Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

Here a Spotify playlist with the most played tracks in the last seven days at KEXP Radio

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qqRZElBPTxgHRwz93CmIL?si=lxeoqVX3RJWi9K49OpJHyw
This playlist will be updated on a daily basis.
@arjen @djoerd

link to KEXP: https://kexp.org

This could be the REAL reason Trump refused to sign it and Vetoed it. Good thing the Senate just overrode that veto.

https://fortune.com/2020/12/26/ndaa-2021-shell-companies-corporate-transparency-act/

After the crypto play didn't work for Telegram, it looks they're planning to pay for the platform through... (have a guess?) advertising! 🙄

You can use Mastodon to add comments to your static blog engine.

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ #webdev #fediverse

I migrated my homepage from Hugo to Zola and wrote some words about my experience:

https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/hugo-to-zola/

#ssg

How your digital trails wind up in the hands of the police | #commercial #state #surveillance #tracking #technology https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/how-your-digital-trails-wind-up-in-the-hands-of-the-police/

Controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/?utm_source=tw

FFS

🎉 It is time! #Mastodon 3.3.0 is here! What's in it? Have a look:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.3.0

A bit last minute perhaps, but here is your yearly reminder that there is such a thing as christmas remixes.

My favorite is no sleep till Brooklyn by the Beasty Boys mashed-up with Last Christmas by Wham:
https://m.soundcloud.com/santastic-8/no-sleep-till-christmas?in=%2Fsantastic-8%2Fsets%2Fsantastic-8-holiday-mashups

Much more can be found here:
http://djbc.net/christmash/

I had planned to avoid posting until boxing day but this was too topical to pass up: Using gradient descent to find Christmas-tree-shaped fractals, https://hardmath123.github.io/chaos-game-fractal-foliage.html

Works begins at the data centre on our expansion of servers in a new, and our own, room

Down from 94 Gb. We switched to #WebP and it shows! 🔥

RT @Wikinaut@twitter.com

cc @KiwixOffline@twitter.com

Your christmas present:

Current offline version of English Wikipedia incl. images:
https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2020-12.zim
2020-12-17 08:43 79G

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Wikinaut/status/1340791815214157826

Cross-domain Retrieval in the Legal and Patent Domains: a Reproducability Study. (arXiv:2012.11405v1 [cs.IR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11405

Zim it up! Another Christmas present for you all: it is now possible to convert almost any website to the Zim format. http://www.youzim.it/

SIGIR 2021 conference goes virtual https://www.lists.utwente.nl/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=SIGIR;3ba4d9cd.2012