Julien Deswaef @judeswae@toot.thoughtworks.com

hey all, here's a new computer thing I made! it's called the Nonsense Laboratory, and it's a series of weird little tools for manipulating the spelling and sound of words with machine learning: https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nonsense-laboratory/

it's part of a series of projects launched yesterday showing the outcomes of the Artists + Machine Intelligence grant program, which you can learn more about here: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ami-grants

da vinci bridge...

#leonardodavinci #bridge #animatedgif

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"fixed vulnerabilities were once created"
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/30/fixed-vulnerabilities-were-once-created/ - about data, graphs and vulnerabilities in curl

TIL: `keepassxc-cli generate`

#meme #DeltaChat #WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal

“Chaos never goes out of style.”

Try opening a Microsoft e-book. It breaks because they closed the DRM servers.

The books stopped working.

PS3? Wii? Same story.

The only way to get the same freedom and privacy with digital media we had with physical media, is piracy.

We got scammed.

https://nofilmschool.com/apple-movie-buys

mastodon dev considering to switch away from 'toot' because it is not serious enough. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080

Quite some interesting back and forth 🍿 for example the fact that the origin of toot lies in that eugen got challenged by hbomberguy to use it in return for patreon support lol

Although I always found it a slightly cringey word, I do think it adds much to the culture, lore and attitude of the project. I honestly think the slight cringe is way nicer than going the route of generic-acceptable-open-source-aesthetic like NC, Mattermost etc which are just so profoundly bland and un-fun? Would be sad if Mastodon becoming enterprise ready means it loses its own (visual) language.

Queer Connections by Faith Holland looks at the anthropomorphized interaction of technology with itself in the forms of photography and sculpture. The project plays with the ‘male/female’ nomenclature of wire ends by creating daisy chains of wires that are not meant to be connected. The connections are solidified by nail polish, making each connection both messy and feminized.

https://www.faithholland.com/portfolio_page/queer-connections

#queer #tech #art

#poll 🗳️ There's been a passionate discussion recently of whether #Mastodon should ditch the term 'Toot' and change it to 'Post'.

Which side of the fence are you on? #TootVsPost

Facebook suffers a data breach about how it’s hoping to stop the media talking about its last data breach.

https://grahamcluley.com/facebook-suffers-a-data-breach-about-how-its-hoping-to-stop-the-media-talking-about-its-last-data-breach/