Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

It's going to get scary.

[Credit to the TLDR newsletter]

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University were able to create full-body images of subjects using simple Wi-Fi routers. The technology could revolutionize healthcare, security, gaming, imaging, and many other industries. However, it could present many privacy issues as the technology can monitor people's movements through walls without their knowledge or consent. The technique involves analyzing the amplitude and phase of Wi-Fi signals to find interference and then using AI algorithms to produce an image."

@Aetous @gamingonlinux This is a common refrain but not entirely true. Yes, you can technically achieve record-keeping with a low-cost database transaction. But that misses the entire point of Blockchain. It's not a 'better database'. It brings singularity, security, built-in integrity, decentralization, and (when done right) independence of the product and data from the originating developer.

Apropos.

#canada
#alcohol
#drinking
#beer

It's interesting to me to see how far Starbucks has aesthetically fallen (or perhaps deliberately changed) from premium cafe in the 90s and early 2000s to something that is only a colour scheme away from Dairy Queen or Burger King in both atmosphere and product line.

I just heard Sinead O'Connor's "Take Me to Church" for the first time and it's really good. No idea how I missed that one. #NowPlaying

Every. Single. Day. I am these judges and the performers are the world around me.

https://v16-webapp-prime.tiktok.com/video/tos/useast2a/tos-useast2a-pve-0068/oQIWowSjfI23XyngCKge3ccwQbvwHeDCngna5A/?a=1988&ch=0&cr=0&dr=0&lr=tiktok_m&cd=0%7C0%7C1%7C0&cv=1&br=1074&bt=537&cs=0&ds=3&ft=4fUEKMMD8Zmo01fm464jVN~pDpWrKsdm&mime_type=video_mp4&qs=0&rc=Nzc2OmVmOGU8aDs6NGhoZEBpM3U0dmc6Znl1aDMzNzczM0AtXi0uXzJeNTAxXzReXy4xYSNwLXMycjRnbXBgLS1kMTZzcw%3D%3D&btag=80000&expire=1674263468&l=202301201909447937D7867E71948B5476&ply_type=2&policy=2&signature=e1e706ca2cbe6e0bd7d93779429af0a4&tk=tt_chain_token

@mattdagley Sinkhole?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr80fCVvgQM

@gamingonlinux There is an entire market for them which would beg to differ. But setting aside NFTs (the low-hanging fruit of Blockchain applications), the Blockchain tech itself could have some really interesting applications for gaming. I am particularly interested in the idea of in-game permanence and long-term tracking of a players impact on a living world.

#Halifax nurses, is it true that you have no access to free coffee at your workplace?

#NovaScotia

We need activists in the same way we need rainy days. They serve a valuable purpose and sometimes, if they're warm enough, you might even be able to appreciate them.

@MetalheadDana It's honestly a fascinating and nuanced subject to me. There is a cultural divide in the workplace between those like yourself and those who, conversely, need / want to introduce positive social dynamics into their work life.

I really don't like ReactJS. It might be the best we have but that's not great. It feels like stacks and stacks of hacks to compensate for poorly planned architecture decisions -- a lot like JavaScript really. #programmming #webdev #shotsfired

I once worked for a company that had a Hawaiian Shirt Day completely unironically, as though none of them had ever even seen Office Space.

#work
#culture

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-right-not-to-be-fun-at-work

"In a win for workplace dignity, a French high court recently decreed that businesses cannot force their employees to participate in supposedly enjoyable activities."

Power to the People?...