Guillaume 🦗 @guillaume@aleph.land

A friend's instagram account apparently got hacked, and their username, email and password changed.

Has anyone experienced this before? According to Instagram, the old email account should have received an email about that name/email change, which didn't seem to happen.

I can't make sense of how they managed to hack that account. Any pointers appreciated!

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I strongly recommend having arguments about things you disagree about, and especially double-cruxing them. <https://www.ericherboso.org/2016/01/the-double-crux-game.html> Up until today, this was all just a theoretical recommendation, but… wow does it help.

I think I'm finally starting to see the meaning of “what do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?". I'm probably right about this thing I'm arguing about, but my reasons for believing it right now are stupid (and are the same reason I didn't believe it earlier).

Did you know there's a paper where they spent 3 weeks training a neural net to transform giraffes into birds?

new blog post
https://aiweirdness.com/post/613123668121419776/how-to-change-a-giraffe-into-a-bird

Hi. I've been working in teledildonics and sex tech for the past 16 years.

AMA

Seriously. Not a joke.

Many of you are bored or scared or both. So, if you're curious about remote intimacy, I'm happy to answer questions, in this thread or in DM.

Try to vote for the least voted number !

Tentez de voter pour le numéro ayant le moins de vote !

Boost appreciated. Retoot appréciés.

Covid_19: Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community | Left
https://left.it/2020/03/13/covid_19-open-letter-from-italy-to-the-international-scientific-community/

Things Covid has proven:

1. The job you were told couldn't be done remotely can be done remotely

2. Many disabled workers could have been working from home, but corporations just didn't want them to.

3. Internet is a utility, not a luxury.

4. Universal healthcare is a necessity.

Puisque le président de la République a vanté la recherche et les scientifiques dans son allocution, je vous partage cette tribune.

Il s'agit d'un virologue du #CNRS qui a participé aux recherches sur les #coronavirus après l'émergence du SARS. Et dont les financements ont cessé une fois la panique passée.

https://universiteouverte.org/2020/03/04/coronavirus-la-science-ne-marche-pas-dans-lurgence/

The UK's curve is about two weeks delayed compared to Italy, so we can expect a peak in about two months. If the delaying actions work, like it seems the case now in Korea, then the peak will be later and the health services will be able to cope better and more severe cases will survice. This is the main reason to take the measures: not to protect the majority of individuals, they will be fine anyway, but to give the vulnerable minority a better chance of survival.

Git is planning to switch to SHA-256 soon. This is all great news, but the best thing is the command to convert an existing repo to the new hash. It reads like a shitpost and gets better with each argument:

git convert-repo --to-hash=sha-256 --frobnicate-blobs --climb-subtrees --liability-waiver=none --use-shovels --carbon-offsets

Source: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/811068/cfeb6a67b8dfbe47/

Here's a test:

I'll keep a webcam recording myself during work for the next hour, now.

I will try to remind myself not to touch my face and will keep a tally sheet of how many times I successfully restrained myself, and often I caught myself touching it.

Then I'll review the video material and see how many times I've not even witnessed touching my own face during that hour.

[Just typing this post, I've already touched my own face 7 times]

When my new country, Belarus, elected its first (and so far, the only) president in 1994, I wasn't old enough to vote. By the time I was, he has shut down the Constitutional Court, dismissed the Parliament, and put a loyalist in charge of the Elections Commission. I didn't get a chance to vote. I never had a chance to vote in my life.