Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

⚠️ 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!

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#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.

🍄 Missed your jump over the mushroom?

🔫 Splatted next to your target?

🚧 Drifted your kart outside the track?

This shall happen no more!

We contacted Nintendo to address the recurring problem with defective Switch controllers and they agreed to offer all consumers the right to repair, free of charge, even beyond the legal guarantee!

This will prevent the disposal of unrepaired controllers and unnecessary waste.

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

Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

It's amusing to me that star trek imagined a world where an AI faces social rejection because he's rational, fact based, literal, fiercely/dogmatically moral, and struggles with social nuance. But here in reality we invented AIs that have no concept of truth, give zero fucks about accuracy, have no rationality, and can't do math, but match vibes and tone nearly perfectly.

The first artificial person will not be an autistic science officer. It'll be an extremely allistic salesbro or politician.