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Things are:

  • White or "political"
  • Straight or "political"
  • Male or "political"
  • Cis or "political"
  • Able-bodied or "political"
  • Christian or "political"

etc, etc

"I don't like to talk about politics" means "I voted Tory and I don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable"

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Presented without comment

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@V0ldek @Tb0n3 Large Lucknow Model

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@phoenixz @Soyweiser "Let's redefine what it means to be human, so we can say the LLM is human" have you bumped your head?

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@mawhrin @EatATaco https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/110077525298973789

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@frezik @HawlSera

> We can likely get there orders of magnitude faster than evolution could

[Citation needed]

pikesley,
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@WolfLink so you're saying there's a measurable correlation between practicing a skill and getting better at it? Amazing

What's this got to do with the Big Averaging Machine?

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@dgerard @TachyonTele that rug really tied the room together, man

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@WolfLink and that's how evolution works, is it?

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@WolfLink note how nothing there is "trying" to do anything

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I want a really simple key/value data store, which I can write to with a REST API call. Would you create a simple REST API wrapper around something like Redis/Valkey, or would you just expose the datastore directly? Or is there a really simple service that I can build something like that in? I actively want to avoid anything fancy or powerful, the fewer features the better.

pikesley,
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@Floppy this feels like about 10 lines of Sinatra or Flask tbh

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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

pikesley,
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@RickiTarr these people never heard of jazz?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iYwrhM304Ak&si=-ReaGeoODVRBLpzX

pikesley,
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@RickiTarr it gave birth to this

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzc5Pz3SPUE&si=zqLWBlqU2CRZDqsI

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Just found these in the garden, probably nothing

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I just mis-read a media type as "mans/plain" and now I'm trying hard not to write the RFC for it.

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@ldodds Request For Condescension?

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@Floppy @ldodds Christ alive imagine if we were posting this on a public forum where everybody could see our idiocy

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@gilesdring @Floppy @ldodds @otfrom always has been

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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

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@RickiTarr

London

I was born here and I'll probably die here

Pros:

Cons:

  • It's surrounded by Normal Island
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One issue with the #emfcamp schedule, AFAICT - if I hold multiple tickets, the other ticketed attendees don't have an account on the website with which to heart the talks / feed the scheduling algorithm. Am I holding it wrong?

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@andypiper don't you need to distribute the tickets to each email address?

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@dgerard I clicked on "monthly mortgage payments" lol

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From an artist's point of view, is there any difference between you buying a donated CD from a charity shop and downloading pirated music from a torrent site?

Neither gives the artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, or distributors any money.

Neither reports to a charts authority to show popularity.

Both have the same impact on secondary revenue like gig tickets & merchandise.

Vote now - and please show your workings.

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@JuliaRez @Edent Electro 13 left the deepest mark on young me

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@JuliaRez @Edent I had it on cassette. It eventually got eaten by the tape player in my shitty Nissan Bluebird

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If you're coming to , I'll be giving a talk all about the UK's Contact Tracing app - and whether open source saved lives.

https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/16-lessons-learned-open-sourcing-the-uks-covid-tracing-app

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@Edent volunteering to laugh, clap and/or heckle as required to fill your allotted time

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“mutalk" is a soundproof Bluetooth microphone that isolates your voice, making it difficult for others to hear and preventing ambient noise from being picked up while you speak

https://en.shiftall.net/products/mutalk

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Every two years, I am reminded how bad I am at soldering

#EMF #EMF2024

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Anybody want some little wisps of hot glue? I have a lot of them here

#EMF #EMF2024

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I joined a Gen-X UK group on Facebook, mostly to confirm my existing prejudices, and holy shit my people are just fucking awful

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Fuck me

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