Love #climbing, #running and #hiking. Don't #read or do as much #photography as I used to.
Work as a Research Software Engineer these days after time as a Medical Statistician and Genetic Epidemiologist.
Self-host a bunch of services.
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How long until this becomes standard practice in other countries?
Protect your privacy, a good place to start is the advice from @privacyguides
Your data is everywhere. The US government is buying it up : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
Won't be adding this one to my reading list...
Fake quotes, factual errors and ChatGTP links – my bizarre journey into Matt Goodwin’s new book
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-goodwin-suicide-of-a-nation-reform-uk-chatgpt-ai-errors-hallucinations-andy-twelves
The Reform UK candidate’s polemic Suicide of a Nation claims to expose a toxic elite leading Britain to annihilation, but my close reading revealed a mix of phantom sources and falsehoods. Then MattGPT answered back... By Andy Twelves
Came across open_food_map: An open-source project for building interactive, data-driven restaurant maps for any city.
Looks quite easy to contribute.
https://github.com/laurencleek/open_food_map
Why? Because fuck Google homogenising the world...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video
An open-source project for building interactive, data-driven restaurant maps for any city. This repo contains the code of the London Food Map plus a modular pipeline for adding new cities. Contribu...
This is the sort of policy that the world needs to move away from destroying the earth as focus on GDP on promotes burning through the resources that are left.
Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead | Zack Polanski | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/zack-polanski-says-greens-would-ditch-gdp-targets-and-focus-on-wellbeing-instead
yet more ways "AI" companies are fucking up the world for everyone...
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
Why is the UK so backwards in its approach to energy production and pricing?
UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea
Quite the shit-show that is being created by those clamoring for "AI" datacenters.
AI datacenters could get priority access to Britain's grid • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/uk_datacenter_grid_priority/
Something a bit fucked up about this, only a 13 year sentence for keeping someone in enslaved for 25 years?!?!?! She should get at least 25 years, one for each year the victim was kept locked up and then some.
Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed | Crime | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/12/amanda-wixon-jailed-woman-victim-imprisoned-25-years-speaks-out
Just read about `git cherry-pick --no-commit` which prevents a commit being made pulling in the commit(s) that are being cherry picked.
Reading through #magit manual (https://docs.magit.vc/magit/Cherry-Picking.html) I couldn't see this option mapped out in the transient.
I wonder if this is currently possible?
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/116195224382916202
I've always wondered why funders don't cut out the middleman (traditional academic publishers) and just...make it mandatory that all funded research is written up and published openly by the body that funded it. 🤷
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Remove fees for publishing and everyone can access the fruits of their labour because those who funded the research, very often the public, publish the results of what they funded.
