masflam

software engineer with a penchant for cryptography | raps: @sharpen_rap

[masflam @masflam]

huskies are the best

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hot take: from what i've seen of it, i don't really like Jai that much

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@bikatr7 congrats!

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listening to people who don't know what a game is talk about game theory is funny

again, reasoning about the world without rigorous mathematical definitions just feels like wandering blind in the dark

[masflam @masflam]

@ChShersh try naming tree children left and rite, trust me you will not regret it

[masflam @masflam]

this $2B valuation actually makes more sense than 90% of all the AI startups combined

[shirish @shiri_shh]

Farmer pays $5–$8 per cow per month.

A New Zealand company puts a solar-powered smart collar on cows.

It tracks location 24/7, health, temperature, chewing activity, breeding.

Farmer just opens a simple app and draws a line on the map.
That line becomes the fence.

As cows approach the boundary, the collar beeps and vibrates.

With one tap, the whole herd moves to fresh grass or the milking shed.

No physical fences. Less labor. Huge cost savings for farmer.

Already on 700k cows across New Zealand, Australia, and the US.

and now in talks to raise at a $2B valuation led by Peter Thiel.

[masflam @masflam]

this happened before, i remember. US military bases were located by OSINTers scanning strava data

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck

[@lemondefr]

[masflam @masflam]

as an industry we have failed to provide regular people with office software that isn't complete dogshit

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+ it doesn't matter if you trust the author, if it's a website or a github link, those get hacked all the time.

and all it takes is one rm -rf ~ from a script kiddie and you're fucked

[masflam @masflam]

i hate these kinds of installers with a passion

yeah let's just download code and run it with zero verification whatsoever, that sounds like a great idea!!! add sudo for good measure

no checksums, no signatures, don't even save it to a file so that you know what you executed

[Dmitriy Kovalenko @neogoose_btw]

Let's just all agree that

curl -L <url>.sh | bash

is just the best way to install any software. It's not even worth to discuss. No one wants to use the shitty package manager especially linux users

just already make a script and make a dns redirect to github. That's all.

[masflam @masflam]

does this mean my armpits will be like 1/√2 |wet⟩ + 1/√2 |dry⟩ or what

[Lukáš Hozda @LukasHozda]

literally poles and us

[masflam @masflam]

huskies still rock

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huskies are the best

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@kuberdenis i couldnt help myself

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followers on linkedin is an antisignal

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wtf why is the train station suddenly czech

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needed to parse lambda calculus, ended up writing a parser combinator library

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wait but that means... regex

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

Why does my Greenlandic textbook have finite state automata bro I’m scared

[masflam @masflam]

i remember how Numberphile was a culture shock to me when i saw a 1•5 that meant 1.5 and x.y that meant multiplication

[Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain]

So we drill into children's heads that multiplication is ×, then a couple of years later we're like "welcome to algebra, we've got 26 letters to choose from, but we're choosing 𝑥 as the first symbol to use. good luck". It feels like the kind of trap FromSoft would come up with.

[masflam @masflam]

hyperagglutinative languages tickle my 'tisms lol

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

Why does my Greenlandic textbook have finite state automata bro I’m scared