Paul Campbell

@paulgc
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Living in Scotland. Messing with the web, hardware, wildlife and noises.
noiseshttps://soundcloud.com/bordr-music

Got some records out for the first time in about 5 years. Can't remember how to do it, but I'm having fun.

Half hour of hiphop featuring some really sketchy mixing but a probably couple of rare bits.

https://soundcloud.com/bordr-music/half-hour-hiphop

half-hour-hiphop

First mix in a loooong time (I no longer live on a boat). Half hour of all vinyl, all late 90s/early 2000s hip hop bradford style. The mixing is shady. The records are not :) Quasimoto - Privacy Cop

SoundCloud
Operation "clear up some of this shit that's lying about" can begin
Gone full rural and got myself a trailer :)

♻️ legendofmi.com: Nice easter egg on https://DuckDuckGo.com. If you search for “Guybrush Threepwood”, the logo transforms into Guybrush.

Spotted by Technical_Pass7714 on Reddit.

Surprising (to me) amount of hoverfly activity throughout a pretty cold and very wet Feb in the UK btw.

I have this pipeline of ML models that run in real time on images coming in from our cameras.

It can now ID certain families of insects down to species level with quite a high success rate. It's been running for a while, but it's just not getting old for me. It's really cool!

@danstowell This does make me feel a little better about the whole thing. thanks!

@danstowell Environmental impacts aside, (honestly feels like a lost cause at this point) this is basically a new customer buying an awful lot or power. I'm struggling to see how this won't increase the cost of electricity for everyone.

If everyone's life is to be made more difficult for this thing to exist, I'd like to at least have the benefits explained.

You are right though - I don't really understand the detail or implications of all of this. Hopefully it will become clearer.

@danstowell The article says

"Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity – 5GW more than the country’s current peak demand."

That sounds a lot like ~10% more than current peak demands?

I do feel quite a bit of despair at all this.

Seems like the pertinent information is slowly coming out on this stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand

I don't really understand how something that more than doubles the country's power requirements isn't a really big news story. Add that to the list I guess.

New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says

Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand

The Guardian