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@pndc 1d ago

jamesb (MW1CGG)1d ago

Yorkshire Water's FAQ on the hosepipe ban. They think of everything.

@pndc 1d ago

Sophie 2d ago

People can't tell me that it's not possible to make the world accessible for disabled people, after the whole world has been made accessible to cars.

@pndc 2d ago

I bet it smelled almost as bad as a packed Ryanair flight back from the Costa del Lager.

https://live.acarsdrama.com/users/acarsdrama/statuses/114819815330245063

@pndc 2d ago

Zendadaist 2d ago

So far, my experience with the #Three #Vodafone merger is that most of my incoming calls are not even getting through to my phone. My phone is sitting beside me doing nothing and calls simply don't show up, even from saved numbers. I just get a text from Three about a voicemail (assuming the caller even left one). No other attempt at a call nor any record of a missed incoming call.

This wasn't a thing a couple of months ago. I would get the calls on my phone as normal and unless I was in the shower or something I'd be able to answer them.

Given right now I'm dealing with a flurry of urgent calls from hospitals etc, this is not only frustrating as all hell it's putting my health at risk. It can take DAYS of me trying to call them back and them trying to call me again before I can speak to anyone (woo for poorly-resourced NHS services).

0/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND THREE-VODAPHONE.

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@pndc 2d ago

@dysfun @RogerBW @simon_lucy Well, Izal is wipe-clean and reusable, just not in the way anybody would want.

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@pndc 3d ago

@dysfun I just looked it up: TF32 is actually just 19 bits: 8 exponent and 10 mantissa!

@pndc 3d ago

@davidgerard In theory, you can now have Google index your site for search without feeding it to AI, by blocking the "Google-Extended" crawler but allowing "Google" in robots.txt. Apparently this was introduced in April; perhaps enough sites decided Google search had become so enshittified that they weren't getting enough traffic any more so just blocked Google, who noticed.

My extremely limited testing suggests that Google are actually honouring this, at least for now. Their search results are still AI-drenched crap, of course.

@pndc 3d ago

That's a swan-strangler of Special Brew or Tennants with room to spare for a few voddie miniatures, which will surely add some interest to that Ryanair flight/fight.

https://mastodon.scot/users/andrewducker/statuses/114812307044202909

@pndc 3d ago

I finally got round to playing and writing up Tacoma: https://tripe.cabal.org.uk/tacoma/.

SFW, so long as you don't poke around under the bed.

Tacoma (2017)

Tacoma is Fullbright's second game, which I bought sight-unseen years ago on the basis of a trusted recommendation. At the same time, I bought Fullbright's first game, Gone Home, which didn't work for me. Prior to that I had picked up and took an even str…

Improvable Tripe

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@pndc 3d ago

@BrentToderian This clickbait article does not quote its sources, but is likely based on the press release at https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/change-southern-ocean-structure-can-have-climate-implications which is bigging up the actual research at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500440122.

The research does not support the headline claim. The press release also does not, except for a picture presumably added by a subeditor with a very low-contrast caption "The reversal of ocean circulation in the southern hemisphere could double current atmospheric concentrations of CO₂ / ICM-CSIC". That statement is possibly correct (I am not an expert) but is only loosely related to the article and was apparently just added to spice up the press release and get attention, which it certainly did.

The clickbait article lifted the image and caption wholesale and then decided to skip the rest of the press release because it was too nuanced, pivoting to other scientifically-rigorous sources such as cherrypicking opinions from social media because those sell more ad clicks than actual facts.

Not that the actual research is exactly uplifting news, but it's hardly spelling out imminent doom either.

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Scribbles:	https://tripe.cabal.org.uk

Tacoma (2017)

A change in the Southern Ocean structure can have climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar