Miren @miren@mastodon.eus

There's a lot of handwringing these days about "ransomware attacks" where companies' data is encrypted & a ransom (usually bitcoin) is demanded to unencrypt it. The real injustice here is that a company is forced to *trust* their data to someone inherently untrustworthy. Any time you need to click "I ACCEPT" on a software product to access your data, you're in precisely the same situation. Most proprietary software biz modes are indistinguishable from ransomware models.

Hah. This rather relevant post just arrived in my inbox from the Free Software Foundation: https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom

#sed

Amid yet another round of bans on #reddit this morning, @Ariana_Erbon reports for @4WPub on how Reddit has been censoring women's health support communities. #RedditHatesWomen

https://4w.pub/reddit-is-banning-womens-health-support-groups/

@gerald_leppert
Low level: Make a copy of R (or just the installer) and the current library folder. Set your scripts to use that folder with .libPaths() at the very beginning.

@stragu @rstats

Reading a blog post, I came across this heading:

> Principles are more important than technologies

I agreed, and was expecting principles like:
* respect user privacy
* build accessible software
* release under #foss licenses

Instead, the post listed principles such as:
* data structures and algorithms
* Object-oriented design
* Caching and memory hierarchies.

… I'm not quite sure what that disconnect says about me, or about the author.

(Source: https://www.brainstobytes.com/advice-for-new-developers-or-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i-started-to-program/ )

Hi folks! 9 years ago (to the day), the late Aaron Swartz made the first commit to SecureDrop, which was then called DeadDrop. Today the project is used by >70 media orgs around the world.

It's an open source whistleblower submission platform that uses the Tor network to protect source anonymity. We're also working on a next-generation integrated workstation for journalists based on Qubes OS:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation

We're happy to be here! #introductions

i just checked and i definitely have mp3 files older than some of my undergrad students, hmm

@lightweight see this new UNESCO report on education in a post-COVID world? https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373717/PDF/373717eng.pdf.multi