Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
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A friend of mine once explained that a key reason most automakers don’t provide OTA software updates is that they are considered recalls.
Since recalls are “bad” they are not incentivized to build updateable car software because they want to keep their 4 recalls on average per car metrics versus Tesla’s 62 recalls on average.
A great example of how chasing the wrong metric can screw a product. https://insideevs.com/news/662943/tesla-most-recalled-car-brand-mercedes-toyota-least/
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The problem facing ride sharing and food delivery services is that you can only pick two out of these three
• Low prices
• Well paid drivers
• A profitable platform
The entire category pioneered by Uber is not a good business model. It only got so large as a category due to being subsidized by billions in venture capital.
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What we imagined climate change deniers would say when the climate catastrophes came, versus what they actually are saying...
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-we-imagined-climate-change-deniers-would-say.html
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I get asked from time to time “why not GitHub for your projects?” and here’s a good answer from a fellow sourcehut user
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With unique behind-the-scenes access to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Netflix followed a team of engineers and scientists as they took the next giant leap in the quest to understand the universe. Premieres Monday, July 24. #NASAWebb #JWST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1G0cYnZBHo&t=3s
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Today we'll likely issue 3+ million certs.
That's 125,000 per hour.
2,083 per minute.
34 👏 every 👏 second 👏
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virtual reality
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the people who kept telling us that movie piracy is a serious crime don't actually seem all that interested in paying people for making movies.
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Thinking of starting a mastodon instance for myself and for past and current patreon supporter, where I could develop more fediverse projects I want to create.
Is that something that you would be interested in?
(and of course bird.makeup would never get banned on it)
@infosecdj @xabean wrote a thing this week about that and more: https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/faq-opt-out.md
English is a second language to me, feedback on the writing is always appreciated!
Many new people on the fediverse this week, and thus many discovering bird.makeup for the first time!
I wrote a thing this week in response to all the questions I got asked, about why (surprisingly) opt-outs would be counter-productive, and other stuff:
https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/faq-opt-out.md
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Dang, a tornado warning for Montreal. That's a first.
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Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/godot-engine-has-a-new-funding-platform-and-theyre-calling-for-help/ #Godot #GodotEngine #FOSS #OpenSource #GameDev
First thing I wanted to explore is porting the twitter algo to the fediverse: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
(And all experiments would be opt-in, so your experience can stay vanilla mastodon if that is what you wish)
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
