Cathal Garvey @cathal@social.coop
Omnihaxor, Data Scientist at Scrapinghub.com. Enjoying a bucolic country life in Cork, Ireland. Passionate about Privacy, Social-Democracy, Human Rights. 🇮🇪
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* I studied #Genetics. I'm a big fan of GE tech ("#GMO"); AMA!
* Generally pretty #brightgreen.
* I enjoy #programming in #Python, #Golang, and #Rust.
* Currently working on my #machinelearning & #datascience
* I worry about how easy it is for viewpoints to self-reinforce.
* I'm a utopian technologist..but I don't see much value in _impractical_ utopianism.
* I don't use CWs much, sorry. You can rely on me to CW traumatic subjects, but not 'politics' or 'selfies'.
Oh my God!
"i made a breakthrough. it turns out juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition successfully. if you want to avoid surveillance, become a juggalo i guess"
hey y'all, reminder: The ArchiveTeam needs your help right now to rescue photos from 500px, who are pulling an Our Incredible Journey after being bought by getty. If you can run a VM, you can help out, and every IP helps! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=500px
Yeah, that's still a terrifying violation of our privacy.
This is evil.
Updated the PR with a second commit: Track positive engagements with people you're not following so they show up in the suggestions too https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7918
A timely reminder.
Also available without VM: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/500px-grab
500px is shutting down access to their #CreativeCommons images! Use this VM to backup the data before the capitalists destroy it. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
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Anyone out there play any of the "#Creatures" series of artificial life games? It's an enduring disappointment to me that nobody ever made a spiritual successor in all these years. AL as a genre died with that series, with only a brief anaemic bump from the creature in Black & White. The Norns in Creatures, along with their habitats and ecologies, were the most ambitious and holistic artificial life forms ever, as far as I can see. I truly want more of that ambition.
Power is real. Pretending that it isn’t is the most liberal of fallacies. Attempting to eliminate it is like attempting to purify your body of food. You can use power for good or for ill, but you can’t simply do without it and continue to exist.
So, it turns out that mastodon is SUPER heavy on browser storage, it's the top usage of all the websites I'm using (and that makes it SUPER slow to load and cause other problems)
Photo site #500px removes all #CreativeCommons photos.
Goodbye 500px. Deleting my account as of now.
https://www.cnet.com/news/500px-photo-site-abandons-freely-shareable-images-with-commercialization-push/
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LB context: #500px is removing the ability to upload, download, or search for #CreativeCommons licensed images, with basically no warning. Follow the instructions provided by @eq if you can: https://cybre.space/@eq/100290879824956894
Similarly to that video of a ladybird following a black line that's doing the rounds.. I've discovered that a foraging eri #silkworm will follow a ridge-shape, like the rim of a paper cup, indefinitely. I guess that, to their crude proving, it's like the rib of a leaf, and following that and doubling back until you find a fork is a good algorithm to find fresh food. But when the rim is circular, you never double back.. #sericulture
Every Data Scientist should read Weapons of Distruction by Cathy O’Neil. She warns for the fact that mathematics is misused to turn subjectivity in Big Data into objective facts. She has many examples that will frighten you.
~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
There was a young man
From Toulouse who got lim'ricks
And haiku confused
Some of the #silkworms escaped their individual paper cups today and are making silk mats, possibly as a prelude to cocoons, possibly for a molt. If the former, I missed a molt: probably their first. By my count they're still L4 (of 5). Two escapees made it out of the box I keep them in, and I only found one of those two, tucked up by the wall behind a stack of storage boxes. Have left it there: I don't know what happens if you interrupt.
#sericulture
https://social.coop/media/RTyMOk2eNbzOaXLA6cI
It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:
@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website
@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube
@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone
@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play
@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators