J. Alles
@alles.is
Reader, lifelong learner, theoretical flyboy, technologist. Opinionated in many things. Expert in fewer things. Used to work in #Space (not literally). He/him.
Reposted by J. Alles
Reposted by J. Alles
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
Reposted by J. Alles
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
Reposted by J. Alles
The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...
www.eff.org
February 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.
Reposted by J. Alles
I am not so much worried about the accountability of computers at the moment.....
January 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I am not so much worried about the accountability of computers at the moment.....
This thread is great.
January 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This thread is great.
Reposted by J. Alles
New: A popular U.S.-based online gift card store exposed the government-issued IDs of hundreds of thousands of people, thanks to an inadvertently public cloud storage server that wasn't protected with a password.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/o...
Exclusive: Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people’s identity documents
The gift card store secured the public cloud storage server containing customer ID documents, which was not protected with a password.
techcrunch.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New: A popular U.S.-based online gift card store exposed the government-issued IDs of hundreds of thousands of people, thanks to an inadvertently public cloud storage server that wasn't protected with a password.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/o...
Reposted by J. Alles
Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees
Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
www.wired.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
Reposted by J. Alles
This must happen.
January 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This must happen.
Reposted by J. Alles
56 years ago this morning the crew of Apollo 8 returned safely to Earth.
Then as today the effort to explore space provided hope and inspiration.
Then as today the effort to explore space provided hope and inspiration.
December 27, 2024 at 12:09 PM
56 years ago this morning the crew of Apollo 8 returned safely to Earth.
Then as today the effort to explore space provided hope and inspiration.
Then as today the effort to explore space provided hope and inspiration.
Reposted by J. Alles
It’s not perfect, but Facebook is still the best platform on earth for connecting with all of the people my friends briefly dated in 2007
December 16, 2024 at 6:51 PM
It’s not perfect, but Facebook is still the best platform on earth for connecting with all of the people my friends briefly dated in 2007
@lawandchaospod.bsky.social I don’t know how much ad control you have on Libsyn, but they’re running ads for Pete Hegseth’s book on Law and Chaos Pod. 🤨
December 12, 2024 at 3:25 PM
@lawandchaospod.bsky.social I don’t know how much ad control you have on Libsyn, but they’re running ads for Pete Hegseth’s book on Law and Chaos Pod. 🤨
Reposted by J. Alles
The docker image tag "latest" means that you will notice later that nothing is working anymore.
November 22, 2024 at 1:58 PM
The docker image tag "latest" means that you will notice later that nothing is working anymore.
I’d like to propose we start talking about “that other site” by calling it the “Aviary of Insanity” as a somber nod to the rightful name it lost and a direct nod to the shit show it has become.
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I’d like to propose we start talking about “that other site” by calling it the “Aviary of Insanity” as a somber nod to the rightful name it lost and a direct nod to the shit show it has become.
Reposted by J. Alles
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
Woah! Thanks for sharing this @igor25.bsky.social!
Choosing between Base R and tidyverse? ⚔️
Just stick to bash and use Miller 😶🌫️: miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.13.0/10... Miller (mlr) is a supercharged awk, but for CSVs with its own DSL - like jq.
I use it for quick analyses when I don't need to fire up Python/R.
#rstats #datascience #bash
Just stick to bash and use Miller 😶🌫️: miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.13.0/10... Miller (mlr) is a supercharged awk, but for CSVs with its own DSL - like jq.
I use it for quick analyses when I don't need to fire up Python/R.
#rstats #datascience #bash
November 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Woah! Thanks for sharing this @igor25.bsky.social!
Reposted by J. Alles
Kudos to Austrian Airlines for quitting Twitter in a humorous way.
November 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Kudos to Austrian Airlines for quitting Twitter in a humorous way.
Hello everyone! New platform, new moniker. We may have crossed paths if you hang out in certain tech, privacy, aviation, or space haunts.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Hello everyone! New platform, new moniker. We may have crossed paths if you hang out in certain tech, privacy, aviation, or space haunts.