Oliver Kohll

@yavien@social.hackerspace.pl datacove.co.uk do a lot of data science and R/Python community things, like run the EARL conference, they may have some advice or connections

@eclectech to re-use my own joke from a few days ago, it’s a trifle bazaar

@inthehands Exactly the same type of reaction as Bezos' is described in the book about Facebook, Careless People, when Mark Z runs away on meeting a Facebook employee who had been jailed in a repressive foreign country

@petrikas@mastodon.art The ultra-wealthy are like the carnival operators in a Phillip K Dick short story, tilting the game and making sure everyone is conned in the end

@Thayer Not sure if we'd be suitable, we're a small mainly remote company in Bristol, but I am looking to find a source of freelancers for bits of ad-hoc #Java work. Out of interest how did he come to learn that, I didn't think many people were still teaching youngsters Java?

@Thayer oh thank you, much appreciated, I’ll take a look tomorrow. No job post but I’ll think about that

@ErickaSimone@mastodon.social great to hear some good news in the world, thanks for posting. Building the arts makes the world better.

@Hesperalis Thanks for the reminder, done

@christineburns@mastodon.green A Cleaning Up listener? Half way through that episode. They do have some interesting conversations and yes that is mad. There was someone a few days ago (forget where) who said that after all the AI hype has crashed we'd be left with lots of very cheap computing capacity as a side effect, or I guess at least electricity.

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy The solar cost thing reflects similar opinions I've read, but the later parts of the article get increasingly bizarre and tech-bro-ey. Datacentres becoming conscious etc. His main point is carbon capture will become not just mainstream but central to all manufacturing etc. To be fair, that's what his company is set up to do, so some self-serving hype is to be expected, but almost no one else seems to believe that technology is anything other than a very dangerous gamble to rely on

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy at least on any timescale that matters climate emergency wise

@benjaoming ta, just removed Chrome, which I don't use anyway, from my laptop. I hope it doesn't download to servers, we use Chrome to generate PDF files server side, I'll have to keep an eye out - 4G would be a large portion of many of our disks.

@janl@narrativ.es @rachelandrew@front-end.social Uncertain about posting my own take as it's not easy to agree with myself, let alone anyone else agreeing with it! It surfaces a conflict between belief and action. However in the interest of recording accurately where I am... I do appreciate this more hardline position but being completely honest, am unable to live up to it fully, partly because like for many in IT, understanding and using AI contributes a (currently small) element of revenue. I do limit it. Similarly, I cycle and use trains when I can, or when I do drive, drive an EV. However I still sometimes fly for holidays. I know meat eating contributes to climate change and now limit it, but I'm not fully vegetarian/vegan. I buy things from big corps who I know act in racist and immoral ways. I don't particularly cut out palm oil etc. Whilst I hope I improve, what we can all definitely do is vote and otherwise apply political pressure where we can.

@scottjenson@social.coop That dynamicland you mentioned near the end looks really cool