« Many people do not understand that the News Feed does not give you an unfiltered view of what your Facebook friends are posting. The News Feed is engineered to present content that reinforces your continued use of Facebook. Is this a problem? Facebook might argue that it is learning about and responding to your preferences about what you want to see. But you could also say that the operation of the News Feed resembles how casinos manage the odds of slot machines so that you will keep on feeding them coins. »
« Among those who weren't familiar with the algorithm, many just assumed that their friends had stopped posting. »
A Social Science Audits of Algorithms
Get your childhood jam on
« If you do feel the need to sign up [on Facebook]. make sure your 1st friend is lovemachine »
Je découvre que Empreinte asbl s'est approprié le uHbench comme support principal de leurs activités de sensibilisation.
A set of photos by Iwan Gabovitch
Detailed examples using tools from an audio program (Audacity) to apply (glitch) effects to 2D images.
UhBench spotted in Lyon, France
NewsDiffs is trying to solve the problem of archiving news in the constantly evolving world of online journalism.
Website and framework that tracks changes in online news articles over time is available from Github: https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs
CasperJS test recorder Chrome extension
Raspberry Pi "clone"
A full hackable browser written in Javascript
« de uH Bench maken is makkelijker dan een Ikea-kast in elkaar te steken »
Lauch external process through shell scrept with openFrameworks
« Let’s say you want to be friendly on Facebook.
Really friendly.
Happily, there is a bot for you, one designed to enable a degree of positivity-spreading that almost certainly transcends your puny human ability to be upbeat. »
« Take the "work" out of the "like" »
to handle swipe gestures on the mobile web app
"Algorithmic Like-Machine"
« Deswaef has had it installed on his own Facebook account, and has liked over 30,000 posts with it, causing confusion and distortion of the Facebook experience for himself, his friends, and others attracted to the account through Facebook recommendations. »
There are approximately two billion wooden shipping pallets in the United States…
Use a Raspi to display videos, images or webpages. Plus manage a network of screens.
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.
Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs
gifsicle is a powerful command-line program for creating, editing, manipulating, and getting information about GIF images and animations.
Good for compression
"Collaborative cloud based video editing"
« Juego Requiem likes all my post, and I think it's funny. »
Raphael Bastide's awesome open fonts collection.
« art experiment influencing algorithms. check it out. »
"Bravo to Juego Requiem's bot-driven loveMachine: when everything is liked, nothing is! "
"In Japan, where Facebook is relatively new in popularity (it exploded in 2012) users are more prone to like and comment on their friends’ status updates and photos out of a sense of obligation or pressure.
With that level of interaction, and the expectation to like just about everything, you might as well go all the way, which is what the new doudemo ii ne (Whatever Button) is is designed for. "
Blender SVG export script (not Freestyle)
Sverchok plugin is Grasshopper equivalent for Blender
The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
It is based on node.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.
A micro-controller in Python 3.
Arduino-like
Wrong GlibC on Debian stable. This trick works for programs that need a newer version of the lib and throw this type of error: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/manual-install/libc6-hack/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ ./LightTable