Ryan Collins
@rymcol
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DevOps Professional 🕯️ Waldorf Dad 🕯️follows/likes/tweets are not endorsements nor financial advice 🕯️
Cottage Country, Ontario
Joined May 2011
Creator Ivan Miranda is going viral for his clock that tells the time with black and white marbles https://t.co/VIqMI3vsHz
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Better: I quadruple the encryption and keep the little AI miscreants out 🤷🏼♂️
Meredith Whittaker says AI agents make encryption irrelevant. To be useful digital employees, they need system-level access to your messages, browser, files, and clicks. That collapses the blood-brain barrier between applications and the operating system. “Our encryption no
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BREAKING🚨: On February 28, a rare alignment will make Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and Neptune visible in a line at the same time. This planetary parade won't happen again for decades. DON’T FORGET TO LOOK 🆙
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Reminds me of when Plato defined humans as a featherless biped. So Diogenes walked into the town square with a plucked chicken and said, "Behold Plato's man." Plato added the phrase, "With broad flat nails".
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Everything isn't computer. It's math. Everything is math. Even computer.
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Binary obfuscation in 2026: Just put ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FA... into your program 😎
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2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to https://t.co/caFP0K5fYF (open source encrypted decentralized docs) *
fileverse.io
Decentralized, onchain alternatives to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Notion for privacy-enhancing, end-to-end encrypted collaboration.
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This guy creates different versions of Axes which are not conventional in any way
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The Oxford comma is the only thing standing between us and sheer barbarism.
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Why do we do math in school? When I asked this question as a kid, my teachers always told me, “You’ll use it one day.” That’s almost always false. Most adults are never going to be in a sticky situation with two binomials, thinking, thank goodness I can FOIL my way out of this
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I must say that the most hilarious twist of tech trajectories of 2025 was the fusion industry realizing they could *double* the economics of fusion reactors by using the neutron blanket to.... Transmute Mercury into Gold. Alchemy is so back
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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C
tomshardware.com
A heart-warming story for cold, stony sysadmin hearts.
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Today, the United States issued SANCTIONS reinforcing the "red line" I invoked on @GBNEWS. Namely: extraterritorial censorship of Americans. Today's sanctions target the censorship-NGO ecosystem.🧵
‘To censor Americans in America is a deal breaker.’ US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, blasts the proposed Online Safety Act, saying the law ‘vastly overreaches’ into other countries, calling it a ‘red line’. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 6
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I have used both, and I would recommend living in a small little house in the mountains raising sheep
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Some people say protecting your privacy is extreme. I think handing over your every click, activity, and movement to companies and governments and having no idea what they'll use that information for is extreme.
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