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Mme Zabet @mmezabet.craftgoblin.club.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Hello Masto-peeps who use screen readers!

I just learned that I need to put alt text on URLs for more accessible PDFs, but -- what should it say?

I am formatting academic citations that include a URL, so all the information about where that link will take you is in the text. I don't want it to […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Over the weekend, I wrote to the nearly 200 members of c18.masto.host who joined us in 2022-2024 and then stopped logging in over a year ago. I've gotten several emails back saying that after committing to Bluesky, social media as a whole came to feel like a bad idea. It is my hope that keeping […]

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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Does anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight LMS that I could run in my own VM?

Ideally a nice UI that is mainly for a simple set of three or four subjects for an internship program.

It would be nice to have a set of questions at the end that could be manually reviewed.

7 Best Open […]

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

I did it

http://alifeee.co.uk/tpe-soundboard/

(source: https://github.com/alifeee/tpe-soundboard)

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.

And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.

Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.

Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 7d

So my changedetection.io instance flagged that a bunch of LoC linked data downloads had shrunk from several gigabytes to several megabytes, which made me super suspicious but it turns out they've finally got around to gzipping and linked data formats are all extremely compressible. 🤷

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Christian Peach @chpietsch.fedifreu.de.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@pluralistic @BruceMirken

May this meme help: https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/cpietsch/NobodyWantsAI

Stop forcing A.I. into fucking everything
Nobody asked for it
Everyone hates it

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10d

$WIFE, and her mum, and my mum, were at Twickenham yesterday watching the final of the Women's Rugby World Cup as part of a sellout crowd of 82,000.

Today, none of them can speak very well, and they are now rewatching the match on BBC iPlayer 😂

#rugbyworldcup

Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 17d

#silentsunday

A tunnel of trees with sunlight and a ginger dog at the end

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18d

The Intelligence is in the User

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-intelligence-is-in-the-user

Today's newsletter, on ways we underestimate how much user skill goes into getting good results from AI models

#genai #cogsci #llms #chatgpt

The intelligence is in the user
Continuing my series on hooks for thinking about the new AI

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20d

To be frank, I’ve become extremely frustrated since the acquisition because now the environment combines the worst aspects of a make-it-up-as-you-go small company with the worst aspects of a faceless corporate overlord. I love my coworkers, I don’t love the general approach to projects and […]

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 24d

Thanks everyone, I was able to get a job lot of 6TB enterprise hard drives from Aspire Sheffield (they very kindly threw in 2 extra so I have 8 now!). Every drive bay in my home is now occupied so it's time to start thinking about how to house those 2 extra.

Spent some time this weekend running […]

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Jules @afewbugs.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Time to tap the lossy jpg of a vintage Tumblr post again.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

If people have just come here from Bluesky. Or finally got around to closing their Airbnb account. Or leaving Meta or whatever. Don't immediately jump on them […]

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A post by Tumblr user olofahere

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"?

Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word "finally".

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to f cking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25d

If I get time I might do some analysis of how many posts have been made with the #gemconference2025 tag over the last few days on each of the main social platforms. My hunch: LinkedIn is most active, but it's still relatively quiet.

So my main question is "why aren't museum educators more […]

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28d

The UK fiscal year for tax purposes runs from 6 April each year to 5 April the following year, and the reason for this is of course extremely British https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_United_Kingdom#Start_of_tax_year

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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · Sep 8

📝'De-bias your hiring practices: supporting equity for #neurodiverse candidates in job interviews'
From Section IV: Management practices in
Critical library leadership: managing self and others in today's academic library.
search.worldcat.org/title/143866...

#Workplace
#Management
#CritLib
#LIS

Critical library leadership : managing self and others in today's academic library | WorldCat.org

Provides practical, library-specific, hands-on tools that help us shape our approach to leadership and ourselves as leaders. It gives practical strategies for dealing with stress and addressing feelin

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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 NLISN In Person Event! 📢

Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00

Book here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

OK, been back and forth about posting this but a few people have mentioned that they'd like to help with @SafeguardingResearch, don't have the time or confidence to get directly involved but would be happy to contribute financially.

I've set up a little fundraiser to help pay for more storage […]

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

I picked up this old Cisco 3800 series from the side of the road a few weeks ago. It's interesting to poke around with, figure out how to get a serial connection to and poke around the Cisco cli, but not much practical use. Now I'm wondering if I gut it how […]

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Photo of on old 19" rack mount Cisco 3800 series network appliance, with its cover lifted to show some of the internals

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

I'm looking for a smart plug or something that can monitor the power usage of my home server over the day/week. Lots of these are available but many seem to be tied into cloud services and I'd like to keep that data to myself and use open tools to visualise it.

Any recommendations?

Ideally […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

About a year too late I'd say, but I'm sure she made a good buck running the place deep into the ground…j

https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/dr-jean-innes-step-down-ceo-alan-turing-institute

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Jez 🍞🌹 @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

Thank you so much to everyone who joined my "Collaborative Git without GitHub" workshop yesterday afternoon, I really enjoyed it and it was lovely to hear that so many of you found it interesting, useful or both!

Alpha-quality workshop website is now up at https://github.workshops.petrichor.me […]

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

I just had to write an introduction for a thing, and since what I do with my time has changed a bit recently I figured it might be time for a new #introduction here too!

Hi folks! My name is Danny Garside and I wear too many hats - until recently I was a post-doc at Sussex University doing […]

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

#sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […]

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Indexing 233 datasets
with 927 uploads.

13416 peers, 8590 seeders sharing
216.8 TiB in 8514732 files.

Swarm capacity 1.0 PiB

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

What was that new p2p/e2ee network that was started by a security researcher? Think they were femme presenting maybe? I recall a pink coloured avatar? Idk

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