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MrBerard

@MrBerard@pilote.me

"Vell, Vill iz just zis guy, you know?"

#French-Born #London-Based Emeritus #Software Engineer and Chartered #Computing #Teacher (Secondary)

Evaluating tootfinder.ch (I'm on a micro-instance!)

I tread on toes and push buttons.

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MrBerard, to random
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I just realised a no fault divorce, in French, is called a 'shared fault divorce'. And the more I think about it, the more it's totally on brand.

MrBerard,
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@Cassandra

"Divorce aux torts partagés" is the French Code Civil term.

I should have said in France rather than French, it's jurisdiction specific, obvs.

MrBerard, to ADHD
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It's gonna be a fun month @actuallyadhd

MrBerard,
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@dillonsaleh @actuallyadhd

It is, that's how I 've found out !

MrBerard,
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@dillonsaleh @actuallyadhd it is, that's how I became aware, and indeed affected, by this issue.

Mer__edith, to random
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The threat to e2ee is global & coordinated.

Australia's considering new tech regs. Australia's AG committed to protecting privacy. But their eSafety Commissioner is rejecting draft language because it doesn't enable mass scanning & backdoors.

This needs way more attention👇

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-letter-australia-encryption-online-safety-codes/

MrBerard,
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@Mer__edith

"The coming Cyberpunk Dystopia is now in open beta. Sign up now!"

Daojoan, to random
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We are blessed and highly favoured ✨

MrBerard,
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@Daojoan

Daojoan, to random
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You either die a hero, or you live long enough to rebrand with a sans serif logo

MrBerard,
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@realsimon @Daojoan

Cursive is falling out of fashion, so are serif fonts (only relevant to printing presses), so the eye of their customers parses plain boring sans serifs font more easily?

MrBerard, to random
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Charlie and the Free Speech Factory

MrBerard, to random
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Turns out most buildings contain much fewer red explosive barrels as video games had led me to expect.

GreatDismal, to random
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Haven’t been here for a while, but hope to be here more frequently. A good friend has offered to help me with some aspects of the mechanics of the place that puzzled me earlier.

MrBerard,
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@KathyReid @GreatDismal

That's how much we worship you, Sir, you also get the credit for Neal Stephenson's character...

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. -- W.S. Anglin

MrBerard,
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@ColinTheMathmo

And then they send you paddling up the river looking for Mr. Kurtz Gödel.

hannah, to random
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Learning about cpu architecture

MrBerard,
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@aeva @hannah
This is brill, but your autocorrect betrayed you.

MrBerard,
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@aeva @hannah

I was going to show this to my students, but if it weren't for an American friend and a dvd boxset, I wouldn't have understood the reference, so what hope do they have.

MrBerard, to Facebook
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Do you remember that one time when someone uploaded a of Mark to to prove a point about , but people immediately saw it wasn't real because the facial expressions looked too human for Zuck?

MrBerard, to python
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anildash, to random
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A key thing to understand about the technology industry is that Hacker News is a very well-known community for some kinds of coders to hang out; it is an extremist content site run as paid promotion for the venture capital firm YCombinator. Here, an ordinary discussion of the obvious reality that tech workers deserve unions features responses citing explicitly white supremacist rhetoric as a counterargument. No one is even surprised that this is how YC markets itself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507458

MrBerard,
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@anildash
What am I looking for in this long thread? What's the ctrl-f for white supremacy?

MrBerard, to memes
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MrBerard, to scifi
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Through the ebb and flow of the algorithmic tides, a snipped of (a lovely bit of Dick) I posted nine months ago is blowing up in the 'Tubes:
https://youtu.be/zPAiTyBcHTw

Private
MrBerard,
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@RuthFlaherty @edutooters

I'm counting this as an invitation, albeit not by the resident, but it's a tough one.

Jake_Vig, to random

This apocalypse is taking FOREVER

MrBerard,
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@Jake_Vig

This apocalypse could have been an email.

tract_linguistes, to random French

Pas de lien entre orthographe et intelligence.

(C'est même étonnant qu'on se pose encore la question)

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/140723/trop-de-fautes-au-bac-il-n-y-pas-de-lien-entre-l-orthographe-et-l-intelligence

MrBerard,
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@tract_linguistes

Look @mansuetus , they're playing our song.

MrBerard, to memes
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MrBerard, to random
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ColinTheMathmo, to random
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Be sure to use odorless paint-thinner. -- Bob Ross

MrBerard,
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@ColinTheMathmo

...give it another huff, just to be sure...

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