Mastodawn

RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@BZKopensource/116770424383243538

Sweet. Dutch government needed improved accessibility for its https://social.overheid.nl Mastodon instance. It decided to cofinance this, and the features landed in the brand new 4.6 release. “In this way we invest in our own communication tools and those of the full fediverse at once.”

Florian K.1d ago

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899

No, seriously, this makes about as much sense as bemoaning the lack of progress in propelling people with explosives like Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible" because everything is too vulnerable to being blown up.

If your Great Innovation™️ is limited by the boundries of the reality we live in, that's not reality's problem - it means you've made a shitty piece of technology & like a bad inventor, you now demand the laws of reality change to accomodate it.

#technology #broligarchy #EatTheRich

Florian K.1d ago

nixCraft 🐧1d ago

From thr TFA:

Editor’s note: This is an updated version of the article. The previous version wrongly quoted Jeff Bezos. The error is regretted.

I quoted what was published in the article. So now i removed it as Jeff Bezos never said that. You can always see original diff. Sorry about that.

https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/

AI is not a threat, it will create more jobs, says Jeff Bezos

Skipping fears of mass unemployment, Bezos used his VivaTech panel to argue that an 'artificial general engineer' just creates more tasks.

ThePrint

Italian Foreign Minister Tajani cancels his trip to Washington because Trump behaved like an idiot at the G7 summit, where he made false claims to the press about Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

This is the way! 🤌

Florian K.1d ago

Randahl Fink 1d ago

Artist critical of Putin assassinated by a hitman in Poland.

How much more will we tolerate before we remove the gremlin in the Kremlin?

https://www.dw.com/en/semyon-skrepetsky-russian-artist-putin-critic-killed-poland/a-77576814

Russian artist critical of Putin shot dead in Poland

Three days before his killing, Semyon Skrepetsky had protested outside the Russian embassy in Berlin. He held an icon-like caricature of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

Deutsche Welle

Florian K.2d ago

Zemri 3d ago

Reasons we fly a pride flag:

Leaving the house this morning, there was a kid, maybe grade 5, no rain gear, sitting on our front step.

I was obviously a little startled

Me: uhm...hi? Can I help you?

Kid: oh! No, I'm just taking a break my mom told me that if I ever need to ask an adult for help I should look for a house with a rainbow flag because that means it's safe. I don't need help, just a dry spot for calling my friend to bring my rain coat.

And then his friend rocked up with his coat and off they went.

Florian K.2d ago

Brent Toderian 3d ago

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3mojt67bz322c

Florian K.3d ago

Christian Stöcker 3d ago

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.
#AI #Climateemergency

Florian K.3d ago

From Wikipedia about horsepower:

"Two common definitions used today are the imperial horsepower, […], which is about 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower, […], which is approximately 735.5 watts."
Ok

"The electric horsepower, hpE, is exactly 746 watts, …"
Never heard about hpE, but ok

"… while the boiler horsepower is 9809.5 or 9811 watts, depending on the exact year."
tf… why is it an order of magnitude more and it varies depending on the *year*?

#wikipedia #til