Remi Despres-Smyth (@remids) profile picture

Tired of Twitter's drama and direction. If you're looking for me, I'll be at https://xitter.gq/t.co/19R1qDKMxT moving forward. This account is sleeping.

Canada
Joined September 2008
Photo by Remi Despres-Smyth (@remids)
I'm now @remids on post.news. I'm seeing people I follow here slowly trickle there; when enough people are on that I've got a reasonable feed going, I'll be dropping this account. (Not deleting it, just not coming back.)
Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
Trying to break into cybersecurity? There are dozens of defensive security positions available for every "offensive security" position. Think pentesting sounds cool? You're not alone. There's less competition, especially at entry level, in other areas of security. 1/3
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Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
Whenever I get too hard on myself for a massive production mistake, I remember that one of the founders and CEO (at the time) of GitHub dropped the production database. Twice. 😂 We all make mistakes. Learn and move on.
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On the waitlist for post.news/?r=K5wpX. Like their vision, think I'll head over there once I get an account. Mastodon sounds like more effort than I care to put into a social media account.
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As inoffensive as I try to be up here, looks like I've got my first Mute 🤷
Something to be wary of moving forward: As currently conceived, blue checkmarks will no longer confirm identity.
Replying to @ariehkovler
Want to call yourself Citibank Password Verification? Here's your blue tick, thanks for the $8. Want to say you're the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and announce you're abolishing the police? $8. Call yourself WXBM Local News Arkansas and invent a school shooting? Yours for $8
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Dear @Hootsuite_Help - I've seen your updated policies pop-up and accepted it some 20-odd times in the past few days. Can we stop beating me over the head with it? Thanks.
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Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
You and me, both.
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TIL to truncate in t-sql you use the ROUND function.
Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
🧵 To the few of us remaining who are still ‘alive’ to the UTTERLY traumatic, dystopian landscape we now dwell in. I’d like to say this to you my love, as a psychotherapist who specialises in treating trauma (amongst other areas). You cannot ‘do it all at once’🙏🏾❤️ Pace yourself.
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The beautiful moment when a programmer learns about floating point error and must grapple with the horrifying truth that computers can't even do math right
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Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he spoke at WWDC. An audience member insulted him. Here’s how he responded:
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Today the global community of technologists sent a letter to Congress urging them to resist the crypto industry’s lobbying influence. The letter was signed by some of the most respected scholars and technologists in our field. And now we need your help. 🧵 ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057…
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Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.
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Plenty of tutorials *how* to do something, few discussions of *why* you'd do it, what problems it solves, if it's a good idea 🫤
Remi Despres-Smyth retweeted
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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