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What the FLoC?!
Don't panic!
Here’s how not to opt-in to Google’s FLoC:
Don’t load untrusted third-party content that might get classified as an ad (only applies during the origin trial)
Don’t call document.interestCohort(), and don’t load third-party scripts that might call it either.
More info:
Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC - Seirdy
https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinfo.html
Goede column Sheila Sitalsing over fraude obsessie, SyRi, hardleers Rotterdam. "Hoedt u voor regenten met een computer." https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b30d0f71
@mvz zou ik moeten weten wat Discourse is?
Goede grap:
https://datakluis-systeem.nl/
(Context: Allekabels gehackt, brengen verklaring naar buiten dat ze nu niet meer gekraakt kunnen worden vanwege hun datakluis systeem :-))
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Today is great because...
a. ...it's a Friday
b. ...we have new servers 🙌
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Related, very exciting: a full Jupyter notebook including #Python and Numpy and math libs running *entirely* in browser—no server.
https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite
They compiled the Python runtime plus and Numpy and FORTRAN libs to #WebAssembly. It all runs in your browser.
This is kind of the opposite route from Gitpod, whom you go to to reduce the burden of server config and management. With things like #JupyterLite, you minimize build/config problems *and* keep your computers.
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📝New blog post 🎉
Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust✨? Can you replace JavaScript with Wasm and things get faster?
➡️ JS to AssemblyScript
➡️ Benchmarking & Profiling
➡️ Debugging the runtime
➡️ Comparing file size
➡️ also feat Rust & C++
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Niels Niessen in de Volkskrant:
"De redenering van veel universiteiten tijdens de eerste lockdown was: het onderwijs en tentamens moeten zo normaal mogelijk doorgang vinden. De redenering had ook kunnen zijn: als universiteit willen we allereerst een sociaal veilige omgeving creëren. Studenten thuis surveilleren hoort daar niet bij."
@raboof that might work, and inspecting intermediate results is important too.
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RT @FledgeXu@twitter.com
@IPFS@twitter.com @KiwixOffline@twitter.com Thanks for IPFS & OpenZIM teams' hard work! If you are a Chinese user, There is a simple tutorial to help you begin to use Wikipedia on IPFS now.
https://blog.otakusaikou.com/2021/03/25/offical-wikipedia-ipfs-mirror-guide/
Microsoft buys Nuance
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22379414/microsoft-buys-nuance-ai-speech-tech
Clearly, owning speech tech is considered a key ingrediënt in AI future.
Risk of using a library without too much thinking: https://tanelp.github.io/posts/a-bug-that-plagues-thousands-of-open-source-ml-projects/
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CfP: SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation https://sim4ir.org
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Did u know the glyph failure character is known as a tofu □
And occasionally the phenomenon in which it happens is referred to as tofu-baké
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The Linux 'awk' command for beginners https://share.tube/videos/watch/1614c9b7-e14b-4ae5-bf8e-a0bea5c04015
@brion you'll need a strut with two long long values, so guess that's the answer, not?
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#XKCD in its best form: "When you go to hell, tell smallpox we say hello." https://xkcd.com/2448/
