Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@mastodon.social

@privacylab "Oh you want to disable location tracking?

I'm sorry, I cannot let you do this, Dave..."

With GPU prices still ludicrously high, we highlight some classic retro-style games you can play on #ubuntu without breaking the bank.

https://t.co/d0QRjn5iQ8 https://t.co/d1cQPCK6ZQ tweeted by @ubuntu

#pt This keeps me occupied. Maybe I should study #biology after all. 😉

*Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other*

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other

Also reminds me of #StarTrek #Discovery. First I though that this galactic #mycelium network was to much over the top, but now I think it's a very good thought out #scifi concept.

#fungus #trees

RT de Protest Stencil :

To facebook, you’re not a ‘friend’, you’re the product on sale.

Our paper "In Situ and Context-Aware Target Apps Selection for Unified Mobile Search" with Zamani, Crestani, and Croft accepted as a full paper to #CIKM2018

"Sean O’Brien, a @YalePrivacyLab researcher with whom the AP shared its findings, said it is 'disingenuous' for Google to continuously record these locations even when users disable Location History. 'To me, it’s something people should know,' he said." #privacy https://apnews.com/f60bc112665b458cb6473d7ee9492932

Can't wait to spend tomorrow morning writing a syllabus.

I'm gonna leave it up to you to decide whether that's serious or sarcasm.

Old, but funny anyway:

An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, beer garden, hangout, lounge, night club, mini bar, bar stool, tavern, pub, beer.

All the #distributed, #federated #webapps in the world don't matter if they're prohibitively hard for people to run (ie #selfhost!).

That's how most of the world's #email ended up owned by #Google and #Microsoft.

So it's almost criminal that the leading #FOSS #selfhosting platform @yunohost is only getting €9.63 a week from their #Liberapay.

We can do better! Let's make it easy for everyone to host #Mastodon, #Peertube, #Wordpress, #Pixelfed etc!

Go, #Fediverse! Go!

https://liberapay.com/YunoHost

Karin Amatmoekrim: Deze dappere man leidde de eerste grote opstand tegen de Nederlandse slavernij https://decorrespondent.nl/8564/deze-dappere-man-leidde-de-eerste-grote-opstand-tegen-de-nederlandse-slavernij/3432270268372-87ed59a9

#bot

If we’re going to have a real shot at fixing the problems caused by Facebook's dominance, it needs to give users meaningful control of their own data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/facing-facebook-data-portability-and-interoperability-are-anti-monopoly-medicine

If you want to discover free music that you can stream, download and share legally, you can find lots of it at Jamendo:

https://www.jamendo.com/

Because the tracks are licensed under #CreativeCommons, you can legally share them on any service you want such as @funkwhale

(Remember to include the CC licence type when you share a track, you can see this next to a track's download link).

Any other suggestions for sources of free legal music?

#Music #Songs #Tracks #FreeMusic #DeleteSpotify

‘A reporter went undercover as a Facebook moderator and was trained not to delete certain racist memes and images of child abuse’

http://uk.businessinsider.com/channel-4-finds-facebook-not-deleting-child-abuse-and-racism-2018-7

“Channel 4 spoke with Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor who has become a critic of the company over issues including the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. He said Facebook stood to benefit from extreme content.”

Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/a-reporter-went-undercover-as-a-facebook-moderator-and-was-trained-not-to-delete-certain-racist-memes-and-images-of-child-abuse/2246

Multiwriter Dat could power the next Web (Video + blog post)

https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/

#ethicaltechnology #peerweb

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

You can now challenge someone to game of #chess over toots! https://castling.club/ 💪

It's actually a standalone server in the #fediverse, implementing #activitypub all by itself. 😃

Oh this is good! “Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.”

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com

Example:
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1805.12512/

Call for participation: LWDA 2018, the joint conference of the German Computer Science Society SIGs on Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence and Databases, will take place August 22-24, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany. It also hosts our 2018 Information Retrieval workshop, organised by the German Information Retrieval Special Interest Group. https://www.uni-mannheim.de/lwda-2018/

Alsjeblieft ABP pensioenfonds, stop met het investeren van ons geld in teerzandolie. #NietMetMijnGeld

https://secured.greenpeace.nl/actie/teerzandolie/