So it is (my interpretation) looking toward either "no deal" or "no Brexit" (UK can cancel the process any moment until April 12th). I sincerely hope we get the latter, for all of us, both in Europe and UK.
Although observing the UK after a Brexit gives us concrete evidence to backup our claim that we need the EU to survive in a globalized world, I cannot wish for this sad outcome to become the reality.
Computer scientist 👨🏫 :
Information Retrieval 📄
Also:
Data Science / Big Data 💾
PhD in Multimedia Databases 🎥
(Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite I suppose!)
#sigir is my academic home now.
Entrepreneur: co-founder of #spinque
Loves indie music: will see Mozes and the Firstborn in Merleyn this month. Le guess who is my indie music home.
In love since I met my love ♥️
Two sons, 9 and 11.
And since 2 days:
Rattenvanger van Hamelen
Mozes and the Firstborn live in Merleyn, Nijmegen.
Great gig!!!
https://mastodon.social/media/J3gmGHGxVMCeK_5NA1o
For a brief yet informative introduction to I recommend:
https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969
Tnx @noelle for the text and @slipstream for the pointer!
Are big techs threatening OpenStreeMap @openstreetmap by contributing to it?
Congress is asking for feedback on a terrible new copyright proposal. If you make and share your work online, add your voice to the conversation by signing this letter. https://act.eff.org/action/creators-stand-up-against-new-draconian-copyright-rules
"Is there a working group talking about vocabulary or interop with other federated networks (#ActivityPub/#XMPP)?"
Matthew Hodgson of @matrix's answer about cooperation among #federation protocol development
1. New VC-backed startup enters the scene
2. People flock to it
3. They discover it’s a surveillance capitalist (and still have no clue what that is)
4. They’re shocked (because, see 3)
5. It’s too late, they’re too big and they’ve exited
6. Goto 1
🤷♂️
A brief write-up of patching the kernel on Fedora Core:
Want all the gory details of how we hosted the world's largest free/open source conference #FOSDEM21 via Matrix? We just posted the full writeup at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix. Huge thanks to @FOSDEM@twitter.com for putting their faith in Matrix & to everyone who helped make it a success! 🎉❄️🎆
OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support #Wayland https://col.la/k4hr3 #OpenSource #obsproject
RT @arstechnica@twitter.com
Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/google-play-bans-open-source-matrix-client-element-citing-abusive-content/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @RonAmadeo@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1355655288402178051
RDP at home, or "how to operate the Linux desktop playing an HD movie via HDMI on tele (in Firefox of course) from the Windows laptop", or pause/play without leaving your couch.
A manual for GNOME remote desktop (server) on FC33 (including a temporary workaround for missing UI and more):
https://arjenp.dev/RDP/
Mouse-only so far (Wayland...).
Here our Spotify playlist with an eclectic filter on only today's released tracks:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VcOkY7S1DsoTjPNm7yXEn
Interested in knowing more about TinyGo? Check out these links:
- Official site: https://tinygo.org/
- Slack Channel: https://gophers.slack.com/archives/CDJD3SUP6
- Github repositories: https://github.com/tinygo-org/
Emacs survey results are out! Lots of interesting tidbits: people love magit, ivy and flycheck, and a striking number of respondents are fairly new to Emacs! This seems great for the health of the community.
Parler archived before it was gone, up to 70TB of data I understood.
https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466
I love this: The Institute for Reproducible Research by Joseph Cohen et al., the people that started academic torrents
Music lovers, here's an hour of new music refreshed every day!
Let us know what you think.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qqRZElBPTxgHRwz93CmIL?si=iUGI07j1QZqMAZfJQX-Qmw
Courtesy @cloudspeakers
We onderbreken de revolutie even voor de reclame.
Mooie column van Tommy Wieringa.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/01/09/we-onderbreken-de-revolutie-even-voor-de-reclame-a4026885