Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

This year I've the honor of co-chairing (with Valentina Lenarduzzi) the program committee of #OSS2021 — a well-known #conference (17th ed.) for #FOSS researchers, practitioners, and communities.

Check-out the #CFP at https://www.oss2021.org/track/oss-2021-papers … submissions welcome! (deadline 2021-01-10)

We're hiring a #postdoc to work with @swheritage, @Inria and @MSFTResearch on large-scale #reproducibility in software engineering.
Full details and application instructions at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/07/17/paris-based-postdoc-on-large-scale-reproducibility-in-software-engineering/

We've massively revamped our #SoftwareHeritage #internship offer. If you're a #student interested in #FOSS and its long-term preservation have a look at https://wiki.softwareheritage.org/wiki/Internships and/or let me know. (They are all paid internships hosted by @Inria and co-supervised by me.)

New #halfmarathon personal best @semiparis: 1h45m51s. Amazing weather, if not for the heavy contrary wind in the last 5k... Thanks #Paris. #running

has someone drunkenly hit C-t again?

if name.startswith(('assert', 'assret')):
raise AttributeError("Attributes cannot start with 'assert' or 'assret'")

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/unittest/mock.py#L634-L636
#python #stdlib #butwhy

GNOME Evince is good at annotating PDF. And LaTeX is good at generating clickable notes in PDF with pdfcomment. But the notes generated by the latter are not clickable in the former. And I just can't even. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/16998

« Bataille géopolitique autour de la 5G », par Evgeny Morozov https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/62292 (paywall)

The level of self-criticism and transparency in this piece is just incredible for the #journalism standards I'm used to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-times-rukmini-callimachi-caliphate.html (original fuck up aside, of course…)

« In today's world of fast-paced internet services deployment, owning IP has become considerably less important than turning research results into innovative products as quickly as possible, and deploying them at scale. » — Yann LeCun, Business Insider, 2018-08-03
(h/t Tobie Langel)

« We report on [Italian, Swiss, and German] #Covid19 #ContactTracing app on commuter tram […]. The performance […] is similar to that of triggering notifications [at random] regardless of proximity. »
Source: #PlosOne https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239943
#ImmuniApp #StopCovid #SwissCovid

If you're a #LaTeX user/geek, I'm looking for references/discussions explaining why #pdflatex does not generate accessible #PDF out-of-the-box and what's the current status about fixing it. TIA ! #TeXLive

« An Uninteresting Tour Through Why Our #Research #Papers Aren't Accessible » https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2851581.2892588 #a11y

This year I've the honor of co-chairing (with Valentina Lenarduzzi) the program committee of #OSS2021 — a well-known #conference (17th ed.) for #FOSS researchers, practitioners, and communities.

Check-out the #CFP at https://www.oss2021.org/track/oss-2021-papers … submissions welcome! (deadline 2021-01-10)

« What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? » by @davidgraeber on @thebafflermag (2014) https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun

i've got this suggestion (via twitter) which looks great at first sight: Quantified Self https://quantified-self.io/

Hey, geek & #running friends!

Is there a #FOSS tool that reads #GPX and provides an analysis dashboard similar to Garmin Connect/Strava?

I don't care if desktop- or Web based, as long as it's self-hostable.

Or should I write a bunch of pandas/matplotlib scripts for this?

« Built to Last » https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ on @logic_magazine
#cobol #care #digitalinfrastructure #covid19