geoff martin

@ggmartin
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A Canadian living in western Denmark (it's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here...). Curmudgeonly sceptic, tweaker of speakers, restorer and maker of fountain pens, and rescuer of old things
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“Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs. That's because plug-in or balcony panels start shaving off part of a homeowner's or renter's utility bill right away.” But the Utilities want to block them.

Easy-to-use solar panels are c...
We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it.

"After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.

The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media
Is there something opposite of a restraining order? Because it would be easier to list the dozen or so people I want allowed within 100 yards of me.

Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: I can do the Bowie part, but I don't have the upper range to sing the Freddie part.

our house, in the middle of the street 🎶

When you date people in an open source dating app...

#meme #chistemalo

Ask ghosts.

God anledning til at tage en snak om hvem der har stemmeret.

Personligt tænker jeg at de som bor i Danmark, er underlagt landets love og (for langt de flestes vedkommende) bidrager til landet bør kunne stemme (uanset statsborgerskab).

(Og den logiske (måske mindre populære) konsekvens er så også at danske statsborgere ikke kan stemme hvis man ikke længere er bosat i Danmark.)

#fv26 #dkpol

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/folketingsvalg/folketinget-sendte-broelermail-til-13-000-unge-uden-stemmeret

Folketinget sendte brølermail til 13.000 unge uden stemmeret

'Hjertelig tillykke med, at du har fået stemmeret', fik 13.000 unge uden dansk statsborgerskab at vide.

DR

"And some people say 'These people, they're not even trying to be British. They come here, they bring their own culture, their food, speak their own language, and try to take over the whole bloody place.'

Dunno. Sounds pretty British to me."

~Trevor Noah
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