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Went for a walk after dinner to say hello to the Atlantic.
a beach at night, long exposure so the surf is blurred. On the left is a sandstone headland, connected to a large stack by a stone arch bridge. Looking through the bridge the ocean stretches into darkness, and stars are visible above.

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♻ Citoyen Candide ☮
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Was it long ago ? Did you made friends easily in there ?

Feel free to ask whatever question you like about me 😋

Been watching The Lazarus Project on Sky. It turns out their HQ is the TUC. Hands up anyone who knew the trades unions were a front for a top secret organisation dedicated to turning back the clock. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congre…
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it's my keyboard's 30th birthday today, give him booosts! :toot:
Slender white person with long auburn hair wearing a mastodon t-shirt and holding an IBM Model M keyboard
Sticker on the back of the keyboard showing the date of manufacture was 19/11/93
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Leonard Ritter
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what happened to keyboards that i need to buy a new one every two years

granted, yes, i at least smashed one, but still

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girl, are you recursive? bc girl, are you recursive? bc girl, a
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In English as used everywhere except the United States, an ouster is someone who ousts someone. It is not a synonym for dismissal, resignation, firing, removal, sacking, ejection, or termination.

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Don’t feed Mogwai After Eight.

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Don’t feed Mogwai without checking his RTC battery.

Don’t feed Mogwai while radio 4 is playing programmes from the World Service.
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Sion [main]
Sion [main]
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Don't play Mogwai while the World Service is feeding programmes to Radio 4?
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“A group of academics has apologised after their submission to an [Australian senate] inquiry contained false allegations of serious wrongdoing, which were collated by an AI tool [Google Bard] and not factchecked.”

[via “Download This Show”]

theguardian.com/business/2023/…


KPMG lodges complaint after AI-generated material was used to implicate them in non-existent scandals

Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI tool
Henry Belot (The Guardian)

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If you are a mathematician and you are reading this (and you're interested in responding), can you tell me a little bit about the maths you do, in a way that a ten year old could understand? If not, what age/level of mathematical understanding do you think someone would need in order to get a sense of what you do?

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prom∥math
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I'm more of a CS dilletante. Much of what I do with math is combinatorics - I would say that it relates to how you can count or divide a chocolate bar. Imagine that you have many chocolate bars - it quickly gets complicated. 😅
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Bernd Herd
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I'm not a mathematician, but an engineer. So I do lots of applied mathematics. To those workers that are not mathematically trained, the results are like magic.

For example my seminar paper was on echo compensation for hands-free devices in 1992, a technology that was new development back then and mew routinely built in cars.

Today we develop machines with electronic compensation of unavoidable mechanic tolerances based on stochastic mathematical models.

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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

canarymedia.com/articles/clean…

#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal


Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

Canary Media
#environment #wind #solar #renewables #portugal #hydro
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The short-lived optical parallel port brought numerous advantages to the interconnectivity table. Advantages included small size for the era, transfers free of electrical noise, the speed of parallel transfer, and the convenient ability to debug protocols just by having a look.
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E_Nonymouse
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i'd hear of them but never actually used one or seen it up close.

lego.com/en-gb/product/the-ori… I drool
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Result: UK Supreme Court holds that Rwanda policy is *unlawful*.

UK government has lost.

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Interpipes 💙
Interpipes 💙
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any possibility that knowing this was coming was a factor in why Cruella was trying so hard to get sacked last weekend
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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.

That time is not now.

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Sarah Brown
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I am once again begging them to stop thinking they know better than the whole world when it comes to USB C power delivery. If Fred in his Wuhan shed can make shit that powers up without you feeling like you’re playing a game of fucking Myst, RPi with their impressive collection of computer science degrees and personal computer heritage should be able to.
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SaraMG
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Flips device over and reads underside: "Made in Britain".
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Sarah Brown
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@SaraMG By people who can’t fucking read the USB spec, repeatedly.
@SaraMG
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SaraMG
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Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.

But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?

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Sion [main]
Sion [main]
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Meanwhile, my 2 and 3A trundle happily along with whatever random chargers for no-longer-supported phones were kicking around. Where did they go wrong?
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Kincaid
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@sparrowsion interesting, as my 4 has a random PSU and is totes fine, but the 3A with a pi specced PSU undervolts All. The. Time...
@Sion [main]
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Sarah Brown
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@Kincaid @Sion [main] The 4 cares about the cable more than it cares about the PSU. They also fixed it for later versions of the 4.
@Kincaid
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geekylou :transgender_flag:
geekylou :transgender_flag:
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Yep. I resorted to a forbidden 2.1mm barrel connector to USB-C adapter for my Pi4. Meanwhile another board I have support 12v over USBC-PD.
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Modern political semantics:

Tory/GOP politicians: We oppose, um, Flerb!

Tory/GOP voters: What's Flerb?

Politicians: It's anything you hate.

Voters: Like what?

Politicians: Your choice, whatever. Now, see my opponent? They personify Flerbism.

Voters: Oh no! We must stop Flerbery ruining our country!

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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.

The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.

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Phrases that don’t mean what I thought they meant, part 33. The Global South.

Australia is in the Global North.

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SIMON CASE: David.
SUNAK: It shows we're serious people.
CASE: David. Cameron.
SUNAK: We'll give him a Barony
CASE: Of where? Ham?
SUNAK: Well it's done now so-
ED MILIBAND <interrupts>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS!
SUNAK: Damnit! Who keeps letting him in?!
CASE: I think it's the cleaners
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Paul Chaplin
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Grief, I had to read this twice to get the "Of where?" part, and I even bought The Brexit Tapes! 😂
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Ally of Lord Frost yesterday: "Rishi, the time has come to appoint David as foreign secretary, from the Lords, to finish what he started started on Brexit."

Sunak: Good idea, I will do that tomorrow."

[Lord Frost sits by the telephone this morning.]

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Malc
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Cameron only started Brexit in the sense that he created the mechanism the vandals used to destroy... He was the Chief Remainer, after all.
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the roamer
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Perfect post, simultaneously killing off the pretensions of Sunak, Cameron and Frost. And the image of David Frost sitting by the phone lingers! Post of the week.
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Getting sacked from your Home Sec job is a lifestyle choice.

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Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?

image: @littlepuddins.ie

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

A graphic by @alittlepuddins.ie shows a woman standing holding a mask with her face on it. The title reads, “Autistic Masking Can Look Like”. There are many masking examples that surround the woman. They read, “Surpressing Stims, Forcing Eye Contact, Intensely Self Monitoring, Rehearsed Scripts, Intensely Adapting To Suit The Social Environment, Exaggerated Facial Expressions, Ignoring Sensory Trauma, Ignoring Spoon Levels, Appearing to know what's happening, but actually are lost, Ignoring Own Social Interactions Capacity
#actuallyautistic #AskingAutistics @ActuallyAutistic group
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Stephanie 🎀
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I’ve noticed on social media, I’ll comment and post my own content less, and like/repost others’ content more. I’m basically using other people’s seemingly more “acceptable” voices to communicate.
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Dweebish
Dweebish
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Appearing to know what's happening, what people have just said, what a phrase or concept means, but I'm actually completely lost. I bluff well. Chameleon behavior.
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Incels be like: Cattle have all the power. They have a monopoly on beef and milk.

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Playing with the new telescope and trying to get focus and tracking working better. Not huge success, but this is at least pretty.
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Working aloft this weekend
Aerial View of a person climbing rigging on a tall ship

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Thank you! But our Barlow is in another telescope!

What is it about despicable people and obnoxious comparisons? TERFs love their “at least the Taliban know what a woman is” and now Douglas Murray is writing in the Jewish Chronicle that “at least the Nazis felt bad about killing people”...
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Superb!
The Cracks Are Starting To Show The place where | worked had a policy in the hiring documents where any software you wrote would belong to the company regardless of whether you did it at work or home. While signing my hiring documents, I politely asked: Me: “So, if | recreationally cracked video games at home, would it be your responsibility to deal with the copyright infringement, since you own the crack?” Less than a week later, all employees had to sign a new contract specifying that malware, cracks, and other illegal software were excluded from the ownership clause.
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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I had to do this when I worked at Google.
They were like "we own everything you make unless you get an exception"
So I went "I make stuff using tons of copyrighted material, and I only get away with it because no one would bother suing some weirdo with no money. You really want to own that?"

They gave me an exception

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Chris Johnson
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Simpler: refuse to work for any company that is going to confiscate your own efforts because they can afford more lawyers. It’s basically slavery.
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Four #prominent #Arab #Israeli #leaders were #detained in #Nazareth Thursday over planning a #protest that #police alleged could incite violence and threaten public order.

#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil ”

timesofisrael.com/4-former-ara…

#geopolitics #MiddleEast

#police #protest #MiddleEast #geopolitics #Israeli #Arab #arrested #detained #prominent #leaders #nazareth #balad #hadash #vigil
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One Way Out (Andor, Season 1, episode 10) was released one year ago today.

One of the great episodes, with two amazing monologues.

An amazing monologue.
One way out.
A spy.
“Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, I’m damned for what I do."

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Apple shortly introduces a much-needed feature for iMessage for users with a high degree of risk of having their communications intercepted or other parties impersonated: Contact Key Verification. At its heart, it's a way to shift the end-to-end trust in iMessages from Apple’s central servers to each party’s copy of Messages on their devices. I explain in short, medium, and long versions. @TidBITS tidbits.com/2023/11/08/upcomin… The feature should arrive in iOS/iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, and watchOS 10.2.
Side-by-side screen captures provided by Apple of Messages showing how Contact Key Verification will work: at left, screen shows someone in conversation with “Jenny” sending an address, with a warning at the bottom (yield sign): “An unrecognized device may have been added to Jenny’s account.” At right, the Verify Contact display is shown within a person’s Messages Info pane, displaying a verification code (4892 1736) and the buttons No Match and Mark as Verified.

Upcoming Contact Key Verification Feature Promises Secure Identity Verification for iMessage - TidBITS

Apple has released details about Contact Key Verification, an upcoming option in Messages that lets you manually verify an iMessage correspondent’s identity without relying on encryption data managed centrally by Apple.
Glenn Fleishman (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)
@TidBITS

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I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

A gacha machine with an image of network rack toys on the front
The un-constructed bits of plastic toy network gear all spread out
The built network rack from the front, with two Cisco switches and a Furukawa Electric. Cables go between them.
The rear with power cables going to a PDU through cable management hoops.
#sysadmin #networking #japan #mb #gacha
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Looks like a BBC News intro from a decade or two ago mastodon.social/@flameReactor/…

Flame Reactor

2023-11-06 17:56:45


Winnitz wiggles.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#artBot


British Library has no IT because of a compromise last week so they can only take cash for their Fantasy exhibition. (Possibly more critically for their core audience the catalogue is also down)

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So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.

The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).

They were not.

They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.

Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!

In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.

bsky.app/profile/danaweb.dev/p…


Jupiter ♃ (@danaweb.dev)

In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.
Bluesky Social

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#cambridge Guided busway claims more drivers who don’t notice signs. This car has lost one, maybe two tyres to the car trap. My question is, how are they rescued? Do ordinary rescue companies have vehicles that can get onto the guideway? Does the county council?
#Cambridge

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸
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I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.

Seriously though, why are they there?

We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.

Curious how they cope with single track sections.

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@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)

Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.

Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.

@Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸
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My butcher has started making sausages from seabirds.
Today he's taken a tern for the wurst.

(Sorry, so wonderfully bad I had to share...)

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Does it count as undermining the uk to call it rainy fascist island?

@Mona app notifications from a friendica server seem to confuse Mona on iOS. They all appear as this.

You received a new message.
Error: error: The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format.

@Mona app
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Mona app
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ActivityPub is a server API not app API. Non-Mastodon servers need to support Mastodon API so they can communicate with Mastodon apps. Mona is compatible with servers that support Mastodon API. In this case, the Friendica server supports Mastodon API, but it appears that they got something wrong.
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Mona app
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Say if the Mastodon API requires that server provide a notification title and identifier to the app when delivering a notification, but Friendica provides nothing, then the app can’t display notification.
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Mona app
Mona app
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ActivityPub is a server-to-server protocol. No clients involved.
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