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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange as a non left-pondian I can say that going out in the US is horribly anxiety inducing in terms of “how it works”. Also the bills all being the same size. Is contactless at least a thing now?
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mastodon 4.7.3Regulatory Person, Manager of people, Maker of Decisions, late metaller, and sporadic gardener.
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@samy@eupolicy.social @BrKloeckner@piaille.fr @burger_jaap@mastodon.social this is classic country vs city thinking. It works in the Netherlands because of population density. There are many areas in France where you’d serve 3 houses and a dog on a bus line taking hours in either direction. Bus routes are essential but you need to be able to make them work or swallow the cost when they don’t.
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ouch. Sadly every day is a step closer to that reality for more of us. I’ve lost count of “deploy under your usual process” to be met with “how do we do that?” From tech teams of x years vintage where x > 3 years.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io take any story on crypto and replace “crypto” with “North Korean Weapons Development Fund”.
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@jwz@mastodon.social I remember the heady days in the 90s when my media bosses would proclaim “content is king”.
Then again we also wanted to have “audience engagement” which set us down the road for selling outrage.
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@mariafarrell@mastodon.social as an Ex-BBC (worker! never made it to SM1!) - it is very concerning... and sadly marks a near complete move from media to a tech firm which I think is wrong. Tech is a tool, not the raison d'etre.
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@davidallengreen smiley and lamb are in some ways too close. Smiley wouldn’t get his hands dirty but essentially he is the fancier version. What about Palmer instead?
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@_elena@mastodon.social more instances - less likely. It’s a sensible fear but I think the main defence here is that it isn’t a centralised service.
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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy I don’t have so much sympathy. If you are in the business of being a public official then it is a given your name will appear and should appear. The more worrying theme is that the NL institutions think that negotiating/interacting with a firm is a 1:1 Activity. It suggests a surprising naïveté.
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@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie @ZoidbergForPresident@kolektiva.social @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @franksting@theblower.au it does feel like a “and precisely what are you going to do about it?” moment.
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@HeptaSean@social.tchncs.de @troed@swecyb.com @burger_jaap@mastodon.social I like the Zoe but it’s a bit small for us. The German EVs are really not very good they all seem “swap out the old engine for new” and drive poorly with no distance (also why are they all so small inside?!)
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@eniko awesome work!
I never managed to push Qbasic that far and switched to C in the end. Still remember trying to make things in Qbasic years ago.
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@Chip_Unicorn this problem has existed before LLMs. We would see it in people who “tweak” or “fix” until it works and stop as soon as the “test” passes.
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@KimSJ@mastodon.social @davidallengreen@mastodon.green the latter part of that sounds too much like “it’s ok because everyone is doing it” which shouldn’t be a defence .
The machine has definitely not dispensed hot chocolate. Hot water with a hint of melted brown crayon maybe.
Eurovision is definitely having challenges. Banning countries in conflict? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkpgm6vk48o
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@troed@swecyb.com @HeptaSean@social.tchncs.de @burger_jaap@mastodon.social when we were looking, the ID.4 was just out. The 7 looks nice (bit like a BYD). Next one I’d probably get an EV9 or I’d love a Li motors EV (not going to get that here).
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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social it will be interesting to see translation from gas. Heat pumps aren’t always viable and solar heating has similar issues.
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@EUCommission I think is a wonderful opportunity for a system to keep reminding you until this is fixed…
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@samy@eupolicy.social @BrKloeckner@piaille.fr @burger_jaap@mastodon.social then your transport needs to be a state entity. Or at least your country side part needs to be. You also need some level of state price control. Otherwise your 3hr countryside bus is €30 a ride which also doesn’t work. Lastly recognise the bus at distance is for communication not commuting.
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@cwebber@social.coop this isn’t really new. For all the things on StackOverflow there was a huge domain of knowledge that was just not on there.
For most of my corporate developer life the knowledge/bug fixes would not be found on public forums but in internal collective knowledge, documentation or simply knowing a person in the same field. Most of this was not public domain.
The biggest issue now is that those firms commit their group knowledge to LLMs and we will not get it back.
Is there anything that Sadiq Khan is actually responsible for?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgzp49gglno
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@rands sadly the machine is often in Azure so the best you can hope for is to roll for a new instance.
So I clearly have a Steam problem.
And now I’m playing Cloudpunk which I really really like. This is probably one of the better cyberpunk idea. Really like the execution.
I’m going to have to break this to my kids. Brooklyn 99 is just not funny and I want to punch the off brand Policy Academy lead so bad.
So… yesterday I voted. In the UK currently we have local council elections. Turnout is typically lower than for the MPs and Mayor - however in Merton it was 40%. This year the council website is still at “n/a” although it looks to be Labour hold. Elsewhere Reform have made gains and are leading the number currently.
It is not a good day and ultimately it will be because no-one voted.
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@Gte@mastodon.social is that the new version of Fluid Fortunes? It’s been looking tired for a while.
So in the spirit of not posting doom and gloom we went out to see Uncle Roger’s new restaurant in London China town. Apparently there is a little wave of Malaysian restaurants popping up now. Didn’t get to see inside as the queue was maahoosive. Mrs got a picture with him.
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@jwz@mastodon.social you have your bar in the US. You pays your money you takes your chances and it’s… unfortunate.
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@augieray to non Americans this is just vindication the US never knew what it meant anyway.
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@KimSJ@mastodon.social @davidallengreen@mastodon.green I think this is Godwin’s law in action…
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@ketan@climatejustice.social are people trying to measure by query? To state the obvious a data centre doesn’t work like that. The entire exists as off or on. So if there is only one user you are still burning 20Gw or whatever ridiculous number it is today.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social there are zero checks. Until recently companies house didn’t even check who you were which they have fixed. Kinda.
@campuscodi@mastodon.social so exactly none of the statement is true since an editor is supposed to… edit.
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@troed@swecyb.com @burger_jaap@mastodon.social I really hope the new Renault EVs are better than the electrics in their forebears.
This is not a good news story. It underlines the failure of any ethics taking hold in tech circles despite it being mandatory on some degree programs. With this in mind, AI cannot be trusted outside of very specific scenarios.
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online @burger_jaap@mastodon.social is there a place online to look at those heat pumps because my experience hasn’t been great if I don’t have half an acre of land to spare.
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online the unpopular observation is that we used to have lots of spaces and it was for everyone’s wellbeing. There was never a universal space and trying to do that is causing a lot of the problems.
In advance of next weeks tube strike : a note that the Amateur Transplants are on Apple Music with a snappily named track and accompanying goatse cover art.
Um. Is it me or has someone used co-pilot to write this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary