Francisco 💚 🧡

Computer science | Security Specialist

[your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 @davidgerard]

BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity

"Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid

[Guido Meijer @guido_meijer]

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!

A thread 🧵👇

[Sarah Silverman @SarahKSilverman]

Oh crap

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

“We are selling @googlecloud customer data to @squarespace without their affirmative consent” is a trust breach from which there is no coming back.

[Ben Lang @benz145]

To the ‘friction in VR isn’t a big deal’ crowd, I’d like to point out that social media video apps have adopted portrait video because people don’t want to rotate their phones to watch in landscape. Next time you think ‘5 minutes of setup isn’t a big deal’, just remember that.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Me: I live in a world where people think we should kill other people who annoy us
Hobbes: On no. Sounds like you live in the State of Nature. The solution to that is authoritarianism.
Me: You say that, but in my world the authoritarians ALSO support vigilante justice
Hobbes: Wut?

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

The year 2028, Microsoft stops writing error handling code and delegates to "ErrorGPT."

"Hey Sasha, this is your computer, DESKTOP-4UOL86. I'm gonna be real wit ya, shit's fucked in here. Yeah you're not coming back from this without a reboot. Just nod if you understand."

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

When you're the last stop on the team for getting obscure Windows stuff to work

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

X : You seem negative about ChatGPT and its impact.
Me : Quite the opposite. ChatGPT is not a thinking machine but it's a very good stochastic parrot. That has huge potential.
X : Such as?
Me : Management consultants, executives, thought leaders, marketing, lobbyists etc etc.

[Alexander Kruel @XiXiDu]

Your frequent reminder that the world could have defeated climate change in the 1980s if all industrialized nations had followed France's lead.

[Jamie Kyle is on 🦋 @buildsghost]

Tech salaries are not inflated, they are middle class. This is just the actual cost of living, but you’ve accepted/ignored that other careers have been pushed out of the middle class

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

One of the most depressing things I learned in archaeology class was the fact that they’re having trouble rebuilding Notre-Dame Cathedral partly because many of the planks and wood came from trees that literally no longer grow that big any more.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Once you understand, "none of this shit should fucking work" in the first place, you become a better troubleshooter.

[Colm O'Regan @colmoregan]

In a tournament costing a quarter of a trillion, designed to rehabilitate a dictatorship, with every move PR-optimised & choreographed, the fact that one enduring image of the whole thing will be a goalkeeper pretending a golden glove statue is his willy will never not be funny.

[boz @bloggingsbyboz]

I've heard some people on Twitter aren't happy with the basic left vs right map for Latin America and want more nuance. So here's a first draft with more nuance.

If you don't like it, don't complain. Make a better one.

[whalefact @awhalefact]

this came to me in a fever dream

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

tech workers choosing a hobby

[Happy Researchers @hapyresearchers]

Undergrad --> PhD --> Postdoc --> PI --> bakery shop owner

Who else is thinking of this academic path?