Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Zynga's VP of player success details how the company uses gambling industry tactics to maximize the money it gets from its biggest spenders | This Week in Business

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/how-does-zynga-hunt-for-whales-this-week-in-business

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#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons

A lot of time and effort is being spent on critiquing the current output of AI.

AI now is the worst it will ever be again. It will get exponentially better very fast.

We should be talking about what happens then.

The Great Flowering: Why OpenAI is the new AWS and the New Kingmakers still matter. https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/04/13/the-great-flowering-why-openai-is-the-new-aws-and-the-new-kingmakers-still-matter/ by @monkchips
#chatGPT #LLM #AWS #developer

Ingenuity perseveres.

Our #MarsHelicopter just flew its 50th flight on the Red Planet (out of a planned five), nearly two years after it first took to the Martian skies. This demo is giving a glimpse of the future of powered flight on other worlds. https://mars.nasa.gov/ingenuity

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

Really bummed that HBO Max didn't rebrand to:

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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.

🍄 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/