Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Will the #BBC Mastodon server still be in use after their six-month trial?

Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction.

We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future.

For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting.

We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings.

5G, AI, next-gen audio, UHD, personal data… we are investigating all these – and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzztGFXYR1Y

I will say that I’m quite proud of what I achieved in the Retro community. My YouTube channel and Website are never going to be especially popular, but they get a few views and I’ve done the first videos on a number of systems and produced a lot of information and open source hardware. It’s enough for me.

I used to get annoyed when channels would get more views and grow faster, but I missed the point really - it’s about what you give, not what you get

Who brought in his "Amiga" to play RDZ today, but forgot to bring an audio cable? This guy 👈

Oh well

Very clever — the German ad says "protect wildlife before it's too late."

HT WWF Germany

@gpowerf It's what Facebook does whenever you post an image with text...

@gpowerf It can be really accurate when the text is clear. Facebook may be all evil, but their automated alt-text system isn't half bad.

Colleges are now teaching courses on how to use ChatGPT effectively - and it may be the only way forward | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/colleges-are-now-teaching-courses-on-how-to-use-chatgpt-effectively-and-it-may-be-the-only-way-forward

This doesn’t look half bad, not sure what the build quality will be like for the price, but the Evercade compatibility is a nice touch.

The US and Europe Are Growing Alarmed By China's Rush Into Legacy Chips - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TIME: U.S. and European officials are gro... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/07/31/2112221/the-us-and-europe-are-growing-alarmed-by-chinas-rush-into-legacy-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #china

sad truth: as long as instances like .art keep moderating as they do ("proactively", guilt-by-association, etc.), Mastodon and the fediverse as a whole will stagnate.

I get that people want to keep it "manageable", but you also want more people to adopt the concept and ideology so we are not dependent on centralized services.

but new users will leave right away if they have to deal with federation issues if they can't interact with friends.

sorry everybody i'm quitting the internet for good #falcon030 #retrocomputing

Some lovely #Callibraphy work I hope to learn from...