Francisco Pina-Martins @FPinaMartins@scholar.social

The intersection of economics, science-for-the-sake-of-it, and people having enough food to survive and thrive is pretty interesting.

The fact that the scientist in this article was female and worked for free (!) because the university refused to pay married scientists adds a certain feminist bent to the reading as well. I'm super glad the Japanese nori farmers honored her for her vital work and continue to do so.

Highly recommend: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-nori

RT @nixcraft@twitter.com

Good meme that pays tribute and pay homage to C.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1150669399008993285

How to #support open-source software and stay sane

Releasing #lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the #developers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

#opensource #opendata #software #science #openscience

“Star Wars in Manuscript” - art by Chawakarn Khongprasert at http://xearslll.deviantart.com
https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/185818957787/atomic-chronoscaph-star-wars-in-manuscript

“Star Wars in Manuscript” - art by Chawakarn Khongprasert at http://xearslll.deviantart.com
https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/185818957787/atomic-chronoscaph-star-wars-in-manuscript

The year is 5019. Humans, as we know them, are long gone. The Earth is inhabited chiefly by advanced, sapient machines.

For legacy reasons, everyone's name starts with "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;".

Experienced adventuring party sets forth (Larry MacDougall, “Further” Adventures in the Northern Wilderness by Kevin Siembieda for the Palladium RPG, 1990) https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/185571469065/experienced-adventuring-party-sets-forth-larry

last -p "2019-06-04 01:31:00" # A newer option of the last command allows you to print the users who were logged in at a specific time. So you may find the culprit for an incident. Note that logs might be rotated.

A big THANK YOU to all who attended the #GitLab BoF meeting I organised at #deRSE19!

We discussed a lot of questions regarding hosting @gitlab@twitter.com for academics, researchers and students, and took notes in this pad: https://pad.gwdg.de/gitlab?view

#scm #git #issuetracking #gitlab4science

Making my software decisions based on dragons:

clang: ✔️ has a dragon
gcc: ❌ no dragon
kde plasma: ✔️ has a dragon
gnome: ❌ no dragon
wireguard: ✔️ has a dragon
openvpn: ❌ no dragon

Browser Fingerprinting – A survey:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01051 (PDF file)

– different tracking techniques are discussed
– different defensive techniques are compared (e.g. uBlock Origin, EFF Privacy Badger)
– VPN users "are particularly vulnerable to browser fingerprinting", according to the paper

#browser #fingerprinting #tracking #privacy #addons #vpn #webbrowser

Automated phone backup with #Syncthing

https://scarpino.dev/posts/automated-phone-backup-with-syncthing.html

~ University Career Site FAQ ~

Q. What options are there for academics who don't land a tenure-track job?

A. Cartoon supervillainy is a time-honoured tradition for many academics whose research fails to receive the requisite funding

https://mastodon.social/media/KO9Eo2su_EZr33xP6e8

We are proud to announce that #UBports is now about to be granted the status of an official foundation that is recognized by the authorities in Berlin!

Read our official announcement here:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/it-s-official-the-ubports-foundation-is-ready-for-launch-215

Thank you for all of your support, and we look forward to even better years to come.
#foundation

Dalamar, Kitiara, and the portal to the Abyss (Larry Elmore from the 1987 Dragonlance Calendar and The Art of the Dragonlance Saga, TSR, 1987) http://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/183778348087/dalamar-kitiara-and-the-portal-to-the-abyss