Titus Brown

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I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. [email protected], http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
@bert_hubert hey bert, I discovered your interest in archaea over on AllTheBacteria github issues, and we wanted to point you at https://branchwater.jgi.doe.gov/ - lmk if you have thoughts about how to do cool inspection of archaeal presence/absence!
Branchwater Metagenome Query

Interesting post http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2024-sourmash-branchwater-licensing.html from @ctb on BSD vs AGPL and how he and collaborators have ended up with a fundamental tool using BSD, but a focused application of it using AGPL. #OpenSource #Licensing
Sourmash and branchwater licensing: thoughts on extractive engagement with projects

What licenses should be used, for what purpose?

Do you ever wonder if when NSF decides to name something ACCESS (like access-ci.org) they critically analyze whether it'll be googleable? Yeah, me neither.
This issue has cost me more than 10 hours of the last two years: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/402204/mysterious-reply-to-header-in-apple-mail - I'm SO GLAD to have finally resolved it and now once again have a reply-to that makes sense ;)
Mysterious Reply-To Header in Apple Mail

I send e-mail with Apple Mail from two different accounts - lets call them A and B. Years ago I set the Reply-To header as my A account address (I think to force use of my 'canonical' address), since

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If there is any surprise more lovely than former student mail I do not know it.
I feel like @ethanwhite would be only too happy to serve as my retire-now buddy... ;) https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1667554246584320001
Courtney Milan 🦖 on Twitter

“If you ever talk to judges, you’ll find out that some of them have agreed upon buddies who are supposed to say “hey, your mind is going, you need to retire” and hopefully they do.”

Twitter

Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat days after Elon Musk suggested its Texas mall shooter investigation was a 'psyop'

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-limit-bellingcat-after-elon-musk-called-it-psyop-2023-5

Twitter appears to limit Bellingcat after Elon Musk called it 'psyop'

Bellingcat reported Tuesday that Mauricio Garcia, the Allen, Texas mall shooter, had shared white supremacist memes on Russian social media.

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@tpoisot for paper code (which we don't expect to be widely reused, otherwise we'd package it) we've moved away from containers. I think the likelihood of anyone spinning them up is low and the code mostly serves the "extended documentation" role anyway. Much of their value also assumes long-term public hosting and with recent ongoings at Docker I'm not sure that's a safe assumption.

Put this on my tombstone: "This Will Be Awesome If They Don’t Screw It Up."

https://doctorow.medium.com/dont-curb-your-enthusiasm-6696d7707f45

Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Today (May 7), I’m in Berkeley at the Bay Area Book Festival for an 11AM event with Wendy Liu for my book Chokepoint Capitalism. Weds (May 10), I’m in Vancouver for a keynote at the Open Source…

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Today @Nature, by me: why you might want to do your computing work inside computational environments (e.g., conda, renv). With @ctb @fertiglab @minecr @benmarwick et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01469-0
The sleight-of-hand trick that can simplify scientific computing

Computational environments and the tools to manage them can help researchers to deliver code that is reproducible, documented and shareable.