Read through some of your posts and thought it was an interesting idea.

I'm not much of a programmer myself, played around a bit in Java when I was younger for Runescape Private Servers but never really able to get into coding fully. I have done some light photoshopping/GIMP and used to play around with video editing software. I like to think I'm pretty technology inclined as I'm the "pc repair" person for my family/friends.

I like linux but mostly run Windows because gaming and ease of use. Though where I work I'm the "Linux guy" (not saying much tbh as a lot of people know literally nothing about linux).

I play around with music production in FL Studio and Ableton, not great at it but I have some stuff online with a thousand listens or so https://blend.io/zvyyr

Politically I'm very left (for the US at least), I like communism in theory and have read a good bit about it (not as much as others who are very into it though). Supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020.

I'm intelligent enough to know that I know very little about a lot.

I'm sure you could find more about me online, I've never been especially private but moved away from standard social media a while ago.

OK question, why is it called "she hacked you?"

And when you get damned in the popular opinion, It's just another damn of the damns you're not giving

My strategy typically is using https://scholar.google.com/ to search for interesting papers

Copy the link, or the DOI and drop it into SciHub and you will have a complete copy of the paper.

SciHub will always be a better resource for learning science than any science journalism from the Guardian or wherever. And if you find an interesting paper, and don't understand it, or have questions, or want to know what kind of paper it is, or if it has merit: share it and we can discuss it.

Using this strategy after Uni I was able to re-learn all the new physics and chemistry discoveries that happened after I lost access to my school's papers.

At Uni I spent most of my time reading scientific papers and in the library reading esoteric books; but even then you got access to a fraction of the papers since your school only gets subscriptions to a limited number of places.

Her project was so successful she had to go on the run; not sure if she still is.

Even at universities like Berlin's Frei Universtat they tell their students to use SciHub because you get more access to what is literally everyone's inheritance of scientific knowledge

Another character in this story is Aaron Swartz creator of RSS, and Markdown (Used in this software)

He is essentially a martyr because he was caught copying every paper from JSTOR, which actually isn't even papers that are copyright protected its just a service that holds papers. But the FBI wanted to make an example of him and facing decades in prison and being a computer expert, he would be labeled and hacker and get solitary, which is literally torture (even according to the UN).

So he took his own life before he went to jail and we lost a kind soul, and a truly great mind. And he had only just begun his contributions to the open source community and made tools we all still use today.

RSS? If you listen to podcasts you are using a tool he created.

So don't let these people who risked their lives, or lost them, to get you access to all this scientific knowledge that rightfully belongs to everyone; and not use the tools that are available to you. Scientific papers will teach you so much more about the world than news.google or any other random tech site.

Look up articles on Phosphorus and learn about how the European who discovered it collected pee from everyone he knew like the weirdest guy ever but then discovered something that significantly changed the world. Or find out about femto-second lasers, because femto-second clocks are cheap and you can build one!

The most important thing about a band isn't its music, but its name, right? right? 😆

I did my best to summarize the text below in the title, with the limited word count of a title, here is a sample of the text, the article is open access and you should read it.

Don't Read Scientific Articles Often?

That is okay, we are here to teach each other what we know.

If you are unfamiliar with scientific articles, this is what is called a "review article" and more specifically this would be a systematic review article. It is not research itself, but it is a collection of research articles put together to create a larger narrative.

I want people here to learn more about scientific articles if they were never in academia so they can begin using them more as sources for their work and general understanding; instead of relying on very bad science journalists who write articles that don't cite the papers often, and totally misunderstand the scope or point of the article; and are rewarded for misinterpretation that leads to sensationalism.

This is not sensationalism, this is a realistic look at the state of our world, using scientific articles cited to support every point made. And the outcome of the review is an explanation of how the ecosystem is collapsing. Climate instability is a single factor, the feedback loops that maintain our various ecosystems are falling apart quickly.

How and why do I know so much about this topic? I'm in love with very talented ecologist with a masters in ecology, specializing in fungi communication via chemicals (and in computer terms the protocols used to talk to other fungi or even bacteria).

Its unrequited but she is never-the-less a close friend and has introduced me to many ecologists so I have had long conversations with ecologists around the world. And the conversations are always very fucking grim; and when I step back and review the conversations in the way this article reviews research papers, the picture is pretty clear, global warming, or better said climate instability, is a red-herring to make you not see the much much much worse problem we are facing. Focusing on a single molecule COˆ2, or even methane which is far worse, makes the problem seem solvable by capitalism. But capitalism is the software running that is using up the resources, and crashing the planet like a bad piece of software on a computer; an infinite loop, checking far too few variables and we are not allowed to kill -9 it. We just get to watch it slowly crash the "Deep Thought" computer, or a less nerdy way to say it: Earth, a prettier way to say it: Terra (because maybe Hitchhikers Guide viewing the earth as a computer is useful way to view this problem).

An Excerpt From The Scientific Article

UK Chief Scientist John Beddington’s argument that the world faced a ‘perfect storm’ of global events by 2030 has now become a prescient warning. Recent mention of ‘ghastly futures’, ‘widespread ecosystem collapse’ and ‘domino effects on sustainability goals’ tap into a growing consensus within some scientific communities that the Earth is rapidly destabilizing through ‘cascades of collapse’. Some even speculate on ‘end-of-world’ scenarios involving transgressing planetary boundaries (climate, freshwater and ocean acidification), accelerating reinforcing (positive) feedback mechanisms and multiplicative stresses. Prudent risk management clearly requires consideration of the factors that may lead to these bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Put simply, the choices we make about ecosystems and landscape management can accelerate change unexpectedly.

The potential for rapid destabilization of Earth’s ecosystems is, in part, supported by observational evidence for increasing rates of change in key drivers and interactions between systems at the global scale (Supplementary Introduction). For example, despite decreases in global birth rates and increases in renewable energy generation, the general trends of population, greenhouse gas concentrations and economic drivers (such as gross domestic product) are upwards—often with acceleration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Similar non-stationary trends for ecosystem degradation imply that unstable subsystems are common. Furthermore, there is strong evidence globally for the increased frequency and magnitude of erratic events, such as heatwaves and precipitation extremes. Examples include the sequence of European summer droughts since 2015, fire-promoting phases of the tropical Pacific and Indian ocean variability and regional flooding, already implicated in reduced crop yields and increased fatalities and normalized financial costs.

The increased frequency and magnitude of erratic events is expected to continue throughout the twenty-first century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report concludes that ‘multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multiple climatic and non-climatic risks will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions. Overall, global warming will increase the frequency of unprecedented extreme events, raise the probability of compound events15 and ultimately could combine to make multiple system failures more likely. For example, there is a risk that many tipping points can be triggered within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5 to 2 °C warming, including collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, die-off of low-latitude coral reefs and widespread abrupt permafrost thaw. These tipping points are contentious and with low likelihood in absolute terms but with potentially large impacts should they occur. In evaluating models of real-world systems, we therefore need to be careful that we capture complex feedback networks and the effects of multiple drivers of change that may act either antagonistically or synergistically. Prompted by these ideas and findings, we use computer simulation models based on four real-world ecosystems to explore how the impacts of multiple growing stresses from human activities, global warming and more interactions between systems could shorten the time left before some of the world’s ecosystems may collapse.

Initially, I created the account to hold the projects I was working on in the weekly open-source improv computer science classes I was holding. But now I want to back off, create a community around it, and return probably to my Wade-Welles account or a new Ekis account.

I just wanted to announce our sudden growth and talk about ways I can take the project name, which is tied to a California based non-profit already (we could convert it to a cooperative, which is a new company design available in California (and has existed for a long time in Latin America) or we can re-work the articles of incorporation to function as a non-profit cooperative by basically programming the right rule set), and start the conversion from it being a part of one of my many internet personas and help it develop into a vibrant leftist science-oriented community.

I want a place where we can put projects and fork projects to improve them and collaborate. I'm not fond of Github; I hate that owners were willing to sell it to Microsoft.

We will have our own Git web client setup soon on probably shehackedyou.com, but many projects are still on GitHub, so this will be useful regardless.

I will also be working, so shehackedyou.com will provide email addresses to people who want them and subdomains for grey-literature journals or other projects. I will probably move my grey literature notebook from the primary domain to ekis.shehackedyou.com, which now goes to the twitch.tv channel.

I released the shehackedyou name on Twitch and should be able to take it over soon, so the Twitch channel will be appropriately named.

I also do plan on starting free improv weekly leftist-oriented science classes again, now that my temporary housing situation is more stable and while my servers are not in their rack, they are stacked next to a table, but I have access to them again.

And I have the rest of the equipment needed to stream. (I accidentally stored my MIDI controller and liked using it for buttons). Also, the software I wrote to automatically follow the active window is completed.

I will open the channel to anyone interested in offering free science lectures.

For full transparency, when I was running the classes we were earning around 50 USD a month. This revenue can be used to support members, pay for hosting, system administration, and other things we can think of. But it will be spent in a way that is democratic because the organization WILL be a cooperative. And its very realistic it will generate revenue for us to use to empower our members or further our yet to be defined objectives.

I already have a series of lectures from a Nurse who came from a low-income family but ended up going to Yale and working for NASA, and her perspective and knowledge are incredible. She is now teaching, so I will encourage her to provide more lectures in which we can find people to do animations to illustrate concepts, or I'll get her set up to stream. She has vast knowledge of biology and aerospace, solid opinions about space and peace, and has been working her way into the UN. She is also a hacker, not in the computer way, in the way she got a press pass and can now use it to get into events previously she would be barred from. For example, she knew the hospital system so well she called into a hospital she had never worked at to ensure her sister, who was severely injured, got treated immediately.

And if you want to check her communist credentials? She has a literal bust of Mao the size of her smallest kid. Where is your bust of Mao?

This is one new part of the evolution of this community and project: to expand it and let it grow further.

Please comment with any objections, problems, or complaints, or even if you like the idea, you can show your support.

But I want honest feedback to help this project grow into what it could be. I already talked to the lemmy.world (I hate the name) dev, and they will accept my pull requests. There are a lot of places for improvement. I wrote in a weekend a more feature-rich link aggregator back when I lived in Germany just because, and I was going to write one for this community or resurrect the one I had because it had weird features like supporting PGP/RSA/ECDSA-based logins, almost zero javascript for the benefit of Tor users.

The primary project of the stream was originally https://github.com/multiverse-os, which is basically like QubesOS but done better and on Debian instead of Red Hat.

For Example, QubesOS, at least at the time, ran all their VMs as root, which means a breakout has root access in the hypervisor. I even talked with the QubesOS developers and the developer of Whonix (who is incredible and brilliant) because my project was a mixture of those. I learned a lot about their problems and found out that many didn't even use the operating system. I have used Multiverse-OS for over 4 years now; there is no installer yet, but it's a working and incredibly secure project.

This doesn't have to be the focus anymore; I will go into more detail about Multiverse OS in another post. Because it is a passion of mine, and I do use it, and I kinda started the project as a demonstration on building an open source community around a project from scratch; because I have done this many times before and I wanted to demonstrate it on stream as a way to teach others.

And if you read this-- Create a post! Introduce yourself, you deserve your own post, not a thread with a bunch of people talking about different things so people can ask you questions and learn more about you; your work; your interests- and how what you think about the state of computer science*

(For example, I think it is completely fucked; and most science has reproducibility problems because computer scientists are not working on critically important open-source science equipment and instead creating stupid fucking hype cycles and selling phones with essentially no real hardware improvements every year, driving the need for rare earth minerals that fuel wars in fucking Africa. It drives pain and suffering, waste, and lies and unfortunately it also drives me).

I haven't gotten over the part of my history that pressures me to apologize for putting out my work in spaces I don't own. I'm doing a lot of it here. It feels like I'm taking up a lot of space because, you know, I am. I think it's helpful right now. Adding content grist to the mill that produces community because I like the vibe here and want to see this place grow.

I'm pretty sure if it gets old, y'all will tell me to shut the fuck up. Just want to say there will be no hard feeling.

Anyway, here's a self-portrait I took in college during the days of film 😁

An interesting scientific article from 2013; who can say what the reproducibility is, probably get wildly different results when replicated, especially given the data set is essentially self selected which makes the results bias in many ways.

I'm making my own Markdown/MDX replacement. Just added an "about" attribute to my blockquotes today. Pretty happy with the way things are shaping up.

the intro to this one always give me a little lift

I want to eventually expand this beyond just my writing; I will start with helping Mastodon instance operators but from there I would like it to become a place people can submit their research, and possibly even do some peer review. So far I have been working on CSS I can put inline for free until I can create my own system that gives me the features needed for discussing computer science topics easily

No rules, means like "copying is not stealing"

If you try it, you will likely be sucked in, it is very very good. But only 10 issues, so can be read in an afternoon.

I read a lot: sci-articles code fiction nonfiction + yes comics books

Got into comics so late I skipped DC/Marvel, was given "Watchmen" (only DC ever); it was good, but best of all time?

the artform is so different, so much better

Rick Remender is one of the best living scifi #authors

From "Low", "Tokyo Ghost", "Black Science", +more but those are sufficient to make the cut

I personally uploaded copies of the first 8 issues to my own server with no ads, or wait times, or anything else

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https://drive.proton.me/urls/ACXVTQD9Q4#geB9iW7Qih9T

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I was first inspired by this concept when reading the book Makers. Have you ever read the book "Makers" by Corey Doctorow?

He had a very clever solution which I wanted to try; bought the parts but lacked the motivation. Because the person I do projects with is very detail oriented and organizes things very well.

But the concept was you put an RFID on every physical item you want to index. Then you put a reader in a collection of bins. Then you just randomly put the items in the bins without thinking about how its organized.

Then you can write software to be able to do a search of your physical items that have the RFID (or even the newer low power Bluetooth would work too, didn't exist at the time of writing the book).

So when doing a physical search, the idea is that it lights up the container its in, then you can go directly tot that container and obtain the physical item without needing to do any organization.

I have other ideas; but that one is the first one that comes to mind, I highly recommend the book; and all his books, I'm a big fan. I never really got into his site Boing Boing but his writing is stellar.

If you can't afford it, or can't find it; let me know and I will post the audio book for you or the EPUB. Whichever you prefer.

With newer Bluetooth protocols, more complex versions of this is definitely possible.

I'm not sure how to make it happen. It would be hard to monetize and goes against siloed content, but wow would the world be a better place if we controlled out data

Hey there - I'm Alan and this is my intro

. First, I'm on Mastodon and we should totally follow each other there https://hachyderm.io/deck/@TheIdOfAlan

. This is gonna be long because, like Pascal said, I don't have time to write something shorter

. Please take everything I say with the picture of a person who's pretty energetic and genuinely excited about whatever it is they are saying. (I'm very rarely severe in my tone)

. Bullet points are my friend. It takes me a very long time to edit full on prose If I didn't do bullet points I'd rarely get anything out. So, let's run with that here

. The ability to randomize these points would be awesome. Ordering things make them feel like the order matters and it doesn't really here. Maybe skim around and read them randomly to simulate the experience?

. Photography used to be my thing, but I haven't taken a shot in a long time. Still love the idea of it and will probably get back to it at some point

. One day I'm going to get back to my Million Portrait Project (http://millionportraitproject.com/ - sorry for the "http without an s" link, but that site is old. Fixing that is on the list)

. Music is huge to me. Headphones are on most of the time. (I can totally recommend open-back ones if you haven't tried them before, I got a very enjoyable pair of phillips for like $100)

. Doing projects and new stuff gives me the happy brain juice

. "Tuneify" is my current project. It's an attempt to make a better robot DJ. A notoriously hard problem. I don't expect to do anything surprising with it. I just want to see what happens if I implement the ideas in my head and learn more about how all that stuff works

. Learning is my jam, btw

. Tuneify will be here: https://www.alanwsmith.com/tuneify/ - but it's far from even being a workable prototype. (It just loads your top songs into an IndexedDB when you log in. Unless I've broken it between the time I posted this and the time you see it which is likely given the dev process)

. Instead of listing about a bunch of projects I should just link to my links page https://links.alanwsmith.com which has a several of them

. Though, if you like The Shining, I'm really proud of: https://jacktorrance.blog

. On yeah, my main site is: https://www.alanwsmith.com - there's like 1,800 completely unorganized posts on there. Still working on how I want to deal with that

. Part of dealing with it is that I wrote my own file format: https://www.alanwsmith.com/neopolitan/ and a static site generator to go with it. I'm tired of jumping frameworks, so my goal is to use this for the next 20 years

. Feels like I should mention I have bipolar 1, but I don't really think about that very often. (I'm super lucky that my meds let me be functional)

. For 22 years, I worked at the PGA TOUR. I got burned out in general and after recovering from two years of major bipolar depression. Currently no gig. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to fit into the world

Hi, I'm Mich.

I'm having a weird time lately so my introduction is going to be a little fragmented.

I write software for a living. I used to enjoy it more than I do now: I burned out this year. I know it's something I'm good at though, so I'm looking for communities or projects where I can help out with the skills I have.

I'm passionate about music, and make my own sometimes.

I'm neurodiverse, and still learning what that means for me.

I'm confused about a lot of things and I'm learning that's okay.

We don't want it all in one thread, we want individual threads so we can learn each person by name; you can choose not to disclose things you feel are private, and keep it minimal but a POST just for you lets us ask questions and gives the community a chance to associate you with your name (since we don't get avatars :\ )

I'm a software developer who fell in love with teaching. Unfortunately many companies providing an education in writing code are scams, and I'm sad to say I'm working for one right now. I've been playing with the idea of having free "learn to code" streams, to give people the education without ripping them off.

I also am interested in getting into music production ( I have a year of piano lessons under my belt! humble beginnings lol), and I have an eccentric art style if there is a desire for visuals that don't feel derivative and samey like most modern art efforts. Attached is my most recent art piece.

I'm not just interested in teaching, really I want to just find other people who also enjoy creating and sharing information. I don't care about being rich or going viral. I just want a social ecosystem where "Wouldn't it be cool if..." is likely to be followed up by "Yeah, we should try it", or "No I already attempted that, but here is what I learned."

Anyways I'm here to help how I can!

This should support more than one image; there are a lot of issues with this service but it was one of the reasons I wanted to experiment with it.

Saw the post on Mastodon that linked over here and decided to give it a shot. I just wrote up this piece which feels like maybe it would fit.

You are free to express yourself here, hate is not tolerated, but there are more fun and effective ways to remove these bad actors than a simple ban; and it will be fun if they let us explore the options available to us. It would be the biggest regret post of their life.

Song file got corrupted so it was "finished" or rather saved in #audacity

Download @

https://shehackedyou.bandcamp.com/track/f-licette-2

https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou/felicette

#Soundcloud downloads enabled + #bandcamp is pay what you want