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The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media
  • There’s a South Park episode where they use “Emoji Analysis” to determine the identities of internet trolls. I am not original commenter but I laughed when I read their comment because indeed this research is a bit similar to the trend analysis they do in that episode.

  • Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets
  • “On 11 November 2023, it was alleged Tuta was being used as a honeypot for criminals with a backdoor from authorities. An ex-RCMP officer, Cameron Ortis, testified that the service was used as a storefront to lure criminals in and gain information on those who fell for it. He stated authorities were monitoring the whole service, feeding it to Five Eyes, which would disperse it back to the RCMP in order to gain more knowledge about the criminal underground. Though, no evidence is ever presented to back up this statement.”

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  • Beautiful video. Evolution is remarkable. Like all good videos on science it makes me want to know more.

    Lot of words I will not remember but what I will remember enough to google is that it is microscopic assortment and “hollowness” that selectively filters wavelengths to produce reflection that enables these beautiful “structural” rather than I guess pigment-based, blues.

    Quote I found by googling, trust the source more than the quote — “Structural colors are created by the physical form, or structure, of some plants, animals, and minerals. For example, the Blue Morpho butterfly's wings have microscopic scales with tiny grooves in them; the grooves amplify blue color reflection, while canceling out every other color.” http://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/featured-collections/what-makes-things-blue#:~:text=Structural colors are created by,canceling out every other color.

    So in my own paraphrased and cobbled together words, structural color is different from pigment. Pigment is based primarily on the absorption of light and reflection back of some of it, while structural color is based purely on the reflection of light by microscopic structures somehow arranged to wavelengths of light.

    Science is insane. Truly a remarkable world.

  • Software engineering for data scientists
  • CS50 is a great rec. I believe the CS109 course material is available online too, which is a course specific to data science. The lessons are in Jupyter notebooks and are fun. But sounds like you or your group is already familiar with data science specific engineering so CS50 might be more helpful.

    If you are looking for how to use AWS I’d recommend investing the time to learn Terraform. If you’re looking to learn how to organize as a software team and don’t have work experience in that, I’d recommend checking out Linear, Monday, or Jira and just sticking with simple kanban. Brief meetings at some cadence to discuss what focus time is used for and the encapsulation of work. Use Notion or Confluence to organize thoughts and share decision records or the results of technical investigations (spikes).

    Just some thoughts.

  • Tailwind CSS, and the death of web craftsmanship
  • Very good article imo. I didn’t disagree with anything. I especially agree with the ugliness of the many class names in my html.

    My problem I guess is reconciling how much of a pleasure it's been to use. Perhaps I, a primarily backend developer historically, embody the death of web craftsmanship, but I don’t really want to learn modern CSS if I don’t have to 😅

    The easier I can get something styled and back to doing actual business logic rather than making things pretty the happier I am. I highly respect frontend styling gurus but I'm not that interested in spending time mastering true web craftsmanship, I care more about delivering the product as fast and as beautifully to the user as possible.

  • How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish
  • Probably more important are features such as channels and pages which are more like Facebook or MySpace. People have compared it to Tumblr because you can completely customize the interface. I hope it intros some more people to programming

  • How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish
  • It does everything Mastodon does but more, honestly. I use both, and definitely prefer Firefish. But I’m a developer so a lot of things about Mastodon really bothered me. The core difference is Firefish fka Calckey is being developed much faster and with a more modern stack. The click to play MFM feature was developed in a few days when the community was concerned about potential seizures due to unasked for auto playing or animated text.

    A few key features: QT & Full text search (search I don’t use except for specific posts so can’t speak to that) MFM & cat mode (these are just fun, Misskey flavored markdown has things like tada and sparkle and rainbow. People make art with it)

  • Are there any Lemmy / Kbin interfaces or settings I’m not seeing to mute keywords in titles or post bodies like in Mastodon or Calckey?

    Tired of seeing posts about Threads, for example. I would appreciate being able to apply a soft (show that post exists but collapsed and with warning) or hard mute (don’t display the post) of posts with that keyword (in title or body).

    I’ve checked our settings pages of both apps so apologies if it’s super obvious and I’m just missing it - but I don’t see this functionality. Haven’t checked out repo either I guess I should do that next or do a more thorough search but wanted to just try and ask community as well.

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