Austen Barker

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Computer science PhD specializing in security, steganographic storage, and systems. Aficionado of antiquated technology.
@dev Gotta get a lot of folks in a room to nod approvingly at a report.
@dev wait, there is a coffee truck now?
@palvaro Always gotta have a round chambered and pointed at the femoral artery, you never know when you'll have to quickly draw and fight off their own insecurities.

@irene The "tacticool" toot makes sense for the sort of fragile ego that sees the need to affirm their masculinity to internet strangers.

The "venture capital" one is just oddly specific. I am not sure what to make of it other than throwing up in my mouth a little at the cringey silicon valley-ism of it all.

@irene I am confused and concerned by "Toots for Men".
One benefit of mastodon over twitter, it allows you to use gifs as avatars.
@adrian Das Blinklights
@dan @emichael It is a scary world when folks consider things like steering wheels falling off normal. I also get annoyed by the cars not having clear manual overrides for things like door handles or putting it in neutral. With a Tesla you can get locked out for a multitude of reasons.
@dan @emichael I've been working on convincing folks in my family to not buy one. Especially with other automakers in the game now. While the battery and motor tech is good, there is good reason to believe that the programming surrounding it all doesn't quite pass muster and the quality control in some cases is worse than a Nissan Versa (one of the cheapest cars you can buy).
@dev In all honesty the restaurants and bars thing was mostly COVID. That said we probably won't get a decent pub with some character (other than modern "trendy" bullshit) for a while.