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Recently defended PhD. Applying numerical optimization, simulation, and quantum computing to make things faster.
@da_667 Stop threatening us with a good time

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

@jwz Did my part. Also told them to not screw up Thunderbird since the email client ecosystem is just as broken.
looks like kde is alright
thanks @cybersqyd for pointing this out
Do you have an Apple device with Liquid Glass, and do you like it?
have a Liquid Glass device, don’t like it
27.8%
have a Liquid Glass device, like it
26.1%
don’t have a Liquid Glass device, don’t like it
42.6%
don’t have a Liquid Glass device, like it
3.5%
Poll ended at .

As someone with a PhD, I got to say that you guys are really overestimating what "PhD level intelligence" is...

It's just regular intelligence overapplied to a weirdly niche subject.

#academicChatter

@ubi I feel like the only thing that really made me any different getting my PhD is the amount of crap I was willing to stubbornly put myself though.

🚀🤘Introducing Psylo: A New Kind of Private Browser

After 9 months of development, we're super excited to finally launch Psylo, a new kind of private web browser for iOS and iPadOS.

In Psylo, each tab is its own “silo” with isolated storage, cookies, and even its own IP address. Psylo introduces advanced anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting features that go beyond what a VPN can offer.

Full announcement: https://mysk.blog/2025/06/17/introducing-psylo/

#infoSec #privacy #iOS

To my Canadian friends who have an important election next week, I’ll give you some advice my dad once gave me, which has stuck with me all these years and seems very relevant to this situation:

“Jerry” he said
“Don’t fuck it up”

the funny thing is, PhD stipends are so low that you could hire me for a year or this "PhD-level agent" for a month 🙃 #academia