Flaki @flaki@flaki.social

Are you passionate about Rust and would like to share your knowledge? Submit your talk idea for EuroRust by June 11th and join the conference as a speaker!

➡️ To the CfP: https://www.papercall.io/eurorust-2023

#rustlang #cfp #eurorust23

anyone know of tech (javascript) confs looking for a weird artsy hardware project demo/talk?

I've had my head down building two projects, mainly with js/rpi/ardiuno & a sprinkle of chatgpt & circuitpython.

i'm exploring new ways i can maintain human connections. i'm using impractical objects (that please my neurodivergent adhd brain) as input devices that motivate me to maintain interactions with others. i'd love to share my weirdness in person with others.

Nvidia & Intel both have hardware accelerated AV1 encoding. Would u like to know which encoder performs better, among other things? Take a look at my blog post here: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/nvenc-v-qsv/

#av1 #twitch #youtube #nvidia #intel

Was at an event yesterday where two speakers (10% of speakers) had to cancel due to testing positive for COVID (so they did not attend).

Yet, with this very prominent reminder COVID is still out there, only one other person wore a mask.

We're not going to make an AGI, don't be ridiculous.

But we're (probably) less than 1-6 months away from:

- running a chatbot on your phone that's sophisticated enough to convince the average teenager to commit suicide.

- building form submission bots that cripple every NPO in the world

- destroying all forms of public address-based communication (like email)

- scamming *every* senior citizen out of their life's savings

I could continue, but I won't share the actually dangerous ideas

What conference was your best online conference attendance experience? Looking for answers about the conference as a whole rather than individual interactions and ones that are focused on the online presence (platform, tooling, etc.) rather than presentation content.

My body hurts so much why must we get old

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

hello, my friends on Mastadon 👋
i'm helping out with the state of css survey this year, and would like your help to recommend folks from underrepresented groups who create css-related content worth highlighting.

and also, suggest groups i could get in touch with to participate in the survey such that we can get a wider demographic of answers 🙇🏻

In other news, excited to share that starting next week, I'll start working at #Element, the company behind the #Matrix protocol and messaging apps 🥳

It's great to be back in open-source and help decentralize messaging 💌

Living the dream - swapped the castors on my office chair with rollerblade wheels 🛼