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'.
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks! 
However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out 
This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.
So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:
https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/
Any feedback very welcome.
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