@ctavan@mastodon.social, SRE Manager @google, ex-CTO & Co-Founder of @contentpass. own opinions, RT & ❤︎ = interest ≠ endorsement

Berlin, Germany
Joined June 2009
Christoph Tavan retweeted
Replying to @troyhunt
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iOS 15.4 beta has a new ‘Use Face ID with a Mask’ option and the masked FaceID icon is absolutely adorable.
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
The omicron variant is NOT mild. Hospitalisations are 40-45% less likely than with the delta variant (imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-in…), but the delta variant is >2x more severe than the original strain (cmaj.ca/content/193/42/E1619). The omicron variant is AT LEAST as bad as the 2020 virus.
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Complete waste of time. The sooner European countries realise they are only a couple of weeks behind UK and deal with *domestic* transmission the better it will be for them.
BREAKING: Germany to class the UK as a virus variant area from Monday, restricting travel from the UK to Germany. It’s been announced tonight by the Robert Koch Institute. More details to come…
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Omicron presents a tremendous challenge: do you go out and risk getting covid or stay on the internet and risk hearing people talk about NFTs
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Warum lassen wir uns von Leuten regieren, nach denen niemals ein Kind abends zum Einschlafen fragt?
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
crypto.randomUUID is now implemented in Firefox, thanks for @cpeterso 🎉
Chris Peterson - Implement crypto.randomUUID(). r=keeler,nika - bugzilla.mozilla.org/1723674... deb.li/INY1
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Replying to @jasnell @Cloudflare
I would be curious to know how many times crypto.randomUUID is being executed per-second within a few years ☺️ I'm betting this little method will be the highest usage OSS I've contributed to.
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Geht es nach der EU-Kommission, werden bestimmte #KI-Systeme zukünftig einer Prüfung unterzogen. In der @fr habe ich ein paar der Fragen notiert, die dafür noch geklärt werden müssen. @snv_berlin fr.de/wirtschaft/gastwirtsch…
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Wir behandeln derzeit auf Station vor allem ungeimpfte Menschen unter 40. Viele hielten ein "gutes Immunsystem" für ausreichend gegen Covid-19. Das Immunsystem ist aber keine "magische Barriere", es braucht zielgerichtete Werkzeuge gegen Erreger, z.B. die richtigen Antikörper.
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Replying to @timpritlove
Full phone number database of #Clubhouse is up for sale on the #Darknet. It contains 3.8 billion phone numbers. These are not just members but also people in contact lists that were synced. Chances are high that you are listed even if you haven't had a Clubhouse login.
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
crypto.randomUUID() is now stable in Chrome 92 \o/ thank you @domenic, @ctavan, @broofa, and many others, for helping advocate for this feature. hope folks enjoy 🎉
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
⚠️WEAR MASK EVEN IF VACCINATED—Top @WHO leader urges masks against #DeltaVariant even if 2-dose vaxxed. "Vaccine alone won't stop community transmission. People need to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces—even if you're vaccinated" #COVID19🧵 cnbc.com/2021/06/25/delta-wh…
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Such an fascinating/frightening project by @tijmenschep explaining the risks of facial recognition and an important reminder to #ReclaimYourFace...
What about #FaceRecognition? Is it really working? Please try it yourself! Spoiler: I was predicted to be an 11-year old girl 👧 being "pretty strange". Why? Because "#AI" makes mistakes. Hownormalami.eu #HowNormalAmI
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In that graph: #B16172 flipping the bird at school-age kids and their parents...
Replying to @DrEricDing
21) Let’s examine the #B16172 variant surge in Bolton UK 🇬🇧 closer… it’s uniquely in two age groups… kids & parents of school-age kids. It’s no a coincidence damnit. Large studies previously have shown its more kids in a house, the more transmission in a house to adults.
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26. But people have been saying we've not seeing big increases in overall numbers of cases. But that's cos we've had 2 epidemics - 1 declining (B.1.1.7) and 1 growing (B.1.617.2). While B.1.1.7 remained dominant, it masked the growth of B.1.617.2 and kept case numbers down.
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It has been fixed @felixge! 🎉
PSA: Google Maps favorites uses a ring buffer of 500 items. If you add more, it silently (!!) deletes old entries. 😭😭😭 cc @ctavan who told me a about this
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Christoph Tavan retweeted
Ping Marcus and talk to him, even if you're unsure! He convinced me to leave my (also wonderful) job at Apple to join Datadog, and the stuff we work on is super exciting! More importantly, the people on the team are really smart, and more importantly super friendly and humble.
Is there any awesome Java developer with experience in writing IntelliJ plug-ins out there who would be interested in joining my team @datadoghq? (Very ambitious project.) If it sounds fun - ping me! If you know someone who needs more fun and would fit - ping them! :)
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