mcol @mcol@fosstodon.org
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neuroscientist by day
fake-it-til-I-make-it coder by night
starter of many projects
finisher of few
Joined May 2019
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#RFC1984 your medical data is for sale, remember no personal data can be completely anonymous. This is a threat to your privacy. Plus is anyone asking the question of how do we track what happens to that data? Will it always be encrypted? Data leaks.
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RT @StefSimanowitz
"The UK offers companies...active life sciences & increasingly expanding access to rich longitudinal data from the NHS’s 65 million patients."
(Dept of Trade/NHS …
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1313452748436889601
everybody should watch The Dragon Prince on netflix btw
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Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network.
This is pretty mind-blowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqmMnjJ6GEg
I don't even wanna think about further implications like faked recordings, online impersonation or the impact on Hollywood productions.
Just updated xoop to use X pointer barriers instead of a hollow square window to detect when the cursor touches the edges of the screen. Now it should work in more X environments without interference from other windows.
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become a robot today! we have everything:
- beeps
- boops
- instant maths
- clean electric charging
- design ur own chassis
- cool tricks like *glitches out* 
- be conscious to make philosopher chuds upset
Wrote a cheeky post about ditching cgit and replacing it with stagit. cgit is cool and all, but stagit is light as can be for creating a web interface for your git repositories.
If you listen to one album today let it be this
https://brightambassadors.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-things-once-were
Whalebird is deciding not to show me every post in a thread. Maybe I'm getting sick of the bugs...
the next project i make i will name it something catchy like ncmpcpp
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I enjoyed this article #ukpolitics #ukpol
Applicable in a more modest way to #markdrakeford in #wales
Covid has reduced Scottish independence to a basic question: Sturgeon or Johnson? | Scottish independence | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/covid-scottish-independence-sturgeon-johnson
Pretty pissed at this new firefox update. It moved my profile to my Desktop folder and started me a new one, required an entire reboot of the machine to run without crashing immediately, and enabled all telemetry and everything (must be the new default settings for fresh profiles). All of this without a single prompt or warning!
>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
Tor Browser update brings the terrible expanding URL bar from Firefox
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#vim tip of the day: You can literally travel back in time. To jump to the state a file had 10 minutes ago, use the following command:
:earlier 10m
To then go forward in time 1 minute, use this command:
:later 1m
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So I wad just talking about domain names and I happened to use smellmyf.art as an example. To my astonishment, this domain was available (it isn't any more!)
But that got me to thinking, "I wonder if eatmysh.it is available?"
Unfortunately it isn't, but the website that hosts it is AMAZING!
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> I wonder if eatmysh.it is available?" Unfortunately it isn't, but the website that hosts it is AMAZING! https://eatmysh.it
@brandon mentioned that it has no JS – that's putting it mildly. Here's the full source, beautiful in its simplicity:
<html>
<head>
<title>eatmysh.it</title>
<style>
body {
background-image: url('home.jpg');
height: 100%;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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vim good
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what the HECC picked up my pmos pinephone and started messing with stuff again... phosh/arch linux arm is running even smoother than just a few weeks ago!
Amazing and super promising how fast mobile Linux is developing
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I've been really liking this group lately 
https://covetband.bandcamp.com
- blog
- https://mcol.xyz
neuroscientist by day
fake-it-til-I-make-it coder by night
starter of many projects
finisher of few
Joined May 2019
