Luís de Sousa @luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social
Research. GeoInformatics. Computer Science. Bass. Cycling.
http://ldesousa.gitlab.io
Joined Aug 2018
@pywps@twitter.com 4.2.8 is released. Bug fixes and expanded functionality for @Windows@twitter.com
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Duck Facebook.
Using behavioral targeting for manipulation is very real, dangerous, and deserves much more serious oversight & regulation. https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/1305591402173210624
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1305631553247014912
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The yearly state of #Rust survey is out.🎉 You can take part until the 24th of September.
Please help the Rust community improve the Rust ecosystem by taking part in the survey. It should take less than 15 minutes:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/09/10/survey-launch.html
Repeating here the poll set up at the European Tribune.
Will there be a EU-UK trade agreement in force by the 2nd of January?
My take on last week's extraordinary political events.
My review of "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3415531260?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
The hex-utils code repository has definitely migrated to @codeberg. Other repositories to follow suit.
New release of the hex-utils package. Thanks to arkanoid87 for the contributions. #HexASCII
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📈 A Record Breaking August at DuckDuckGo!
⌨️ 2B searches
📱4M app/extension installs
👩💻 65M guesstimated active users (we don't actually know because... privacy)
Each person that demands privacy online is a step toward a better Internet for everyone. #SpreadPrivacy 🦆🦆🦆
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1304053768233902085
Any one out there versed on #Python imports?
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DuckDuckGo's @CharlieBelmer found out that Kindles collect "a ton of data."
Opt out by going to Settings > Preferences > Privacy Settings on your Amazon devices and apps.
https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1299705112902987776
Food for thought. If we are not careful Europe could well be on a similar path. Just perhaps at slower pace.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-era/
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"Documents released also show that Google’s privacy policy was crafted in a way to allow applications that had location tracking turned off from using the location tracking information from another Google application that had location tracking on" #privacy https://www.azmirror.com/2020/08/24/unsealed-google-lawsuit-docs-show-its-own-engineers-were-confused-by-privacy-settings/
Good morning World. Being a PhD in Computer Science does not mean I am systems administrator. Much less that I know about Windows. Thank you.
sudo apt install aspell-nl
It is getting serious now.
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I’m curious, how many times do I need to listen to an album on Spotify for the artist to receive as much money as if I’d have bought the CD
Research. GeoInformatics. Computer Science. Bass. Cycling.
http://ldesousa.gitlab.io
Joined Aug 2018
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