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
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@revk @SamJSharpe
My first thought when viewing the map (I’m located in the top part of Ireland)!
Oh my, oh my, that’ll be contentious for obvious (but irrelevant) reasons.
An AT-WET boundary by landmass rather than political boundaries would be more practical across British Isles altho the same challenges exist at other proposed boundaries on continental Europe.
@neil
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Brings to mind the adage, ‘before you judge a person, walk a mile in their shoes’.
Practice empathy (& an important aspect of self-education).
@HopelessDemigod @kilroy_was_here
Postal shopping catalogues were the opium to develop addiction in prospective consumers.
@IceCubesApp qoto.org is the instance.
Cannot get an ALT text function, if I tap on an image I’m simply offered ‘delete’.
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It's time for another #PROJ release. 9.3.1 just landed! Release announcement here: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/proj/2023-December/011186.html
A late afternoon vista, to the west over Lagan Valley.
#WinterPictures #JoinTheThread #Winter
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That idiot who set $44 billion on fire, formerly known as Elon Musk…
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Over 6,000 in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Brighton
Pavilion live in fuel poverty. Barely ⅓ of homes have good energy efficiency. 35% of my constituents are renters, yet PM scrapped plans to make homes warmer & bills cheaper. Time to reverse that scandalous decision.
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23FuelPovertyAwarenessDay
https://nitter.cz/NEA_UKCharity
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1730161244634554522#m
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I found out today you can follor Nostr people here on Mastodon. e.g. here is Jack Dorsey: https://mostr.pub/users/82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2
Whatever you think of Nostr or Jack, it is worth tracking some of their fediverse-related activities. I did try Nostr a while back, but it wasn't for me. Still, I am interested in how it continues to evolve. (hat-tip @laurenshof for this discovery)
@bloor
Email address and phone number please.
Right-to-repair/#repairability gripe. I have a Bosch/Dremel dry cell battery powered tool, a cell leaked & damaged its battery holder.
But that’s OK, #Bosch/#Dremel list a replacement on their support site.
BUT adding to basket reveals that it’s ‘obsolete’ - a component of a still sold item is obsolete?
YES, obsolete, confirmed by email, presumably from a human at help desk.
🤷🏻♂️ WTF? 🤷🏻♂️
A homespun fix will comprise a few eBay sourced battery terminal springs & careful soldering.
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My son's class is organising a digital card for his grade 1 teacher. You open the app and you can tap a button to generate an AI message and sign it with a pre-populated AI signature.
And so I guess my questions is, what the fuck is the point?
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In this excellent scrollytelling piece, the FT explains basically everything you need to know about the genesis and concept of generative AI. RNNs, transformers, LLMs, beam search, hallucinations, grounding, RLHF, and the general recognition and prediction of motifs or patterns – it's all there.
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For #30daymapchallenge #Day24's theme of "Black and White", I made this map of the "Salish Sea Bioregion At Night" using NASA's Black Marble data.
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I’m reminded of the naivety of early social media engineers assuming that if you connect the whole world then we’d live happily ever after. Instead we now know it’s just a thankless job fighting hate speech, election meddling, COVID misinformation, cyber bullying, etc.
The AI people are actively ignoring thinking through the harms LLMs can and are causing today to focus on fantasies inspired by books and movies they saw as kids.
FYI @bloor
Another option for good position reporting.
From: @mappingsupport
https://m.ai6yr.org/@mappingsupport/111478166287278687
@neil
If well enough informed, why not?
Analogous to a pro-poker gambler… 😮
I needed a replacement retina screen for my daughter’s MacBook Pro. Found a perfectly good donor MBP & won at less than £100. Her MBP’s back in full operation & I have a quite adequate ‘desktop’/headless MBP.
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Here is an overview of all the other news that has happened this week in the #fediverse.
ActivityPods is a project that aims to combine the ActivityPub protocol with the Solid protocol. The goal of the project is that you can have one account on the fediverse, which hosts your data and followers, using the Solid Protocol. Other ActivityPub applications can then connect to your data. ActivityPods posted an update on their road towards version 2.0, scheduled to be released early 2024. They will also be working on Mastopod; a Mastodon-compatible implementation of ActivityPods.
Tagginator is a small new bot for Lemmy, that does something simple but smart: it replies from a Mastodon account to new posts on Lemmy communities that it monitors, and comments with a hashtag that is relevant to that community. This way, people on Mastodon who follow that hashtag will now also start to see Lemmy posts in their feed. As Lemmy will not add hashtags in the near future, this is a workaround to improve the interoperability between the microblogging side of the fediverse and the threadiverse.
Heise Online’s editor Martin Holland has regularly given updates on data and traffic for their news account. In the latest update he provides some insight in the decentralisation of the fediverse. It also shows the extend of the peak of the twittermigration last year, and how traffic has slowed down since.
The University of Innsbruck put out a press release that they’ll be focusing more on Mastodon for science communication, and that their presence at X will be significantly reduced.
Mastodon will be present at FOSDEM 24.
Kbin dev gives an overview of the current work and plans for the near future.
All fediverse client and server updates for the week.
https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-in-other-news-episode-45/
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
