How am I supposed to get any work done in these conditions

guess who zoomed through a paper bag, ripped the handle, and got stuck with it around his neck for a solid half-hour afterwards #catsofmastodon

Absolute joy — I'm collaborating on a whitepaper with a client and they use @typst 🌈

Au cas où ça puisse aider quelqu'un à gagner 30 secondes : rentrer deux noms de ville dans le champ unique de SNCF-Connect est correctement interprété (e.g. "Lyon Paris" est bien transformé en "trains de Lyon vers Paris").

Over the past year, I've had the honor to work with the European Commission to help them understand Google's (terrible) approach to sharing anonymised search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act, and design an alternative solution that preserves more utility. [1/3]

Extremely agree with these points from Edwige Cyffers about large privacy budgets in DP

he's not sure what he's been busted for, but he's definitely been busted

Je découvre l'astuce de mettre plusieurs ingrédients ayant la même base dans un gâteau pour rendre les saveurs plus complexes et enthousiasmantes 👀 Exemple dans cette nouvelle recette : gâteau coco, coco, et coco 🥥 https://desfontain.es/recettes/gateau-coco.html

Gâteau coco, coco et coco - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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we've started exploring the world with Shoyu #catsofmastodon

Today is the one-year anniversary of Hiding Nemo, my independent consultancy 🎉 I wrote a blog post about how it's been going so far (tl;dr: pretty good!) ️➡️ https://desfontain.es/blog/one-year-hiding-nemo.html ✨

One year of Hiding Nemo - Ted is writing things

Taking stock after one year doing independent consulting on privacy-enhancing technology.

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One skill I do not have yet: making cake icing that looks pretty. How do y'all do it?

Information importante : la citronnelle fraîche ça change absolument tout. Hop une recette de poulet super simple, rapide, et absurdement délicieuse 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/poulet-a-la-citronnelle.html

Poulet à la citronnelle - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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After 2 weeks of unsuccessfully searching for my lost crochet bag, I've bitten the bullet and bought new yarn & needles, and restarted the project I had already poured dozens of hours into. Press F

adventure! #catsofmastodon

Il fait chaud, voici donc une version moderne de tarte au citron, fraîche et acidulée et enthousiasmante 🍋 https://desfontain.es/recettes/tarte-au-citron-moderne.html

Tarte au citron (moderne) - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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i don't know if they're more cute when they're playing or when they're sleepy #cats

So, I just adopted these two little criminals. Say hello to Miso & Shoyu! And prepare yourselves for way too many kitten pictures in the coming months 👀

Huh. Hacker News #1. I think that's a first!

Par ailleurs si les flux RSS c'est pas votre truc mais que vous voulez facilement voir quelles recettes j'ai publié sur mon site depuis votre dernière visite, j'ai ajouté une page qui les liste par ordre chronologique : https://desfontain.es/recettes/archives.html ✨

Un peu plus d'amour printanier sous la forme de haricots à la mode de Sichuan qui picotent et chatouillent tes papilles : https://desfontain.es/recettes/haricots-verts-grilles-sichuanais.html

Haricots verts grillés sichuanais - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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Une nouvelle recette printanière, facile et fort sympathique avant que l'été soit là pour de bon: https://desfontain.es/recettes/salade-patates-asperges-lentilles.html

Salade de patates, asperges, et lentilles - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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Mapo tofu, fait hier soir, une vraie tuerie (un peu trop épicée pour certains convives, mais ça se corrige). Nécessite un wok et plusieurs ingrédients asiatiques un peu obscurs, mais le jeu en vaut carrément la chandelle 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/mapo-tofu.html

Mapo tofu - Les bonnes recettes de Ted

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Je commence à me sentir à l'aise avec la cuisine au wok ✨ Deux recettes qui sont devenues des classiques chez moi : nouilles udon sautées aux champignons, et riz frit au kimchi 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/nouilles-udon-sautees-aux-champignons.html […]

Well, tonight may have been a once-in-a-lifetime blitz chess session. 15 victories in a row! I think my previous record was 10 or 11 😮

I commissionned a new logo for my consultancy ✨ Done by Taylor Joy from invisiblecity.online. I loved working with her and would recommend her in a heartbeat 🧡

current status (warning: loud)

Fourth #crochet project: a Sophie's scarf! I learned that spending hours doing single crochet on 4mm yarn is not my favorite thing 🙃 I also learned how to block a finished piece, and that was kind of scary but pretty magical ✨

✨ New guest blog post ✨ by Bogdan Kulynych on how to report differential privacy guarantees for ML deployments, explaining the relationship between DP definitions and attacker success along the way: https://desfontain.es/blog/reporting-privacy-guarantees-in-machine-learning.html 🌈

Guest post: Goodbye (ε,δ), hello μ! Reporting privacy guarantees in machine learning - Ted is writing things

Why is Gaussian DP a much better compact representation of privacy guarantees than (ε,δ)-DP.

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first amigurumi project: this little cat #crochet #amigurumi

my spring rolls didn't look like what I envisioned, but my vietnamese friend said they were just as good as the ones her mom makes, so I'm just going to ride that high for the next 2-3 weeks