Evan Prodromou at 2023-05-17T19:17:54Z
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1
It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg
Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.
Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!Kamen Nedev, Michele Ann Jenkins, Stephen Michael Kellat, Craig Maloney and 6 others likes this.
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Thank you for making all this possible what's happening for all the years.The plan to revive identi.ca is mindblowing. I notice my profile picture is broken. I have to fix that before the launch.ghostdancer, Evan Prodromou likes this.
"Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub" this would be the greatest thing of all times.Jim Fulner at 2023-05-30T20:02:30Z
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Evan Prodromou at 2008-05-18T15:49:33+00:00
This is my first post.Kamen Nedev, Steffen Voß, Stephen Michael Kellat, Craig Maloney and 49 others likes this.
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Karl Fogel at 2022-05-23T17:38:55Z
Someone please invent the Conquer programming language, so that qualified developers can put the line "Go, Forth, and Conquer" on their résumés. Thank you.Mike Linksvayer, Alexandre Oliva likes this.
Karl Fogel at 2022-07-22T03:18:02Z
Absolutely wild new technique for random surfing:Take any hash (a Git commit, the md5sum of a doc, anything). Put it into ${SEARCH_ENGINE}, then: search, truncate by 1 char, search, truncate, search, and so on.Eventually, results start appearing. They're always interesting.Mike Linksvayer likes this.
Karl Fogel at 2021-12-06T21:49:04Z
I just noticed that "Samsung" backwards is "Gnusmas", which is a holiday I would fully support, and I wonder if we could get the company to take part...Mike Linksvayer, Alexandre Oliva likes this.
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Oooooh, COOL!! 😁
Karl Fogel at 2021-08-10T17:50:33Z
Either @LenovoUS or @Lenovo just tweeted an ad-tweet that started with "calculus is confusing, buying a laptop shouldn't be" and went on from there.A real-life "Math is hard! Let's go shopping!" ad!But now it's gone from my timeline & their feeds.Anyone get a screenshot?Mike Linksvayer likes this.
Karl Fogel at 2021-01-03T16:14:17Z
Do any Mailing List Managers offer "soft-subscribe"? That is: I authorize the MLM to subscribe me to threads that I have participated in or been CC'd on, but other than that I don't want to receive any other list mails.I'd totally use this for some lists, if it were offered...Mike Linksvayer, Tom Tishken likes this.
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2021-01-08T03:39:26Z
re: #318運動資料庫是寶藏
It is nice to know the Sunflower Movement Archive has been useful in academic research. The following are some writings about the Archive. It will be great if they are referenced as well so as to give the Archive a context.
〈回眸 318〉
https://kamatiam.org/%e5%9b%9e%e7%9c%b8318/〈當代事件的共同記憶：從孤兒著作到公眾領域〉
http://media.academia.tw/u/trc/m/318-forum-draft/"Remembrance of contemporary events: On setting up the Sunflower Movement Archive"
https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/34/Supplement_1/i36/5187942〈當代事件之記憶：318 公民運動文物紀錄典藏庫之建立〉
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關於我們 — 318公民運動文物紀錄典藏庫簡述
About the 318 Civil Movement Archive
Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2021-02-02T13:26:40Z
https://arks.org/blog/community-update-2021-01-26/
ARK Alliance Community Update
Organizations registered to assign ARKs: 701.
Known number of ARKs in the world: 8.2 billion.
Amount paid for the right to create ARKs: $0.Mike Linksvayer likes this.
Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2021-02-07T00:58:05Z
HKFP: 'Taiwan is my home': The people who never want to leave but still can’t get citizenship
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-09-15T08:30:41Z
"In order to truly become Asia’s most liberal society, Taiwan needs to open up to foreigners"
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-05-18T14:33:38Z
Myself is but a conduit of the thoughts and friendship of those I have come across; many have now transcended this world, and I remember Ilya (1973 -- 2019).
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Karl Fogel at 2020-06-23T16:03:21Z
In case anyone wants to torture themselves, I've got 32 speeches -- that's right, 2^5 -- by Donald Trump in plain-text transcript form right here, ready to be analyzed by anyone looking to stretch their English to, and perhaps beyond, the breaking point:Mike Linksvayer likes this.
From there I eventually got to https://code.librehq.com/ots/forgerieYou have one hard problem solved! Well picked name.Karl Fogel at 2020-06-24T19:33:11Z
Congratulations to @jamesvasile on joining the Board of Directors of @EFF! Likewise to @anildash, another good call on @EFF's part.I've just made sure my membership is up-to-date at https://supporters.eff.org/donate/site-f. Won't you join me? They consistently do great work, year after year.Mike Linksvayer likes this.
Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-07-11T08:36:34Z
https://www.plurk.com/p/nwr8jk
Plurk TW:
近日許多香港噗友來信詢問，擔心發表在噗浪上的言論是否會因為近日通過的香港國安法而遭受處罰，因此我們在此做一個簡單的說明。
由於香港大多數民眾對香港國安法仍有疑慮，且基於對於言論自由的尊重，噗浪不會同意中國或香港政府因為違反國安法的相關資料調閱及訊息下架申請，請香港噗友們放心並多注意自己的安全，噗浪會一直在這邊陪伴大家。
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(I know it's not the topic, but I hadn't realized that Plurk is still up, nor that it is based in Taiwan.)Mike Linksvayer at 2020-12-02T01:37:05Z
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My 100th edit to Wikidata
Wikidata notified me this morning I had made my 100th edit. Last night I made a few edits to the entry on the 2020 sci-fi film Sputnik by the Russia director Egor Abramenko. The Wikidata item for the film, Q86675345, was missing the Traditional Chinese title. A few statements about it did not have the Chinese language counterparts. So I patched them in. I also added a statement about the film's release date in Taiwan, which was yesterday (Nov 27, 2020).
A while ago I learned Mike had created a Wikidata entry on me, probably in conjunction with the Wikidata entry on the book sprint project Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry. Last night, I added my Traditional Chinese name to my own entry (it is natural and necessary to do so, isn't it?). Mike's Wikidata entry is missing a few things too. I updated a few statements about him, as well as adding a Traditional Chinese name for him (I invented one for him when translating an article he wrote for Creative Commons Taiwan in 2016). It is only reciprocal. ;-)
Our lab uses Wikidata quite frequently in research projects. We are improving data discovery through Wikidata, for example. We have been working with Taiwan's National Museum of Human Rights in using Wikidata together with the Museum's collections. Still, adding my own edits to Wikidata has been rare for me.
(By the way, Sputnik is great -- I totally dig the 80s Soviet mood!)
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-04-29T14:17:27Z
I was amused as the name of the snack shop 開源社 being identical to that of an open source community in China (written as 开源社 in Simplified Chinese). 開源社 means literally "open source society".
Later on I realize the snack shop is part of a chain store branding itself as 開源社. They probably use the term 開源 for the meaning "to broaden the sources of income"
(by the way, the site above was built by Audray Tang before she became the digital minister of Taiwan).
I also sent the photo to my friend who helped start 开源社 in China:
香味豆腐 (Fragrance Tofu) will be very nice indeed. You may also like 臭豆腐 (Stinky Tofu).
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-03-29T08:37:13Z
Bravo! <3 <3 <3
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-portugal-idUKKBN21F0MC
"(Reuters) - All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents from Monday until at least July 1, authorities said on Saturday, to ensure migrants have access to public services during the coronavirus outbreak."
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-03-30T07:57:58Z
Really wondering whether there already are derivatives markets on COVID-19. Could one bet on the number of confirmed cases in a certain place? Say, would it ever hit 100 in Antarctica? Are such markets legal? How would these products be priced and settled?Mike Linksvayer likes this.
As far as I know (would love to learn otherwise) only with play money eg https://predict.hypermind.com/dash/dash/dash.html?list=COV https://pandemic.metaculus.com/questions/Mike Linksvayer at 2020-04-29T02:42:19Z
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Another play money like instance (maybe with $ prizes?) https://goodjudgment.io/covid/dashboard/Mike Linksvayer at 2020-04-29T05:34:40Z
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Amazing! Thanks!
Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2020-04-24T08:58:19Z
Academics sign petition against rollout of Taiwanese electronic ID card
... he wants a digital ID certificate. But he doesn't want it to be tied to an identification document he must physically carry.
"You don't want to put eggs in the same basket," he said.
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