Honestly asking: friends at Google/FB/Twitter, how are you handling all these profiteering revelations internally, ethically, etc.?
Quoting a tweet by @WTFJHT ↗
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November 2017
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A bunch of tech positions available as part of the @nytimes’s 10-week paid summer internships: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Intern-Biz
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The French gender equality minister is asking @Twitter to own up to its responsibility in handling online harassment.
Quoting a tweet by @MarleneSchiappa ↗
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Aren't there rules against running an @FQXi contest overlapping with #NaNoWriMo? 😲🤓
Ancient Egyptians had kitten and shrew coffins, and they're quite adorable.
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Robert Longo, charcoal (at the Brooklyn Museum).
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Bullet hole in a Charlie Hebdo window, Robert Longo, charcoal.
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If you’re following the NYC marathon tomorrow, come support inclusive & equal scouting with the BPSA bake sale at Lafayette and Carlton!
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Replying to @janmpdx and @Skye_Cleary
Do you know if high-resolution versions are available?
Biohacker friends: if I wanted to build a cat that went bioluminescent in response to radiation, where would I start? Cc @Tholand_
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Also, would toxo be a good vector to spread the editing?
I’m, uhm, asking for a friend.
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
I know, I know. Let’s assume this doesn’t matter for, erm, my «friend’s» purposes.
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
I know it’s unethical. Can we assume I’m not actually going to do it and just definitely not engineer toxo for that purpose?
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
So you'd reckon it might work better to make it change colour than luminesce?
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
Assuming that this is for detection not of immediate high radiation doses but relatively low (but eventually dangerous) leakage, does...
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
...that change anything? I mean, could you get a cat to glow decently over a week?
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
Some a bacterium that habitually resides on cats would be a good choice?
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
If I wanted to read up on similar work, is there anything you'd recommend?
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
I'll be start there! Thanks, think is super useful. Promise I won't actually build it.
Replying to @espadrine
Yup, that's why operational transformations.
Replying to @espadrine
I'm surprised, I thought OT implementations never used fixed indices? They're too painful for determinacy, no?
Replying to @trekonomics
Je crains que ça ne soit vraiment bon que fraîchement cuit! Mais méfie-toi, c'est avec plaisir que je te prendrais au mot ;-)
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Einstein's greatest mistake was the time I had to go to the gym and I was very disappointed to see that the bat noises are not just random.
Quoting a tweet by @mcnees ↗
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Replying to @Tholand_
Yes, I know the movie! But I haven't found any solid source on actual implementation techniques, even from bricobio.
Replying to @blahah404 and @Tholand_
Smelly Cats, I like that! Also smell is a much easier way to anchor it culturally because it's tied to moral feelings of disgust.
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Replying to @Tholand_ and @blahah404
What I need to look up is how much radiation we're talking about. The use case isn't so much knowing the waste repository is bad when in...
...it, I mean who the fuck takes a cat 500m underground? The main risk from human interference is leakage to the water table. So it's more..
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...dilute. You want to evacuate areas with smelly cats before you've been exposed to too much water.
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Replying to @Tholand_ and @blahah404
Thanks a lot guys, it's good to know that you can still rely on Twitter for the important stuff!
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Replying to @Tholand_ and @blahah404
Thanks! I might take you up on that, but for the time being I'm just writing about it. And the writing is definitely unethical, the next...
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Replying to @Tholand_ and @blahah404
...step is figuring out how to spread this to a sufficient portion of the worldwide cat population 🤗
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"What are you running from, apex predators?"
The 🗽 marathon, sunshine or rain, is basically just one big block party.
Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments nyti.ms/2hIyoPu
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Il y a de graves problèmes sur les données privées; penser que c'est une question de "géants américains" c'est rater le problème @lauredlr.
Quoting a tweet by @martelf ↗
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Le trafic de données est mondial, et bien plus difficile à policer que ne le sont quelques géants.
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Anyone have some of those canned «Thoughts and Prayers» to share? I seem to have ran out and the closest @GOP supplier is pretty far.
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It's not easy to handle a peaceful independence movement so poorly that people will campaign for it all the way here. #CatalanReferendum
Replying to @philarcher1 and @w3c, @simple_villager, @dontcallmeDOM, @brinkwoman, @shepazu
Sadly, I won't be at #TPAC. However, I've pledged to introduce werewolf to #CCS18. Cc @ChristosEllina1
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Replying to @mbeisen
This looks somewhat like "tomme au marc". The trick is to douse it in grappa.
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Replying to @UrbnWarfareDuck
It doesn’t show on the picture but they’re actually little donut balls — so no hole there!
Replying to @torgo and @hadleybeeman, @TheHodge
It is reassuring, from a distance, to see the Technical Agriculture Group in good hands when the Web faces a kale-idoscope of challenges.
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Replying to @TheHodge and @torgo, @hadleybeeman
I’m concerned that if we exit the domain of cabbage cultivars we might end up in a place where you say potato, but I say potato.
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@remarkablepaper Any news on an API? The thought of having to load up content manually through an app feels quite tedious…
Replying to @ScaredCitrus and @Scott_prototype, @remarkablepaper
Sure, but that's not very automatic. I want to automatically get all my PDFs from Pocket, Drive, etc. imported.
Replying to @remarkablepaper and @Scott_prototype
I did so — thanks!
Replying to @rdeltour
I'm at neither 😉
Dear @Google, is it possible to get a global “get the fuck out of my face” setting for your ceaseless Chrome nagging? Thanks!
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Every time I see this nag I hate Chrome a little more, which is stupid because it’s not Chrome being annoying.
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What I find particularly interesting here (beyond the fact that this is great news) is that the German constitutional court anchored this “3rd gender” right in the right to privacy. It's good to see privacy as a fundamental civil right used in such decisions.
Quoting a tweet by @StineEckert ↗
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Replying to @tpillard and @Google
You can be DNT-compliant and still notice that a browser isn’t a given brand. I just want them to stop nagging me.
Replying to @null and @johnkreitlow, @Google
Tee-hee.
Replying to @null and @m_strehl
“Privacy” is a word in itself subject to much interpretation. My understanding is that the German term matches the EU Charter’s sense.
Replying to @StineEckert
And it aligns nicely with ongoing progress on privacy rights of people over companies, notably GDPR and ePrivacy. It took time but it feels like privacy rights are finally coming of age.
Replying to @StineEckert
Oh yes! The current lobbying push-back against ePrivacy is intense, for instance. But I think privacy advocates have a much better sense of what to do and what works. That's powerful and not going away.
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Replying to @rektide and @Google, @ChromeDevTools
Yeah, I have something like four devices and it feels like Google is having the Eye of Sauron tell me “DOWNLOAD CHROME” about twice a day.
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Replying to @janneke_gnu and @JANieuwenhuizen, @wwahammy, @Google, @firefox
That’s… in Firefox. It is *because* it’s Firefox.
Replying to @null and @Bouletcorp
*retch* *khhht*
Tu aurais pu faire un tweet de mise en garde “CONTENU CHOQUANT”…
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Replying to @stommepoes
It’s not exactly a video-first universe :)
Replying to @trekonomics
I have to tell my wife this, we’ve basically been doing without champagne for over two years and that’s just not a civilised way of life.
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Replying to @jensimmons
FFS, I'm so tired of this coming up again and again without being addressed. The W3C CoC is simply not anywhere near enforced. I wish it were a pun that we need a better standard for standards.
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Replying to @mbeisen
Ah, but no doubt one can trace their full ontogeny in the minutes of Unicode Consortium meeting minutes.
Replying to @ElliotLepers
SF tech makes total sense if you just realise that it is designed almost entirely for rich babies.
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Both @fantasai and @Lady_Ada_King make great points, but the trend towards frameworks over technology is part of broader shift in Web development from craftsmanship towards industrialisation. More enterprise, less interdisciplinary.
Quoting a tweet by @fantasai ↗
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Frameworks are part of that, but maybe the clearest indication is prettier. The minute you start to value computer-enforced consistency over readability you’ve left the workshop and built an assembly line, with infantilised workers.
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Learning the tech to be able to switch frameworks (or do without) is important because the step after assembly line is robotisation. If you know nothing without a framework, if you can’t be readable without prettier, ten years from now you’re out of a job — plain and simple.
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I would add: there’s a host of non-tech abilities that are vital to tech such as design, communication, quality, governance, organisation. You’ll want to pick up your share of those. If nothing else, frameworks get pretty fucking boring after the ten first ones.
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Replying to @null and @commuterjoy, @lc512k, @nytimes, @3playmedia
I honestly don’t know, but if you remind me Monday I can find out!
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Replying to @null and @siilime, @fantasai, @Lady_Ada_King
Not only is it not hard, but it’s actually a lot easier than it was twenty years ago!
Replying to @fabricedesre and @siilime, @fantasai, @Lady_Ada_King
Absolutely. But I would contend that what is needed there is components, nothing a framework. The model is npm, not the JDK.
Benêts bruns et bruns benêts.
Quoting a tweet by @Authueil ↗
I'm trying to imagine what kind of worldview you need to have to think up the idea of different shoe size scales for men and women. And also children.
I mean seriously America, what the fuck happened there?
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Replying to @chidaquiles and @libcce
I’ll admit I had always wondered where the Neverending Story had been shot.
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OMG, I’d forgotten how painful the Firefox UI is without TabMixPlus… 😭😵
Has anyone found a replacement? Or have the other browsers made progress recently for people who have more than three tabs?
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Replying to @libcce and @chidaquiles
I'm so jealous now. That's almost as good as going to Jupiter.
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Replying to @null and @MagentaRocks, @washingtonpost, @nytimes
I'm curious: what are the links opening in? Do they get embedded in your Twitter client? If so which and what platform? Thanks!
Replying to @null and @pixelneer, @karenmcgrane, @nytimes
What are the links opening in? Your browser should not lose your login, are you using the embedded Twitter view?
Replying to @null and @MagentaRocks, @washingtonpost, @nytimes
That smells a lot like a bug with the embedded Twitter view there. Thanks for your help!
Replying to @null and @MagentaRocks, @washingtonpost, @nytimes
Note: at least on Android, in the Twitter settings, under "Display and sound" there's an option to open links in the browser instead. It might help as a temporary workaround.
Replying to @lkanies and @puppetmasterd, @MagentaRocks, @washingtonpost, @nytimes
That's the reason why people make their sites bust out of embedded views. But that's an annoying experience.
Replying to @lhirlimann
No, mostly sane open/close ordering and the ability to see all the open tabs in rows instead of hiding them under little arrows (why have tabs and then make them invisible?).
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo
What's that from?
"Thinking Machines": another uninspired thematic exhibit at @MuseumModernArt. Great idea, tiny room, a few wonderful pieces surrounded by filler, no curation.
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Thankfully we made up for it with the affordable and healthy kids' menu! 🤗
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo
Thanks! We're supposed to be a newspaper for curious people and I've been thinking about what that might mean precisely.
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Replying to @liza
Yeah, I'm disappointed. I mean, if you're in the neighbourhood and you don't pay, it's worth popping in to see the few good things, but I wouldn't make an effort for it.
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Replying to @Pvelkovsky and @trekonomics
Trust me, the French are surprised too. Doubly so when hearing that croissants are actually of Turkish descent, through the siege of Vienna (hence the shape).
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Nokia's still going strong! This on the subway this morning.
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Replying to @jensimmons
Also, I don’t think @stubbornella is quite Nazi enough for endorsement from @Twitter.
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Replying to @scottjenson
What’s interesting is that the woman playing this couldn’t have been older than early twenty-something. It’s likely she never held an actual Nokia device.
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"Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source" quantamagazine.org/quantum-entang… Neat @QuantaMagazine article, I wonder if there's an update since.
Replying to @emiliefaure
Oui j’ai lu le blog d’origine (et on avait déjà vu). Mais pourquoi “aux États-Unis”? Vous n’avez pas YouTube en France?
Replying to @emiliefaure and @irenebb79
Je n’ai jamais entendu parler de YouTube Kids non plus — tout ça se passe sur Youtube Normal!
Replying to @null and @commuterjoy, @lc512k, @nytimes, @3playmedia
I’ve asked and I’m told we don’t share our vendor choices — sorry!
Replying to @mrgunn
It _could_ hurt if the years you spend getting it aren’t spent on relevant expertise.
Replying to @mrgunn
In a general sense, no, but if you’re talking about expertise in a specific field then it might. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have had as good a career (in my field(s)) if I’d stopped to go to University.
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Do people not know @metronomy in the US? Awesome band playing tonight in Brooklyn. Very few people; in Paris this would be a riot.
Not that I mind, but you're missing out!
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Were I to borrow from the lexicon of musical critique, I would say that @metronomy were on absolute fucking fire tonight.
Replying to @rdeltour and @edasfr, @FastMail
Je n'ai pas les mêmes besoins mais je suis très content de FM depuis longtemps en effet. Juste ça marche comme on dit.
Is there any privacy by design article/text/book/whatever that you would recommend?
Replying to @wycats
Yup, and in this case it also helps designers; it’s a full product thing. But I can’t seem to find much good thinking about it. My fall back is indeed to try to adapt what can be found in the security world.
Replying to @nervous_jessica and @SimonDeDeo
I saw this one at the Maison Rouge museum in Paris. It’s a twelve-hour video of a guy repainting the hands manually. Quite entrancing.
youtube.com/watch?v=YGMUn2…
Replying to @null and @aral, @rdeltour, @indie, @laurakalbag, @trinefalbe
Thanks! This all looks like what I’m looking for :)
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Replying to @trinefalbe and @aral, @rdeltour, @indie, @laurakalbag
Thanks! I’m ordering the book, we’ll see where that takes me next :)
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🇦🇺 ♥ 🌈!
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Fascinating. I wonder how much dark nudging is used in the attention economy. Is it possible that Facebook's newsfeed algorithm is purposely inscrutable because, while a poor user experience, it actually increases engagement? Cc @behscientist
Quoting a tweet by @TimHarford ↗
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Firefox friends: I desperately need to run a legacy extension; is it better to enable extensions.legacy.enabled or to switch to ESR?
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Replying to @edasfr
30% à la signature (20% pour les plus gros projets), après des tranches saucissonnées selon longueur. Pour le continu, mensuel payé d'avance.
Replying to @hsivonen
Thanks! Yeah, the developers know, everyone is panicking that without TM+ it's like there isn't a browser left in the world 😊
Replying to @edderiofer
*THANK YOU* The @sciencedotai people will be very happy to hear the story!
Replying to @MALaviolette
As far as I know they’re working on it; the short term recommended solution is ESR (though enabling legacy works for now, I’ve tested it).
Replying to @ErikRose and @deezthugs
I tried legacy.enabled and it works with a dev version of TM+. Some things are a bit wonky, but less wonky than the default tab behaviour so it’s okay as a short-term fix. But ESR seems better by all recommendations.
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Si vous préparez votre passage à #GDPR, allez lire cet excellent ouvrage de @rubin et @elodieperleG: amazon.fr/R%C3%A9ussir-v…
Si vous ne préparez pas votre passage à #GDPR, euh, c’est bientôt là!
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Replying to @ContexteTech and @contexte_num
Qui est "la France" dans ce contexte, est-ce @FrancoiseNyssen? Ce qui met la presse en péril c'est le manque de confiance de son lectorat. #GDPR et #ePrivacy œuvrent à rétablir cette confiance en imposant des pratiques respectueuses des lecteurs.
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Replying to @GuillomPlep
Nous on change beaucoup de chose pour s’aligner (et de bon cœur). Et je vois en première ligne à quel point ça affecte l’écosystème autour de nous. L’impact n’est pas immédiat, mais il est réel.
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Replying to @GuillomPlep
En bien! Une grosse partie des problèmes de privacy vient de négligence (des gens qui ne se rendent pas compte de l’impact de leurs actions) plutôt que d’actions délibérées. Ça force certains à réfléchir; dans l’ensemble ça se passe bien.
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Le principe même de la francophonie est que la langue française est multiple. Malheureusement, les réflexes colonialistes ont peine à disparaître de l’Éducation Nationale.
Quoting a tweet by @jmblanquer ↗
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J’avais raté que c’était au sujet de l’écriture inclusive — c’est d’autant plus crétin.
Depuis quand la langue est-elle sous tutelle ministérielle?
Quoting a tweet by @LCP ↗
Replying to @GuillomPlep
C’est à eux qu’il faut le demander :) Ce que je peux dire c’est que notre nombre d’abonnés est sur une croissance très respectable, je pense que la confiance est là — on travaille très certainement à faire que ça soit mérité.
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Replying to @MALaviolette
Une version qui change plus lentement: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…
Replying to @Cqoicebordel and @hsivonen, @vivaldibrowser
I’ve received several recommendations; if I can’t get some reasonable tabs behaviour back in Firefox I will certainly give it a shot :)
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Replying to @tbernard1979
Nan mais en vrai, pas pour rigoler.
Replying to @tbernard1979
Oui, c'est de la pure démagogie...
Replying to @Noahpinion
I would mention the Hundred Years’ War as having underrated long-lasting consequences over Europe, arguably leading all the way up to Brexit (if I’m feeling expansive).
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Replying to @null and @MyronGaines1337, @Noahpinion
I don’t want to belittle the 30YW, but the 100YW led (amongst other things) to England becoming separated from the continent. The political tectonics as it were had substantial downstream impact.
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Replying to @null and @NYT_Mini
5 donut
Replying to @null and @NYT_Mini
5 across DONUT
Replying to @jprbnsn and @NYT_Mini
Duh! No worries, it’s pretty cool either way!
Replying to @jprbnsn and @NYT_Mini
It looks like you’re not using native replies — that might make it easier to use.
Replying to @null and @NYT_Mini
5 across donut
Replying to @null and @NYT_Mini
7 across yerba
Replying to @null and @NYT_Mini
1 down USPS
Replying to @jprbnsn and @NYT_Mini
Right, but the problem is that you then can’t see what it was that you did wrong — I fired off three tweets at it and it just gave me a generic “that’s wrong” tweet (not reply). I don’t know which one’s it’s responding to :)
Replying to @jprbnsn and @NYT_Mini
I have to be annoying and ask, since I’m at work: are you storing any data about people for this bot? 🤗
I like @nattyover's description of how @QuantaMagazine caters to curious readers by addressing scientists and laypeople with the same content. It certainly shows in quality. I'm surprised more mainstream media hasn't caught on to this more. #KavliConvo
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And a million uniques a month is nothing to be sneezed at either, especially as a standalone site. That's a lot of people thirsting for understanding. #KavliConvo
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I'm surprised to hear that @QuantaMagazine sometimes passes on stories because they are about research carried out by the @SimonsFdn so as not to look like shills. I read Quanta because I trust their judgement, this would be no different. #KavliConvo
@skdh is rightfully irritated when science writers start off her blog but don't credit her work. At times when news credibility is a pressing issue, some traceability to open sources could be a good idea. #KavliConvo
Replying to @blisswords and @YrsaSig, @Mumbler3
Norwegians have a word for this that translates literally as "foreplay". I think it is something like "vorspiel". I recall because a Norwegian friend once suggested foreplay to a small group of non-Norwegians and it took us a little while to get to the root of that 🤣
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Replying to @jensimmons and @dauwhe
A datagram, on paper 😀
I wonder if being embarrassed by what's going on in one's community, as @skdh sometimes is about physics, isn't overall one of the best paths to powerful, culture-independent humour. (See also @w3cmemes, @ietfmemes.) #KavliConvo
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"Science writers are too often cheerleaders for science." (Instead of being rightfully critical.) @skdh. It certainly feels that way from the reader's seat. #KavliConvo
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Right, because media has never been weaponised before! How could we have known! This is mystifying! If only we had some kind of science studying the past of humankind to maybe guide us! #FFS
Quoting a tweet by @jseelybrown ↗
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Replying to @null and @Floppy
Yeah man, I just love that stuff too!
Replying to @trekonomics
It you were surprised it would be unpredictable, you can't get angry about random stuff.
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Replying to @edasfr
Franchement, j'aime bien manger mais certains jours ça me saoule de devoir choisir que faire pour midi. Il y a un buffet à ma cantine qui est différent tous les jours, je suis très content de les laisser choisir.
Replying to @rhiaro
Dialogue is the worst.
If you’ve been curious about GraphQL, Apollo, Relay Modern here is the NYT team’s take, with links to more. open.nytimes.com/the-new-york-t…
If like me you missed this excellent @zeynep when it came out, read it now: "Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook" nyti.ms/2ywSFha
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Quelqu’un sait combien de fois il faut se désinscrire des spam de @GroupeRATP avant que ça ne marche? Ou est-ce qu’il faut directement un signalement à la @CNIL?
Replying to @ElliotLepers and @_Epistol_
Dropbox?
Replying to @Apolichon and @_Epistol_, @ElliotLepers
Pour les gros fichiers, Dropbox synchronise mieux. Pour le reste ces trucs partagés c'est que de la merde, rien ne vaut un bon git.
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Replying to @Apolichon and @_Epistol_, @ElliotLepers
La dernière fois que j'ai testé git lfs c'était très médiocre; j'imagine que ça va s'améliorer. Et pour des tailles de l'ordre du gb, je ne connais rien d'aussi fiable que Dropbox.
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Replying to @Apolichon and @_Epistol_, @ElliotLepers
Sinon Keybase FS c'est ♥, mais niveau volume je pense que c'est limité.
Replying to @michael_nielsen and @msantolini
Volume of publication grows roughly as fast, and it's still being done with antiquated technology for authoring, publishing, archival, search...
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On mobile I switched to Firefox a while back because Chrome randomly loses tabs, but holy fuck is the latest release fast! The UI is much improved too. Good job @mozilla!
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Replying to @domenic and @mozilla
I don't know man, but it's definitely noticeably faster, at least for my usage. I'm happy because I found the desktop version very frustrating due to breaking extensions. If there's more coming then fucking wow.
Replying to @torgo and @wanderview, @domenic, @mozilla, @samsunginternet
What would rock would be if we could sync history, tab list, etc. across different browsers. Right now that's a strong incentive to align across devices.
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Il y a quelqu’un chez @Marmiton_org qui s’est dit «Putain, idée géniale! Pendant qu’ils lisent une recette, on va lancer automatiquement une vidéo d’une autre recette sans rapport! C’est le double de contenu en même temps donc deux fois mieux!» #WTF
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Replying to @torgo and @wanderview, @domenic, @mozilla, @samsunginternet
Does @samsunginternet keep showing your number of tabs even after 99? Also, does it insist on reloading your tabs on almost every switch between them? Those are big pain points with the others 😵
Replying to @wanderview and @plinss, @torgo, @domenic, @mozilla, @samsunginternet
Tabs is doable, but I’m not sure we have bookmarks and history APIs yet, right?
Replying to @wanderview and @torgo, @domenic, @mozilla, @samsunginternet
I understand that they’re stopped; I don’t understand why they can’t just store state locally to be restarted. I have gigabytes of spare space begging to be used.
Replying to @pdwn and @Marmiton_org
En fait je pense que l’autoplay n’est pas intentionnel, mais le temps de chargement d’une page est tellement abysmal qu’ils ne s’en sont jamais rendu compte en tests.
Replying to @wanderview and @torgo, @domenic, @mozilla, @samsunginternet
I somehow suspect that OSs haven’t really adapted to the needs of modern browsing :)
Replying to @LeaVerou
Huhwah, semantic markup in LaTeX? <nav> in LaTeX?
Replying to @skdh
Examples abound. Glitter is awesome, the "pink Lego" are often much better than much of their horrendous "boy stuff", as always kid I would have loved to read @rebelgirlsbook, etc.
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Replying to @ElieSl and @Marmiton_org
Tu n'es pas seul (et @pdwn itou)
Things only a cat person would know: this comforter is quietly, patiently waiting to maul and kill you.
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Replying to @revelto
I don't owe you anything, if you want something done you know where the fork button is.
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"There’s a Digital Media Crash. But No One Will Say It." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-…
Replying to @trekonomics
I beg to differ, Manu. I’m not convinced that Lynch’s Dune came out all that great, to me it always somehow felt like neither Dune nor Lynch.
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Replying to @trekonomics
I’ll admit I haven’t seen the DC. The material is certainly tricky; I don’t blame Lynch for the outcome here. Besides, even he can’t get it right _all_ the time :)
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Replying to @trekonomics
I’m not sure it was ever that good, it’s probably just that we were young and influenceable ;)
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Replying to @trekonomics
I prefer to think of it as “aging into something of an acquired taste”!
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Attractivité, ou pas.
Firefox made page loads 2.4x faster just by enabling protection against misbehaved third-party trackers.
Who wouldn’t want that? How long until that’s the default?
blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/2…
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Replying to @rigow
It depends on what your adblocker blocks. This is “just” about trackers that don’t support DNT.
Replying to @null and @nitot
Il y a *surtout* l'incompétence.
«Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race» propublica.org/article/facebo… (thanks @histoftech, @IEthics)
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Why are people bothering to defend Confederate monuments when @facebook is there to deliver segregation for them?
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Replying to @kzwa
The reboot of the Tie & Die spin-off?
Remember that privacy isn't so much about trusting a company with your personal information as it is about trusting the people who will hack that company.
Quoting a tweet by @cpomagazine ↗
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Replying to @ubiquitic
Precisely my point: considering that they will get hacked, it does not matter that you might trust them. The problem is that they have so much data about you in the first place.
Replying to @ubiquitic
That's the right attitude, but I'll trust that when I've done their data inventory :-)
I like the Holland Tunnel's new tagline.
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Replying to @tabatkins and @domenic
Your a bad person Tab.
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
Hang in there! 🙉
American culture, like any other, is far from perfect. But there is something in the turkey made of butter that touches the gods.
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Replying to @danbri and @domenic
That one is fine to mine ears. The one I'm lonely in hating is "for free".
Replying to @glazou
Bah, chocolate is boring. This could be improved only by building the same out of goose fat!
Replying to @glazou and @jensimmons, @fantasai
It can prove hard to play Tetris on an abacus, no matter how much simpler it is.
Replying to @superwuster
Too short doesn't work either, though. See France for instance.
Promising take on the hard problem (not just for the #GDPR) of providing useful explanations of automated decisions.
Quoting a tweet by @SandraWachter5 ↗
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Is there a name for the particularly picturesque post-industrial wasteland on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel? I sort of want to write a movie just so I can shoot there.
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Replying to @rektide
There's that vibe, but can you imagine maneuvering orcs through there? You'd never get them out.
Replying to @rubin
I don't think there's anything "new" there.
Replying to @skdh
Belief does not factor in that's decision. Capitalise only asked an entity's proper name. It's "Sauron", even if you're one of those arrogant unbelievers who'll be first against the wall when the orcs come. 👾 👹
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“Most of our intelligence is not in our brain, it is externalized as our civilization” — @fchollet medium.com/@francois.chol…
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Replying to @rubin and @fchollet
Lu à sa sortie 😉
Replying to @phae and @0xStarcat, @jennschiffer
I’m putting together training for precisely that sort of thinking — would you have pointers to those talks? (Searching didn’t seem to produce much useful.) Thanks!
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Replying to @null and @jennschiffer
Thank you!
Every time I use Amazon I wonder how they succeed with such poor user experience.
And every time I use another ecommerce site I am reminded of why Amazon are winning so easily all the same.
Quoting a tweet by @GrouponHelpUS ↗
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Serious question: does anyone know to what degree business continuity planning for companies with substantial coastal dependencies takes such risks into account?
Quoting a tweet by @DrDinD ↗
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Replying to @frivoal
I'm not thinking just financially but more broadly about continuity when not only you have no office building left but potentially your employees are don't have homes either.
I'm guessing there are models in earthquake areas!
Replying to @quatremer
Si seulement ça avait été confié à un suédois, on aurait pu avoir "Monnet, Monnet, Monnet".
La reconstruction du PS c'est aussi savoir se faire aimer sur la Toile des internets.
People say that macOS’s window manager places windows randomly when you switch between screen configurations.
I don’t think that’s fair. Apple obviously put a lot of work into automatically moving those windows to the most absurd and inconvenient places.
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Replying to @lizbrandt and @BritSciAssoc
I’m curious: too detailed in which way? More often than not the #GDPR has left details out rather than in!
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It is worth remembering that ISIS’s explicit goal is to eliminate the “greyzone” that makes it possible for Muslims to coexist with all others in the West.
They might not have expected a US President to so openly aid and abet them.
theintercept.com/2015/11/17/isl…
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Replying to @willseth
Yeah, it’s maddeningly broken. Apple’s windowing behaviour is generally incomprehensible. I’m not sure that reporting it would do anything about the drugs they’re smoking on that team.
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Le niveau de stupidité de cet article de @zdnetfr est tel qu’il est impossible d’y séparer l’incompétence profonde du mensonge éhonté.
Difficile de ne pas y voir une tentative de faire mauvaise presse au #GDPR dans l’espoir de maintenir des pratiques publicitaires douteuses.
Quoting a tweet by @affordanceinfo ↗
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Contrairement à ce qui y est indiqué, le consentement n’est pas un des “principes centraux” de #GDPR, mais seulement une des six justifications pour un traitement de données.
L’article 6 §1.d précise que le traitement est légal s’il est nécessaire pour protéger les intérêts vitaux d’un utilisateur.
Je ne suis pas avocat, mais je pense qu’empêcher un suicide colle plutôt bien dans le cadre de la protection des intérêts vitaux.
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Replying to @willseth
Thanks! I had meant to give that a try at some point and then I forgot…
Replying to @gordonbrander
I thought The Knowledge was a pretty good book about that, bunch of practical science, no survivalist scare-mongering.
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