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Color me shocked. It appears that the change that would tell someone looking at your account page if they were blocked or not has been reverted.

on the upside I won't have a lack of GitHub notifications for a while.

seriously, this only helps harassers, no one else, and it is entirely at the expense of those who are getting harassed.

This sort of thing is why I keep arguing that mastodon shouldn't get credit for being 'anti-harassment', the lead dev is actively working against it.

And yes, it is specifically @Gargron, the pull request for this was by him.

It is like watching a race to the bottom in terms of being terrible about anti-harassment features.

Soooo.....

I suspect that @Gargron has just given up on any sort of anti-harassment for mastodon.

The newest release candidate has an update that will let people know they are blocked when they view a profile.

This is fucking basic shit, you don't let harassers know if they are having an effect, or if they are being heard or not. Why the fuck should someone I block get to know I blocked them? It just means they know 1) They had some effect and 2) The need to find a new channel for harassment.

Yeah, some of the worst internet regulations in history got passed because of bad UI.

UI matters.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

Machine learning in python.

I got into a bit of an argument with a person I work with about machine learning just being statistics applied with a sledge hammer.

It was one of the very few times I pulled out 'I am the expert in this field, not you. When you can write the code you can argue' card.

It felt kinda weird.

Someone posted a link to a thing that scraped a bunch of news sites a while ago and I can't find it. Anyone know what it is or has the link?

Because mastodon helps me in my research more than anything else I have found.

Does anyone know of any reasonable quality open-access journals for DSP and network related stuff? The IEEE keeps doing things that make me not trust it.

#Engineering

A paper got accepted to a conference in Rabat. This means that instead of being able to do interesting work I have to make the paper presentable.

This phd is more trouble than it is worth.

Did I mention that I fucking hate how javascript/node handles async things?

Because I fucking hate it.

When you have something that doesn't act in the default fashion (which is synchronous for javascript, lines of code are executed in order one after the other normally) than you have a special keyword for that, you don't put the special keyword to make things act in what should be the default behaviour.

It looks like I am going to use C++ as a major component for a project. I haven't written C/C++ code for anything other than embedded projects in a long time. We shall see how this goes.

I am going to be playing with this to see if it does what it claims.

https://github.com/ShiqiYu/libfacedetection

If you see a bunch of naked yaks around, that was me.

This quick update to the sinister plotter code to support end-stop switches better and it has turned into a gigantic refactoring for the code.

Le Bleh.

Working in C and having to think about data types after working with python and javascript for a while is odd.

Remember your checksum bits!

It has been a while since I coded anything in C, I have been doing python and javascript lately.

Lets see how this goes

PSA:

Polymorphic encryption != Homomorphic Encryption

This can save a lot of confusion about how far the field has progressed in the past month or two.

Using (web)sockets to send json formatted data has become my go-to setup for having things I make communicate.

I don't know if there is a better way, but this works quite well.

Huh, instead of worrying about threads in python I could just implement the serial interface in node, which I have a lot of experience with because of robbie.

So I am not going to dig into python threads for now.