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Arjen P. de Vries  

IDF.social is your home if you know:

\[
\textit{idf} = - \log \frac{n_t}{N}
\]

and... everyone else!

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Dear all,

For now, I will keep the site closed for registrations; but everyone can independently invite people to join using the following link to generate an invite:

idf.social/invites

If you know someone who wants to join this instance, then please do give them an invite!

Consider the instance open for those who know anyone on IDF.social.

"Sense of community" and an initial seed of some 40 IR researchers should be enough to keep those spammers out of here and still grow the club!

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Arjen P. de Vries  

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Computer scientist 👨‍🏫 with main focus on Information Retrieval 📄

Also interested in Data Science / Big Data 💾

In the previous millennium :mastodon: a PhD on Multimedia Databases 🎥 (Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite!)

is my academic home.

Entrepreneur: co-founder of (spinque.com)

IDF.social admin.

Loves indie music: follow me at @arjenpdevries if you are interested in gigs, events, etc.

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Knowledge frees humanity.

Thank you, corpus of Visual Metaphores!

vismet.org/VisMet/

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Inaugural toots on idf.social using a photo of lunch with Nick Belkin after attending the now Dr. Hugo Huurdeman defense.

See also:
timelessfuture.com/phd

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Marcus  

If you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy

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GNOME  

We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 41! After six months of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
youtu.be/V5jP1ym7nhM

See the release notes for all the details: help.gnome.org/misc/release-no

#GNOME41 #releaseday #OpenSource

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Matrix.org  

Pre-disclosure: we are planning a coordinated security release of several Matrix clients starting ~1pm UK (UTC+1) Monday Sept 13th to address a critical vuln. We have no evidence of it being exploited in the wild, but please be sure to upgrade on Mon! matrix.org/blog/2021/09/10/pre

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Kiwix  

Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website ooni.org/post/2021-italy-block. Luckily, there is Kiwix and our @gutenberg_new@twitter.com ZIM files.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar  

Self-Hosting Resources Made Simple

Sharing is very appreciated.

:verified: Freedombox, fastest way to #selfhosting
freedombox.org

📩 Mail In A Box, email selfhosting
mailinabox.email

:gnu: Yunohost, all-in-one selfhosting package
yunohost.org

:nextcloud: Nextcloud Devices
nextcloud.com/devices

👍 Awesome List
github.com/awesome-selfhosted/

💚 Awesome Directory
selfhosted.libhunt.com

📻 Podcast
selfhosted.show

#Yunohost #Freedombox #FreeSoftware

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Over de macht van bedrijven.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/09/02/toezi

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The New Oil  

Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20

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Hackernews  

Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort - duckdb.org/2021/08/27/external

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FediTips  

You can find local Mastodon instances around the world using the "Mastodon Near Me" project at:

umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/m

Click on map icons to see more details about local instances.

You can add instances via the project's git at github.com/jazmichaelking/mast or by messaging the project's leader at @jaz

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse #Instances #MastodonNearMe #Regional #Local

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Je was gewoon wat snel met dat mondkapje in Mercator @djoerd - vanaf zondag weer verplicht op campus!

ru.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/cor

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Machine Dreaming: On Writing with Language Transformers
by Georgiana Cojocaru

"When confronted with texts generated by language transformers, humans often exercise freely their inborn ability to project meaning into even the most incoherent of fragments."

networkcultures.org/longform/2

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Victoria Drake  

Privacy-respecting phones are the new Apple. I break down your Linux phone #FOSS options, #LineageOS, and @GrapheneOS in this post. 👇

victoria.dev/blog/the-what-pho

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Ok...

"Peertube.social will shut down in three months, due to inactivity and loss of interest by the administration team. You have until 15/10/2021 to download your videos and migrate your channels."

Niet vergeten om je videos te verhuizen @djoerd ...

peertube.social/video-channels

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Kiwix  

Vote for Kiwix @SolveMIT@twitter.com solve.mit.edu/challenges/digit

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allo  

If you ever need to write (1/36) at the end of a tweet, get a blog!

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Rysiekúr Memesson  

@dajbelshaw

> The project is "complex and unprecedented," Dorsey wrote, and is expected to take years to build.

Or, they could use #ActivityPub :blobcat:

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Arjen P. de Vries  

(Boost is not endorsement. CS needs an organization like the ACM, and the road to a new organization would be - IMHO - longer than the road to change.)
idf.social/@djoerd/10677082888

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Djoerd Hiemstra  

Earlier this year I cancelled my ACM membership. Here’s why:

djoerdhiemstra.com/2021/open-a

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Emmanuele Bassi  

Happy 24th birthday to the #gnome project!

mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-li

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Lesson from Lolapolooza: a festival with 90% of its audience vaccinated forms no health risk.
news.wttw.com/2021/08/12/no-ev

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