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samueljohnson

@samueljohnson@mstdn.social

Scientist, MBA, ex IT professional, Irish & European
Lived 30+ years on 4 continents, now back in Ireland.

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jeremybmerrill, to random

“I absolutely was never thinking or planning a sex robot brothel in rural Georgia.”

https://www.ajc.com/politics/no-a-bionic-bordello-isnt-coming-to-rural-georgia/DFZZUBSUCRBKHCBHIHDGG3XXAA/

samueljohnson,
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@jeremybmerrill @jon_harbert You aren't just giving them your money. You are paying with your privacy. The site is "unavailable in most European countries [ie the EU] due to GDPR". Nope. It's because the scummy business model based on misuse of data is illegal

https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror

Getting a pass on that for your subscription? Nope.

SarahOestreich, to books

News from the #EJeanCarroll suit: Joe Tacopina has filed for a mistrial. It revolves around the Trump lawyer initially not recognizing, then not understanding a classic piece of satirical #literature. From @emptywheel with an appearance by @KlasfeldReports https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/05/01/joe-tacopina-complains-about-woke-jonathan-swift/

samueljohnson,
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@SarahOestreich @emptywheel @KlasfeldReports 700 years ago? The year 1729 to be exact. Not even 300.

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Absitively! Steed!..., we're needed.

samueljohnson,
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@BrideOfLinux The lovely Ms Peel, the Helen of Troy for many, with a manual on purring? A bit of a cliché.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to internet
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Let's make it a game to figure out the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.

Hint directly from their Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):

a. "...website located at bsky.social (“Site”), [AND!] the Authenticated Transfer [AT] social protocol (“Protocol”)"

b. "...our Site, Protocol, and App... are collectively called the “Services.”"

c. "By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky..."

Any guesses?

1/4
#twittermigration #ContentLicense

samueljohnson,
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@mastodonmigration The Internet runs on TCP/IP not Ethernet. Your devices may use Ethernet locally as well as TCP/IP but it's not ordinarily possible to discern this for any content transferred across the Internet.

samueljohnson, to random
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Brilliant weekly Brexit analysis, as usual, from Chris Grey

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/raab-brexit-and-civil-service.html

EU_Commission, to random
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🛂 We want to make travelling across EU borders smoother.

That’s why we are launching a public consultation on the digitalisation of travel documents. Your contributions will help establish a common standard in the Schengen area.

Digital travel documents can be easier to issue than physical ones and can facilitate border checks.

This initiative aims to decide on a common format for digital travel documents.

#EUHaveYourSay until June 28: https://europa.eu/!8CGq6H

A GIF showing different EU passports with the superimposed sentence: "Digitalisation of travel documents."

samueljohnson,
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@newsorpigal @EU_Commission You're surveilled anyway when you cross international borders*. Get over it unless you're proposing not doing any checks at your own borders.

*Except inside the EU's Schengen zone.

sinabhfuil, to random

Damn, wish I could have solar panels https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41127427.html

samueljohnson,
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@astaines @Tarbh @Cbfoley @sinabhfuil That's useful. I have a quote from one company and have contacted and am waiting for a response from 3 others (14 400W panels, battery, etc). My impression is that they simply can't keep up with demand.

Previously I solicited quotes for installation of a Zappi charger. 23 invites, got 1 quote, a few apologies (mostly too busy) and no response from the rest.

samueljohnson,
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@Tarbh @Cbfoley @sinabhfuil https://suncalc.org crossed the radar earlier FWIW

adrianfry, to random
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A reminder to check your #UK #passport for compliance with #EU rules post-Brexit.

#Brexit really is such a catastrophe for the dis-United Kingdom.

All the more reason for #indyref2 #independent #scotland #scottishindependence

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/apr/29/briton-valid-passport-barred-from-flight-brexit-rules-eu

samueljohnson,
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@adrianfry Don't miss this superb column

https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

sjvn, to random
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Neat! I won a 2022 Trade, Association, Business Publications International (TABPI) Gold for my ComputerWorld newsletter/column Business Critical. These are awards for best English language business to business journalism. I've still got it!
https://www.tabpi.org/news/tabbies/computerworld-gold

samueljohnson,
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@sjvn Well deserved. Congratulations. The word awesome is grotesquely overused in the US but there's no other word for the quality and quantity of your output. Nice to see you recognised.

pogokero, to random

Embassy of Russia threatens Ireland after Finbar Cafferkey was killed while defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion.

https://telegra.ph/Remarks-by-the-Embassy-of-Russia-in-Ireland-04-28

samueljohnson,
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@pogokero The Irish evicted the British Empire from most of Ireland when it was the greatest power on earth. Mere Russians would be easily defeated. Joe Stalin himself was badly beaten up by some Irishmen in London (an Irish nurse solicited their help in a bar). Russians know better than to attack a small neutral country with friends (not forgetting the Skibereen Eagle).

samueljohnson, to random
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This is a superb article by a disillusioned British unionist whose journey exactly matches that of Scottish friends of mine in Ireland, all of whom voted No to independence in 2014, and every one of whom is now strongly in favour of ending the union. Most, and most of their children, now have Irish citizenship.

https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

vitaminsludge, to random

What a wanker! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/dutch-court-orders-sperm-donor-to-stop-after-550-children

samueljohnson,
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@vitaminsludge Literally!

jon, to random
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Damn I’m so tired of this

Improvements to 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 #CrossBorderRail services are now going to be 2 years later than had been announced with a lot of fanfare - start December 2026, not 2024 🤬

Link via @ummels

https://vm.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/grenzueberschreitendes-schienennetz-zur-vergabe-ausgeschrieben

samueljohnson,
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@jon @ummels Try waiting for high speed (fibre optic) broadband in rural Ireland! It is actually coming. Still. As it has been seemingly forever.

It's got as far as the pole outside my house but the schedule says Jan to July 2024. Should have been ready long ago but Covid affected things.

brianklaas, to random
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NEW: Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence.

Billionaires provide a window into so much about what is wrong with modern life—and the broken systems of how we allocate wealth and power. I explain: https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/billionaires-and-the-evolution-of

samueljohnson,
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@brianklaas NN Taleb's Fooled by Randomness is excellent on this topic.

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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Redding up and found this copy of The New York Times from Saturday 25 June 2016. I was in NYC for work as the #Brexit referendum result hit the fan.

It's still hitting the fan now.

#YouYesYet

samueljohnson,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious I had already left UK but was back on the day of the vote. Overheard in a coffee shop next morning:

Feels like 9/11, 1939

skibbereeneagle, to random

The Electoral Reform Society was formed in 1898 to campaign for PR.
It is clear nobody wants it, it has no electoral traction and Labour should concentrate on winning the General Election without distraction.

samueljohnson,
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@skibbereeneagle Clear nobody wants it? Most people don't know the first thing about it. Those with experience of it wouldn't part with it.

samueljohnson,
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@skibbereeneagle but... as it isn't going to apply next election you're right. It's arguably distraction in advance of it. GTTO is first priority. However, Labour posing as self-interested as Tories will cost them votes.

Wallyapplebee, to random

Someone enlighten me, why are foreign nationals in #sudan ? Were they there for humanitarian purposes, professional, or another profit proposition? Seems like they’ve had plenty of advanced warning it wasn’t going to be safe to remain, and yet there they are. Not judging, just trying to understand why they took such great risk.

samueljohnson,
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@Wallyapplebee

Countries invaded

UK 122
Sudan 0

jmason, to random

GMail has definitely rolled out some more aggressive spam filtering; a good deal of my mail forwarded to GMail from jmason.org is now getting filtered. Going to have to investigate IMap delivery instead, I suspect

samueljohnson,
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@jmason Fastmail is far better. In addition to which, if you should ever need to interact with a human it's easily done.

samueljohnson,
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@jmason I've been a customer over 20 years. If there was something better I'd switch*. Did I mention that it's an ethical employee-owned business? Emaildiscussions.com may be worth a look if you want to find someone who has migrated a lot of data. Will need to this for a Gmail a/c myself soon.

*only feature I miss from Tuffmail (RIP) was ability to see reject mail logs - helped spot reverse DNS failures.

JorisBohnsonPM, to random
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“ Rishi Sunak ‘seeks EU deal’ to end Brexit border chaos for holidaying Brits”

Perhaps you should have thought about this before leaving the EU ?

They’re not that smart, this tory lot.

https://apple.news/AHByr98DuSVujSybGyNx7gg

#brexit
#rejoineu
#sunak
#gtto
#tories
#toriesout

samueljohnson,
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@jacqui76 I attended a Hogmanay party here a few years ago, after Brexit, w many academics from GB. Without exception the Scots voted no to independence and had changed their minds. Almost all have since become Irish citizens as have their children. The letter of welcome they received (worth looking up) was much appreciated. (says diversity welcome, people not asked to give up their culture, Ireland enriched by their connections etc). TeamOfUs now. 👏

samueljohnson,
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@jacqui76 Personally, I can't abide Danny Boy nor any other mawkish sentimentality; never suffered homesickness in my decades away and generally avoided Irish pubs etc. I left disillusioned and returned (somewhat accidentally) to a country transformed for the better in my absence. Change is possible, am sure it's continuing despite desire of some to block it. Encouraged by the emergence of Generation Neither and people like Joel Keys (pity he isn't here instead of the bad place).

GeoffWozniak, to random

I am a space enthusiast, but I also want to see quality and care at work. When I watched the clip of the Starship launch today and heard all the cheering even after it started tumbling out of control simply because it was able to get off the launchpad all I could think of was how fucking reckless, vain, and selfish these people are.

They don't care about preservation, because how wasteful is it to build a giant rocket and then just not care when it blows up, leaving a wake debris while massively disrupting a sensitive wildlife zone? I get that you have to iterate on things to improve them, but that doesn't mean you can't think really carefully about what you are doing.

These people aren't thinking. And I think they are doing it on purpose. They want the attention. He wants the attention. It's not about making something useful, it's about belief.

And it's belief in a profoundly stupid thing: that we have to colonize the Moon and Mars right now. They'll burn through whatever they have to on the way and don't give a shit.

Honestly, fuck them.

samueljohnson,
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@GeoffWozniak This reaction is understandable but one-sided. Here's the other side

https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1651320394807234560?s=20.

I'm a skeptic and think launches should be more regulated but surely that's more likely to be negotiated with a less one-sided critique?

investinopen, to opensource

Some exciting news! 🎉

We have received a $1M grant from the @MellonFdn to expand the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) + explore and test new models to finance #openinfrastructure.

#openscience #openaccess #opensource

(1/5)

https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-receives-1m-from-the-mellon-foundation-to-scale-the-catalog-of-open-infrastructure-services-cois/

samueljohnson,
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@investinopen @jon

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