ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
Pure rock gold. From old friends Lies Damned Lies.
https://youtu.be/otSzXsH-13Q
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So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>
May I ask that you help us spread the word that people can join us at https://mstdn.games ? 
We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.
Is ChatGPT just a clever case of the Emperor’s new clothes? Whatever Marcus thinks is worth hearing, in my book.
@malwaretech@infosec.exchange
I really think people are getting severe tunnel vision when it comes to ChatGPT cybercrime. I keep running into the claim that ChatGPT will enable ...
Tech helps. 🙏
Tech Volunteers Rush to Save Turkey’s Earthquake Survivors - Within hours of the disaster, software engineers were rolling out applications to help...
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Follow your dreams, but not too closely, you might creep them out
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voice cloned Bob Dylan singing chatGPT lyrics over autogenerated music, what fresh hell, what unrealized torture still yet to be unleashed
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Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
For those #developer types interested, I went for a completely no-code solution for where content is king and the client can do their own updates.
Saved by compliance 😂
People tell me they're afraid of AI and computers taking over the world but if it helps: I'm really not. For the last few decades since Terminator ...
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Life hack: It's really bad for your health to stare at a screen all day. Mix it up by staring at different screens over the course of the day.
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If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2
If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!
@freemo David Byrne, with Philip Glass, once wrote a song about a refrigerator (Songs from Liquid Days) - you could ask them.
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This is so distressing. Why was this obviously very ill man not transferred to a mental hospital? Disgraceful and wrong that he was kept in prison and took his own life https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41062820.html
@sinabhfuil there are certainly some tough questions that need to be asked here. Not only did the prison service neglect their duty of care, they must have failed abjectly to address access to means for a person clearly known to be suicidal.
Taking a pee in zero G. Fascinating interview with space shuttle pilot Terry Wurtz. 🚀🛰
@davoloid fair point Dave. At least it wasn’t meant to be present-day. One of my fave “Irish” films is by the English director Ken Loach: The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
Finally someone else shares my views about The Banshees.
“It's as if someone fed every single cartoonish Irish stereotype into an AI website and said: 'Write a film about Ireland in the 1920s.'”
https://extra.ie/2023/02/02/opinion/oscars-lauding-banshees-of-inisherin
Why are there not laws prohibiting or sanctioning this callous conduct? Converting people into shares.
Facebook/Meta laid off 11,000 people and now is doing 40 BILLION in stock buybacks. None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an op...
Another one bites the dust. The withdrawal of free API services will only lead to less diversity of purpose and implementation.
Twitter just announced free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9, with unannounced pricing or usage details, effectively killing every ...
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
