Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@mastodon.social

Wait, General Magic is back? But now based in Switzerland and Romania? https://www.generalmagic.com/

Enjoying the beatiful Calexico music in the ☀ at #DTRH2018

Who has more right to complain about US politics now?! They promise to bring all this happiness home!!

~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

Every Data Scientist should read Weapons of Distruction by Cathy O’Neil. She warns for the fact that mathematics is misused to turn subjectivity in Big Data into objective facts. She has many examples that will frighten you.

When a YouTube clip with a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed by Universal back in 2007, even we would not have predicted it would result in a decade-long court battle. Congratulations to our client, Stephanie Lenz. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move

My timeline is a bizarre medley of technical rambling, cute anime girls, highly diverse discussions about politics, people talking about shows and movies, and discussions of a far more personal nature. And shitposting.

We did it! WE REPLACED TWITTER COMPLETELY.

"Same tests, same content, same staff, more students..."
A very nice illustration from Klaas Sikkel of the growth of our bachelors Computer Science and Business & IT. For the 4th module in the first year you see from left to right: Tests 1, 2, 3 for 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18.

From 2007:
"Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.comment

It's #FollowFriday so time for some #alternatives to follow:

@funkwhale FunkWhale: Open source federated alternative to GrooveShark and SoundCloud

@prismo Prismo: Federated open source alternative to Reddit, in development.

@Fairphone and @WeAreFairphone Fairphone: Makers of fairtrade modular smartphones

@kevinbeynon Libreture: eBook storage site and comprehensive list of non-DRM eBook publishers.

@clickblaster ClickBlaster: Endless clickbait!

#FF #FFed #Recommendations

Never knew The Beatles helped battle segregation in the USA, as very young band. Great lads 😀

http://greenlining.org/blog/2013/1964-civil-rights-and-the-beatles/

Lo and behold! Look at these follow suggestions from :

- @peterapers (Peter Apers)
- @utoday (U-Today)
- @Erik (Erik Kemp)
- @interactief (Inter-Actief)
- @doina (Doina Bucur)
- @arjen (Arjen de Vries, aka @arjenpdevries)
- @kivi (KIVI Students Twente)
- @petri (Information Specialist EEMCS Petri de Willigen)
- @A3T (Aerobotic Tech Team Twente)
- @mvankeulen (Maurice van Keulen)

#FollowFriday #ff

🦉 https://hoot.video/

Our #Peertube instance is fully operational. Members of Kitty.Town that would like an account, @ me. I'll probably open it to others as well this week.

Our CoC is pretty standard for all http://dear.community stuff - antifascists only please and thank you.

There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?

Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

Some trending hashtags in the fediverse for today were:
#anarchism
#web
#reddit
#ubports
#galiza
#sg_zero
#catchraw
#cyberpunk

Please fill in our survey, so we can optimize our algorithm :)
https://strawpoll.com/714fza2r

#REDI

Two years after the original Panama Papers leaks, the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung has received a fresh trove of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, the now-defunct Panamanian law firm.
https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/

To analyze and report on the new data, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has once again organized a collaborative investigation which includes the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its partner centers

#PanamaPapers