Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 2mo ago Replying to @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I've yet to see any "My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union." "Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway." "Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down." headlines. I wonder why. @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk "Our A.I went rogue and released flight manifestos for all our execs that flew to Epstein's Island"
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 5mo ago Replying to @25kV@mas.to I have a friend who is very fond of this mindmelting example of wayfinding at West Ham station. To the extent that she takes family and friends there to take selfies. So come on the internet, what other examples of mad signage are there out there? #auditortrap @25kV
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 2mo ago Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink OK let me run up this flagpole. now I KNOW there's so many UNIX-style desktop environments that I can't possible make a really comprehensive poll but I'm genuinely curious as to what folks use. We first experienced Xfce quite a while ago (late 1990s when it was new) and after spending a while with KDE and other things instead we settled back into Xfce. It gets the job done and that's what matters. So, your #Linux / #BSD / #UNIX desktop environment! @mxchara@seattle.pink I like a minimal desktop, so i always use #openbox or #labwc
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 7mo ago Replying to @peterbosch66@mstdn.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social @peterbosch66@mstdn.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social missed a trick here. In the last panel it should've been "Eleventy Nine" studies
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 5mo ago Replying to @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org #GoToSocial really whips the sloth's ass @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org GoToSocial getting a media player?
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 4mo ago Replying to @acesabe@infosec.exchange @n1ck@beige.party @Illuminatus@mstdn.social @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social Depending on whether you are a heavy consumer of electricity or not (air conditioning, electric car, cooker etc) the electricity bills here are cheap enough to not feel fitting solar is an urgent matter, that said, for those that can (many live in flats here) it's a no-brainer and certainly on my shortlist of eco actions. whether to ditch the gas cooker (and to lesser degree hot water boiler) is another matter... @acesabe@infosec.exchange @Illuminatus@mstdn.social @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social we'll eventually get solar and ditch the gas hob & gas boiler
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 6mo ago Replying to @ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com @Cycling_Liz@mastodon.social @Pionir@masto.bike @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @zebulonmysterioso@mas.to Right... "Everyone else is responsible for my bad communication" is not the defence you seem to think it is. Have a nice life eh @ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com @Cycling_Liz@mastodon.social @Pionir@masto.bike @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @zebulonmysterioso@mas.to the flip side of that is "i can explain it to you but i can't understand it for you"
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 4mo ago Replying to @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social A decade ago, Spain was one of Europe's more expensive power markets, and critics said it was investing too much in solar energy. Now, the average wholesale price for electricity in the country is one of the lowest in Europe. Oxford professor and energy policy advisor Jan Rosenow writes for his newsletter about how that happened. https://flip.it/bIwOpR #Renewables #Environment #Spain @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social In Spain at the moment, what is surprising is the lack of residential solar panels, you'd think the houses would be covered in them
Open post n1ck @n1ck@beige.party · 4mo ago Replying to @Illuminatus@mstdn.social @n1ck@beige.party @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social It's part of the delay we suffered due to the "sun tax": serving the power companies' interests, the government of the previous PM, Mariano Rajoy, imposed taxes on solar panels and infrastructure that meant we have had about a decade of lost renewable power improvements. @Illuminatus@mstdn.social @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social thanks for the explanation