Adam Beer

@adambyte@dragonscave.space
56 Followers
139 Following
84 Posts

I went to college for software development. I'm a fan of science, music, video games, libre software, and urban planning.

I picked this instance because it runs the Glitch fork of Mastodon, it blocks Threads, its stated subject matter focus lines up fairly well with my interests, and it gets an A+ on https://cryptcheck.fr.

Avatar description: a tech-nerd-coded young White man in a minimalistic cartoony style. Image designed by Freepik on flaticon.com.

Formerly @adambyte.

PronounsHe/him
LocationCanada

"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.

Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.

"The More You Know..."

Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z

@lowqualityfacts

Sharks are the only thing you can describe as "Great White" without sounding insanely racist.

Canada is occasionally called, "The Great White North" (the colour is a reference to snow).

@MLNow I always assumed that being called, "legal tender," automatically meant every business was required to accept it. This is fucked up.

"The root cause of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities was that processor architects were trying to build not just fast processors, but fast processors that expose the same abstract machine as a PDP-11."

C Is Not a Low-level Language: https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3212477.3212479

by @david_chisnall

@timb_machine I…wait…Is the "vulnerability" the fact that Markdown files can contain links? Because that's what it looks like to me.
@FirewallDragons I mean, recommendation algorithms that aren't fully manually crafted by the user should just be illegal, but this would be almost as good.

@gregkh

👉 "a handpicked group of non-commercial Open Source maintainers"

👉 looks inside

👉 "What is your company's full, legal name?"

Great job, guys. 🤦

@catsalad Wait, WTF is the black one supposed to be used for? 🤨
@fkamiah17 The sign should've read, "Blood Money." A blood bank is where donated blood is stored, and so the phrase has connotations of kindness and hope.

RE: https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/115630488805636323

Is your ambitious plan to make more Long Covid and sabotage the economy by weakening your work force? Because that’s what you’re going to get.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/news/2026/02/public-services-and-procurement-canada-statement-on-increased-office-presence.html