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quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@v.st

Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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With the likes of NetBSD and Gentoo banning (rightfully) LLM generated code. How do you enforce that? How do you ensure the code is written by a human ?

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Who on earth thought that ai model training should be better opt out, and not opt in. Ffs.

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UK is a world leader in production of "I told you so"

https://mas.to/@therightarticle/112452748032887184

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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

quixoticgeek,
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@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig well this is gonna be a fun conversation with my boss tomorrow...

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Why yes. That'll solve it. Impressive move from a state that's barely above sea level and in the frontine for Hurricane season...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251769080/florida-desantis-climate-change-law

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“When I see people say Eurostar is shrinking it drives me crazy, because it’s really not true,” says CEO Cazenave to the FT

https://www.ft.com/content/97f7a39b-0536-40e2-bbdd-e1d755418804

Yeah, because you merged with Thalys - so, surprise surprise, you transported more people

Passenger numbers London - Paris/Bruxelles are still down on the last pre-pandemic year, not least because Eurostar now no longer serves Ebbsfleet and Ashford

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@jimh @jon the limit is the border security staff. They stopped serving ebbsfleet and Ashford so as to move the staff to London. Then they complain they can't process a full train cos stp is too small...

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What the FUCK did I do?

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@chloe this doesn't add up...

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Over a decade ago when I was in The Gambia we had one of these badboys https://doulton.com/products/british-berkefeld-stainless-steel-gravity-system?variant=47184177824078 because as a poor country hammered by the legacy of colonialism it didn't the infrastructure to provide safe clean drinking water on tap, and today here I am in the UK in 2024 wondering if I should consider buying one of the damn things https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/devon-resident-told-to-boil-tap-water-over-risk-parasitic-disease-south-west

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@afewbugs i carry a katadyne befree water bottle when travelling. Works great and gives me reassurance about not needing to worry too much about water sources. Before that I used a Sawyer Mini.

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Toby!

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Woo. New season of #JetLagTheGame starts this afternoon. Yay!

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A friend of mine is a Doctor. On the train this morning on their way to work the call comes out. "Do we have any doctors on board?".

Finally. Friend grabs their bag and makes way through the train. Only to find 14 other doctors had done the same thing...

Guess that route is popular with medical staff on their way to work...

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@christianschwaegerl @cstross fortunately when it comes to CPR, the consensus is pretty strong.

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@WellsiteGeo on a train. Domestically. Yeah. My friend carries some tools with them (mainly a really nice stethoscope and a manual bp thingy). But mostly they picked up their bag so they didn't leave the work laptop on a train...

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  1. It's currently 27° in my flat. In May.

Summers gonna be tough.

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Had to call paramedics and currently sat with them in our house is a weird experience, they’re like the most aggressively heterosexual people I’ve spent any time around for ages

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@BethanyBlack eek. Hope you're ok. Get well soon!

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@BethanyBlack I hope she's ok now and wish her a speedy recovery. I hope you get some good rest too.

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Finally got the time to take the SD card out the camera and have a look at what I took on Saturday night.

This was taken near Andijk in Noord-Holland.

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And the evening sky water arrives.

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Ordered a load of metal for various projects. Package arrived today, but unfortunately all the steel is missing :(

Assuming that's coming separately, and soon. I now need to decide which project to start on next.

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Ooph. Today was intense. Glad it's over and don't need to go through it again for another year. Gonna celebrate with a nap.

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Does anybody I know on here have experience cycle touring in England? I'm headed to EMF Camp at the end of the month and it sounds really fun to simply cycle there (from London). I have many questions.

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@kim @bkero assume anything built by sustrans is the longest route from a to b.

Work on the assumption that everyone behind the wheel wants you dead. And ride on the left. Then you'll be fine.

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The smell of the heavy rain now after a few days of hot dry weather is wonderful.

Post from last year for the curious.

https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/110440191100842033

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Mmmm petrichor

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From 22 May, SNCF in ticket offices or through SNCF Connect can no longer sell you tickets for at least these neighbouring railways (this list might not be complete)

NS 🇳🇱
SNCB 🇧🇪
SBB* 🇨🇭
Renfe 🇪🇸
Trenitalia 🇮🇹
DB** 🇩🇪
ÖBB 🇦🇹

The scale of this absurd decision is amazing. And it plays right into the hands of the likes of Trainline

    • except Lyria
      ** - except cross border FR-DE TGVs and ICEs
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@jon can those companies sell tickets into France ?

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Went to the buurtwerkplats (neighbourhood workshop) to use the big power tools. Now to go find some dinner...

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