Huh. Hacker News #1. I think that's a first!

Par ailleurs si les flux RSS c'est pas votre truc mais que vous voulez facilement voir quelles recettes j'ai publié sur mon site depuis votre dernière visite, j'ai ajouté une page qui les liste par ordre chronologique : https://desfontain.es/recettes/archives.html ✨

Un peu plus d'amour printanier sous la forme de haricots à la mode de Sichuan qui picotent et chatouillent tes papilles : https://desfontain.es/recettes/haricots-verts-grilles-sichuanais.html

Une nouvelle recette printanière, facile et fort sympathique avant que l'été soit là pour de bon: https://desfontain.es/recettes/salade-patates-asperges-lentilles.html

Mapo tofu, fait hier soir, une vraie tuerie (un peu trop épicée pour certains convives, mais ça se corrige). Nécessite un wok et plusieurs ingrédients asiatiques un peu obscurs, mais le jeu en vaut carrément la chandelle 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/mapo-tofu.html

Je commence à me sentir à l'aise avec la cuisine au wok ✨ Deux recettes qui sont devenues des classiques chez moi : nouilles udon sautées aux champignons, et riz frit au kimchi 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/nouilles-udon-sautees-aux-champignons.html […]

Well, tonight may have been a once-in-a-lifetime blitz chess session. 15 victories in a row! I think my previous record was 10 or 11 😮

I commissionned a new logo for my consultancy ✨ Done by Taylor Joy from invisiblecity.online. I loved working with her and would recommend her in a heartbeat 🧡

current status (warning: loud)

Fourth #crochet project: a Sophie's scarf! I learned that spending hours doing single crochet on 4mm yarn is not my favorite thing 🙃 I also learned how to block a finished piece, and that was kind of scary but pretty magical ✨

✨ New guest blog post ✨ by Bogdan Kulynych on how to report differential privacy guarantees for ML deployments, explaining the relationship between DP definitions and attacker success along the way: https://desfontain.es/blog/reporting-privacy-guarantees-in-machine-learning.html 🌈

first amigurumi project: this little cat #crochet #amigurumi

my spring rolls didn't look like what I envisioned, but my vietnamese friend said they were just as good as the ones her mom makes, so I'm just going to ride that high for the next 2-3 weeks

L'été approche à grands pas, c'est donc le bon moment pour essayer de nouvelles recettes de sorbets 👀 Par exemple, avec du chocolat noir 🤤🍫 https://desfontain.es/recettes/sorbet-au-chocolat.html

Les élections consulaires sont dans 3 semaines. J'ai reçu 24 mails indésirables de la part de candidates et partis politiques (dont 8 d'Ensemble!), et zéro communication officielle sur le sujet.

so uuuuuh

Trois nouvelles recettes sur mon site, avec des philosophies différentes. On a le "super simple, excellent, mais nécessite du matos": crevettes sous vide au citron 🦐🍋 https://desfontain.es/recettes/crevettes-sous-vide-au-citron.html

Here is a ✨ new blog post ✨ about privacy challenges in biomedical data sharing, from a Dagstuhl seminar I participated in last February: https://desfontain.es/blog/dagstuhl-biomedical-data-sharing.html 🧑‍⚕️

Nouvelle recette: Gâteau pistache-grenade ✨ https://desfontain.es/recettes/gateau-pistache-grenade.html

Bought generic cartridges for my water filter because Brita-branded ones are absurdly expensive. Discovered that there's a proprietary thing preventing third-party cartridges from being used. 3D-printed an adapter to make it work anyway. Thug life 😎

Nouvelle recette: gâteau-cookie chocolat-noisette 🤤 https://desfontain.es/recettes/gateau-cookie-chocolat-noisette.html

Do I know someone who can recommend a good consulting firm for OSINT work? Ideally based in Europe, ideally small. Boosts are super appreciated 💖

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tedted/116351683754818897 This piece reminded me of how proud I am off my ex-colleagues for pressuring Google into dropping project Maven, and glad I could play a small role in that. Our efforts didn't stop the DoD from doing war crimes. But it made a meaningful […]

Third #crochet project: a baby blanket for a friend who's about to become a dad ✨ This one taught me about color changes (not my favorite thing!) and increases/decreases for the wavy pattern. I'm pretty happy with the result ☺️

It's "making 1.5kg of wild garlic pesto from fresh wild garlic harvested in the backyard 30 minutes prior" season 🤩

Late to the party, but I just heard of this incredibly simple new sketching algorithm for cardinality estimation, invented in 2022 (!!!): https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/ Really makes you wonder what other super simple techniques […]

In late 2024, Anthropic shipped a "privacy-preserving" system to analyze user conversations. Do the privacy claims stand up to scrutiny? 🤔 (You can probably guess.) Here's a ✨ new blog post ✨ about it: https://desfontain.es/blog/cliopatra.html

Working with @typst has absolutely spoiled me. Now I'm constantly annoyed at small things when writing Markdown (like footnotes not removing the space before them).

Got a sudden burst of motivation tonight. Let's see if it goes anywhere

a thread of essays or blog posts that I stumbled upon and found particularly interesting

document I'm currently reviewing has reached 4-digit footnote numbers, send help

Very hyped about where I get to spend this week 🤩

Just finished my second ever #crochet project! 😺 I learned (the hard way 🤣) that one should do a few rows on a much smaller scale to make sure to understand the pattern. I also learned about crocheting in "chain-1 spaces", which was initially very confusing. Progress! ✨

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Does anyone know where I can find a relatively up-to-date list of the most common advertising trackers present on the Web, with information like overall market share, market share for the most popular websites, and so on?

I got mixed up between Ständerat and Regierungsrat, but otherwise successfully passed the Swiss citizenship knowledge test this afternoon, with 49/50 correct answers 🎉

I have a new intern working with me. He's only here for a few days but I'm hopeful we will have a friendly and fruitful collaboration.

I left home for 2 weeks and this guy decided it was a good time to try and become a real tree 🌱

First ever guest post on my blog! ✨ Georgi Ganev writes about SMOTE, a popular data augmentation technique used in ML training. Despite what people apparently think, it does not provide any privacy guarantees… 🙃 https://desfontain.es/blog/smote-and-mirrors.html 🌈

An older family member, who struggles with tech, seems to have accidentally deleted all their Signal messages (on iOS). Anyone know how that could have happened? The only official method seems way too complex for them to have done it by accident.

What is "privacy auditing"? Ask three privacy experts and you might get three different answers! So I wrote this ✨ new blog post ✨ to shed some light on this admittedly confusing terminology 👀 ➡️ https://desfontain.es/blog/privacy-auditing-terminology.html 🌈

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tedted/115961697730486110 This seems to have attracted a bunch of bot replies on Bluesky. All promising "no AI" while their portfolios are full of graphics for products/companies that don't seem to exist, and fantasy pictures without a consistent art style. Truly […]

current status: watching german news

Would anyone have a recommendation for a logo designer who does not use GenAI? #FediHire

I just booked a bunch of non-refundable trains for a vacation and it just hit me now that InterRail exists and I could probably have saved a good half of the price with it 🫩

I signed up for my first ever classical chess tournament. Will happen in March, 5 games over 3 days (90+30 time control). It will either be lots of fun, or an emotionally crushing experience, or maybe both 😺

You think answering "thanks, you too" to a waiter telling you "enjoy your meal" is embarrassing? A friend of mine, who is single, wished me a good honeymoon today. Guest what I answered 🫥

Making pumpkin soup. First step: melt 330g of butter. #frenchcooking

I wrote a ✨ new blog post ✨ discussing some proposed changes to the definition of personal data under GDPR. tl;dr: good for my business, not great for society at large 🤔 Link ➡️ https://desfontain.es/blog/digital-omnibus-personal-data-definition.html ✨

Learned how to #crochet during the holidays and made my first hat, complete with cat ears 😺