Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

June 2014

#CC-licensed movie “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” (@aaronsw): https://t.co/BO3o56tjzj (via @danbri)

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haikuman I actually read @facebook’s PNAS paper and wrote up a layman-friendly synopsis and analysis: bit.ly/pnas-fb (cc: @mrogati)

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:22 PM, Jun 29th, 2014 via Echofon)

The Compact Language Detector lib from Google—used ium &me—porteddegithub.com/dachev/node-cldtZlk

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Wonder how #MaterialDesignâ„¢ http://t.co/JUkJezV7Lj [PDF] looks like on the Web w/ #Polymer? Here you go http://t.co/3uTHG2f37S

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The most popular moments from yesterday’s keynote as seen by Social Media Illustrator, developed for . twitpic.com/e6yfue

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, an open-source graph, inspired by the graph db behind & Google’s : github.com/google/cayley

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gets a shout-out during the keynote. Congrats, @eturner303! alchemyapi.com twitpic.com/e6xe9q

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In the EU, we think of how to reduce standby power consumption of TVs. Elsewhere, they think of how to make use of TVs’ 19h idle timeâ€14

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Shameless plug: we’re hiring for technical positions in Hamburg & elsewhere, ping me (tomacATgoogleDOTcom) https://t.co/Km4rORHXKX #io14

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It’s , watching the keynote at the event in Hamburg: google.com/events/io ( on an iPad) pic.twitter.com/xSh67ZEYl8

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First Annual Award for Excellence in Being Very Smart—May you continue to grace our Internet with your wisdomxkcd.com/1386/Vcd

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andymcfee WOW! Device sizing and network throttling in Chrome DevTools is live in Chrome Canary! This is AWESOME! pic.twitter.com/6gJW6zWYs1

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 10:54 AM, Jun 25th, 2014 via Echofon)

A list of third-level domains like co•uk or com•au maintained by Mozilla volunteers https://t.co/xH7sCvsUqc. Details https://t.co/JBWcQtS5mv

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~RT @shadow_hayato: We’ve decided to kill the Intro to #WebComponents spec. […] http://t.co/5IBzSGHHO2 > Replacement https://t.co/AfMf62cfqK

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.@ayman on the selection process for the dataset: [I]t’s as fair a random selection […] of the photos in those license groups.

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.@YahooLabs make “one of the largest public multimedia datasets ever” available—the #Flickr #CC dataset http://t.co/8CBScGO2yb

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Added to my list of all-time favorites: throwing rocks xkcd.com/1385/

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manusporny Creator of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, marries: ow.ly/ylwYx

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howard Wow. Google Gets Into Domain Sales bit.ly/1uYF3SG

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:43 PM, Jun 23rd, 2014 via Echofon)

@Zidd0 I guess everybody takes this photo :-) Enjoy the trip! twitpic.com/e6l0cb

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~RT @LeaVerou: The #CSS color rebeccapurple—honoring @meyerweb’s daughter—landed in #WebKit! Demo here: http://t.co/Frn5eHTcSC // #RIP :-(

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@nelson The @EFF are fighting for your freedom to jailbreak _your_ device. Also check Firewall IP by the same author: http://t.co/DWIbT8bmOj

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RT @amrapaliz: PHD comics’ Jorge Cham on misery, hope and academia (Wired UK) http://t.co/lQs0DDBQkW @phdcomics Soo relatable !!

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@linclark Congratulations, Lin Clark, MA!

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sclopit would like a phone with dedicated button: when you see an item you like, tells you why you don’t need it & puts amount in long term saving

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:50 PM, Jun 19th, 2014 via Echofon)

SSH remote-rebooting a Mac w/ FileVault 2 w/o physical access is not an option. Entering “sudo fdesetup authrestart”: http://t.co/LGESEwtwcC

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RT @pgroth: TeX Live 2014 released - what’s new http://t.co/XT541Erncf

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Free book on verifying social media content (not only) for emergency coverage verificationhandbook.com/book/ > via @kwelle CC:@RevealEU

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Searching for [“Your system has run out of application memory” “10.9.3” “kernel_task”]—Anybody elsekSX

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RT @richardjapenga: @brucel I run bash scripts to create those .DS_Store files and commit them so everybody thinks I have a mac.

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Probably the best feature in #iOS 8 beta 2: no auto-jump to App Store: http://t.co/7xTCjlmq3f. Put the user first!

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Pleased that my extended “Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins (Redux)” paper got accepted to : opensym.org/os2014/

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Yahoo! workforce #diversity: http://t.co/UT9QqoPKp6. Also: ethnicity is a hard word to spell right. Ehniticy Ehnicity http://t.co/DSDKEqCcff

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~RT @ebidel: Interacting w/ (Google) services using nothing but HTML http://t.co/gBzQkJS1iQ // #Polymer #WebComponents. CC: @pchampin @yprie

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RT @paul_irish: Use `debug(fn)` in your console to break inside functions. https://t.co/qwEyAn0DKM http://t.co/SoP3V82xnb

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~RT @ndiakopoulos: If you were wondering about today’s Google doodle http://t.co/6R1iK2PSMQ // http://t.co/7kmejG3CvX http://t.co/7yOeozO2g6

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RT @iswc2014: call for #ISWC2014 Semantic Web Challenge is out!!! http://t.co/bbvhXCLiD6

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@uberalex @RubenVerborgh Even better: we finally get a middle finger 1F595 symbol: http://t.co/2eK8u0ES6v Rendered: http://t.co/QRq1YxiEcX

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~RT @mediagalleries: http://t.co/jveA4kUFMe Gallery http://t.co/RCIUk1P5Bz Ukrainians take their “Putin khuilo!” (P’s a d*head) to Wikipedia

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~RT @olafhartig: [A]n alternative, more user-friendly approach to #RDF reification http://t.co/Sw3ouSJJJP // Also see http://t.co/zNd9U0J02g

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@juansequeda Is your connection fast enough for @zattoo? Need a Swiss/German proxy, though… StilSA 0:up

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@rtroncy I hope @realschumacher (fan account?) can consciously enjoy the #WorldCup 2018…

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New #SchemaOrg feature: qualify relations by means of schema:Role (http://t.co/II4x1Ykh3S). Blog post: http://t.co/zNd9U0J02g

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Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation http://t.co/sjxT7tgmSh Demo http://t.co/6OkGwEuwub Powered by BabelNet http://t.co/OejYIXHGDy

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nelson Using simple_statistics.js from @tmcw. First time I’ve understood what the covariance coefficient actually is.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 7:48 AM, Jun 14th, 2014 via Echofon)

My “Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins” app (http://t.co/GHzEkRWSlh) now considers IP v6 anons: https://t.co/ChXXC4pMvG

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RT @marcmasdeu: Today’s brilliant #xkcd strip alluding to Fermat’s Last Theorem. http://t.co/pwbLnNBwsO

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Facebook now uses your browser history for ads. Here’s #HowTo opt out on #iOS, #Android, & desktop: http://t.co/jFlydKRzeZ #privacy

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aparrish awesome guest lecture from @ndiakopoulos today, talking about twitter infobots like @NYT4thDownBot, @WikiLiveMon, @NailbiterBot, @TreasuryIO

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:06 PM, Jun 12th, 2014 via Echofon)

lilcoccinelle Delicious watermelon jam
bit.ly/SPnuZ2

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:51 PM, Jun 12th, 2014 via Echofon)

Google’s visual asset guidelines: http://t.co/6t2rmSrWZM (indirectly via @vinoaj) #Design

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JuergenMusil Also check out: “ vs. , Anons vs. Logged-ins” bit.ly/1k6ell2

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 3:23 PM, Jun 11th, 2014 via TweetDeck)

See whether #Chrome #extensions harm your #privacy by live-auditing them: https://t.co/mLWNqh3fbw. Blog post: http://t.co/4PQkPvFDfY.

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.@WikiLiveMon & @mediagalleries at their best: detected David Brat’s surprise victory over Eric Cantorpic.twitter.com/82oYY5e0qFqF

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FredericJacobs iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks. Hoping that this becomes an industry standard.
pic.twitter.com/oGsZMtydUo

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 11:26 PM, Jun 10th, 2014 via Twitter for iPhone)

#TomsPhD thesis has now been disseminated on TDX (Theses & Dissertations Online): http://t.co/Mt5ffHRUex; see bottom for PDF.

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RubenVerborgh Impressed by @iswc2014, who are offering a Best Reviewer Award. Good to see incentives to provide great reviews!

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 3:04 AM, Jun 6th, 2014 via Echofon)

#ISWC2014 “In Use” track (http://t.co/v96Gwe2RKz) reviews done. Despite the scores, still learned s.th. from the papers, paper bidding FTW!

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@dianamaynard @arkaitz I guess they already know this—and other—aspects of your life. </sarcasm>

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~RT @arkaitz: US Secret Service seeks Twitter sarcasm detector http://t.co/RQle4f6bKH // A pity that @dianamaynard is a Brit ;-)

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Applauding Liu et al. for making all legally possible data of their #ICWSM $TWTR paper http://t.co/rRUXXQh94O avail.: http://t.co/5cwtxvcc6W

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#HowTo identify fake images and videos: http://t.co/KjWKPoK6NC (indirectly via @RevealEU > @jospang > http://t.co/UDZsFqyb4S)

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mathias JSNice is a very impressive JavaScript deobfuscator. It even renames variables and parameters quite accurately. jsnice.org

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 2:21 AM, Jun 4th, 2014 via Echofon)

Google-made Chrome extension adds end-to-end to email based on & the JavaScript Crypto API: code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

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Quickly put together yt-html5: http://t.co/5bJTfTC6Gq. Usage: /video/{YouTube_video_ID}. Your mileage may vary… #YouTube #HTML5

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@WaldorfSixpence Hi there. I just used their forum: support.twitter.com/forms/platform (you need to be logged in from the suspended account).

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Thanks @TwitterDev for reestablishing @TwitterAPI write access for @mediagalleries :-) It’s all up and running again.

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While @mediagalleries is in “Twitter API—write suspended” mode, you can follo@WikiLiveMonon & see media galleries owikipedia-live-monitor.herokuapp.com89.

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.@TwitterDev have suspended @TwitterAPI write access of my bot @mediagalleries. Here’s my plea to reestablish it: https://t.co/u67PdNuZrD

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