Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

Did my bit at the anti-AfD demo in Berlin today

After having lost my EU citizenship rights through Brexit, then regained them by becoming German, I don’t want my adopted country going the right wing populist route the one of my birth did!

A Ukrainian hacker group named BlackJack has breached and wiped more than 150 systems belonging to the Main Military Construction Directorate for Special Facilities (GVSU), a state-owned company that builds military facilities for the Russian military.

The group downloaded more than 1.2TB of information from the company's servers containing information on more than 500 military sites.

Ukraine's GUR agency praised the attack on Telegram as a major success: https://t.me/DIUkraine/3314

@neil I see it as another way in which the delivery options available to small businesses will fall further behind the likes of Amazon. Those in major urban areas I believe can get at least a subset of items the same day or even with 1 hour delivery. I get next day delivery with pretty good order tracking on the edge of the Highlands. Our postie is great and generally finds a way to avoid us needing to collect a parcel, however is massively let down by the rest of the system.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

And sorry if I sound like some old fogey, but I don't give a damn about drone taxis

I would simply like it that a family from Hagen who wants to NOT FLY to Tarragona for their summer holiday COULD GET THERE BY TRAIN, easily and for a decent price

But that seems to damned radical and hard for EU policymakers to care about 🤬

"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/