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Mar 19

https://twitter.com/Ab7Media/status/1637520639954153473

Quelques informations glanées sur le web concernant la légalité de la technique de l'encerclement des manifestants par les forces de l'ordre, communément désignée par «nasse» («kettling»). (⚠️Je ne suis pas avocat: je ne fais que recopier ce que je crois avoir compris.) •1/16

https://twitter.com/Ab7Media/status/1637520639954153473

Comme le rappelle Wikipédia dans son article sur le sujet fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasse_%28…‌, la CEDH a jugé en 2012 que la technique n'était pas en soi en violation de l'article 5 §1 de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme (droit à la liberté et à la sûreté), … •2/16

… et ce, bien que le nassage dans l'affaire en question (par la police britannique, à Londres) ait duré plus de 7h. ✱Mais✱ il faut bien noter que la Cour y met des conditions, notamment celle-ci: «prévenir des atteintes graves aux personnes ou aux biens». ⬇️ •3/16

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Mar 19

https://twitter.com/temptoetiam/status/1637370515386953728

A very interesting article on the 2023 Wikipedia global interface redesign, by the person leading the project: alexhollender.com/wikipedia-2023…

https://twitter.com/temptoetiam/status/1637370515386953728

For me, one of the main benefits of this redesign was that the French and English language Wikipedias now have the same overall look&feel once again. I don't know if the WP-fr people who chose to change the interface separately realized how annoying it would be, …

… but if you're constantly moving back and forth between languages and one stupid language decided for no reason to have the “switch language” link in a different position from the others, it's really super annoying.

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Mar 16

I am fascinated by the fact that the ‘r’ sound underwent an eerily similar vocalization process in English and in German, despite being fairly different sounds to begin with. 🧵⤵️ •1/18

In some, but not all, accents of English, esp. most(?) heard in England (including “RP”), known as “non-rhotic”, the ‘r’ sound, normally — between vowels — a “voiced (post?)alveolar approximant” consonant /ɹ/, is vocalized to a schwa-like vowel before consonants or pause. •2/18

In particular, the very common “-er” ending becomes a simple vowel (a schwa). In other words, in these accents, the word “mother” (in isolation) is pronounced as /ˈmʌðə/, ending in a vowel. •3/18

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Mar 15

WHY IS IT that in 2023 I still have to contend with the fact that when I try to print a PDF file on my lab's printer from my Ubuntu desktop, the pages containing figures with transparency are rendered differently from the pages which don't? This is insane! •1/9

I mean, I know the underlying reason: the PostScript format doesn't handle transparency, only PDF does. So these pages are rasterized by CUPS (well, GhostScript), and sent to the printer as raster, rather than PostScript, causing a subtle but visible difference. •2/9

But this reason, of course, is utterly silly and utterly obsolete. First, the printer can OBVIOUSLY understand PDF, and second, PostScript now handles transparency perfectly fine through the pdfmark extension. “PS can't do transparency” is a thing of the past. •3/9

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Mar 11

https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1634280414004105228

OK, joke aside, I have a little mystery here: Wiktionary seems to know the full conjugation of a whole bunch of ancient Greek verbs like, in this example, “ἁμαρτάνω”: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%81… — was this information filled in manually or is there a generating script?

https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1634280414004105228

My memory of ancient Greek is rather vague, but I do remember that inflectional paradigms were often difficult to predict, much more so than Latin, so I'm curious to see what a script generating them would look like (the Wiki source just says “{{grc-conj|…}}”); …

… on the other hand, I also find it hard to believe that someone patiently entered, by hand, the second person dual of the optative aorist, middle voice, of “ἁμαρτάνω” (of course it's “ἁμάρτοισθον”, everyone knows this) — and many other verbs.

So how was this magic performed?

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Feb 26

A few thoughts about the Cochrane review on the effectiveness of face masks on the spread of respiratory viruses, — and how we form beliefs. 🧵⤵️ •1/20

So, for those who didn't follow, the Cochrane medical organization en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_… recently published an update to their review (meta-analysis) on the effectiveness of physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of acute respiratory viruses; … •2/20

… the full review is here: cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10… — and their key message is: “We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed.” •3/20

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