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Greg Harvey 🌍
@greg_harvey@tooting.ch
mastodon 4.7.3European, #foss fan, #linux lover, business owner, #infosec nerd. Toots on #tech, #France, #wine and #music. #VoteGreen
Also bassist for Troquet d'Poche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agfAsFf294 🤘🎸 (full concert)
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Joined August 22, 2018
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@withaveeay@mastodon.scot @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social It *is* a helpful articulation. It should serve as a checklist for the model creators, as each point on that list is avoidable. They don't *have* to steal content, exploit poor people, burn coal for compute and scrape the Internet to death (that's mostly agents rather than models, btw). I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out which corners of the industry are not populated by assholes and I'm directing our AI use that way. Spoiler: none of them are in the US.
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@jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com Only in China for now, but this is what you want:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICar_V23
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@jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com They won't. I don't know why. They absolutely can but they refuse to for now...
RE: https://tooting.ch/@greg_harvey/116834354946383572
I said I would write up my findings on bot traffic to a major client of ours. Here it is!
https://gregharvey.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2026-07/fighting-the-bots/
Bots, #AI and in particular #ChatGPT - and what it means for modern website management. (Spoiler: It's not good.)
Ahh, a nice wash and polish. Started first time despite not moving for a couple of months. Might go get an ice cream to celebrate.
Ripped from LinkedIn, I have no idea if this is true but it *is* funny. I can't tell if ChatGPT is trolling him or he's trolling ChatGPT! 😂
Oh oh, us too! Our #AI can escape too!! 🙋
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7dl7w8y7po
Just... 🤦
Now I'm really erring on the "publicity stunt" side.
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'Great Britain is a magical land where your neighbors can ask the government to prevent you from installing double-glazing on the grounds that it will change the "historic character" of their neighborhood of terraced Victorian homes.' 🤣
While entirely true, sadly this is not unique to GB. The sleepy town of Uzès in France has a brigade of facade enforcers, mostly people of a certain age with nothing better to do, who are vehemently anti heat pumps and solar panels. 🙄
@pluralistic
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@wenslauw @pluralistic You *can* have double-glazed windows made of wood to specification. I've had it done. It's expensive as hell, but possible. I hope the rules are more sensible now, when I was a kid we lived in a Grade 2 listed farmhouse in Nottinghamshire and my parents were literally forbidden from fitting double glazing, even if it were made to measure to be exactly the same as the sash windows being replaced. Which is ridiculous. In the end my dad put "illegal" secondary glazing.
Well. Neighbour lost his shit because someone was in his parking space. Like THE WHOLE VALLEY KNOWS now. Turns out it was one of his B&B guests. Embarrassing much? 😂😂😂
New blog post: "On not blogging":
https://gregharvey.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2026-07/on-not-blogging/
With hat tip to @hashbangcode@fosstodon.org and a plea for patience. 😉
It's funny how much modern #EV predicted ranges fluctuate. Obviously depending on software, but our ID.Buzz bases future range on recent past driving, I think a lot of EV brains do. It tends to do a lot of motorway and fast roads in #France and the max range prediction hovers around 320/330 kilometres. Here in #Italy it's the only car with us for a month and it's doing all the ducking about, so now the prediction is close to 400 kilometres. EVs much prefer shopping trips to motorway runs. 😅
This is an actual comprehensive and sensible review of the #Ferrari Luce. Spoiler: it's very, very good. That shouldn't be a surprise, at the price it has to be. But I think once all the silliness has died down this car is going to be a collector's item. I reckon years from now it will be seen as the pinnacle of early #EV execution by the best car company in the world:
https://youtu.be/B86taQzY5Es?is=r1zLoU4TgsOx8V0_
(Yes, it's Top Gear, but it's proper motoring journalism like in the old days, I promise.)
In other news, fuck mosquitoes. I'll save ants and bees and even wasps, but mosquitoes can get in the sea.
#ISO 27001 and 9001 full audit for the next three days. 🥳 We do love an audit.
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@Ryanteck@fosstodon.org It certainly gives you a better idea of how much range you REALLY have left. And it adapts as you drive too.
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@khan_gnot@tooting.ch Yup, it's something you have to get your head around when you go electric. Stop/start in an ICE car is energy wasting, but in an EV it's recuperation heaven. So it turns the metrics on their head. 😅
So today I totally accidentally snuck into a private Porsche Club France race meet. I took my dad along because it was advertised on the circuit's website, pulled up to the gate, security guard came out and I said "I'm here for the Porsche thing" and he just let us in. Then we found ourselves infield surrounded by racing cars and drivers. 😂 Only found out we shouldn't be there when I tried to get a program for tomorrow. Bloke says "What team are you with?" Err... lol... none? 🤷
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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social You're joking, I presume, but I used to have one of those. It probably will start and it's probably worth restoring!! Good ones can fetch up to £10k from collectors these days! 😁
26ème Rallye Régional Des Vins Du Gard.
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@ekes@drupal.community I think this is more in the context of GUI, like #Gnome 3 specifically... press super key, start typing calc, press enter too quickly and you have a spreadsheet instead of a calculator. 😂
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@dansup@mastodon.social It's clearly BS. Here's my post that causes the dire warnings...
Wow. Even for Microsoft that's low. They must be worried. 😂 // @dansup@mastodon.social
I struggle to watch a Labour politician debating on TV at the moment and take them seriously. Which is particularly sad, I didn't vote Labour last time, but historically I (mostly) respected the party and hoped this government would be effective, especially after the utter shit show that went before it. I suppose this is a visceral sign of how far the trust in Starmer's government has been eroded by continuous missteps, broken promises and tone-deaf policy decisions. And in such a short time.
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@2legged@mastodon.ie Ha. Cornholme will have the best collection of pornographic literature in the known universe in 3.... 2.... // @rachel@norfolk.social
"It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World, and this will be my 10th."
Do you get to claim concluding wars you started as credits towards your next Nobel Peace Prize bid? 🤔
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@wenslauw That's sad, but I completely understand. Sometimes historic buildings are more trouble than they're worth. 😔
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@wenslauw Of course the problem with that was the glass was very old and very brittle! My mum put her hand through one pane, and I put a cricket ball through another. 😂 The only thing you could do was replace them with like-for-like single-glazed panes, held in place with putty, because the trames couldn't hold anything thicker. And you weren't allowed to order new frames with thicker wooden structure for the fatter double-glazed panes.
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@jpoesen@drupal.community You can only get pictures of the old-timers! The modern cars are too fast to snap with your phone, it's pretty impressive when they whizz past within touching distance. 😬 Two #EV racers for the first time (I think?) this year. That's odd, you see them coming but there's no noise!!
I think someone in Chronopost Nîmes is stealing car batteries on delivery. Twice in a row I have been contacted to say my new battery for the Fiat 500 is damaged and can I please refuse the delivery to save them the trip. Legit delivery cancellation, company sends out new battery, same happens again. It's almost the perfect crime, because if challenged they can just take a hammer to the package and say "See?" 🤷
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@babe If it's any consolation, I like cars. And strawberries. So I appreciated all aspects of that thread. 👍
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@pcambra@drupal.community @ekes@drupal.community Wow, it's been nearly a month then? I didn't even realise they'd migrated the profiles...
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117311329317450539
OMG no. Another reason not to visit the USA.
So many questions today!
Does anyone know if it's possible to deep link into a bookmark in a document in #Collabora with #Nextcloud? I'm looking for similar behaviour to Google Drive, where the bookmark stub is appended to the link. I don't think you can, but asking just in case I missed something!
// @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz @CollaboraOffice@mastodon.social
Just lost a couple of hours to this:
https://codeberg.org/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/89
If anyone can confirm/deny, that would be interesting. Not sure if it's just us, but I don't think it is.
Meanwhile he wants to fine Canada for smoke pollution caused by forest fires caused by climate change. The only way this makes any sense is if it's only a massive self-enrichment program for Trump and his pals...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o
UK government department outsources AI %thing. It's hardwired to use either AWS; Azure, Gemini or OpenAI. (🤦 already)
But I appreciate they open sourced it. There's no docs, but it's on GitHub.
Only it doesn't work and the Terraform provided is not open sourced, so what looked like ready-to-go TF is not at all.
Then you see ANOTHER UK gov department has forked it. They've added a bit more documentation, but it's still broken.
Both teams ask people to contact them. Neither reply when you do.
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@neilgall@mastodon.scot Oh, sure. I'm quite happy with the "2 hours, then take a short break" range of the Buzz. It just goes a fair bit further between charges if I'm only doing shopping. 🙂
So the wine club I've been working on with my friend Laurent finally has a #fediverse home! Follow if you're interested in #wine and our soon-to-be-launched #UK club: @mauriceetharry@epicure.social
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@ekes@drupal.community And in our particular case we DO make a contribution in every way, money and code. We actually qualify, just nobody discussed it with us. Plus the minimum payment to join the club is $1,500 which is quite a tax if you're a sole trader. But if you don't pay it, would-be clients are signposted off elsewhere. Not cool.
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@ProgressivePower@newsie.social When the Biden administration started trying to prosecute Trump I said at the time this is a huge mistake, UNLESS they get on with it fast and make it stick. They didn't, it was a huge mistake. The next Democrat that goes in needs to go in scorched earth.
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@pcambra@drupal.community @ekes@drupal.community Thank you. 🙏 Am I just the first person to notice? I have no idea when this happened, but a lot of people seem to be noticing for the first time today. A lot of #wtf. 😂
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@jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com Trouble is the Panda is now the "Pandina" and the new "Grande Panda" is too big (and the electric version is a bit shit because Stellantis Group). Pity. Hopefully *someone* will make something in the spirit of the old Panda, electric and 4x4! A 4x4 Hyundai Inster would be amazing...
Followed a YouTube video to change the washer pump on my daughter's Fiat Panda. Got halfway through removing the inner wing for access (which is a massive pita) then realised the video was for a Mk II and in the Mk III (hers) and later Fiat put a little, easy to remove panel for access to the washer pump! 😂 Much swearing as I put all the stupid screws and clips back in... If I ever have to do it again, I'll be much quicker. It really is a 10 minute job on the Mk III. Less so on the Mk II.