Programming languages professor, kernel hacker, aspiring linguist (syntax & compositional semantics).
Currently figuring out how to combine all of my interests by mechanically translating English into formal specifications of a formally verified OS kernel for RISC-V.
| pronouns | he/him, er/ihn |
| languages | english (native), deutsch (~B2, Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber nicht genug für alles zu benutzen), français (<A1, je parle seulement un peut le français), linguae latinae (relearning bit-rotted ~B1) |
| alts | @csgordon and @csgordon |
| homepage | https://csgordon.github.io/ |
Continuing on with the absurdity of the new ACM DL changes... beyond the broken AI summaries replacing human-written (peer-reviewed!) abstracts, and the ridiculous decision that an author *can't view their own profile*, here's another change I just noticed:
If you're logged in with premium access, you get the normal links to download a PDF or (weird) ePub directly. If you're not logged in, you get a "PDF/eReader" link which directs you to an Elsevier-style PDF reader. In fact, it looks *exactly* like the PDF reader Elsevier sends users to, which spies on readers while they use the reader: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/12/surveillance_publishing.html#c061007
I might be more pissed off about this than about the idiotic AI summaries.
Update: I've been poking around in developer tools looking for signs of it actually sending telemetry when I'm moving around the PDF, but have not observed anything. But I'm also a kernel / compiler developer, not a web developer, so I'd appreciate if someone more experienced would give this a try.
So apparently ACM has not only prioritized AI summaries of articles, including slapping them on articles that are licensed to the ACM in a way that forbids derivative work (see link), apparently they're now paywalling the second page of ACM author profiles (see picture)
https://discuss.systems/@csgordon/115732091730446890
Update: I actually can't view the second page of my own profile even when logged in as myself.
I know I semi-regularly complain about Web of Science, which my University unfortunately takes seriously, but .... I still can't believe this crap. Not only does it auto-add publications which I'm then not allowed to merge when it finds multiple sources, but check out these entries in my publication history. They're blank. I can't edit them. I can't even look at them to see if there's some identifiable metadata. WTF is this?
BTW they have contact addresses you're supposed to email to fix this sort of thing, but I've tried a few times and they never responded or fixed anything, so it's not clear why they're there.
