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🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

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#DoctorWho #racism

New euphemism for being late: ‘BepiColombo’s journey to Mercury becomes even more epic’ http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Fourth_Mercury_flyby_begins_BepiColombo_s_new_trajectory #astrodon

The Linux commands you should NEVER use
by @sjvn in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20180220202812/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-linux-commands-you-should-never-use-1712.html

OMG - kids today on learning that the 'save' symbol 💾 is a physical storage disk ...

Also OMG - me on recently learning that 'upper case' and 'lower case' refers to the physical case printers used to use to store their letters. How did I miss this?

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

Ukraine to abolish daylight saving time from 1 January 2025.
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/64AC36LPSPQJTR7GDOHOFAJLCIPKTTFO/

"This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File"

Brilliant article about the difficulties of getting cheap/free and accurate postcode data in the UK
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#GIS #Postcode #Data #UK
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/secret-paf-report

Wrote my first lua project, and first vim plugin before breakfast: https://github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli-vim

It's such an exciting time to be making software.

The fact you can just scroll through photos from Mars is mad.
This one was only taken 12 hours ago!

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl

Recently, a Dutch hacker found a vulnerability allowing him to shut down 4 million solar power installations. A handful of mostly non-European places manage perhaps 100 GW of solar power in the EU. Any mishap there, or heaven forbid, a compromise, could easily shut down so much power that the European electricity grid would collapse. Shockingly, we regulate these massive control panels as if they are online birthday calendars. And that must change. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/

I love it so much!

Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.

Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)

You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)

Fancy that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

#chrome #ublock #adblockers

Got me a box of these. Nice.

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉

Tickets for OggCamp 2024 are now available! Join us on October 12th and 13th at The Manchester Conference Centre for an unforgettable weekend celebrating Free Culture, Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and more.

https://oggcamp.org/tickets/

[BLOG] ... and I Must Scream

In which I build a custom Linux kernel module to teach the computer how to scream.

https://blog.yaakov.online/and-i-must-scream/

I've read the programmer folk tale "The Story of Mel" many times and it was already old when I first found it, as it was first posted in 1983. I didn't really appreciate that it was already old by the time it was posted though.
The RPC-4000 computer mentioned in it was produced in 1960, had about 32KiB of memory (drum, so not random access!) and ran at about 12 *kilo*hertz. It was the size of a desk, weighed 235kg and drew 1500 Watts.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html