NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
I'm Ana, web designer and roller derby player from #Mexico.
I was active in #Grassroots organization and the #FreeCulture and #FreeSoftware movements when I was a student and I'm hoping to get involved in projects related to these topics.
Calling all #ham radio operators. The Red Cross is looking for YOUR help to aid in Puerto Rico relief. Seriously! We need HAM!
http://www.arrl.org/news/american-red-cross-asks-arrl-s-assistance-with-puerto-rico-relief-effort
by which I mean the idea that all work, and especially clerical and knowledge work, is ultimately reducible to a computer program. not to say that there's never any redundancy, but through experience I've found that (e.g.) when a clerical process involves a paper form that looks redundant, there's usually a good reason for it—like stakeholders with slightly different legal requirements—and engineering out the redundancy also engineers out the affordances and subtleties that make a system useful
this whole line of reasoning explains why recent advances in creative computation with AI/ML are always framed as tools to augment or replace artists: it's an attempt to (further) reframe art as a kind of knowledge work which (like a bookkeeper or a secretary) can ultimately be replaced with automation.
oh wait I gave a whole talk about this didn't I http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
I remember really wanting this t-shirt as a teen. now I realize it's a pretty good summary of the toxic relationship between the tech industry and labor (all kinds of labor, not just tech labor) https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/374d/
big o notation cheatsheet. when they say ___, they mean ____
O(1) - it takes the same amount of time, every time
O(log n) - you know binary search? that's happening somewhere
O(n) - there's a loop somewhere
O(n log n) - there's a loop, and in that loop is a binary search (or it's a binary search and each time it examines an item it's gotta do a loop)
O(n^2) - there's a loop in a loop, think iterating over the pixels of an n*n image
Wire Server Code now 100% Open Source :
https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-source-the-journey-continues-88e24164309c
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The study is now made public after research and work of Julia Reda (EU, pirate/green party)
The conclusion of the study is:
''In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements.''
Meanwhile the study gave insights that blockbuster creaters have a loss through priraterie about 5%.
5000 ppl from each country and 30.000 in all have been participated in October-Sebtemer 2014
One of the biggest argument for #DRM, #EME and other copy-protection mechanism is to protect the creators.
That's only true to some extend (maybe to non), and a #study orderd by the #EU has proofen so.
The way the EU dealt with the #studie gives a very clear signal that copy-protection mechanisms need to motivated by more then protecting creators.
The study came to different conclusions then the current policies are aiming to, and have been kept in secret until summer 2017.
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@INCO Ich denke ne Session ist dafür das beste Format. Würde bestimmt ne große Resonanz geben.
Btw, auf dem CCCamp 2011 gab's dazu nen eigenen Track und es wurde viel von einem "Hacker Space Program" geredet, das nicht nur mit Hackerspaces sondern auch mit Raumfahrt zu tun hatte ;) Evtl recherchieren wer damals involviert war und diese um Rat fragen.
Trying to understand my network performance in detail (in particular, the state of my TCP connections) is so much fun.
"The best documentation you can get is to look at your kernel's source […]" (http://linuxgazette.net/136/pfeiffer.html) - Yay, source code as documentation, I love this! </sarcasm>
Just in case you're interested, this approach here using the "socketstat" utility seems way easier than compiling/writing your own program: https://blog.janestreet.com/inspecting-internal-tcp-state-on-linux/
Solution why WiFi stopped receiving Afficher plus
Solution why WiFi stopped receiving Afficher plus
Solution why WiFi stopped receiving Afficher plus
Fun with WiFi, again:
In my dataset of page load times over a connection that includes a WiFi link, I often observed outliers (unusually long load times).
At the client, sometimes there were just gaps in the trace, 600 ms during which no packet arrived. No retransmissions or anything though. No packets getting lost. Nothing wrong at the AP.
Finally I found data frames from the client saying that it goes into power save mode, even though I had turned power save off.
Guess what happened?
…
HOLY SHIT
Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid?' by default
Stuff leaked over DNS even if it just looks like a URL.
2011: World Wide Web Threatened by #Apple #Patents
http://techrights.org/2011/07/10/casting-shadow-on-w3c/
Guess where #w3c stood on this?