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:
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!
Computer scientist 👨🏫 with main focus on Information Retrieval 📄
Also interested in Data Science / Big Data 💾
In the previous millennium a PhD on Multimedia Databases 🎥 (Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite!)
#sigir is my academic home.
Entrepreneur: co-founder of #spinque (spinque.com)
IDF.social admin.
Loves indie music: follow me at @arjenpdevries if you are interested in gigs, #nowplaying events, etc.
Inaugural toots on idf.social using a photo of lunch with Nick Belkin after attending the now Dr. Hugo Huurdeman defense.
See also:
http://timelessfuture.com/phd
RT @PyroBatNL
Kabinet acht google niet veilig genoeg voor onderwijswereld
https://www.agconnect.nl/artikel/kabinet-acht-google-niet-veilig-genoeg-voor-onderwijswereld
"Is there a working group talking about vocabulary or interop with other federated networks (#ActivityPub/#XMPP)?"
Matthew Hodgson of @matrix's answer about cooperation among #federation protocol development
Are big techs threatening OpenStreeMap @openstreetmap by contributing to it?
Learned about @IPFS@twitter.com first here
5 years ago from @juanbenet@twitter.com's talk about
the Inter Planetary File System and the Permanent Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI
in fact building a
"Permanent Memory for Humanity"
https://twitter.com/TrailHub1/status/1359039862016536577
Another new music trial: a more stable and more reliable list (on spotify) with indie music released last week that has gained some traction.
Enjoy and let me know what you think!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LKyCrPA1EK6k2eAkysLji?si=ZBB89LAySoG3GcA8po2Nrw
@djoerd doesn't look like they chose at all :-)
Naomi Klein in The Intercept: "... human rights advocates are warning that India is on the knife edge of terrible violence. [...] Through it all, the giants of Silicon Valley have stayed conspicuously silent, their famed devotion to free expression, as well as their newfound commitment to battling hate speech and conspiracy theories, is, in India, nowhere to be found.
India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/27/india-climate-activists-twitter-google-facebook/
A Shazam client in Linux to identify songs:
https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec/
Tried it from Flatpak, and it works!
Statement on Politics of Lemmy.ml
📣 New year, new blog post: I fell into the rabbit hole that is monochrome image dithering. I wrote down everything I learned! 👨🎓
(… and wrote a small demo that dithers an image with all these different dithering algorithms.)
From: Google Analytics. Stop feeding the beast. https://casparwre.de/blog/stop-using-google-analytics/
NGI/NLnet Technologies Improving Search and Discovery Call:
A brief write-up of patching the kernel on Fedora Core:
RT @dietrich@twitter.com
In response to ongoing internet restrictions / censorship in Myanmar, @Wikipedia@twitter.com in MY is now on @IPFS@twitter.com:
https://my.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/
Huge props to @playingwithsid@twitter.com who proposed it, & coordinated w/ native speakers.
Epic implementation effort by @lidelOrg@twitter.com & Kelson of @KiwixOffline@twitter.com!
On the slow spread of knowledge of nice theorems, from https://cscresearchblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/karp-sipser-heuristic-and-reductions/