@OpticSwerve

Web/WebVR developer. I'm primarily on Mastodon, https://xitter.cf/t.co/AvBzmcS042

Joined August 2009
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In France ChatGPT is pronounced the same as 'Chat, j'ai pété' which means 'Cat, I have farted'. Which seems to sum the whole thing up pretty neatly.
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The Oatmeal
@Oatmeal20 Nov 2022
Rise again
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WIRED
@WIRED22 Aug 2020
A cartoon by Ellis Rosen, with @CollectCartoons wired.trib.al/wJknzK5
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Zaki Hasan@zakiscorner28 Jul 2020
I realize the irony of saying this on social media, but seriously, social media was a mistake. Human beings just weren’t ready. We possess neither the intellectual nor emotional maturity to navigate it properly, and the entire human experiment hangs in the balance as a result.
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its fun living in a world where all politics is built around catering to or fighting against several million racist aunts and uncles who got a facebook account but never learned how to tell if a news story is from an unreliable source
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"the Facebook mobile app harvests and packages eight different categories of information for use by over 100 different telecom companies in over 50 different countries around the world" 🤮 theintercept.com/2019/05/20/…
'The only explanation for why most of us are still members is Stockholm Syndrome' - @kashhill, reporting on her break from Facebook. The condition's legitimacy is contested, but if valid it is likely the largest suffering population ever recorded. gizmodo.com/i-cut-facebook-o…
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Come on Twitter, this should be an official option! realtwitter.com
Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edo21 Aug 2018
🔥 This is really cool- realtwitter.com - your timeline, chronological, in order, without any of the algorithm nonsense, retweets/likes, etc. YES.
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This took longer than I thought it would... burger buttons won't cut it :) xitter.cf/firt/status/1004518818…
Maximiliano Firtman
@firt7 Jun 2018
Apple Watch 3+ will have a browser on mails & links on Messages −width:320 with initial-scale: 0.49 ➡ webs/PWAs rendered as iPhone SE but smaller −real viewport with new meta tag −JS & Forms available −No Service Workers or video playing −Reader mode with Semantic HTML
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Fabrizio Goria@FGoria24 Mar 2018
Life after Cambridge Analytica
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#DXR #Raytracing #dankmemes
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💩💩💩! xitter.cf/AmbrgeAnalytica/status…
Ambridge Analytica@AmbAnalytica20 Mar 2018
Absolutely shat ourselves this morning when we read the @guardian. Luckily no-one cares about farmer data! #CambridgeAnalyticaUSA #CambridgeAnalytica
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Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/ma… by @linclark

Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks - the...

People call WebAssembly a game changer because it makes it possible to run code on the web faster. Some speedups are already present, and some are yet to come. With ...

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"For instance, users who use web applications that involve complex JavaScript operations may see a somewhat higher impact (up to 10 percent based on our initial measurements)." - Intel on Spectre/Meltdown. engadget.com/2018/01/11/inte…

Intel reveals possible slowdowns from 'Meltdown' processor fix - Engadget

Your personal computers will be less than 10 percent slower after you install the Spectre/Meltdown fix, Intel has revealed in a blog post. Intel has come to that conclusion after assessing the...

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Paul Irish
@paul_irish3 Jan 2018
The font-display CSS property always throws me for a loop. @notwaldorf's explainer and demo is SO GOOD: font-display.glitch.me/
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Using SVG low poly as image placeholders while they load, a really cool idea medium.com/@jmperezperez/usi…
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