Mastodawn

Naivety? Sloppy unprofessionalism? Or worse ?

Whenever such hasbeens as Lord Robertson pop up from obscurity and start receiving headline BBC news coverage, we all do well to smell a rat.

One that sits on the Board.

And requires to be ousted, without further delay or damage.

#BBC

piofthings 3d ago

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)3d ago

I heard a reporter from Axios interviewed on NPR the other day (Marketplace Tech, I think) talking about how the tech companies are putting out new models every 6 months to 1 year and how each model is more "powerful" than the previous.

This got me thinking about what it means when we describe technology and this technology in particular as "powerful".

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piofthings 3d ago

@aaisp do you see obscene AI Bot traffic at the IP addresses you offer to domestic connections? Do you try to block it? I am completely flummoxed why my gitlab server hosted on a pi at home never goes goes down but my static websites have a 30% uptime (hosted elsewhere on a raspberry pi as well). Might just setup a proxy and do multiple sites at home! [I may have jinxed it now, though 🤦🏽‍♂️ ]

piofthings 3d ago

There should be some kind of law that prevents insurance companies from making Auto Renewals illegal and an Opt In. @neil

piofthings 5d ago

Col 5d ago

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

piofthings 5d ago

Andy 6d ago

One for the #MakersHour crew!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn78e1vzk5vo

Peterborough man creates supersized household objects

He lives in his home among huge objects including a giant pencil, clothes peg and a 13-amp plug.

BBC News

piofthings 5d ago

Alexei Ovsyannikov 6d ago

Maybe it's just #burnout ?

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piofthings 5d ago

@neil hey Neil, your responses probably got auto deleted from your server, but to close the loop, apparently there is a National database of Energy Providers in which my address was flagged as a business premise. Octopus asked me to provide Council Tax Bill to prove it was residential and have since moved me back to a residential customer.

piofthings Apr 3