Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

At least a dozen police forces are using predictive analytics, despite warnings that algorithms and “predictive policing” models risk locking discrimination into the criminal justice system.

The West Midlands police’s ethics committee raised concerns. No privacy impact assessments had been made, and no analysis of how it impacted rights. The tool uses data linked to stop and search, which includes information on people stopped with nothing found, i.e., police bias.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/20/predictive-policing-tool-could-entrench-bias-ethics-committee-warns

this is an *excellent* introduction to parser combinators: https://bodil.lol/parser-combinators/

If you've enjoyed my little Go crash course and think it may help others getting to know the language as well, here's also a reddit post for it. Spread the word with me 😊

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/bf7zn0/learn_programming_with_go_a_live_coding_crash/

I released in production the version 1.79.0 of #Fedilab.

- Android O+ users will be able to customise notification sounds per type.
- The app will automatically remove more UTM parameters when sharing or when clicking.

Some bug fixes.

More : https://gitlab.com/tom79/mastalab/tags/1.79.0

Fixing issues once and for all in Emacs or Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19410356

Finally, somebody decided it had to be done... #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInsagram #deleteGoogle #privacy
https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/

What are all these less-than signs? What's an HREF? Look, we know you live in a fancy futuristic tech world, but not all of us have upgraded to the latest from Sun Microsystems.
https://xkcd.com/2139/

On Entities and Evaluation https://prismo.xyz/posts/a82901b4-35e5-48ac-be2d-f041e46293cf

Browser diversity is crucial for an open web. "You are both consumer and producer. You have a say in how the future plays out." ... "an Internet that runs only on Chrome’s engine, Blink, and its offspring, is not the paradise we like to imagine it to be." https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-diversity/ #firefox #chrome #edge

Vox on the sexist backlash against astronomer Katie Bouman, of black hole image fame, after she was cast by the media in the "lone genius" role typically reserved for men and untypical of how science actually happens: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/4/16/18311194/black-hole-katie-bouman-trolls

(see also https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html or any of several other similar stories)

And because if you just leave it there, it's going to start contaminating things downstream even if no one touches it directly.
https://xkcd.com/2138/

The big IOBox update for #vl

https://vvvv.org/blog/vl-the-big-iobox-update

#vvvv #visualprogramming #creativecoding

Async functions - making promises friendly  |  Web Fundamentals  |  Google Developers https://prismo.xyz/posts/c39556bb-c289-43de-a1be-6ad3a0bebf6d