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Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?

Screenshot of a paper opened in elsevier's PDF view on the top, and on the bottom viewing network traffic, showing a POST request to a newrelic server with a 'pointerdown' event

Screenshot of JSON of a HTTP request similar to previous image, only this one is pageHide

Screenshot of a split apart URL from a request to elsevier showing a bunch of events being transmitted along with identifying information from university proxy

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Encho a máquina de lavar roupa. Adiciono o detergente. Escolho o programa. Defino a temperatura e a velocidade de centrifugação (nunca adoto as que estão pré-programadas). Tudo pronto? Sim. Posso carregar no botão de início do programa? Não. Primeiro tenho de ir contar os gatos.

Copilot productivity hack: never ask Copilot to rewrite more than a few lines of code

the amount of debugging I had to do to my own code after Copilot decided to insert random comments in the middle of variable names and function calls is honestly baffling

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Presenting the most comprehensive list of Chinese fonts made in Hong Kong since the year 2000 💘

A timeline map with the title Mapping Hong Kong’s Digital Typefaces. On the map are 19 different digital typefaces that have their name written in their own font, and they are clustered together and linked to a timeline running down the middle showing which era of Hong Kong they are referencing in their designs.

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Impatient for THE AI CON to come out? So are we!

If you want to be sure to have a copy at the first possible moment, pre-order from your favorite bookseller.

https://thecon.ai/

w/ @alex

Image of THE AI CON as a hardcover book. Cover has THE AI CON in large letterpress font, along with subtitle How To Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want and author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Got an email from Dark Horse Comics (publisher of Hellboy, Witcher, Cyberpunk and Avatar comics) announcing that they are killing the digital comic book libraries their readers accumulated over the years.

Their FAQ makes it painfully clear you DO NOT own the DRM-ridden digital products the stores claim to be "selling" to you.

@pluralistic

Screenshot of an email from Dark Horse Comics which says the following:

Hello,

You received this email because this address is associated with a Dark Horse Digital account. We are writing to let you know that we are ending the Dark Horse Digital (DHD) service, effective February 24, 2025.

Sales through the DHD website, and the Dark Horse Comics and Plants vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS, ended on that date. Users can continue to log in to the website (digital.darkhorse.com) and read the comics in their bookshelves.

Effective March 31, 2025, the Dark Horse Comics and Plants vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS, will no longer be supported. Users are encouraged to download books in their bookshelves by March 30, 2025. The ability to download books to your device cannot be guaranteed after that date. For access through the website, users without DHD accounts should create one and sync it to the app by March 30, 2025.

Whether you are new to Dark Horse Digital or have been with us for years, we appreciate your support and regret the inconvenience this will cause. We know you may have questions about this disappointing news. Additional information, including our refund policy and terms of service, can be found on our FAQ page.

Respectfully,
The Dark Horse Digital Team

A screenshot from the FAQ section which was linked in the email from Dark Horse Comics. Two questions and answers are visible:

DO I OWN THE COMICS IN MY BOOKSHELF?
Technically, you do not. As with Kindle, Nook, and other e-book companies, you license the right to read the book on supported and authorized devices.

For more information, please review our terms of service HERE

CAN I DOWNLOAD COMICS FROM THE WEBSITE? CAN YOU SEND ME PDFS?
Unfortunately, we are unable to allow downloads to your computer or provide PDFs.

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

RGB dithering study

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

83 years ago around this time, my grandparents were 9 and 7 years old when British forces lost Singapore to the Japanese, after the British confidently declared that those Orientals could never defeat them.

The Japanese crossed into Singapore on a fleet of bicycles, bypassing British naval power.

What followed was 3 years of occupation as Singapore was renamed Syonan-to. My grandparents remember singing the Japanese anthem.

3 days after the Japanese won, they began a purge of mostly ethnic Chinese people in Singapore as retaliation for perceived overseas Chinese assistance to China, a few years earlier. 50 000 people died.

My grandparents never wanted to eat a single sweet potato or yam or tapioca ever again later in their lives, because that’s all they had to eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching

#Singapore #History #TootSea #Japan #WWII

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Seems right.
#Birds
🪶

Chestnut-backed chickadee perched on a bird book opened to the Chestnut-backed chickadee page. (Not my photo, but alas I don't know who to credit 🤔)
Update, apparently the photographer is
https://www.tumblr.com/5-and-a-half-acres/708992000487227392/this-needs-a-caption

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

ai;dr (AI; Didn't Read)

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

Anthropic (Claude LLM) AI Company doesn’t want people using AI for their resumes or any part of Interview for software developer or IT jobs at their office. How ironic? LOL. The company says AI tools are flooding their system with bogus résumés and too many applicants. They can't find real talent even using their own AI system where candidates lie about their skills when resumes are created by AI.

Why you might not want to use AI to spruce up your job application:

Anthropic, an AI software company, has requested job seekers not to use AI assistants during the application process to evaluate their personal interest and communication skills.

A survey found that 80% of hiring managers view AI-generated job application content negatively, with 57% saying they are "less likely to hire" a person when they spot it.

Job recruiters and experts are divided on the use of AI tools for job applications, with some believing it creates more noise and others advocating for authenticity in the hiring process.

Giuseppe D'Agostino boosted:

It looks like someone uploaded a 98 GB snapshot of CDC datasets as of January 28, 2025 to @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

Edit: this post originally indicated that it looked like the CDC uploaded the data, but we don't really know who did it.

@MrHedmad a shame they closed down most brick and mortar large moth shops

@Psy_Fer_ whatever style you prefer and feel more comfortable sharing - we're going to fix minor typos at the proofing stage, but I'm very curious about what both the philosophy and the comp bio communities think

@Psy_Fer_ I'd love to hear your thoughts!

In other words: who gets first names, and why? And if things tend to always go in the same direction (as they usually do) what can we do to change things for the better.

I will let you find out in our paper. We had a lot of fun writing it, and we hope you will have fun reading it!

While at first glance it may look like an academic exercise in trying to philosophically justify an unusual concept, our motivations are very political and rooted in a real problem: how do power dynamics in academic settings shape the relationship between computational biologists and "wet lab" biologists? Who has the claim to the narrative of a complex project: the person who worked at the bench, or the one who analyzed the data? (con'td)

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