Julian Ruf @julianruf@mastodon.social
Interested in technology, privacy, economics and politics | Music addict
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Mastodon idea: keywords to trigger automatic CW. An alternative option to filtering completely.
What do you all think?
Do you know any good reads relating the question: in which areas should we allow/employ algorithmic decision making and to what extent? Any kind of text really; technical, philosophical, political, they all interest me!
#algorithms #decisions
Some speculative fiction about AI that’s worth sharing it here as well
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1013220587580395520
Having had the possibility to experience Beethoven’s Ninth performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic Choir a few years ago is still something I’m incredibly grateful for
List of defending World Cup Champions that were knocked-out at the first stage of the subsequent World Cup
1950: 🇮🇹
1966: 🇧🇷
2002: 🇫🇷
2010: 🇮🇹
2014: 🇪🇸
2018: 🇩🇪
Micro blogging, ambiguity and resulting misunderstandings and frustration Show more
The Register definitely deserves a price for creative headlines
"Oh, this is a wonderfully balanced sword!"
"Mm-hm. It is evil, that sword."
"Evil? No, it can't be, it is such a joy to use!"
"Exactly."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The state of Mastodon apps for iOS gets worse and worse. Most apps have seen their last major update 6–12 months ago.
The basic things still work but almost all new features introduced with Mastodon 2.0 or later are missing (e.g. custom emojis, ...).
Given my inability to code, the totally understandable time constraints of all the lovely FOSS developers and the lack of something like Twitterrific (for Twitter) which I could support by buying the app I don’t know how to solve this ...
Let me give you some advice: don't try and cook spaghetti while installing Linux (or any OS) at the same time. It's too much multitasking...
Probably the most interesting thing I’ve read this week
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy
We need more data vis stuff like this.
A voronoi may of almost all commercial airports in the world projected onto a globe.
If you're ever in a bad mood, watch this. 😊
https://tube.22decembre.eu/videos/watch/aaea5197-0ff0-49b8-9a63-c854b8cf3736
Another day, another data security incident
This time the database of a hotel operator (Eventhotels) has been breached and contact data of hotel guests might have been compromised
Those German hotels are affected:
https://www.eventhotels.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Betroffene%20Hotels_Affected%20hotels.pdf
Here’s the notification from the operator of these hotels (Eventhotels):
https://t360f9c07.emailsys1a.net/mailing/60/1460489/3234814/2062/87f6d1e34c/index.html
If you use encrypted volumes in macOS delete QuickLook's cache with:
$ qlmanage -r cache
because that cache leaks even encrypted data.
Comic - Update and restart
Original Comic + Bonus Panel: https://lolnein.com/2018/01/26/updateandrestart/
Just noticed that the multi-colour version of the new Pixelfed logo is very similar to the logo of Apple's Photos app
Not revolutionary, but Keynote and Numbers now also support adding mathematical equations with LaTeX and MathML commands
Today is the 25th birthday of the PDF format
There are five types of balls in the image below. 
One of which weighs 1kg, another weighs in at 2kg, a third one weighs 3kg, another 4kg, and another at 5kg.
1. How much does each ball weigh?
2. What combination of circus balls, magic 8 balls, and/or gaming balls will it take to balance the last scale?
