Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

..no one just so happens to have a premium sammobile account that they could use to download some archived firmware, is there?

Ken jij iemand die bij de NS werkt aan de website? En/of iemand bij de NS in het UX team? Ik kom graag met diegene in contact om het over een opdracht voor mijn studenten te hebben.

When it comes to digital stuff, if you can’t

download and store it
DRM-free
in a portable / open format
with no phone-home check
for entirely offline enjoyment

you’ve paid for an unstable rental of indeterminate duration, no matter how it was described to you.

Some common rhetoric by libs, moderates and electoral left is that we should put aside our differences to fight the far-right. The left is so divided, we won't ever beat the fascists!

In my opinion, those are not the words of an ally, but of a would-be conqueror. Using the enemy as an excuse to gain power yourself, like the fascists do.

For established political parties it generally has an implicit "rally _behind me_, help _me_ beat them" message. But even when it doesn't, asking people to just ignore their grievances and demands - without offering any concessions yourself - is not conducive to an alliance, it is asking for submission and fealty.

Want to call for an alliance against a common enemy? Instead of asking for _unconditional_ support, focus on the common goals. Propose actions that the many groups can agree to. Or, instead of _demands_ for support, start with offers: what are _you_ willing to concede for this important goal.

to be clear my position is, 100%, robots.txt is sacrosant, and i think all this bean counting is bullshit. it's uninteresting and boring to me

but i am posting this thread based on my familiarity with quantitative social science as an MA in linguistics, and from that PoV all i can say is, you don't get to complain about your participants. your data is your responsibility. people you observe don't live to be observed or to comply. resilience of your measurement tools is your responsibility

an uncurated collection of numbers is an RNG, not a database

just because you store it in a DBMS it doesn't become data

data is a curated record of observations of variables. not any old garbage array is data

perhaps you shouldn't collect "data" by merely hitting some endpoint in some web apps, and, if you really care about accuracy, bother for a wee moment to build in some basic statistical checks into your software that can easily spot exaggerated and otherwise implausible reports from instance APIs?

you can for example make a basic guess that an instance wouldn't grow >x% per day and code a case in your app so that any growth that exceeds that is flagged for manual review?

if your fedi stats bot is being thrown off by instances providing inaccurate data, that's a you issue, and it's happening because you don't know what data is and how to collect it, and much more importantly, you're noticing the exaggerated numbers from GtS instances because they are, quite conveniently, illogical numbers

so while you're being thrown off by "baffled" stats, don't you think, you're excessively vulnerable to maliciously tweaked stats that aren't obviously inaccurate?

wait, i forgot to turn off the oven

Gibt es in Deutschland Recruiter*innen, die sich auf Remote-Arbeit spezialisieren?
Ich kenne jemanden (nicht mich), der einen neuen Job sucht und sich für Remote-Arbeit interessiert. Ich denke, ein*e Recruiter*in könnte da hilfreich sein.

If you want to stand up to fascists, wear a mask.

It’s one of the simplest and easiest things you can do to resist.

It protects your health, while also protecting disabled and marginalized people who are in grave danger from fascist policies.

It’s fun how sometimes I manage to do something pretty impressive at wobk and get many people amazed and excited but get no happy chemicals from it,

And then do something completely useless in some obscure ass piece of tech that 3 creatures use and get flooded with them

How are AUDHD brains even real, dawg