pete

Innovation alumni @centralesupelec.
I mostly retweet stuff about #tech & #crypto.
Fan of GITS, laughing man is the best

[Robinhood @RobinhoodApp]

Just announced: Robinhood Banking.

Let’s end the exclusivity. Private banking perks should be for everyone.

Coming soon to all customers.

Link to the announcement here: https://t.co/qfZVyUkEGI

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Fox News: 'Hearing for Julian Assange's possible final appeal is scheduled for Feb. 20 and 21 in London' #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/1FZ57Kj7GF

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: an incredible court record pulls back the curtain on a $30 million dollar underground Bitcoin exchange running for years in the heart of New York. Massive bags of cash, drive-by pickups. This is what real criminals use, not services like Coinbase https://t.co/XZVoHUtEpY

[pete @_jspete]

@lopp Anyway it’s a dead coin, people don’t use anymore dark market on TOR and transact via telegram and instant payments

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[pete @_jspete]

interesting attempt to massify the use of zero knowledge technologies but very skeptical about worldcoin tokenomics

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?

https://t.co/yozo1buW24

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?

https://t.co/yozo1buW24

[pete @_jspete]

Voici un pour un referral sur Paperspace, les VM sont top pour tester des librairies d'IA et ML
https://t.co/PRBadUyI6a

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most powerful tools of our time, but to seize its opportunities, we must first mitigate its risks.

Today, I dropped by a meeting with AI leaders to touch on the importance of innovating responsibly and protecting people's rights and safety.

[pete @_jspete]

SMS frauduleux et Imsi-catchers : les dessous d’une escroquerie dernier cri – Libération https://t.co/Qy1P6GNpPq

[pete @_jspete]

Difficile de faire tourner une marque de esport sans l’argent de VC, sponsors et avec des SPAC foireuses. Ce serait intéressant de voir si c’est la même situation pour Vitality
https://t.co/BW1lGzOZag

[pete @_jspete]

Unreal Engine 5.2 - Next-Gen Graphics Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2023 https://t.co/iRT50qhEUz via @YouTube

[pete @_jspete]

Too bad no new weapons

[CS2 @CounterStrike]

Location, location, location. Maps in Counter-Strike are core to the game, and maps in Counter-Strike 2 are being improved in every way:

[pete @_jspete]

https://t.co/yvtZkGTp4j
An overview of how fingerprinting works (cookie less tracking) and how to avoid being tracked even if using VPN or 'incognito mode' on the browser navigation

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Starting today our community can test Midjourney V5. It has much higher image quality, more diverse outputs, wider stylistic range, support for seamless textures, wider aspect ratios, better image prompting, wider dynamic range and more. Let’s explore!

[pete @_jspete]

Not gud

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Our Q4 and FY'22 financial results are in.

Our letter to shareholders can be found on the Investor Relations website at https://t.co/8ovHEtPRgf

[Pierre de Cossette @Pdecossette]

Imsi-catcher, voitures et faux SMS de l'assurance-maladie : l'incroyable escroquerie mise au jour par les gendarmes, la Pj parisienne et le parquet cyber : 5 suspects mis en examen. https://t.co/KMB1FUswm4

[dalmoz @dalmoz_]

Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
https://t.co/KQqfWo1BVG

[AI Breakfast @AiBreakfast]

🤯 Full body tracking now possible using only WiFi signals

A deep neural network maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions

The model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input

🧵

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Working on a professional version of ChatGPT; will offer higher limits & faster performance. If interested, please join our waitlist here: https://t.co/Eh87OViRie