🔖 The Reliability of Optical Disks: How long will burned CDs / DVDs / BluRays last? [one person's empirical experimentation] | Murray Grant's blog https://blog.ligos.net/2022-04-02/The-Reliability-Of-Optical-Disks.html
🔖 Mechanical Watch [three–dimensional animated illustrations and explanations of watch mechanisms] | Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
🔖 South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/
🔖 The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/11/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-the-scientific-paper?CMP=share_btn_tw 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/11/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-the-scientific-paper?CMP=share_btn_tw
🔖 The content moderation battle is a really just a failure of innovation https://anildash.com/2022/04/21/the-content-moderation-battle-is-a-failure-of-innovation/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://anildash.com/2022/04/21/the-content-moderation-battle-is-a-failure-of-innovation/
🔖 Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/technology/google-fires-ai-researchers.html
🔖 Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/
Oh right. The NASIG panel on library privacy that turned into an article?
There's now an OA version. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/8910k083p Thank you for prodding us about this, and thanks to Gabriel Gardner for getting it reposited.
🔖 Reconciliation: A game designed to frustrate the player | Bits About Money https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/a-game-that-intentionally-frustrates-the-player/
🔖 New research reveals Surfshark, TurboVPN, VyprVPN are installing risky root certificates [includes replies from companies] | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/news/new-research-reveals-surfshark-turbovpn-vyprvpn-are-installing-risky-root-certificates
🔖 Bottled Water Giant BlueTriton Admits Claims of Recycling and Sustainability Are “Puffery” | The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2022/04/26/plastic-recycling-bottled-water-poland-spring/
🔖 Running Containers on AWS Lambda | Earthly Blog https://earthly.dev/blog/aws-lambda-docker/
🔖 Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker | MIT News https://news.mit.edu/2022/low-power-thin-loudspeaker-0426
🔖 Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 'evidence' | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches
🔖 Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You: The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook | The Markup https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/04/28/applied-for-student-aid-online-facebook-saw-you
🔖 Opinion | Fighting Disinformation Can Feel Like a Lost Cause. It Isn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/fighting-disinformation-education.html 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/fighting-disinformation-education.html
🔖 Microsoft Word - PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.docx https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81297/PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81297/PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
🔖 Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!
So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.
This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.
🔖 Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally. mypronouns.org/he-him