Marcin Cieślak @saper@mastodon.social

FAZ: Ein Mastodon zieht nach Amerika um
;-)
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/ein-mastodon-zieht-nach-amerika-um-16437901.html

It looks like a French zoo captured one of the federating folks on this here internet!

"720 sexes and no brain"
"looks like a fungus and acts like an animal"
"one of nature's mysteries"
"named after a horror movie"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/the-blob-zoo-unveils-baffling-new-organism-with-720-sexes

Victory! Last night, Berkeley’s city council voted unanimously to ban the city government’s use of face recognition technology.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/victory-berkeley-city-council-unanimously-votes-ban-face-recognition

i just opened a new piece of art and it is so beautiful! Alex made it. @checkervest

Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

Pretty cool:
"John Oliver buys $15 million of medical debt for $60,000 and forgives it all, because he could"
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/john-oliver-buys-15-million-of-medical-debt-for-60/?fbclid=IwAR0epZOV5HUqhEFNS9_aq5afAsBu2c1dgz15z1kxNw27lsvJSvx3iwnIj88

Oops ...researchers at the University of Hawaii found that a programming error in a set of Python scripts commonly used for computational analysis of chemistry data returned varying results based on which operating system they were run on..
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/chemists-discover-cross-platform-python-scripts-not-so-cross-platform/

@Gargron brutaldon / alternate front end support.

Oh, this one is nice -

CVE-2019-14287: "Sudo could be made to run commands as root if it called with a specially crafted user ID"

I'm the PyDev of the week! 🐍📦✨👩‍💻

I talk about getting involved in open source and the Python community, packaging, and more: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/10/14/pydev-of-the-week-elana-hashman/

@320x200 @saper @liebach thanks I tried mupdf and works fine, even with hi-res pdfs!

Great brand name for lithium-ion batteries
IMG_0164.jpg

remember to vote this weekend if you have voting rights in Poland

If I owned a gym in Washington DC, I feel like I would be compelled to name it "Capital Gainz" and that's probably why I'm not in business.

"Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case" (PDF) https://emilianodc.com/PAPERS/mastodonIMC19.pdf

Interesting academic paper analyzing the fediverse and how different instances and users are connected to one another. It's cool that the Mastodon API is open enough that researchers can do this kind of work.