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investigative data journalist • @br_data & @br_ailab • interested in data, politics and their intersections • a <3 for #rstats, open for others • digital […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@cutterkom, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
So many good quotes worth copy-pasting. I choose:

"Quality is crafted by iteration—how else might we imagine good designs if we never explore objectionable ones?"

https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
The cognitive debt of LLM-laden coding extends beyond disengagement of our craft. We’ve all heard the stories. Hyped up, vibed up, slop-jockeys with attention spans shorter than the framework-hopping JavaScript devs of the early 2010s, sling their sludge in pull requests and design docs, discouraging collaboration and disrupting teams. Code reviewing coworkers are rapidly losing their minds as they come to the crushing realization that they are now the first layer of quality control instead of one of the last. Asked to review; forced to pick apart. Calling out freshly added functions that are never called, hallucinated library additions, and obvious runtime or compilation errors. All while the author—who clearly only skimmed their “own” code—is taking no responsibility, going “whoopsie, Claude wrote that. Silly AI, ha-ha.”
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
@tmalsburg github desktop if you're using github
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@queerde/115269958729564520

"Niemand darf wegen seines Geschlechtes, seiner Abstammung, seiner Rasse, seiner Sprache, seiner Heimat und Herkunft, seines Glaubens, seiner religiösen oder politischen Anschauungen benachteiligt oder bevorzugt werden."

Was fehlt?
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
@anj @dpc_chat And another quite mature option is the @Bellingcat Auto Archiver https://github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver
GitHub - bellingcat/auto-archiver: Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).
Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more). - bellingcat/auto-archiver
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
@anj @dpc_chat Thanks for including the low-tech Instagram archive. A quick note: it built on instaloader, that you mention as well. It then extracts the json files and generates HTML pages with a simple navigation.
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
"By signing the Statement, Wikimedia reinforces the growing international movement that calls for legal reform on four essential rights that ensure long-term preservation and access:
Right to Collect
Right to Preserve
Right to Lend
Right to Cooperate" […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d
It's that time of the year again:

Danke, RSS-Reader, dass ich filtern kann.
RSS-Reader, bei dem alle Artikel der SZ rausgefiltert werden, die den Begriff "Wiesn" enthalten
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24d
The Washington Post’s founding Global Opinions editor, Karen Attiah, says she was fired for her Bluesky posts about the killing of Charlie Kirk and political violence. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/washington-post-fired-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah-b2826734.html
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d
Math for Journalists by @naelshiab

"This interactive notebook aims to help journalists understand math concepts often used in news stories."

https://observablehq.com/@nshiab/math-for-journalists

#journalism #ddj
Math for journalists
This interactive notebook aims to help journalists understand math concepts often used in news stories. Questions? Comments? Reach out: [email protected]. Thank you to Arthur Charpentier, professor in the mathematics department of the Université du Québec à Montréal, who kindly reviewed this notebook. 🙏 Table of contents Averages and medians Averages Medians Which one to use? Quantiles Rolling averages Proportions and ratios Calculating proportions and ratios Ratios Different decimal bases Using plain lang
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d
Zu meinem Glück hab ich vor seiner Ermordung noch nie von Charlie Kirk gehört. Jetzt beginnt offenbar die "nichts schlechtes über Tote sagen"-Verherrlichung, die mit einer Ablehnung von politischer Gewalt verwechselt wird.

Warum das keine gute Idee, sollte @ErinInTheMorn lesen: Eine Sammlung […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d
How to check if an URL is in one of the internet archives like @internetarchive?

MemGator helps doing it. The main command is straightforward:

memgator https://forummuenchen.org/ueber-uns/

Some more example, including parsing the results with #jq on […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d
Die dunkle Seite der #OSINT-Tools - und #linkedin als eine der besten Quellen dafür. Schon lange kann man Mail-Adressen oder Telefonnumern einfach extrahieren: Ein kleines Plugin im Browser installiert und schon bekommt man zu jedem Profil Infos - und damit meistens eindeutige Identifikatoren […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5
@anj @dpc_chat For instagram, I create a low tech instagram archive, that extracts content with instaloader and then builds static html websites, following @edsu pincushion approach. copyright, gdpr etc. is ofc a whole other topic.

https://github.com/forummuenchen/archive-instagram

(I guess […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5
Erfundene KI-Bilder aus Ausschwitz = Gefühle = Geld

Personen aus Pakistan lassen mit generativer KI Bilder aus Ausschwitz erfinden, weil Personen aus Europa und Nordamerika auf Facebook auf diese Bilder emotional reagieren und sie deshalb liken oder teilen. Und das bedeutet Traffic und damit […]
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Forum Queeres Archiv München @queerarchivemunich.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5
Vielleicht habt ihr schon von der Dokumentation über Lana Kaiser gehört? Mit dabei ist ist Philipp Gufler, Künstler und langjähriges, prägendes Mitglied des @queerarchivemunich. Philipp vertritt in den drei Folgen die Fans und bringt konsequent die queere Perspektive in die Küblbock-Story ein […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 8
@elias @OpenAlex Yes. And then I am interested in the next round: which authors did the citing paper reference in their citations list? Is this a possible query? Or rather not, because the referenced_works are, duh, referencing works and not persons?
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 8
@OpenAlex what is a good way to get all other works, that another work cites?
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6
Dear Linux,

i fixed the keyboard shortcuts and restartet you... and you're gone again, dear copy-paste... Linux, why are you not a little bit more comfortable? just a little cushion here and there

#linux
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 5
If you ever need it: Installing R and Rstudio on a Linux Debian machine: Hard to find a good installation guide. Here is one: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/take-the-rstudio-ide-experimental-support-for-arm64-architectures-out-for-a-spin/

#rstats #rstudio #linux #debian
Take the RStudio IDE experimental support for arm64 architectures out for a spin
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 23
Once a again, a helpful tutorial and tool by @andrew:

How to open a folder as a Positron project with macOS Quick Actions: Add a Quick Action workflow so that you can right click on a folder in Finder to open it in Positron […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 21
"There are hells on earth and #dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies. (...) It is hellish because, as the self-appointed showtown of free trade, it provides normal people with the chance to buy the purest form of the most heinous commodity: the exploitation of […]
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Drew Crecente (they/them) @crecente.games.ngo.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1]

👉Government datasets modified without notice.

▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025.

▪️We […]
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15
This is hugw! Parallel programming with #purrr functions now without any third packages. https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/

#rstats
Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0
The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 10
About: the space-surveillance complex.

https://techpolicy.press/a-match-made-in-the-heavens-the-surveillance-state-and-the-new-space-economy
A Match Made in the Heavens: The Surveillance State and the “New Space” Economy | TechPolicy.Press
As private firms dominate space, satellites serve both aid and surveillance—raising urgent questions about power, privacy, and democratic control.
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cutterkom @cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 6
Eben bemerkt: Das Dokument wurde unter dieser URL gelöscht. Hier ist es weiterhin zu finden: https://web.archive.org/web/20250222000624/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/Office%20of%20Intelligence%20and%20Analysis%20Policy%20Manual-508.pdf