Mathijs @mathijs@lermer.nl

Youtube, TikTok and Instagram Delete Russian Posts Promoting #Navalny Protests

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/22/social-media-platforms-delete-russian-posts-promoting-navalny-protests-state-censor-a72701

Activity on the http://matrix.org homeserver has been up 5x over the last few days, and we started to get dangerously close to the ceiling on the Synapse master process again... so we just fixed it with more workers (as per https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability)!

Happy birthday, Wikipedia 🎉

Wikipedia turned 20 years old on January 15, 2021!

Wikipedia has contributed to free and widely available knowledge like probably no other platform. Showing the world the true power of collaboration on the open internet and what a great cooperating community is capable of. ❤️

#wikipedia #Wikipedia20 #education #knowledge

Hi @ColinTheMathmo
Firstly, I'm no great techie!

I use #Matrix with Fractal on the laptop and FluffyChat on the phone. I'm a fan of it. I've managed to persuade a group of friends to join. None of them had any problems doing so. And none of them are techie either.

Perhaps Matrix's Achilles heel is the server thing... Some signed up and stayed with the Matrix server, others changed after a period of time.

@selea

If anyone want a simpler #matrix client, I can recommend SchildiChat!

https://schildi.chat/

I dont know what the logo is thou

I love how everyone now wants to selfhost everything. Keep it up!

「Snow fluttering down SL station」
location : 島根県鹿足郡・津和野駅
#tokyocameraclub #東京カメラ部 #Japan #Photo #写真 #日本 #mastodon #マストドン #Photograph #Photography
https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/media/YNntAzao-3PQb4b6jTg

Trump is a danger to democracy. But the response needs to follow the law. Corporate censorship of what a head of state can say is totally inacceptable! When will our institutions finally set up their own interoperable social media nodes (fediverse) and force big tech to interconnect? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005987_EN.html

What Family of Linux do you run?

Diving into cognitive biases:
1 #Survivorshipbias

xkcd image explained:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1827:_Survivorship_Bias

Video explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9WFpVsRtQg

Practical advice:
1) Remember that often, we don't see the whole picture, and thus, conclusions might be biased.

2) Learning from 'successful' people might not be the best idea. Learn from everyone :)

Survivorship bias explained:

1) https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/survivorship-bias/

2) https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200827-how-survivorship-bias-can-cause-you-to-make-mistakes

3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Een jaar voorbij, tijd om de klimaatgrafieken voor Nederland bij te werken. Te beginnen met de klimaatstreepjescode.
U vindt alle actuele grafieken steeds hier:
https://datagraver.com/case/klimaatgrafieken-nederland

[ https://tweets.newsbots.eu/Datagraver/status/1344952564995993605 — #bot]

My 3-year-old would like to know what winter looks like around the world. Could you reply with a photo of what it looks like near you at the moment?

Here's what it looks like near us, in North-East England.

Cool! An insight in the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2-vaccin:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
pfizer-vaccine/

With translations in multiple languages!

#Pleroma has chats (though I don't think those use #ActivityPub) and now #Matrix is experimenting with microblogging. Interesting how these two federated platforms are converging. I hope we don't end up with two isolated federated platforms

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean