Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz
Free Software activist | CTO Software Heritage, Computer Science professor Université de Paris | former Debian Leader, former OSI director | http://upsilon.cc
Joined Jun 2017
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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/
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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.)
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New #halfmarathon personal best @semiparis: 1h45m51s. Amazing weather, if not for the heavy contrary wind in the last 5k... Thanks #Paris. #running
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Come saprete bida.im è un server autogestito quindi nessun* è pagato per il mantenimento del servizio ma purtroppo l'infrastruttura ha dei costi inevitabili. Considerando le migliaia di utenti registrate su questa istanza mastodon bastarebbe che ognun* facesse una donazione del costo di una birra per sostenere le spese di un anno. Quindi se avete voglia e la possibilità di supportare questo progetto ci farebbe molto piacere. La pagina da cui fare le donazioni è questa:
bida.im/dona/
Per qualsiasi chiarimento scriveteci.
Grazie
👏"'Bravata' a luci rosse: film porno sullo schermo di Piazza Maggiore, intervengono i carabinieri"👏
https://www.bolognatoday.it/cronaca/film-porno-cinema-piazza-maggiore.html
The amount of economists engaging in pissing contexts based on academic rankings, disregarding Goodhart's Law is appalling. (It's appalling in any field, including mine, but economists should know better.)
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Hmm. Spell checker suggests replacing "cardinality" with "carnality". Is this one of those "How to get young people interested in math" things that keeps landing in my mailbox?
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Come saprete bida.im è un server autogestito quindi nessun* è pagato per il mantenimento del servizio ma purtroppo l'infrastruttura ha dei costi inevitabili. Considerando le migliaia di utenti registrate su questa istanza mastodon bastarebbe che ognun* facesse una donazione del costo di una birra per sostenere le spese di un anno. Quindi se avete voglia e la possibilità di supportare questo progetto ci farebbe molto piacere. La pagina da cui fare le donazioni è questa:
bida.im/dona/
Per qualsiasi chiarimento scriveteci.
Grazie
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/
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@civodul I'm so thrilled that the obvious co-interest of Software Heritage and Guix (esp w/ Guix HPC) are lining up so nicely, and this is a great example!
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Read about the #Guix #ReproducibleResearch hackathon we held last week:
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/07/reproducible-research-hackathon-experience-report/
The activity around the Guix Past channel, which has received a bunch of “new old packages”, shows the real need for practical software archeology in science—far from the bleeding edge that we hackers love. :-)
« What’s next for #RegisteredReports? » https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02674-6 #openscience #reproducibility #msr2020 (h/t Neil Ernst)
for more details check out the great paper presentation video by Antoine Pietri at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFWqvpZ-8A and the full paper here: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02527811
Highlight: with increasing diversity in Git hosting and practices, we should not assume that forking always happen via the "fork" button on one platform. There is much more than that and we need a global view, in the style of Software Heritage, to avoid undercounting software forks. #MSR2020
In our paper « Forking without Clicking » (preprint: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02527811/document) we have compared 3 ways of determining that VCS repositories are #fork of one another and discussed the respective methodological implications. It will be presented at #MSR2020 at 10:30 UTC today.
we juste passed the threshold of 130 M projects archived by @swheritage: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
« Loaded terms in free software » https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/ on @lwnnet #BlackLivesMattter
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A month ago, I offered free editorial services, with priority given to bipoc, lgbtia+, and similar marginalized people. Nobody has taken me up on it, but the offer still stands. I'm a technical writer with a thirty year career, and a ttrpg author and book editor with twenty years of publications across multiple companies. Please help me find relevance by helping you.
« But now more than ever is the time to focus on self-care instead of productivity. This is not the time to suggest, even jokingly, that this is an opportunity to churn out our best work. » https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01591-3
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ALRIGHT NERDS
happy #MastoMonday
today i've got somethin special for yall
a mastodon instance for folks who love to cook!!!
it's now offically open for signups (by approval) - please put any existing account you consider your "main" in the signup notes to help me approve!!
IMPORTANT NOTE TO OTHER ADMINS: this instance will be posting un CW'd food, please feel free to silence the instance if you don't want that on your fedi timeline!!!
love y'all!!
La notte di Walter Tobagi | Rep https://rep.repubblica.it/pwa/robinson/2020/05/27/news/la_notte_di_walter_tobagi-257764957/ @repubblica
We are looking for experts of specific #VCS, #package formats, and development #forges to fund in order to expand the coverage of the #SoftwareHeritage #archive.
If you qualify and are interested, read on and submit an expression of interest via the form linked from this post:
Free Software activist | CTO Software Heritage, Computer Science professor Université de Paris | former Debian Leader, former OSI director | http://upsilon.cc
Joined Jun 2017
