Congrats to #CISPA researcher and Saarland University professor @AndreasZeller on his IEEE Fellowship for his exceptional contributions to software analysis and development! 👏

Fellow is the top membership grade, awarded to under 0.1% of members each year.

🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/ieee

#saarlandinformaticscampus #saarlanduniversity #uds #sic #CISPA #softwareengineering #softwaresecurity #softwareanalysis #softwaredevelopment #IEEEFellowship #cybersecurity

Analysis of fedicircle's codebase (bc I got nerdsniped):

Aparently it doesn't uses a date but rather the 70 latest posts.

Further digging reveals that it rewards each interaction a different amount of "points":
- Each uniqe user that has faved or reacted counts as 1.0; up too 100 favs + 100 reactions (on pleroma / fedibird) per post.
- Each renote / reblog is 1.3; up to 50 renotes
- Each reply is 1.1; up to 100 replies

So each post can reward a span 1 to 275 (or 375 on pleroma / fedibird). Each account then can recieve an end value spanning from 1 to 238.

It then sorts the users by that value descendingly and adds them into the circle, from inner to outer circle. And bam: you have your circle image!

RE: https://soc.saiyajin.space/@KaitlynEth[email protected]/112537388716887561

Edit: I'm bad at math.

#analysis #softwareanalysis #nerdsniping #programming #software #fedi #fediverse #fedicircle

Associate Editor spotlight: Sam Malek (UC Irvine).

Malek is interested in #SoftwareAnalysis, #SoftwareTesting, #mobile computing, #security, and more.

Learn more at https://malek.ics.uci.edu/ and send your submissions to https://link.springer.com/journal/10515.

Software analysis is not an end in itself.

They are meant to help us understand better.

But what?

You should know that beforehand.

Only then can you stop when the purpose is fulfilled.
Only then will you have valuable hints for prioritizing.
Only then will you be able to separate the wheat from the chaff and work exclusively on your goal.

#softwaredevelopment #softwareanalysis #improvement #understanding