The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science
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    Meh, retractions are best case. Publish or perish is causing

    -low quality work: anything with a .05 result wins, whatever the contortions necessary

    -zero repeatability: one of the science fundamentals, but not publishable.

    -related, negative results are not published

    -people leaving science for better pay / conditions cause PoP sucks donkey dicks

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  • Decisions Decisions
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    Screw you guys, immutable fedora. Currently, bazzite, but I can, and have, change on a whim.

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  • Can relate.
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    May you live in interesting times...

    Edit: Ah, was done below, great minds...

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  • Is there any good private messenger at all?
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    Depends a lot on who you're talking to, and your, and their threat models. For many, signal provides pretty good protection, which brings us to a salient point, anything that actually provides good security will attract plenty of negativity, often from state level actors who feel (are) threatened. If you're playing at that level, adam_y is right, dead drops and one time pads. Presuming lesser threat, signal beats telegram and FB etc. Email is plaintext unless proton to proton, encrypted email is fine (look at PGP) and indeed if you encrypt at home before sending it's pretty much a dead drop anyway, as long as the other party has a key, and I'm wandering off the beaten path.

    Seems you want a secure messenger that works and are scared by random crap because you don't have the relevant knowledge to decide (spoiler, very few do, and it's insider knowledge, the world is imperfect), fair enough, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. As long as you're willing to give up your phone number, Signal is well regarded (exchange privacy for security, you decide). But yeah, no perfects, world imperfect, trust hard, deal ;)

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  • OpenAI Is A Bad Business
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    And a few people will get extremely rich by siphoning off a percent or two, circle of life baby /s

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  • Tidy: Find your photos, Fast and Offline
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    This looks promising. Not sure if fully baked yet, was going to circle back to it in a month or two. If you try, let me know...

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  • Fixing climate change is about to accelerate | Simon Clark
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    updoots to freetube, plug it into libredirect for an even better experience.

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  • 30 September 2024
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    Son, it's better to regret something you did do than something you didn't.

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  • This 3,775-year-old log may hold the secret to slowing climate change | Figuring out ways of locking carbon out of the atmosphere, such as by burying wood, is key to stalling the worst consequences
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    Duh, sequestering carbon by burying logs beats randon fossill fues baron's 'carbon capture' by a country mile. Who'd a thunk.

    Read the headline not the article, only so much time, correct me if relevant.

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  • The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 shows why long-term software support matters
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    How good is the DAC? In the market for a new walkman...

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  • Donors
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    Agreed, literal anonymous, way cool. Undisclosed, much less so.

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  • Clever guy
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    I don't remember the scene, but personally I'd test an electric fence with a nonconductor. You'll probably get some sparks but won't die. You do you, ppl in this thread.

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  • Clever guy
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    Literal lol

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  • "To Know the Dark"
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    I did, and there is little for my google-fu,

    Oceans of darkness and self-absorption,

    Go darkly into the mire of SEO nothing

    Trumpled by feet of darkness and woe.

    Happy Beltaine (Southerner...)

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  • "To Know the Dark"
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    Thanks, elder goth happiness.

    Shall look into this.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearIN
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    When you don't trust Facebook because of THEM, your car is your Facebook.
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    Licence plate is Nyx, (Greek) goddess of night. Coincidence, I think not. ;}

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
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    Garmin just dropped a load of free new features for its smartwatches and cycling computers
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    Do naps finally count as sleep? Coz that's been a fail forever.

    Love my garmin, but sleep tracking is bs.

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  • Your electric car will fall apart before its battery pack does, study finds
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    When your car just works, you don't report anything. The Prius is relevant because it has a battery pack (NiMH chemistry) famous for doing 300000kms before replacement. Not sure what extra words are going to help, it's a simple concept, don't need to report what ain't broke.

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  • www.caltech.edu

    Seems very interesting, pr burble aside. Wonder how close this is to a micro-sonogram if generalised ? Star Trek medical tricorder component material by my reckoning.

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    Wanting to torrent in a country other than my own, I've been exiting via Singapore as it has the most direct path I believe. Any reason not to ? Any superior choices for whatever reason ? Couldn't find this discussed anywhere. TIA.

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    I'm one of those oddballs who's never joined, but I'm in the market for a new to me bike, and it seems like all the action is on marketplace. Am I screwed, or is there an effective workaround ? Edit: Not US. There are local alternatives that I know about, but they are worse, please answer question as asked ! Basically I'm thinking of alternative software ala FreeTube, or a way of spoofing facebook to make a dummy account only to be used for this and if so what precautions to take...

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    Something I find fascinating is that being consistent (and trustworthy) is less effective than being 80/20% consistent (classical vs operant conditioning) at training dogs where there are contextual/environmental cues at play. It's personally counter-intuitive, but I've seen it work and am convinced (I attribute it to evolutionary mechanisms, my goto in biology). I'm wondering what other psychology as a science results have solid statistics behind them that I'm unaware of (I'm compsci with a physics/maths background, so it's probably most), and are interesting...

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    Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it's google 'owned' transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that's lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?

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    theconversation.com

    How does this play for you ? I identify as spectrum, what used to be Asperger's, and have to work really hard to get to visual phantasia, but I can. Also worked hard to remove aural phantasia? via meditation because of negative self talk. Do you see 'aphant' as a useful designation? Thoughts, Ideas?

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    michaelwest.com.au

    A report critical of Australian generals’ leadership in Afghanistan was given to the Defence Minister Richard Marles in November 2023, but was not published until after the McBride sentencing. Stuart McCarthy on a travesty of justice.

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    www.noemamag.com

    This needs (IMO) more attention, seems to fit here...

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    As title, standard lemmy in browser...

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