magnetichuman

@magnetichuman@cupoftea.social
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Interests: Programming/Video Games/Board Games/TCGs/TTRPGs/General nerd stuff
Skills: Physics/Tech/Maths/Sci. Comp.
Tofu-eating, Guardian-reading Wokerati
My day job is designing instruments for scientific research.
UK
He/Him
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magnetichuman5h ago
Church of Jeff6h ago
#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #AuDHD #AI #GenerativeAI #ClimateChange #Environment #GlobalWarming
magnetichuman2d ago
'Nother music recommendation. Newcastle desert rock, Dunes. https://dunesncl.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-the-blind
#bandcamp #musicrecommendation #desertrock #altrock #stonerrock #ukmusic
Land of the Blind, by Dunes

9 track album

Dunes
Show threadmagnetichuman2d ago
...and let's face it, it'll be Kier Starmer. #ukpol
magnetichuman2d ago
Long bet: Within the next 5 years, a country currently within the EU or Five Eyes will pass legislation to restrict the use of VPNs for personal use; either requiring linking VPN accounts with official ID, requiring VPN providers to monitor and store user usage data, or blocking their use outright. #OnlineSafetyAct
magnetichuman3d ago
Michael Veale3d ago
Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

404 Media
magnetichuman3d ago
ProjectFearlessness3d ago

"Electricity demand in Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, new Carbon Brief analysis shows.

This is up from just 2.5 hours in 2021 and 64.5 hours in all of 2024, ahead of the government’s clean-power target for 2030."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-great-britain-has-run-on-100-clean-power-for-record-87-hours-in-2025-so-far/

Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far - Carbon Brief

Electricity demand on the island of Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date

Carbon Brief
magnetichuman4d ago
gofoss5d ago

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...

magnetichuman6d ago
Show threadpetersuber6d ago

Update. "#Austria's military has switched from #MicrosoftOffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/

#OpenSource #Privacy #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics

This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why

It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.

ZDNET
magnetichuman6d ago
David RevoySep 24

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

magnetichumanSep 26
Council Estate MediaSep 26

At last, countries are standing up to Israel

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-spanish-italian-and-greek-navies

The Spanish, Italian and Greek navies are protecting the Global Sumud Flotilla from Israel

Israel is such a great ally of the West that three European countries have sent their navies to stop Israel sinking their vessels and murdering their citizens.

Council Estate Media
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David RevoySep 24

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Show threadHannah von Reth☁️Sep 24
@davidrevoy https://www.heise.de/en/news/Trump-s-anti-woke-ordinance-Meta-works-with-right-wing-influencer-10525801.html
Trump's anti-woke ordinance: Meta works with right-wing influencer

To get the supposedly woke bias out of AI applications, Meta is now working with the conservative Robby Starbuck.

heise online
Show threadJellyfriend Sep 24
@davidrevoy god i still uniuronically love The Amphora of Great Intelligence, why did you have to make them SO ROUND. what a BEAN.
Show threadbabble encatSep 24
@davidrevoy how I feel every time I hear "computers should run things"
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCSep 24
@babble_endanger @davidrevoy We know exactly what needs to be done. We have known for decades. We're not doing what needs to be done because that would mean ending Capitalism and changing the entire trajectory of modern civilisation.
Show threadMoniSep 26
@LordCaramac @babble_endanger @davidrevoy So *why* are we not doing it, really? 😁
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCSep 26
@monilenyan @babble_endanger @davidrevoy Because the people in power would lose their power if we did. And all the people living comfortable lives within the existing system would have to change everything, they would lose all their routines and habits, and nobody wants that.
Show threadbabble encatSep 26

@monilenyan @LordCaramac @davidrevoy and importantly, what would it take to get what we want?

Informal power like boycotts and mutual aid help. Petitioning elected officials who listen to their constituents helps. Running for office helps. Supporting good candidates helps. Protests and rallies and handing out information helps. Joining organizations helps.

I can't say what helps the most, but everything helps some.

Show threadChristian RickertSep 24

@davidrevoy
Every piece of artificial intelligence:

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Marjory_the_Trash_Heap

Marjory the Trash Heap

Marjory the Trash Heap is a large, matronly, sentient compost heap from Fraggle Rock. According to her rat-like companions Philo and Gunge, who serve as her acolytes, the Trash Heap knows all and sees all. In fact, Marjory is all: "I'm orange peels, I'm coffee grounds, I'm wisdom!" She serves as an oracle to the Fraggles, dispensing advice and wise sayings, and the Fraggles stand in awe and reverence of her. However, the trash heap lives outside the caves of Fraggle Rock, residing in a...

Muppet Wiki
Show threadsillyplasm!Sep 24
@christianrickert @davidrevoy don't diss madam trash heap like that 💔
Show threadオチュー🕊🇵🇸Sep 24

@davidrevoy Yeah I mean obviously re-use and forbidding the construction of non-durable products would be better than recycling which is wasteful in energy and in materials. Recycling is the propaganda used as diversion to keep producing more trash "it's not a problem because RECYCLING".

No recycling is 100% and most recycling is about producing sub-par material not-that-useful stuff which the society would pay... When it's the producer who should pay for the trash they produce.

Show threadJon [🇺🇦,🏳️‍🌈]Sep 24
@otyugh @davidrevoy Yes, but not all forms of recycling are bad. Plastic for sure is bad. Recycling glass, solar panels, metal, etc is good.
Show threadオチュー🕊🇵🇸Sep 24
@jon_giraffe @davidrevoy It's very energy intensive. Like glass (I'm working with recently), most company in france recycle their bottles when even small farms I'm working in are managing to just wash them (pretty far away because there isn't any local company offering it : but it exists, and it lmakes WAY MORE sense. Bottle should be used hundreds of time before being melt again it's kinda outrageous what we do because energy is cheap enough to remake them AT EVERY SINGLE USE).
Show threadBadtux the Snarky PenguinSep 25
@otyugh @jon_giraffe @davidrevoy When I was very young in the late 1960s our elementary school class took a field trip to the local Coca Cola bottling company. There we saw the glass bottles come in and be placed upside down on a conveyer belt that had little sticks with nozzles on them, they then went through a dishwasher then the nozzles cleaned the interiors. They were then flipped, filled, and capped. Far different from today's disposable bottles that didn't exist then.
Show threadオチュー🕊🇵🇸Sep 25
@badtux @jon_giraffe @davidrevoy I think recycling was mostly lost in the mainstream because glass get marked with time (especially passing through conveyors) that makes the packaging "not perfectly pristine". You can see that on a few rare consigned brands.
Show threadBadtux the Snarky PenguinSep 25
@otyugh @jon_giraffe @davidrevoy The glass Coke bottles became somewhat frosted over time. After being reused many times to the point where they were essentially opaque they were sent to the glass company to melt down and used to manufacture new bottles. All gone now of course replaced with single use plastic bottles or aluminum cans.
Show threadMomoSep 24
@davidrevoy
...so true...
Show threadmkjSep 24

@davidrevoy Thank you for sharing these!

Small nit: the alt text for panel four doesn't quite match the image.

Show threadDavid RevoySep 24

@mkj Thank you for checking and reporting!   I forgot I edited the speechbubble after writing the script for something shorter and more efficient!
Fixed in https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/commit/e60e384f3cd31857d17ea7d99d13c7fc937a9b20

(but I'll probably not edit the post, it would renotify everyone who already interacted with it for a minor change that I couldn't explain unless adding a long "edit: fixed a typo in the alt").

[mft][ep20][en] Small transcript update (e60e384f) · Commits · peppercarrot / webcomics · GitLab

A repository for managing and translating episodes of Pepper&Carrot, miniFantasyTheater and various comic projects.

GitLab
Show threadmkjSep 24
@davidrevoy No worries, it's definitely close enough to get the gist across! 🙂
Show threadOhtar CelebrinSep 24

@davidrevoy

L'amphore propose la suite de mots la plus probable sans en comprendre le sens.
Elle ne peut évidemment encore moins juger de sa pertinence.

Et même cette solution, par essence médiocre, ne conviendra aux technnomages.

Très cohérent comme bd, j'aime beaucoup !

Show threadEl Dado InquietoSep 24
@davidrevoy As good (bad) as real life.
Show threadJargogglesSep 24
@davidrevoy
PULL OUT THE WOKE TOMES, FEED IT MORE BIASED GRIMOIRES, THEN POUR THE SLUDGE THAT COMES OUT BACK INTO IT
Show threadJargogglesSep 24
@davidrevoy
PULL OUT THE WOKE TOMES, FEED IT MORE BIASED GRIMOIRES, THEN POUR THE SLUDGE THAT COMES OUT BACK INTO IT
Show threadPanta RheiSep 24
@davidrevoy 🎯
Show threadrootSep 24
@davidrevoy it looks amazing, especially on the last two panels - I hate the very concept of AGI, but I love the Amphora! ❤️
Show threadToon Link Sep 24
@davidrevoy HAHAHA yuuup!
Show threadInternet RandoSep 24
@davidrevoy I didn't think the first part could even be followed! Bravo!
Show threadblueberrySep 24
@davidrevoy https://fungiverse.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/the-avada-kedavra-cycle-a-bridge-from-harry-potter-to-science-fiction/
Avada Kedavra – Humanity’s Last Prompt

Prelude Language allows humans to imagine impossible things and sometimes this possibility becomes unbearable. Or rather: the impossibility to talk something into existence. Instead, the world is m…

Fungiverse Tales
Show threadBenSep 24

@davidrevoy This panel makes me wonder, are there any good books/games/worlds that combine industrial society with magic?

Like you still have spells and wands and wizards and starry hats, but the way all of that stuff is powered is by the same ways that we power technology. Fossil fuels, factories belching black smoke, high wizards unconcerned about the pollution their magical experiments create? Maybe some hippie/anarchist wizards that everyone looks down at for saying they need to go back to communing with nature and drawing their powers from that?

Show threadbribSep 24
@davidrevoy Looking forward to see how they adjust it for Part 3 😃
Show threadArapallaSep 24

@davidrevoy

No. The answer is 42. I've thought about it quite carefully. Perhaps if you knew what the question was.

Show threadIsabelle MoonSep 24
@davidrevoy
Show threadJusteaze LizrichSep 24
@davidrevoy I like how cute the pot is lol 
Show threadCarl CSep 24
@davidrevoy The wizards are already into late-stage capitalism, I see.
Show threadluca0N!Sep 25
@davidrevoy At a first glance, I thought the wizards were dumping piles of cash. Ironically, perhaps that would still keep the comic accurate 🤔
Show threadTeaandInkSep 25
@davidrevoy I love that little detail of one of the grimoires pulled out being reddit, lol
Show threadTim NSep 25
@davidrevoy can't you post these as four separate images? I think this would make for a better reading/viewing experience, at least for me.
Show threadDavid RevoySep 25

@timnolli Thank you for the feedback, but I don't think there is any guarantee of image sorting on the various Fediverse clients. Also, thumbnails of pictures are in 16:9 by default on Mastodon, not adapted for this format.

My current format is supposed to be able to be read without a zoom/click/interaction on the post. This episode probably has a too high density of details that breaks this rules (eg. compare to ep.16, "Cookie") and forced you to zoom.
Sorry for the discomfort of reading.

Show threadTim NSep 26
@davidrevoy thank you for the elaborate response. But I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding. I have no problem with zooming in general. The problem is, I have good peripheral vision and am kind of trained to take in my surroundings in an instant (which may not be quite normal ...), so being presented the whole story at once can ruin the punchline for me.
That's why I actually intentionally directly zoom in and then pan in Z order, to enjoy the story in sequence. But that's kind of annoying - I would rather just swipe.
But the thing with the non-guaranteed order and 16:9 thumbnails is of course bad.
For the record, I use the Mastodon app Tusky on a 6 inch phone.
Show threadTim NSep 26
@davidrevoy TLDR I don't zoom for detail, I zoom for "encapsulation".
Show threadThanasis KiniasSep 25
@davidrevoy
the ✨ is a nice touch!
Show threadTristan Nitot✓Sep 25
@davidrevoy I Love it! I think @timparrique should totally see this!
Show threadCyber YukiSep 25

@davidrevoy This is genius 🤣

The AI analogy was exactly on point.

Show threadSindastra   🌈🍀Sep 25
@davidrevoy Can you please explain the last panel? I understand that people in general don't like to hear facts that are inconvenient, but I was wondering if this was in reference to anything specific?
Show threadDavid RevoySep 26

@sin The wizards in this comic strip are an allegory for the large companies that own significant AI models (LLMs).

This comic strip illustrates that, even if an LLM's response to a prompt is correct, it may be rejected if it does not align with the company's political views.

In fact, reports suggest that LLMs are increasingly being tweaked to be 'less woke' and more politically aligned with the alt-right, in order to comply with those in power.

Show threadSindastra   🌈🍀Sep 26
@davidrevoy Thank you! 🩷