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Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
@alexperera.social.iris.upc.edu.ap.brid.gy
Catedràtic a la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Coordinador del B2SLab i director del Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Salut. Defensor de […]

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Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
Imagine a social network that can’t be bought, sold, or controlled by a billionaire.

A place where communities govern themselves, and your data stays yours. That's Mastodon. Join us in turning that vision into reality.

Donate to power people-first social […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
💡Drons per a la rehabilitació de pacients que han patit un ictus?

Ho estan provant en el marc del projecte Dron-Clínic, en què participen investigadors de l' @eetac.upc.edu.

🔗 www.upc.edu/ca/sala-de-p...
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
Wanna keep up with all the new devices getting initial support in postmarketOS? Check out @pmOS_devices !

(not maintained by us but they do a great job)
September 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
“…until legal challenges to this law are resolved, we’ve made the difficult decision to block access from Mississippi IP addresses.” - Bluesky https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126
August 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
> GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas […]

[Original post on social.iris.upc.edu]
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
Ich bin froh, dass die Home Timeline in Mastodon streng chronologisch ist.

Trotzdem wünsche ich mir manchmal auch eine "algorithmische" Timeline, wie sie BlueSky zu haben scheint: Eine, die meine Interessen abbildet. Beispielsweise anhand von Hashtags, die in Posts vorgekommen sind, die ich […]
Original post on metalhead.club
metalhead.club
August 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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La #UPC estrena un laboratori de realitat virtual per aprendre ‘mates’ des de “dins”

Es tracta d’una aula innovadora de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística #FME, única a Espanya.
www.lavanguardia.com/launi/202507...
La UPC estrena un laboratori de realitat virtual per aprendre ‘mates’ des de “dins”
Enrere han quedat les classes en què únicament es feia servir la pissarra i l’alumne escoltava diligentment el professor. La realitat virtual ho canviarà tot en la
www.lavanguardia.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:

If somebody clicks a link on a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their […]

[Original post on metalhead.club]
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
A l'especial 'Ciència anònima' del programa Via 15 han entrevistat Cristina Masoller, de l' @eseiaat-upc.bsky.social , i Guillem Gràcia, estudiant de @doctoratupc.bsky.social a l' #UPC NanoSat Lab @upctelecos.bsky.social.

Voleu conèixer la seva recerca?
➡️ https://beteve.cat/via-15/ciencia-anonima/
July 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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‘Aquí STEAM UPC’ tanca una nova edició amb el lliurament del segell ‘Escoles Aquí STEAM UPC’ als 20 centres d’arreu de Catalunya que han participat en el programa.

El distintiu reconeix la seva tasca en el foment de vocacions
#STEAM a més de 1.200 alumnes.

🔗 www.upc.edu/ca/sala-de-p...
July 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
Wolfgang Messner, writing in @TheConversationUS on how generative AI could homogenize culture:
"The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the […]
Original post on aoir.social
aoir.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
Headed to day one of the Open Source Hardware Summit in Edinburgh #oshwsummit. Met some great people at the @crowdsupply social last night, learned about the PinchPhone (from Rohit, it’s creator) http://rohitg.in/portfolio/works/pinchphone.html ; and played with […]

[Original post on macaw.social]
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚀 Big news! On 05/06/2025, CREB evolves into IRIS – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health 🎉

Backed by @la_UPC, IRIS will drive tech & impact in healthcare.
📍Join the launch event in Barcelona
📲 Follow us: https://social.iris.upc.edu/@iris #irisupc #healthtech #research
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May 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Reclaiming our digital independence isn’t an easy task, as Doctorow reminds us. “It’s incredibly important, it’s incredibly difficult, and it’s incredibly urgent.” .... https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-05-25/do-we-need-publicly-owned-social-networks-to-escape-silicon-valley.html
Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?
A state-run social media network could become an alternative to Twitter or Facebook, but it could also pose a risk to our privacy and freedom
english.elpais.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz01y9gkdm3o In 2025, the Trump administration froze over $2B in federal funds for Harvard after it rejected White House demands. These included reporting students "hostile" to U.S. values, ensuring viewpoint diversity in departments, hiring a […]
Original post on social.iris.upc.edu
social.iris.upc.edu
April 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
The German parliament has voted for billions in defense and infrastructure investments. This will unlock aid to Ukraine.

The bill, which provides for the relaxation of debt restrictions in the German Constitution, was supported by 513 members of the Bundestag […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]
March 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Could we predict patient trajectories in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus? Our paper A Deep Attention-Based Encoder for the Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Longitudinal Outcomes from Routinely Collected Health Care Data, to be published on the Expert Systems With […]

[Original post on social.iris.upc.edu]
February 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Prof. Alexandre Perera LLuna
This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle
February 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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To honor the passing of the gloriously weird David Lynch, we'll be showing 'Blue Velvet' this Saturday. Join us in the movie-night-text channel of the Discord (Discord.gg/defcon) at 8pm Pacific to pour a little out for a real one. Strange, shouty weather forecasts welcome.

#defcon #movienight
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM