I saw a young person ask ChatGPT how long their flight was today when they were literally holding the boarding pass with that information on it in the same hand that had the phone in it. ChatGPT spat out about 4 paragraphs on the subject when the answer was “40 minutes”. What a time to be alive
Edit: this blew up so I’m muting it now to save my notifications. No, I didn’t make it up for clicks, I’d have preferred fewer. Just a little anecdote from a tiring day that I’m trying to relax from now
A good time to ensure you have a stable holdover clock, and a way to switch NTP servers in case the one you rely on is down.
But this is rough, losing power to the clocks that make time for US services... https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I
Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.
Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”
Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format (and the default used in LibreOffice). The German IT Planning Council is a 17-member committee consisting of representatives of Germany’s federal government and the state governments. They say: Open formats and open interfaces are an important building block for the necessary transformation process of public administration in Germany on the path to greater digital sovereignty and innovation. The IT Planning Council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly used in public administration and become the standard for document exchange by 2027. It is commissioning the Standardization Board to implement this. More information (in German) on this page. Also see the updates from Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice.
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