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Christophe B.

@bladecoder.bsky.social

Freelance #Android apps craftsman, cinephile, music lover, traveler. Prefers posting on Mastodon: https://androiddev.social/@bladecoder

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ngrok@ngrok.com · 22h ago

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

Ingo Kegel@ingokegel.bsky.social · yesterday

1/ Java serialization sucks. That's why there are so many alternatives. There's a new kid on the block who claims to be much faster than anybody else. I was curious, so I put together a comparison of the top 5 Java serialization frameworks.

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Christophe B.@bladecoder.bsky.social · 6d ago

Building your own "Steam Machine" is now trendy. By chance I did this exactly one year ago when the Steam Machine was not announced yet and the prices of SSDs and RAM were still normal. My machine cost me the same price as the base model from Valve, with more power and double the memory.

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options Save Copy link to post Embed this post Unfollow [person] Not interested Seems like AI slop Report post
Nicolas Hervieu@nicolas.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Incroyable photo face au Cap Ferret en flammes... En 2026, le mème « This is fine » prend vie. (𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝐹𝑃 - 𝑀𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝐿𝑎𝑚𝑦)

En haut : Photo de deux estivants dans des transats sur la plage et sous un parasol Pastis 51, regardant l'horizon du Cap Ferret saturé par les fumées de l'incendie En bas : Mème du chien dans une pièce en flamme "This is fine"
Christophe B.@bladecoder.bsky.social · 3w ago

The YouTube Android app is so broken now that when you switch your phone theme between light and dark the text of the app doesn't change color and becomes illegible. 🤦‍♂️ I'm seriously wondering if there is any human left working on this app.

Christophe B.@bladecoder.bsky.social · 4w ago

Handling daylight saving time and timezone changes is already a hard enough problem in computer science, and now in addition to positive leap seconds we also have to deal with negative leap seconds because the earth stopped slowing down and started spinning faster?! www.techtimes.com/articles/320...

Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second

Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a 30...

techtimes.com

dame@dame.is · last mo.

IMPORTANT PRIVACY PSA: YouTube has foolishly rolled out a new “feature” that will dox you or compromise your privacy without you knowing! When you tap the share button on a video and send a link now, anyone opening that link will see your channel name, handle, and avatar! Enabled by default. 🫪

YouTube share notification showing a red circular avatar at top, with text "Sent by" followed by redacted channel name and handle. Two buttons below: "Allow messaging" (white) and "Not now" (dark). Bottom text reads "Allowing as @" with redacted handle. The image demonstrates YouTube's new feature that exposes user channel information when sharing video links.YouTube Privacy settings screen with a red-bordered section highlighting "Channel visibility for shared links" toggle (currently off). The setting states: "Show your channel name, handle, and profile picture to people who open links you share outside YouTube." Other visible options include "About your location," "Blocked contacts," "YouTube Terms of Service," and "Allow users to mention me" toggle (also off).
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

science.org

David Rothschild@davmicrot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Christophe B.@bladecoder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My neighbors put a flyer in my mailbox promoting an upcoming local barbecue event, featuring a prominent ugly AI-generated image. It shows people with shortened limbs and distorted faces and the meat on the barbecue looks like it comes straight out of a Cronenberg movie. I feel slightly threatened.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

wired.com