December 31, 2025, after which this content will be available via subscription only.

You will only be able to rent content, not buy it.

I am quite sure this is not what the authors of books now controlled by Clarivate had in mind.

I think it’s too late for the commercial scholarly publishing sector to turn itself around — in truth it was probably already too late a decade ago, but I and others have fooled ourselves that maybe the good people at these corps can do something. They can’t. Commercial scholarly publishing is owned and controlled by terminal-stage capitalists, and is consequently all about increasing the next quarterly figures — not just ignoring the needs of researchers, but even the medium- and long-term finances of the companies.

In short, the commercial scholarly publishing industry is owned by people who are quite prepared to burn it all down so long as they get rich doing it.

And I think the only response is for us to burn it down first.

The difference is, we’ll replace it with something better.

doi:10.59350/qe20a-7t467

@infobeautiful It's good that they missed the hole at the top /s

@Psy_Fer_ Random names that arent acronyms are much better than cursed acronyms that make no sense, I agree

Guys you don't really need a cool acronym for your project, so please stop doing shit like

BANANA: corroBorAtiNg uneAsy statemeNts from nAnnies

Acronyms use the FIRST letters of every word, not random ones.

Use Flint's system: the "Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator" or FLDSMDFR

Simple. Memorable. Funny.

I just discovered the existence of the #academic journal Frontiers for Young Minds, which invites researchers to submit a simplified version of their work at a level appropriate for a child to read and understand, and which includes children as reviewers for each article. I love this idea so much. A quick look at the articles suggests that they're doing a great job of balancing simple language and presentation while respecting that children can understand complex ideas if explained properly.

I would have loved this when I was a kid.

https://kids.frontiersin.org

Consider these two scenarios, regarding experiments where a drug is tested for efficacy with rigorous clinical trials of random people in the world:
- A large trial, with 1000 patients, showing an effect;
- 10 smaller trials, each with 100 patients each, some showing effects, others not showing an effect.

Imagine all the experiments have the exact same structure, and the sampling population is identical. Would you "trust" more the 10 experiments (perhaps meta-analised) or the larger one?

I've dug myself in an abstract hole made out of such varied topics as:
- Reusing deposited data
- Hume's problem of induction
- The raven's paradox
- Experimental design
- Biases in the interpretation of data
- Variance of data points and their correlation

now my brain is full on vomiting out thoughts that I can hardly string together in a cohesive way and I'm getting very tired and I will go home now thank you

#adhd (I guess)