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JorisMeys

@JorisMeys@mstdn.social

Statistics/Data Science/#rstats instructor at
Ghent University (BE 🇧🇪).

Toots in English and Dutch. And on a saxophone once in a while.

Donate to help girls get an education: https://malala.org/donate?sc=header

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jon, to random
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Let me tell you a story about two railways in two large European countries

In one, they’ve just completed the delivery of the biggest new fleet of high speed trains ever, and high speed trains run hourly on pretty much every line. Off peak tickets are cheap, and if you pay for a flexible ticket you can take any train.

In this country regional trains run hourly, are cheap to take (there’s a cheap national monthly pass) and passenger numbers are steadily rising.

JorisMeys,
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@jon as a Belgian with German family and about 30 years of experience using both nets: the performance and trustworthiness of the German railways crashed after privatisation. Long story short: TGV is now more reliable than ICE.

Also, SNCF status is far more nuanced than you paint here. They operate mostly as a private company.

https://www.sncf.com/en/group/finance/sncf-group

nixCraft, to privacy
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Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/ #privacy #security

JorisMeys,
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@nixCraft apart from the fact it's a waste of resources, making a slow OS even more unresponsive. We need a competitor that doesn't insist on overcharging on the related hardware.

JorisMeys,
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@tippfehlr @nixCraft not without help. Believe me, I've tried.

JorisMeys,
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@tippfehlr @nixCraft my mom does. She hasn't got the patience to hunt drivers. Open source is great for people who know how computers work.

JorisMeys,
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@tippfehlr @nixCraft she can't install Windows on her own, nor maintain it. Even running installation files id challenging. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux distros like Mint an Ubuntu (being more of a debian guy myself). But getting people past the friction proved harder than I hoped.

JorisMeys, to random
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I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.

YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past checks the 6 IPCC reports 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?

Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

JorisMeys, to Signal
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Got sick and tired of Suckerberg's attacks on the data on my phone. I'm throwing out and giving another go.

https://www.howtogeek.com/708916/what-is-signal-and-why-is-everyone-using-it/

DZGrizzle, to random
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From the Coaching Network

JorisMeys,
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@bthalpin @DZGrizzle there is no Jesus in the Old Testament for crying out loud. Does none of those "Christians" read the bible any more?

bagder, to random
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💚 Stay strong xz maintainer(s). We're with you.💚

JorisMeys,
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@bagder are we really? Yeah, we feel sorry for them, but not with them. It's still largely an unpaid one-man band taking care of a crucial bit that keeps multi billion companies running.

JorisMeys, to academia
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I said it before and I'll say it again: scientific journals have hardly any relevance any more, except for academic careers.

AI is just speeding up this evolution. We urgently need to rethink scientific communication!

@academicchatter
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification

JorisMeys, to random
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We have arrived at the "Fuck" era. The "oopsie" is over.

Keep in mind it takes decades for the planet to reach equilibrum. This is the effect of CO2 emissions of a few decades ago. We're at a point where emissions have to drop to 0 yesteryear...

JorisMeys, to random
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One of the professors asked me why we're still teaching Latex to our master students.

This. A thousand times this. #texlatex

JorisMeys, to random
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#gent Wondelgem stinkt weer naar chemische rotzooi. Zo hard dat we ons slaapkamer raam niet kunnen open zetten. Opvallend dat die geur vooral 's avonds en 's nachts te rieken is. Alsof ze weten dat er dan geen metingen zijn...

JorisMeys, to random
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1,5 MILJARD voor "consultancy", maar voor onderwijs is er geen geld. Ik heb de verkeerde branche gekozen...

https://www.hln.be/binnenland/regering-jambon-gaf-waanzinnig-bedrag-uit-aan-consultancy-factuur-bedraagt-1-5-miljard-euro~a0cf9686/

JorisMeys, to microsoft
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If I read this correctly, deliberately breaks calendar standards to make sure you can't link an Outlook calendar to a Google calendar. By doing so, they make it impossible to use 3rd party apps for time management (like Reclaim).

It's why I stopped using their hostage-ware for personal use, but my work forces me to use it.

Anybody a hack that might work so I don't have to manually copy every event?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/export-an-outlook-calendar-to-google-calendar-662fa3bb-0794-4b18-add8-9968b665f4e6

JorisMeys, to random
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Conner Rouseau heeft de politieke integriteit van een NVAer en de subtiliteit van een Vlaams Belanger.

Niet mijn soort mens, zullen we maar zeggen :-)

JorisMeys, to random
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This thread of @badlogic is wild. How a citizen scraped some data and uncovered the ugly truth of price hikes in Austrian supermarkets.

Includes links to github with the code to get this done for your own country.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

JorisMeys, to transgender
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F1NNSTER got doxxed by the Times. His response: setting up a non-profit to help people get healthcare. She's looking for EU and UK doctors that can help him in her pursuit. If you are an MD and care about , check the video below and get in touch with him/her.

If you don't know Finnster: the lad is a great las.

https://youtu.be/H5N8gN1LDqE?si=LOtWQ7GOfpsmJusv

JorisMeys, to random
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Juist verhuisd naar Drongen, en ik lig verdorie weer bijna elke nacht wakker van een lage brom. De buurman ook, en een maat die enkele straten verder woont, hoort het ook. Volgens hem is dat sinds een paar weken. Iemand een idee waar dat nu weer vandaan komt?

Ongelofelijk trouwens dat er nog steeds geen wetgeving rond /controle op infrageluid is. Dat heeft nochthans een enorme impact, en niet alleen bij gevoelige mensen zoals ik. #infrasound #Gent

JorisMeys, to random
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The amount of time I lose with continuously having to set up Micro$oft shite on my laptops... now it forces me to reinstall the entire Office suite just to edit a file I put on sharepoint myself. But I want to use my own laptop and boohoo I cannot log in to sharepoint from Excel because reasons.

The more we pay, the more time we lose with that crap. I need my score tables and sleep, not 45 minute downloads.

JorisMeys, to random
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Our IT dept took over my PC a while ago, and installed Chrome. As I hate it for multiple reasons, I uninstalled it. Turns out that it comes with "Chrome apps" like Gmail, Docs, Sheets and so on. But uninstalling Chrome doesn't uninstall the rest. They're left in the Apps list on Windows 10.

Anyone an idea how to clean up that mess?

Also @StevenRogge can we PLEASE remove Chrome from Intune? The bugger keeps trying to reinstall on my machine and I do not need that garbage.

JorisMeys, to academicchatter
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Freshly vaccinated against the new variant. Ready to see about 400 students every week for the coming months.

@academicchatter #unilife #COVID

JorisMeys, to cycling
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I stumbled upon a quote from Dr. Dirk von Schneidemesser. He described in as "normalized but marginalized". And that completely describes cycling in as well.

It means biking gets some space and investment to stimulate it, but priority is always given to motor traffic in both investment and amount of public space taken.

priority roads like in are a nice start, but we need a shift in thinking.

A nice vid about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjTx2ALomfc

JorisMeys, to random
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LOL. So somebody realized AI tools suggested some non-existent packages repeatedly. So they created them and got thousands of downloads for their bogus code. I feel sorry for everyone involved in opsec...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

JorisMeys, to random
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"As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels". 🤣🤣😭😭

@pluralistic being genius as ever.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/

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