Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
But how do you verify if that information is actually accurate?
Like for example if a whistleblower says that their organization has something that can do xyz is it possible to verify that through zero knowledge proofs?
From what I understood after I watched it and looked into it a bit more is that individuals have roles within the organization and are able to decide their own actions on how to fulfill that role. The actions are informed by the collective understanding of their goals and norms that are formed during their frequent meetings (which are very different in vibes from regular corporate meetings).
This is how I understood it works for most decisions but there a few decisions that fall back on voting which after the vote occurs the individuals are expected to carry out whatever was voted on.
So like it says in the video it is a largely informal structure but one that seems to work very well.
I don't know I think that it is giving a bit to much credit to these organizations. Yes they are big and powerful but they are still run by humans who both give these organizations their power and also are the weakest links of most organizations.
This is why most new systems don't come into power until the old ones become weak enough. Like capitalism was a thing during the times of feudalism for many years without necessarily replacing the main system but eventually as feudalism and the monarchy grew weaker eventually capitalism and meritocracy in some sense won out.
I mention this because yeah I agree that some sort of push back and fighting is going to be necessary but that alone isn't going to be the main driving force. The external conditions also need to be ripe and to me it seems like we are on the verge of something new occurring.
How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?...
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Semi related to this I think a good way to avoid back doors in open source software is to have as few dependencies as possible. So I appreciate that this is a thing.
They saw all the negative feedback that was given when the first announcement came and there were a lot of users saying its not so bad or that we should give them a chance then.
Eventually everything became quiet and things moved on now there is a steady rise of pro Meta comments again and this time it will lead to a less violent reaction because it has already happened once before.
You can block any posts coming from threads.net by going to settings and doing instance blocking but long term it probably is better to just move to a different instance that better aligns with your values.
As the title states, I currently have cable but want to cut it. I dont watch anything live anymore aside for sports. I can't buy a sports package as the local pro teams are blacked out, and you must watch on the local channel. Are there any alternatives?
The part that annoys me is that this was done silently even though last time they said they would ask their users. Hopefully it was just an admin that didn't get the last memo.
Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...
You know if you want to do something more effective than just putting copyright at the end of your comments you could try creating an adversarial suffix using this technique. It makes any LLM reading your comment begin its response with any specific output you specify (such as outing itself as a language model or calling itself a chicken).
It gives you the code necessary to be able to create it.
There are also other data poisoning techniques you could use just to make your data worthless to the AI but this is the one I thought would be the most funny if any LLMs were lurking on lemmy (I have already seen a few).
I found this link aggregator that someone made for a personal project and they had an exciting idea for a sorting algorithm whose basic principle is the following:...
you should consider moving to Facebook or Threads, maybe?
Not an option
As for the rest yeah those do seem like genuine obstacles. Partially think the reason I liked the algorithm is because it reminded me of the Web of Trust things like Scuttlebutt use to get relevant information to users but with a lower barrier to entry.
Also as I've said elsewhere it doesn't have to be this exact thing but since this is a new platform we have the chance to make algorithms that work for us and are transparent so I wanted to share examples that I thought were worthwhile.
Edit:
You’d also turn Lemmy into the strongest echo chamber you could possibly create.
PS. I don't think that's true. Big tech companies that have more advanced algorithms would probably be much better at creating echo chambers.
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Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men ( www.researchgate.net )
Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking ( www.skynews.com.au )
It's not even surprising anymore platforms do this & act all Pikachu face why piracy is spiking...
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus....
Malicious Go Binary Delivered via Steganography in PyPI ( blog.phylum.io )
Dell Data Breach
Has anyone else received an email from Dell about a data breach? I’ve gotten three messages just today. What’s going on?...
Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects – Open Source Security Foundation ( openssf.org )
Is it possible to use zero knowledge proofs to verify journalism sources?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19547690...
Is it possible to use zero knowledge proofs to verify journalism sources?
After reading this thread I had the question on whether it is possible to verify you have certain information without revealing who you are to others.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
We Need To Rewild The Internet ( www.noemamag.com )
Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic ( www.helpnetsecurity.com )
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11194362...
Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?
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Bombs Away ( bombsaway.fallaciousreasoning.nz )
A simple physics game I wrote
Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home ( www.physics.ox.ac.uk )
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US ( www.engadget.com )
Tarallo: A minimalistic trello alternative with no dependencies, only requiring PHP. ( github.com )
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/eb41a9ba-a896-4306-a69b-38f918e2ce5e.jpeg
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." ( pluralistic.net )
Educational vs Entertainment Piracy
Do you guys see a difference morally? Why or why not?...
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( www.404media.co )
Are you seeing a massive uptick in pro meta propaganda as well?
I will probably be harassed for this but I feel like I need to act....
I'm looking to drop cable but need live sports alternative.
As the title states, I currently have cable but want to cut it. I dont watch anything live anymore aside for sports. I can't buy a sports package as the local pro teams are blacked out, and you must watch on the local channel. Are there any alternatives?
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)
This is another post that alerted me of this....
Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles ( www.polygon.com )
Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...
Threativore: An anti-spam automoderator for Lemmy ( github.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791...
Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating ( www.spacebar.news )
Vape-o-nomics: Why everything is addictive now. ( youtu.be )
A video about disposable vapes, and how addiction became the goal of every single company on the planet.
Netflix enshittification will continue until morale improves ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Could we use this sorting algorithm on Lemmy? ( linklonk.com )
I found this link aggregator that someone made for a personal project and they had an exciting idea for a sorting algorithm whose basic principle is the following:...
Possible Future of Social Media
F.Y.I: This is a thought experiment, Not a prediction, that I am trying out and I would like feedback. I got the idea from a forecasting book where you choose something true today and flip it so it isn’t true 10 years from now plus giving the reason why (the book’s name was imaginable). I am trying to do that and include a...