Shaun Griffith

@shaungriffith
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Software engineer, former test and chip engineer. On the lookout for puzzles, games, logic, science, mindbenders, and thoughtful discourse.

#puzzle #software #ai #semiconductors #politics #canada #usa #uk #math #maths #science #algorithms #riddles #jokes #humor #humour #games

Pronounshe/him

An anti-ICE app that installs from a web page and can't be removed from any app store because it's not on an app store.

Now with EFF legal support, a warrant canary, a backup domain in Iceland, and more!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/26/2374832/-Update-ICE-Tracking-App-AntiFreeze-Is-Becoming-Harder-to-Censor-Here-s-How?utm_campaign=trending

https://antifreeze.app
https://antifreeze.is

#NoIce #NoKings #ProtectOurCommunities #ProtectImmigrants

Update: ICE Tracking App AntiFreeze Is Becoming Harder to Censor. Here's How.

One week. That's all it took. Seven days ago, AntiFreeze was a side project sitting on a server with 194 users. Then this community got ahold of it. Two front-page diaries, hundreds of comments, ...

Daily Kos

Please criticize terrible people for their words and deeds, not for their size, appearance, supposed or actual medical conditions, etc.

You can call out the bad guys without being ableist or punching down, I promise.

Bad guys punch down. Who are you trying to align with?

*It's 2026 and you are all terminally online. Why does this still need saying?

What's My JND? Hard Mode

Hard mode: find the odd square out of nine. No gradient hints, just raw colour perception.

What’s your colour discrimination number?

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile
GitHub - BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is av...

GitHub

This explains a lot a lot about asymmetric populations and effects.

"Suppose that men and women are equally sexist, and imagine a group that’s 80 percent men and 20 percent women. If 20 percent of people (represented as squares above) will make sexist comments to people of the opposite gender, we might expect that the women will receive four times as many sexist comments as the men. In fact they receive 16 times as many."

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/03/22/the-petrie-multiplier/

The Petrie Multiplier - Futility Closet

This is dismaying. Suppose that men and women are equally sexist, and imagine a group that’s 80 percent men and 20 percent women. If 20 percent of people (represented as squares above) will make sexist comments to people of the opposite gender, we might expect that the women will receive four times as many sexist comments as the men. In fact they receive 16 times as many. Computer scientist Ian Gent explains: With 20% women the gender ratio is 1:4. So there are 4 times as many men to make sexist remarks, so 4 times as many sexist remarks are...

Futility Closet
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
18 years ago, I went skydiving in a very thin and low-cut top. That video is that skydiving company's most viewed clip. I look matronly these days but that view count and "I'd hit it" comments pick me up when I'm low.