Nina "Erina" Satragno
@satragno.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Kitchener, ON 💫 Rosalina & Luma / Palutena player 👩🏻💻 Sr. software engineer at Google 🔑 Passkeys at Chrome 🌐 https://satragno.com/blog I go by "Erina" on steam and ssbu.
Why do all French people sprinkle some words of French whenever they're speaking English though? 🤔🤔🤔
I'm sitting at a restaurant alone, next table is a French, Chinese, and an Indian guy discussing which cuisine is better. Incredible unintentional entertainment.
Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.
Why you can’t just ban gerrymandering
Fair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones.
leedrutman.substack.com
Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.
if your threat model includes hardware backdoors and the nsa you are definitionally outside the scope of webauthn
Exciting news! The Authentication Experience team at Apple, which brings you the Passwords app, passkeys, AutoFill of codes from Messages and such, and a lot more, is hiring a software engineer! [1/2] jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
Software Engineer, Authentication Experience - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Software Engineer, Authentication Experience job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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I rendered Bad Apple!! on TIS-100. This was a fun long weekend project, and I got to learn about some of the internals of one of my favourite puzzle games! #zachtronics #badapple #touhou youtu.be/N3JwU-Kvqpo
Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100
YouTube video by Nina Satragno
youtu.be
I rendered Bad Apple!! on TIS-100. This was a fun long weekend project, and I got to learn about some of the internals of one of my favourite puzzle games! #zachtronics #badapple #touhou youtu.be/N3JwU-Kvqpo
Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100
YouTube video by Nina Satragno
youtu.be
The biggest joy in computer science is rediscovering a family of algorithms and some of its variants, then learning there's a corpus of literature on them.
i still can't get over microsoft saying copilot is for entertainment purposes only it's just so funny
Incredible moment to have chosen to be Canadian 🇨🇦 #artemis
LLMs are the single worst thing to happen to my productivity since I've been paid to build software.
The more nerds (I identify as a nerd!) complain about passkeys, the more I’m confident in their success. Just read a comment objecting to a passkey being automatically created for them. “Dark pattern!!1!1 Should be optional!!” No regular user wants to think about auth.
for the official record, with Sam Stephenson’s contribution — we’ve fully resolved this matter over on Mastodon: indieweb.social/@sstephenson...
Sam Stephenson (@sstephenson@indieweb.social)
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indieweb.social
I got some business cards with braille on them on top of the regular print. Since I can't read them, somebody suggested using Gemini to verify the text. Gemini said there it was "a beautiful poem", and hallucinated third rate poetry. (I ended up looking a braille table and yes, they were fine.)
I got bit by the #homeautomation bug and see projects in every room of my house. So far I think I've managed to keep everything to actual quality of life improvements rather than doing it for technology's sake, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it's been fun.
28/ The moral of this story, to me, is that western neocons and leftists are both extremely problematic. They are moralistic and condescending, all thinking they know what is best for people and countries they don’t know anything about.
Computerphile has a video on passkeys! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfi...
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
YouTube video by Computerphile
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Lit HTML v3 is delightfully simple. I'm starting to like it a lot for chromium's webui.
A fantastic piece by @theglobeandmail.com on thalidomide survivors in Canada, and how a special government pension massively improved their lives. These stories are why I'm subscribed to it. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7884f29... (Gift article should be good for 20 people.)
Thalidomide survivors look back at 10 years of a more dignified life
A dangerous drug gave them a lifetime of disabilities. Hard-won compensation has made difficult days easier and more joyful – but some feel the 2015 support program still falls short
theglobeandmail.com
The panini press is such an underrated piece of kitchen equipment. So cheap I even had one growing up, and it can turn leftovers into delicious sandwiches.