pgs @pgs@mastodon.technology

Social networks can use the worst practices to retain users.
How about not letting you click on a link that contains itself in it's text until you sign up or log in?

"Yeah, I know the text literally says http://site.com" but we won't let you go to site.com if you click it"

Nine biological aging measurements were compared with actual deaths over a 20 year period, telomere length, DNAmAge, Horvath, Hannum, PhenoAge, GrimAge, physiological age, cognitive function, functional aging index, and frailty index. Go ahead and try to guess which of those 9 tests actually predicted who would die. https://news.ki.se/new-measure-of-biological-age-can-predict-health-risks

Coronavirus Mortality Rate
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

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A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/ai_kaggle_contest_cheat/

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Apple can be sued by app developers “on a monopsony theory.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/18/733510647/apples-buying-power-and-the-woman-who-named-it

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Just a reminder that the #Kurdish #RedCrescent has for many years been doing courageous work in #Rojava to see people get medical aid and relief from the war in #Syria. They are well regarded and often the *only* aid organization on the ground. They ALWAYS NEED donations. They have bank accounts across Europe and Japan, as well as PayPal.

http://www.heyvasor.com/en/alikari/
https://www.paypal.me/heyvasor

Please consider donating. They are seriously going to need it. 🙍🏽‍♀️

RT @glynmoody@twitter.com

ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund - https://boingboing.net/2019/12/16/its-an-ethos.html good; now stop it completely

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1206640519289421824

“The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is.”

Yep, that’s Amnesty International saying that.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

advertising is a far bigger act of vandalism and nuisance on public spaces than graffiti

#apple being decidedly post-truth

"Apple does not take any actions to block consumers from seeking out or using repair shops that offer a broader range of repairs than those offered by Apple's authorised technicians."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50505342

"Despite initially losing the case last year, Apple is continuing its legal pursuit against the owner of a small, independent iPhone repair shop in Norway. "

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxzpy/apple-is-still-trying-to-sue-the-owner-of-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-louis-rossmann-henrik-huseby

So you can seek out repair shops freely, but repair shops are targets

RT @ianmiell
Literally all I do all day as a software architect:

That's harder than you think
What do you really want?
What about ops and maintenance?
Do you know what ops and maintenance are?
Your timelines are insane
That tech doesn't exist yet
I can't estimate what's never been done.

Apple has locked me out of my developer account
https://rambo.codes/personal/2019/11/20/apple-has-locked-me-out-of-my-developer-account.html

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Blade Runner was set today,2019/11/20
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/

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