Steve Dowe

@sdowe
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Creative. Minimalist. Bachelor of Arts, turned sysadmin/coder. Periodically runs a business. Runs on ground coffee. Pretends to surf.
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Steve DoweFeb 26

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty

Hmmm. And do you think this will lend itself to fun, spontaneous interactions between customers and staff, or perhaps to formulaic engagement, artificial sentiment, awkward moments and unconscious dissatisfaction?

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Burger King is launching a new AI assistant, called Patty, that will live inside employees’ headsets, allowing them to ask questions while they prepare food or clean machines.

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Show threadSteve DoweFeb 13
@gcluley my local NHS "Trust" has signed one of those contracts with Palatir. I'm genuinely at a loss as to what healthcare option there is, if I don't want my subject data with them.
Show threadSteve DoweFeb 9
@keyboards Acorn Archimedes? 🤓
Show threadSteve DoweFeb 9

@nixCraft and yet, of all the players, Google design and manufacture (with partners) their own Tensor AI chips, which could potentially massively reduce cost vs NVidia & co.

Where they all fail is monetizing something that no one really wants to pay for.

Steve DoweJan 8
WordPress / JetPack makes it easy to share posts to social networks. Not sure I’m seeing much benefit in sharing to some of them, the stalwarts in particular (Facebook, LinkedIn, Insta, Tumblr). Those silos have enough else going on, and I’m not really interested in traction there. Mastodon and Bluesky I’ll keep, for now. (https://dowe.uk/b/4jw1)
Currently pondering the value of sharing posts to social networks

WordPress / JetPack makes it easy to share posts to social networks. Not sure I’m seeing much benefit in sharing to some of them, the stalwarts in particular (Facebook, LinkedIn, Insta, Tumbl…

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Steve DoweJan 3
Today I learned history -c … Won’t be forgetting that one in a hurry! (It clears your history file in Bash) (https://dowe.uk/t/4jvq)
TIL `history -c`

Today I learned history -c … Won’t be forgetting that one in a hurry! (It clears your history file in Bash)

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Steve DoweDec 18
Middle of the night. Someone’s UPS alarm is sounding in the neighborhood. . Going on for 30+ mins now. Like, why bother if you can’t hear it, or won’t do anything? Did you test this, like, ever? (https://dowe.uk/b/4jvb)
Neighbourhood UPS

Middle of the night. Someone’s UPS alarm is sounding in the neighborhood. . Going on for 30+ mins now. Like, why bother if you can’t hear it, or won’t do anything? Did you test th…

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Steve DoweDec 11
Sadly, a 2018 laptop struggles to continually re-compile software for a “minimal” system… Hmm. (https://dowe.uk/t/4jvP)
Steve DoweDec 8
How I managed to get Emacs working in CRUX: An exercise in piecemeal software acquisition, compilation, installation and, occasionally, prayer. This post is more a stream-of-consciousness/experience than a well-structured account, and highlights the processes required to get Emacs-related software compiled and configured in CRUX.
Steve DoweDec 2
Prepare for confusion… (https://dowe.uk/t/4jv1)
nobody/nogroup

Prepare for confusion… Standard “nobody” user/group in CRUX: $ cat /etc/passwd | grep ^no nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/: $ cat /etc/group | grep ^no nobody::99: Normally (I believe), th…

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