Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

Heeft er iemand suggesties voor een links-activistisch #Matrix-kanaal?

Hoeft niet per se activisme als aangewezen onderwerp te hebben, het gaat me er meer om dat de community duidelijk inclusief en activistisch ingesteld is (en dat het niet alleen maar een linkdump is van deprimerende nieuwsberichten o.i.d.)

Overpopulation isn't a problem.

Inadequate and unjust resource distribution is.

Cool, old typography ^^

Metrolijn E, or as I've taken to calling it...

I am looking into automatic transcription quality for SIGPLAN conferences. Please send me your most jargon-filled accent-heavy talks for testing.

(for the record, I do not think it will be good enough, but it'd be nice to get some data on this)

Thoughts on these provocative ideas (about how research in psychology should proceed)?

The last author tipped me off to this one. Curious to hear impressions.

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4284943

(also here, behind the BBS paywall: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/beyond-playing-20-questions-with-nature-integrative-experiment-design-in-the-social-and-behavioral-sciences/7E0D34D5AE2EFB9C0902414C23E0C292)

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment’s specific conditions. According to this view, which Alan Newell once characterized as “playing twenty questions with nature,” theory is advanced one experiment at a time, and the integration of disparate findings is assumed to happen via the scientific publishing process. In this article, we argue that the process of integration is at best inefficient, and at worst it does not, in fact, occur. We further show that the challenge of integration cannot be adequately addressed by recently proposed reforms that focus on the reliability and replicability of individual findings, nor simply by conducting more or larger experiments. Rather, the problem arises from the imprecise nature of social and behavioral theories and, consequently, a lack of commensurability across experiments conducted under different conditions. Therefore, researchers must fundamentally rethink how they design experiments and how the experiments relate to theory. We specifically describe an alternative framework, integrative experiment design, which intrinsically promotes commensurability and continuous integration of knowledge. In this paradigm, researchers explicitly map the design space of possible experiments associated with a given research question, embracing many potentially relevant theories rather than focusing on just one. The researchers then iteratively generate theories and test them with experiments explicitly sampled from the design space, allowing results to be integrated across experiments. Given recent methodological and technological developments, we conclude that this approach is feasible and would generate more-reliable, more-cumulative empirical and theoretical knowledge than the current paradigm—and with far greater efficiency.

free dental, vision, and medical services in #seattle next month!!!

too much disk space? shiny new mailbox, but no email to fill it?

try DMARC forensic reporting

DMARC forensic reporting: an easy mailbox filler

receive them directly by the metric tonne, from mail servers

you will certainly not regret turning on DMARC forensic reporting

@remmy @riastradh

Them: Hi We're putting together an academic thing about decentralized social media, would you like to participate?

Me: Are you inviting even a single person who has been the target of a racist campaign of hate to harass them off Fedi, or just people who are still here? Because—

CAPTCHAs are so cool, all I want from a website is a purposefully introduced anti-accessibility feature that in many cases is completely useless at what it's supposed to do :3

I’ve heard of some Tencent scrapers appearing recently, so:

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Lukewarm take: internet search is terrible because it’s too complicated. It’s doing too much.

The purpose of search should not be to answer your questions. The purpose of search is to find cool blogs. If you subscribe to enough cool blogs, your questions will be answered before you’ve asked them.

(Newsletters are uncool blogs.)

As someone who uses hearing aids, I'm asking, no begging, anyone who works at Apple to get a feature added to the iPhone.

Let me *manually* decide to connect to hearing aids. I want to use them sometimes in Bluetooth mode to connect to the phone. But not always. If I'm in a lecture, I don't want a "ding" on my phone muting the audio of the lecture so the phone can grab the Bluetooth of the hearing aids.

Even better: let me select what things the phone will use the hearing aids for.

When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.

But that's not true anymore.

User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.

My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.

#HCI #UX #UI #okdoomer

There's a lake in Poland that can be translated as "Gamer Lake", and it sits in between 2 villages that came be translated as "Large Gamer Girls" and "Small Gamer Girls"

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names 

'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.

...calls to end anonymity online by forcing people to reveal their real identities might not have the effects people expect'

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-stable-pseudonyms-created-a-more-civil-environment-than-real-user-names-171374

I am begging people, talk to your artists that you appreciate.

Give them some encouragement. Tell them what you love. Gush a bit even.

If it wasn’t for some random DM in my inbox this morning, I’d be taking my internal compulsion to close up shop a lot more seriously tonight than I am.

Artists are tired, exhausted even.

I am *lucky* to do this as a glorified hobby.

Others’ abilities to get bread on the table depend on coin that isn’t coming in.

Don’t leave words left unsaid as well.

#TechWriters matter

Discord is NOT documentation