Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

"Just learned that if you add `cooked.wiki/` to the beginning of *any* recipe URL (before the `https://`), it strips away everything but the recipe & organises the ingredients & method into separate columns."

From BSky, but he's deleted it, so 🤷‍♂️

Yes we succumbed to a technology that consumed ever more energy at a time when we needed to be drastically reducing demand, and which eroded privacy on its way to chaotically destabilising society, but for a beautiful moment in time it got better at creating alt text.

#AI

A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!

Man, I'm absolutely in love with @libreoffice. Initially, I used OpenOffice because I needed a free alternative to #Microsoft Office but since then, I've become very conscious of my privacy and the myriad benefits of #FOSS.

It wasn't until 2022 that I made the switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice and at this point, I genuinely see ZERO reason to use #Office365. Why on earth would I pay a subscription for proprietary software when I can use an outstanding FOSS office suite that respects my rights and allows me to support them through donations, rather than predatory subscription plans?

It's awesome to me that free/libre open source software is at that point, now, where the alternatives are equal to, if not better than their proprietary competitors. In general, the #libre movement in computing is making for a much more hopeful digital future as big tech and proprietary software developers get worse and worse. Long live free software!

Anyone who thinks the route to a just resolution to the #HorizonIT crisis lies with a massive fine & compensation paid by #Fujitsu is letting the UK's political class & legal system off the hook.

Certainly, making Fujitsu pay is a necessary element to a just resolution but it is hardly sufficient.

The political class' scramble for cover will be masked if we focus primarily on the #software itself.

There were/are plenty of people who need to be held to account & only a minority are IT folk!

Damn I am tired of rail "journalism"

You job as a journalist writing is NOT to stick what the industry says in press releases in an article

It is to check whether what is said is consistent with what others have said *AND* whether infra, finance and rolling stock would allow something to happen

🆕 blog! “We pay 12p / kWh for electricity - thanks to a smart tariff and battery”

I love my solar panels. But the solar panels don't love the British midwinter. Most of the year, my panels produce more electricity than I can use. But in winter we're lucky if they produce 3kWh per day - and most of the time it is considerab…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/we-pay-12p-kwh-for-electricity-thanks-to-a-smart-tariff-and-battery/
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#battery #ClimateCrisis #EnergySaving #solar

Finished Binary. #maker #robot

𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

I love how joined up and sorted Elon Musk’s companies always are.

Trajectools v2 in the works

Trajectools development started back in 2018 but has been on hold since 2020 when I realized that it would be necessary to first develop a solid trajectory analysis library. With the MovingPandas library in place, I've now started to reboot Trajectools. Trajectools v2 builds on MovingPandas and exposes its trajectory analysis algorithms in the QGIS Processing Toolbox. So far, I have integrated the basic steps of…

http://anitagraser.com/2024/01/12/trajectools-v2-in-the-works/