Yarmo 
@yarmo@fosstodon.org
PhD student in Neuroscience. Passionate about brains, sound, open science/source/access, data science, machine learning & webdev
Science alter ego: @yarmo
he/him
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Joined Apr 2019
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Roughly what "timezones" are popular on this instance?
Tried to divide the world in roughly 4 portions, hope I didn't do anything insensitive 😅
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FOSS has been my repentance for years of writing amoral software for companies. I wondered if I would feel better about my career if it was at risk the whole time. I wrote a little bit about that here: https://sagegerard.com/regulate-me.html
Are there companies/organizations doing consulting/advocating #Foss to scientists/academia?
Sounds too niche 🤔
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Happy to share the I created #mastodon instance for #tamil community, our instance name is https://tamiltoot.online , join and support. #TamilMastodon
This is one of my major arguments in favor of selfhosting:
Honestly, it sounds like a great service, probably useful to many!
But it's a new monthly paid service which you need to pay separately for even if you already have #nordvpn.
Add Netflix, Spotify, YT whatever… There seems no end to the subscription loop. Every new service is a new subscription. I can't afford all that.
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If you have content on YouTube and you HAVEN'T considered alternatives like PeerTube, now is the time. Seriously, right now.
"YouTube’s updated terms of service states ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video - The Verge"
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In an attempt to discover new music in the long run I've decided to keep a casual Record of the Week list on my blog. After seeing another FOSS blog post a pancake recipe I realised who needs these arbitrary boundaries.
If anybody is interested: https://mcol.xyz/rotw.html
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🐦 RT: @AllenInstitute@twitter.com
This new study describes a high-resolution expansion of our #openscience Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas-- the most detailed map of connections in a mammalian #brain 🧠 to date. Access via:
🔗 http://connectivity.brain-map.org
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A big welcome ❤️ to all the lovely people who have joined Mastodon to make a difference.
🇮🇳 #India, you rock.
Feel free to boost — to salute all new members.
Anyone else installed #mastodon using #digitalocean marketplace? Every time I log in via ssh, it wants to reinstall mastodon all over again 🤨
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:~ $
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Be careful in #Telegram, because it's full of stupid scammers waiting for easy #crypto.
Always check the #TelegramID of the person you are talking to.
Avoid confusing the Telegram ID with the account name or username.
Use https://t.me/userinfobot to find out the Telegram ID.
I joined the #TrustWallet chat room and almost immediately I got a message from a "support representative", the scammer who asked me for a mnemonic phrase (see screenshots).
Stay safe.
I still miss my #nzb360 app every day. I paid for it and would pay again, double if needed, if only the app would allow paid features on #lineageos #rip #nogapps
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Friendly reminder that we have no official instances. They are all independently operated, including pixelfed.social.
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Police state much!?
In #NewIndia even "political comments" are illegal and immediately pounced upon by the Police while neo-n@zi handles on BirdSite quietly laugh and post their next inflammatory tweet w/ total impunity!!
Here's a totally innocuous tweet by Rana Ayyub and Amethi Police's immediate response to it!!
Wah Modiji Wah!!👏😹🙏
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Thinking of migrating my Mastodon account to a private Mastodon instance.
Then I figured, why not invite more devs to join in? So. Open call for people around me who write code - wanna join up for a Mastodon instance of our own? I'll help you migrate :)
Toot back if you're in!
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It’s now up to 18.8K new users this week. For reference, growth was about 1K per week for a long time.
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I'm donating to PBS today because they deserve it.
Ow now I understand…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50343054
Welcome to all the new folks, great to see actual change and movement in response to corporate incompetence!
PhD student in Neuroscience. Passionate about brains, sound, open science/source/access, data science, machine learning & webdev
Science alter ego: @yarmo
he/him
speaks 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇲🇫
Joined Apr 2019
