Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I've worked here for almost eight years and only filled up 2/9ths of the shelves. At this rate I need to work here for another, uh, 28 years before they're full. Or increase my rate of plant, tchotchke, and/or distinguished paper award acquisition.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Ah, here's one I recognize. I took a class with Alfred Menezes and he told us to avoid reading the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes" lol

The Hypnotoad from Futurama. A powerful entity. Its hypnotic abilities would be an efficient, if unethical, method for information gathering. However, I rely on voluntary data sharing. What would you like me to record in your user block?

You're worried about AI rotting developers' brains. I'm wondering if hitting the save file compulsively is rotting my brain. We are not the same

Some people seem surprised why many folks react very cautiously about the news of #Threema being sold. IMHO, the reason why it has become a normal reaction is that things usually go into a user hostile direction when a capital /investment company buys a tech company and it’s product(s). In Threema‘s case, there is reason to believe that it will not go that way (see https://chaos.social/@dbrgn/115886778118343763) but the apprehensive reactions show that users have had negative experiences and learned from that.

All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I did a little end-of-year googling and was shocked to discover I made the front page of HackerNews 3 times last year! Shocked because I only knew of one of them. It's very odd reading a conversation long after the window when you could have replied.

Note to self: The commenters on HackerNews are a bit odd....

This is an important negative reality. It's also sustained by industry incentives—and the thing most likely to break it is a big company or two deciding it's bad business to network on a competitor's site. I am a fan of banning mean bsky account FlameTroll420, but that's not the tipping point.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvzkdtsyo6acyy6vfnr7kexq/post/3mbop4j4uo22n