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DanielEriksson

@DanielEriksson@mstdn.science

Photon shepherd at the Melbourne Science Doughnut AKA Senior Beamline Scientist in the Macromolecular Crystallography group, Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO.

Molecular biology PhD with an interest in plant innate immunity.

Origami, modernist cuisine, and dachshund enthusiast. Married to a pastry chef.

Frequently at the bouldering gym, or out trad climbing when there is time.

#Crystallography #StructuralBiology #SecularHumanist #Parent #Melbourne #ScientificComputing #Linux #Python

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xtaldave, to strucbio
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Open letter to Nature editors complaining about the lack of code availability for AF3 (Publishing code is normally a prerequisite for publishing in Nature)

(Yes, I am fully aware of the irony of using a Google form to do this - not my idea, just sharing.)

#StructuralBiology #Alphafold #Crystallography #CryoEM #NMR @strucbio

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6ioZPbxiDZy5h4qxo-bHa0XOTOxEYHObht0SX8EgwfPHY_g/viewform

DanielEriksson,
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@xtaldave @strucbio
And signed.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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The place I’m working for is looking to hire an IT infrastructure technician.
If this sounds like you, and you’re interested in a lifestyle change from the big city, drop me a DM for the deets.

DanielEriksson,
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@dgar @clintvs
I passed through Gladstone on the way to Heron Island. Nice place!

DanielEriksson, to random
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@KathyReid
Small world - I've students at the ANU Research School of Biology (Williams lab, structural biology of plant innate immunity).

Seems I'll need to explore more of the campus next time I'm in Canberra!

DanielEriksson,
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@KathyReid Come now, Melbourne isn't that distant ;-)

kuba, to random
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DanielEriksson,
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@Professor_Stevens @kuba only if you ignore the difference in scale and intent.

cstross, to random
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This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s.
https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433

DanielEriksson,
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@ovid @cstross ...wat?

DanielEriksson, to random
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Tried to pour coffee in the wrong end of my mug this morning.

How's your day coming along?

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its competitor's users.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.

DanielEriksson,
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@dangillmor FB and their evil shit aside, it's baffling that people think they have more reason to trust a VPN company over their ISP.

shawnhooper, to programming
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Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.

Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

#programming #computerscience

DanielEriksson,
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@shawnhooper Pascal was taught at school when I was 15 and my first contact with programming. It made its mark.

GottaLaff, to random
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⚠️Yet another #recall

“High-powered magnetic balls sold by Walmart are being recalled because similar products have led to serious injuries and even death for children who swallowed them.

The recall involves 5 millimeter multicolored magnetic balls sold in 216-piece sets sold in a clear, plastic case and a portable tin storage box”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/magnetic-balls-walmart-product-recall-relax/

DanielEriksson,
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@GottaLaff
Yes but they are so, SO satisfying!

They were my drug of choice before I picked up origami.

cstross, to random
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Tech giant Palantir has hired Topham Guerin (PR firm) to pay influencers to attack the Good Law Project on social media – but the source of the money is to be kept ‘confidential’.

https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/

DanielEriksson,
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@cstross
"During the 2019 General Election, for example, the company rebranded the party’s Twitter profile as a fact-checking account and set up a website linking to a fake Labour manifesto."

Classy.

cstross, to random
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Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay’s numbers (from 2008): https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain

TLDR: in 2008 MacKay’s calculations suggested renewables wouldn't suffice. But in the past decade the price of PV cells has dropped 90% and wind turbines 70%, while public opposition has faded. New calculations suggest the UK could run mainly on renewables by 2050.

DanielEriksson,
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@cstross not sure what to make of @pluralistic endorsement. Comparing anything to Freakonomics is really not a favourable thing.

DanielEriksson, to random
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@vicgrinberg stealing #XraysAreTheBestRays for X-ray crystallography use!

mjg59, to random
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Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career

DanielEriksson,
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@mjg59 what a boss move. Anyway, yay for molecular biology and Linux!

seldo, to random

There are ads in the start bar in Windows 11, in an operating system I paid for. Whose joke of enshittification is this?

DanielEriksson,
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@seldo I was apparently not sufficiently annoyed by how the Start search function seems to prioritise looking up shit on the Internet over finding stuff on my local machine.

malwaretech, to random

I made a new Twitter account just to make sure my disinformation research account wasn't somehow tainted by my scrolling habits. Here is the makeup of my news feed from a brand new account:

Elon Musk - Far right troll
Spectator Index - Neutral, high quality news
OSINTdefender - Disinformation account, possibly a RU bot
Disclose.tv - Far right news outlet
Matt Wallace - Far right troll
Scott Adams - Far right troll / Conspiracy account
Illuminati Bot - Far right troll / Conspiracy account
Hurt Copain - Left Wing, I think?
Catturd - Far right troll
Tim Pool - Far right troll
Gunther Eagleman - Far right troll
Chaya Raichik - Far right troll
Ian Miles Cheong - Far right troll
Nick Sortor - Far right troll

DanielEriksson,
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@jerry @malwaretech I see what you did there.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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How heavily does a person's occupation weigh in your estimation of that person?

#poll

DanielEriksson,
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@dancinyogi I think I miss-clicked while scrolling! Ignore one count of "top 3".

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DanielEriksson,
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@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic some days this hits me especially hard.

flexghost, to random
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Putin’s mouthpiece Olga Skabeeva

“Elon Musk is magnificent

“he is wonderful and perhaps he really is our agent!

“unless something changes in the next 45 days, the United States will certainly stop helping Ukraine!”

Nationalize Elon Musk properties. Revoke his remaining clearance. Stop subsidizing Elon Muskva with our tax dollars

And JFC: #DeleteTwitter

DanielEriksson,
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@flexghost Elon Muskva/Moscow had me in stitches! Well done, I'm stealing that one.

0xabad1dea, to random

Hello to the girl who got off the plane from China with a small suitcase in one hand and an enormous wok in the other. I assume it’s a legendary +5 wok and you’re here to blow away an international cooking competition

DanielEriksson,
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@0xabad1dea very Food Wars. Much Shokugeki.

J12t, to random
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I am devastated by the news that Naomi Wu aka SexyCyborg has been silenced by the Chinese authorities.

She represents so many things that the world desperately needs: competence, confidence, ability to communicate, ability to cross cultures and languages, shattering of old stereotypes, a positive view of the future, and much more.

The repressive old guard should put itself away instead. In China and here because similar people are coming for the Naomis here, too.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

DanielEriksson,
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@J12t thanks for highlighting this. I miss her.

sundogplanets, to random
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I usually only read one book at a time, but I had a whackload of holds come in at once so I'm now jumping between a rather bizarre combination of 4 books right now:
-This is How you Lose the Time War (El-Motar/Gladstone)
-Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
-The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson)
-Hope Matters (Elin Kelsey)

I had the first 2 "Murderbot Diaries" books (Martha Wells) also cycled in there but I devoured each of those (next ones are now in my library queue, really good!)

DanielEriksson,
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@sundogplanets Three Body Problem series.

DanielEriksson,
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@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets I suspected the series peaked early. I liked "The Dark Forest" but "Death's End" is not doing much for me yet.

I'll have to look into what's been cut from the translation!

SecurityWriter, (edited ) to random

I had a lot of people engaging about last night, and for those of you that follow me for security and tech wondering if my account had been hijacked. It hadn’t, and this will probably be my last post about Eurovision Song Contest this year.

But I’d like to go into some of the minutiae and nuance of the contest, and explain why not everything is as it seems from the outside.

A THREAD 🧵

DanielEriksson,
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@SecurityWriter all-round great explanation. Wish I had understood this much when I was younger and wanted nothing to do with the event.

titania2468, to random

The night of April 30th is Walpurgis Night (Valborgsnatten). According to folklore, witches from all over Scandinavia would gather in Troms in Northern Norway on this night to celebrate sabbat with the Devil, drinking wine from skulls and engaging in orgies. Walpurgis Night is still celebrated with bonfires in some parts of Scandinavia.

Art by Luis Ricardo Falero (1878)

#folklore #witch #devil
#Walpurgisnight
#Walpurgisnacht

DanielEriksson,
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@titania2468 it is the way of my people.

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