Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
Don Thompson
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We’re excited to announce that we’re supporting #ActivityPub Test Suite and investing in the establishment of developer tools to ensure compatibility among ActivityPub implementations. This #interoperability also benefits users and will lead to individuals having more control over their data.
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Don Thompson
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Pleased to see @fesshole reach 1k on Mastodon - it's tricky for us to build up followers here as we don't know anyone. If you can help by spreading us around that would be fab - and you'll enjoy it more too as Fesshole is best when replies are lively. Also follow @anon_opin for rotten opinions that are occasionally ok.
@cybergibbons
I have only 2x power banks & the Apple 65W rn but as PD sources will likely add the DeWalt kit. Also looking at fixed USB C PD outlets from Knightsbridge & OE Electronics. Goal is make some kit portable using the Power Banks & tidy desk space.
@alanboyle
The HiSAS syntheic aperture SSS on DSV’s Hugin is one of the best of such systems but the organisation of the mission, as described, didn’t appear to give enough resources to reviewing imagery produced by the HiSAS. Even if the Hugin’s CathX camera was unserviceable, a revisit using only the HiSAS should’ve been sufficient to confirm whether the target is, at least, an aircraft.
The story has legs, some miles left to run!
@freemo 👍 thank you, the morning doom scroll will not be interrupted!
@freemo 👍 Any idea of times (UTC resident user) so I know when to avoid? Good luck.
@cybergibbons
Now I’m a bit nervous about the performace of this USB C PD to 5.5mm barrel fixed 12V cable/adaptor that I have ordered.
@ksenzee
Aw, truck it.
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@guardeddon checkout the interactive map, they cross link the data with how much each country is extracting gas.
@cosmos4u
Nauen, that’s where those gigantic HF broadcast antenna are located?
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I loathe airports. I particularly loathe the security theatre at airports. And what I particularly loathe about it, is just how utterly useless it is. Why do I waste my time dealing with any of it when, apparently, you can just walk on to a plane. Absolutely useless.
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Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them
Saga highlights how slow, opaque action by publishers threatens the integrity of the research literature
@NotTheLBCGuy @fesshole bowel confusion?
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Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans.
Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read.
If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an #LLM.
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@ricmac Congrats to the migration off Substack and to Eleventy/Buttondown. In the same spirit I would also consider migrating away from Google Analytics to something more privacy focused. I am a big fan of @plausible.
@edfattell @sdw
People are taught to drive cars. So many drivers, in whose cars I’ve rode as a passenger, have demonstrated that they have little comprehension of how to use the features built into their car: aircon, phone integration/hands free use, in-car entertainment.,,
@ispreview
‘Cuckoo’s website still only depicts their *Openreach based* Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages’.
I’d go further & say ‘TalkTalk based’.
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
