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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @gro-tsen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

@gro-tsen.bsky.social "A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all." https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 09, 2026

Replying to @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Interesting, I've seen software people complain/warn about this problem's counterpart in software development: companies don't want to hire junior developers anymore, because they can just use LLMs for tasks that juniors used to do; but no junior developers today means no senior developers tomorrow.

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 09, 2026

Replying to @davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz

@davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz Fun fact: there are more such connections between galaxies than there are neurons in a brain

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 07, 2026

Replying to @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz There is no recorded case of schizophrenia in anyone congenitally blind. No one knows why.

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 04, 2026

Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win

@unitedemesure

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 01, 2026

— Doctor, I am depressed. Life seems harsh and cruel. I feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

— The treatment is simple! Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. He is able to make anyone laugh — anyone that can't make themself laugh, anyway. For some reason, people who laugh at their own jokes are completely impervious to Pagliacci's. Go see him, that should pick you up!

— But doctor... I am Pagliacci!

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · May 01, 2026

Replying to @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz European here, not 100% sure what you're referring to. Is this about gerrymandering? Edit: Just saw there are news related to that, so it seems so :( good luck to you all Americans attached to democracy

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 28, 2026

I don't need a todo list. I store my todos in my head, where they slowly dissolve into a lingering sense of unease.

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz

@andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz

It then occurred to me that we have a new business model: convince customers that your product is a human being. That's even better than controlling interactions between your customers.

This sounds very similar to any sufficiently enshittified platform: replacing an exchange/transaction between two independent humans by an exchange between a human and the platform. The service is provided by machines if possible, and by exploiting humans otherwise.

Big social media companies have your brain believe it's getting a healthy diet of human interaction, when it actually is getting fed industrial "content" by a recommendation algorithm that maximizes engagement.
Ridesharing platforms give you the experience of paying a taxi driver to drive you somewhere, without actually decently compensating a driver (or without compensating a driver at all, in the case of self-driving cars)
...

#enshittification

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 27, 2026

RE: @glocq@mathstodon.xyz

Update: it turns out... there was nothing wrong.

* If I didn't get info about identifiers by typing space-K (my editor's shortcut), it's because that's just not implemented in wgsl-analyzer.
* The "StreamClosed" error message in the logs was only being written when I closed the editor.
* The "0.0.0" version number is just the version number you get when you don't rely on a specific version, but on the git repository directly.
* The "unimplemented" subcommands... well I don't know what they're about and why they show up in the help message, but they are indeed not implemented.

computers, man...

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 20, 2026

Wow, this comic totally looks like it was AI-generated, yet it's totally human-made.

(I feel like I should write some insightful comment about generative AI here, but I don't have anything smart to say. Just was surprised and wanted to share)

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1sqtd0b/oc_barely_above_average_bros/

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 19, 2026

Je sais pas si j'approuve le fait de reposter ici¹ des créations de personnes qui ne sont pas sur le fédivers, mais si vous le faites au moins clarifiez que ce n'est pas de vous et mettez un lien vers la page de l'artiste non ?

¹ Pas juste mettre un lien, mais faire un pouet avec l'image/la vidéo pompée sur le compte instagram/reddit/tiktok de l'auteurice

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space

@kenshirriff #AnalogComputing

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 18, 2026

Le saviez-vous ? Il m'arrive d'écouter de la musique d'autres artistes que Maro et les Beach Boys. Ci-joint une chanson de #sampha que j'adore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-H8M_qviwg

#PouetRadio
#TootRadio

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 17, 2026

If Earth is round, then explain to me how I, a European, and someone in New Zealand can be accelerated at 9.81 m/s² in opposite directions, and not, you know, end up light years away from one another?

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place

@lritter see also https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116316404180741899

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @AnnaBaguenaude@tenforward.social

@AnnaBaguenaude@tenforward.social Pardon je reréponds ici parce que je viens de reréfléchir à cette réponse-ci, et je pense pas être d'accord. Bien sûr tu es libre d'ignorer mon coupage de cheveux en quatre. Tu dis que le « de » est déjà là dans « de mes potes », mais pour moi ce n'est pas ce « de » que remplace « dont ». Manu Payet trouve que certains enfants de ses potes parlent mal ; autrement dit, il trouve *de* certains enfants de ses potes qu'ils parlent mal. Pour moi c'est ce *de* que « dont » remplace @laelia_ve@mastodon.top

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @AnnaBaguenaude@tenforward.social

@AnnaBaguenaude@tenforward.social Ah l'hypercorrection ça serait pas d'utiliser une construction « fautive » mais d'utiliser une construction plus compliquée que de besoin ? (moi aussi je m'en tape en soi que Manu Payet applique ou pas la norme, je me demande juste si c'est légitime de lui reprocher un deux poids deux mesures dans son application) @laelia_ve@mastodon.top

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @damarq@mastodon.top

@damarq@mastodon.top Mais ça c'est des alternatives pour le cas de cette phrase précise. Est-ce qu'il ya une alternative qui marcherait dans le cas général ? Sinon, est-ce qu'on peut vraiment parler d'hypercorrection ? @laelia_ve@mastodon.top et je me permets de mentionner les autres @tract_linguistes@social.sciences.re dont l'avis m'intéresserait aussi

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @laelia_ve@mastodon.top

@laelia_ve@mastodon.top C'est considéré comme une faute ça ? 😮 J'ai toujours cru que c'était la manière standard d'imbriquer une subordonnée dans une subordonnée... La norme dont Manu Payet s'écarterait, qu'est-ce qu'elle recommanderait de dire à la place ?

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

@ZachWeinersmith How come you had an imaginary Erdös number? 🤔

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @martinfleis@fosstodon.org

@martinfleis @konstantinosd you might be interested

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @jdw@mathstodon.xyz

@jdw Your example/analogy is a great one :)

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 07, 2026

Yatil d'autres personnes qui vont aux journées mathématiques et musique à Paris, jeudi et vendredi ?

C'est entrée libre, encore possible de s'inscrire mais inscription obligatoire !

https://sciencesmaths-paris.fr/f/actualites-fr/horizon-maths-2026-mathematiques-et-musique

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @kevlin@mastodon.social

@kevlin Pro tip: you can end the books you wish would end at any time by stopping reading them

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz

@Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz I don't know about m/s, but it's 7.67*10^(-11) in natural units

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @toybox@framapiaf.org

@toybox Oh merde, ce strip m'avait beaucoup fait rire, je me doutais pas que la blague avait été pompée sur @ZachWeinersmith of all people :(( https://warandpeas.com/2024/12/15/alien-press-conference/

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

@ZachWeinersmith It generally means "get used to using it to do your job" aka "become heavily dependent on it, so we can keep selling it to you after

we've made it more expensive
we've integrated ads to it
it has become apparent that we completely disregard ethics
... "

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @zeruch@mastodon.social

@zeruch@mastodon.social Thanks, I am now about to become the most annoying person in the internet by posting this link as a reply to half the news articles I see shared online

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @supergarv@phpc.social

@supergarv@phpc.social

it was enabled for me just like that, and I would not have done that myself.

What I meant is, the setting might have been enabled by default, but only be relevant if you actually use copilot. whatever 🙃

This approach aligns with established industry practices

« If everyone else adds your work to their plagiarism machine, then it must be ok to add it to ours too »

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @supergarv@phpc.social

@supergarv@phpc.social I would assume this only refers to the data involved when you use Copilot, that is, it's irrelevant if you don't use Copilot, but maybe I'm too naïve? (to be frank I expect them to already be training their models on our code without telling us, let alone give us a way to opt out)

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @csk@mathstodon.xyz

@csk@mathstodon.xyz The following toot helped me figure it out partially: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Danpiker/116289884555776002 You need a tiling of the plane by "anchor" quadrilaterals, where an anchor quadrilateral is a quadrilateral Q such that there is a continuum of squares whose each side passes through a vertex of Q. Now I'm not sure yet what characterizes anchor squares... @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz

@andrejbauer please report once you've tasted it

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @eliserodarde@piaille.fr

@eliserodarde@piaille.fr Trop beau 😍

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 14, 2026

Replying to @temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe

@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe mais oui, pourquoi ? 🤔🤔🤔

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @X_Raph_X@framapiaf.org

@X_Raph_X Mais du coup c'est pour exiger d'une entreprise (google) ce qu'on n'a jamais exigé (et je ne crois pas qu'il soit question de le faire) d'une autre ? (apple)

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @felicien@mamot.fr

@felicien Que revendique la pétition exactement ? Je suppose qu'on ne peut pas forcer google à laisser android déverrouillé, en tout cas pas plus qu'apple, qu'on n'a jamais forcé jusque maintenant. L'idée c'est juste de discuter le sujet d'une manière générale à l'assemblée ?

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe

@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe So the technological word "machines" has advanced sufficiently as to be distinguishable from "magic" 🤔

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 13, 2026

Replying to @tract_linguistes@social.sciences.re

@tract_linguistes@social.sciences.re

Je crois avoir entendu ma sœur, au collège/lycée, dire qu'Apollinaire prenait aussi deux l parce que c'est les deux ailes de la poésie. Pas sûr de qui lui avait raconté ça :/ si je devais deviner je dirais que c'est saon prof de français
Les stalagTites Tombent, les stalagMites Montent, celle-là je l'ai entendu plein de fois, la première je dirais que ça devait être dans un magazine type science et vie junior ?

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 29, 2025

Replying to @mudri@mathstodon.xyz

@mudri@mathstodon.xyz ... so you're arguably not a zoomer :p

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 29, 2025

Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social "a musician whom most Zoomers would probably have never heard of if not for the Streisand Effect" ... sooo are we pretending that Duck Sauce's song "Barbra Steisand" isn't a thing n... wait that song is *15 years old*? 🧓

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Jul 28, 2025

Replying to @mayasynth@eldritch.cafe

@mayasynth dans la même veine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXCTDChgqcU

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Sep 30, 2024

Replying to @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

@timnitGebru just a little more data bro. i promise bro just a little more data and we'll achieve human-like intelligence. it's just a bigger model bro. please just a little more. just a little more data and we'll achieve AGI. bro cmon just let me scrape a couple more terabytes of copyrighted data and we'll solve world hunger i promise bro. bro bro please we just need to train one more model t

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Grégoire Locqueville @glocq@mathstodon.xyz · Jul 11, 2024

Replying to @jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al

@jenbanim The person on the left has effectively broken their internet access, and it will need fixing by someone with the right skills (that is, understanding of what a desktop icon is and knowledge of how to restore it). Being on the left or on the right is a matter of perspective... (I mean, yeah, the whole point of your graph is that the situation is a matter of perspective. But what I'm saying is ther's no absolute frame of reference)

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