Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

From Douglas Adams:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Not a fan of Uber in the slightest but this article about Dara actually doing the work and driving around as an actual Uber driver to suffer the pain of the user and understand it is absolutely perfect and correct: https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-ceo-started-driving-for-uber-5bef5023?mod=djemalertNEWS

based on the absolute shit show that is my notifications, I henceforth declare that reply guys on mastodon should be called mastodongs

thank you for your consideration

This is Nago. She’s having a self-care day. Starting things off with the burrito treatment. 12/10

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant decline in internet connectivity across #Quebec, Canada including Montreal as a major ice storm knocks out power for over a million households ❄️📉

The minimum algorithmic complexity of an authentication scheme is O(log(in))

Hey there -- we're Let's Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority serving over 300 million websites worldwide. We're new to Mastodon and are excited to get to know the infosec community in this new space!

https://letsencrypt.org/

#opensource #TLS #PKI #infosec

Never criticize a new tech by buying into the hype of the people selling it to you.

There are lots of valid criticism of AI. ‘We’ll create a super good that will kill us all’ ain’t it.

You guys! It's here! It's finally here! Party like it's Y2K38! 🎉

https://www.calendar-australia.com/holiday/easter-sunday/4-20-2025/

It has been 5 years since @irene banned me from making home decor decisions.

Apparently the warning labels are enough to prevent ladies from eating Tide Pods.

It’s harder to deter gents.

When you’re toxic, just not 0.92 toxic https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala it’s that sweet spot of toxic. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋 /s #TwitterCode

The new stuff in the Twitter algorithm is wild.

"author is elon", "author_is_republican", "author_is_democrat", etc., are explicitly included in there.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala