@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza2025-04-15 14:33:12
Behavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.
https://theprivacydad.com/what-is-behavioural-surplus/
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social2025-06-16 11:19:05
Join the second edition of the OpenSearch User Group Berlin. Learn about OpenSearch Project and Eliatra, get the latest news from the projects and meet the community over some drinks & snacks.
📅 When: June 18, 2025 – 6.30 pm
📍 Where: Automat Berlin Gmbh, Schöneberger Ufer 65 | 10785 Berlin
Register now:
@kazys@mastodon.social2025-06-15 18:49:08
Sunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_project
The Rise and Fall of the Author - varnelis.net A Procedural Framework for Assessing the Desirability of Process Deviations
The Library of All Plagiarized Books, Google Imagefx, 2025In Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard undertakes what appears to be an impossible, even insane, task: recreating, word for word, “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of chapter twenty-two.” Menard ... 
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-16 10:19:39
Michael Grohs, Nadine Cordes, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11525
@arXiv_csDB_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-16 07:25:29
OCPQ: Object-Centric Process Querying & Constraints
Aaron K\"usters, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11541 https://
@prachisrivas@masto.ai2025-06-15 14:11:02
My dad knew about bugs.
He taught us to be curious about the mundane, to be adaptable and resilient, to be confident in the might of the small.
On this Father's Day, I think I may have located the first of his academic articles from 1962. 🤍
https://www.sciencedirect.com…
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2025-06-16 17:02:29
Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud2025-05-16 10:29:11
The Way, and the Truth, and the Life - Pray As You Go
https://prayasyougo.org/prayer/the-way-and-the-truth-and-the-life-2684
Image generated by Wes Fryer using ChatGPT, edited with Canva for iOS.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-14 18:24:36
The eighteenth-century legal system relied primarily on victims and other private individuals to initiate prosecutions.
To counter the disincentives raised by the financial fees, time and potential damage to reputation entailed in mounting a prosecution,
the government offered financial incentives,
both in the form of rewards and the payment of expenses.
Voluntary societies were also set up to support prosecutions.
Despite these initiatives, however, many sti…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social2025-05-15 14:00:15
Apache Flink is uniquely positioned to serve as the backbone for AI agents, equipping them with the powerful new tool of stream processing. Join Steffen Hoellinger at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how Flink jobs can be transformed into “Agents”—autonomous, goal-driven entities that dynamically interact with data streams, trigger actions, and adapt their behaviour based on real-time insights.
Learn more:
