Djoerd @djoerd@mastodon.social

Come do your PhD with me at Spinque in Utrecht, NL, on the topic of Professional Search:

http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/p9.html

Fully funded, with three secondments in Vienna (Allan Hanbury), Milan (Gabriella Pasi) and Tennessee (Diane Kelly).

See the Marie-Curie ITN DOSSIER website for 14 more cool projects, all over Europe, including two in Leiden with Suzan Verberne.
http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/phd_positions.html

We're hiring a PhD Candidate for Transfer Learning for Federated Search!

https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1064653

“TVs emit a tone during ad breaks that is inaudible to humans but that smartphones are listening for; now corporate entities can link the tv & phone as belonging to the same person”

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/is-your-smartphone-listening-to-your-conversations/

A Love Letter to Personal Websites - https://www.vanschneider.com/a-love-letter-to-personal-websites

Today I'm feeling quite nostalgic about #FirefoxOS:

https://andregarzia.com/2019/09/nostalgia-for-firefox-os.html

Show HN: wehatecaptchas – we’ll keep the bots out without annoying your users - https://wehatecaptchas.com

Let's not even talk about their optimisation of YouTube's algorithms to make the alt right more popular in Brazil, and bringing innocent home movies of young girls in swimwear directly to paedophiles.

Oh oops, I guess we're talking about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/americas/youtube-brazil.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/technology/youtube-childrens-privacy-fine.html

These dregs of society – let me clear here, I'm talking about Google executives and any employees complicit in this – need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/09/07/168245/googles-chrome-has-my-dead-grandpas-data-and-he-never-used-the-internet

In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/firefox-browser-cookie-blocking-default

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly

#GMail is harmful to e-mail ecosystem; its antispam blocking policy matches too many valid messages as spam.

It blocked LastPass email leak warning email, because it contained "a link" to a leaked site.

It blocked an e-mail from goverment agency addressed directly to me.

It discriminates all non-gmail servers, and it's pretty much impossible to own a private SMTP server these days, because GMail will classify everything as spam.

It's not how e-mail should work.

Consider dropping GMail.

I made it to Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/63nItp2YR57JYGM4EDPKWJ?si=OOejHsVUSaez0H8gUuICqg

Thank you white people, for the systemic genocide of Native Americans.

Nb4 "what genocide?" I have these to show you

Boarding homes, forced sterilization of children, forcibly taking the children away and adopting them out to "good" white christian homes, destroying all treaties, banning languages, forced drug addictions, lack of resources, rape, murder, burning all writings, forced assimilation of children.

And more.

RT @gretathunberg
Yesterday I visited the people protecting the Hambach forrest, in Germany.
Our war against nature must end. Read more about the background of the Hambach forrest here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/10/greta-thunberg-climate-change-fight-germany-hambach-forest?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
#HambiBleibt #ecologicalbreakdown #ecologicalemergency #keepitintheground #endcoal

* ActivityPub Conference 2019 * Speakers announced

Just making a page - see the schedule
https://redaktor.me/apconf/

#activitypub #fediverse #apconf

Zero-day vulnerability discovered in popular industrial and data centre control system
https://techerati.com/news-hub/zero-day-vulnerability-discovered-in-popular-industrial-and-data-centre-control-system/