Dave Stephens

@davestephens
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Technology, LEGO, Linux, retro gaming and beer, preferably all at the same time, and not necessarily in that order. Creator of Ansible-NAS, evangelist of all things automation, and measuring how automated the automation is. Bloody love an Oxford comma.
GitHubhttps://github.com/davestephens
Ansible-NAShttps://ansible-nas.io
Slow Cooker Clubhttps://www.slowcookerclub.com
@ghalfacree @textfiles @internetarchive there was a magazine in the UK called "Internet and Comms Magazine" that I've not seen a copy of since the mid 90s. I'd literally lose my shit if anyone had a PDF of it....😬
Often fixing the thing is more fun than using the thing.

GPT-5: can perfectly build any website

GPT-6: can build and run a company

GPT-7: passes Turing test

GPT-8: overthrows world governments

GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, gives up, asks humans for help

From: https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1639309536149504001

Tweet / Twitter

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#virgin 500mbit #broadband vs. #BT 900mbit full fibre #fttp. Decent #latency improvement!
I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong
@gamingonlinux I'm actually losing my rag with Fedora, KDE and Nvidia for a slightly different reason today - my laptop and Optimus, aka intel/Nvidia switching. Driving me nuts.

Oooof almost 400 more in 3 months. Fuck.

3,633 Starlinks in orbit out of 3,930 launched (failure rate still ~10%, gross)

7,312 total sats in orbit. Well fuck, Starlink is finally about to pass the 50% OF ALL SATELLITES mark.

Think about that: 50% of all satellites are owned by the same ego-maniac billionaire who most of us here on Mastodon are now extremely familiar with. This is so bad.

Spotted in Louth, UK - VAX KILLS! Seems unlikely, to be fair. #AntiVaxxNutters

Using ChatGPT means you're not learning. It's effectively a smart script for copying other people's answers. You think you might understand what it's doing, but struggling and typing is what helps you learn.

In an interview you'll be asked technical questions about your knowledge, and you can't rely on ChatGPT then.

If you're a student learning #UnrealEngine, or anything really, I really advise doing it yourself.

Who here remembers these two?