evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
@Wildheart_Baby the RSPB would like a word...
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2015 musk: AI is the biggest potential threat to human life, we must be very careful with it
2023 musk: it is important that we let the AI become racist
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Mal wieder einen Porzellanladen zerdeppert? Grund genug, ein Versteck zu suchen! Ich hätte da ein paar gute Ideen. Und ein paar schlechte.
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It's astonishing (i.e., not credible) that they only just noticed. Where have they have been? The man's been a clamorous, thundering bucket of clanging narcissism and incompetence for two decades at least. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate?CMP=share_btn_tw
#borisJohnson #Trump #partygate
@briankrebs see also: magnetic-attach usb charging cables for smartwatches. they do love finding nice conductive chunks of metal to short out on while dangling idle :(
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New guide to "Finding Undocumented APIs" by @Leonyin at @themarkup – looks useful for internet studies researchers as well as digital reporters!
https://inspectelement.org/apis
Just added to this resource for our data journalism students at @kingsdh: https://github.com/jwyg/awesome-data-journalism/
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You didn't ask for this, but let me tell you that Quake 1 runs at over 2000 fps these days.
#quake #retrogaming
@niconiconi it's the way :)
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Computer problems are recursive. As soon as you gain knowledge that is sufficient to solve your previous problem, you'll start using computers in more obscure ways and start getting even more obscure problems as a result.
@demoparty_no :-D complaining about my location, not yours
@aldroid hmm, maybe some remote call to provoke *every* wifi-connected device containing a speaker withing earshot to Rickroll them for 30s then an anmouncement naming them as the cause, and that it doubles each time.
best case for them, they live alone in the woods and just get annoyed. worst case, they are on the bus...
@stavvers but how do you brew two pints of lapsang souchong?
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I'm continuing to put my favorite comics up on Mastodon. Enjoy this helpful guide to bird photography.
@demoparty_no I'd love to do this (networking monkey amongst other stuff) but... Norway?
@stavvers (if you do this in Germany I believe they will take the cans for recycling before handing you advice leaflets for help with alcoholism)
@stavvers drink them before leaving the shop. make sure you don't have far to drive though.
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I’m watching ‘Why Women Kill’ and frankly, I don’t need this kind of encouragement.
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A funded PhD to investigate the use of ARGs for archaeological storytelling!
(and yes, *alternate reality games*, not augmented reality)
https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/postgraduate-study/research-postgrads/pgr-fees-funding/big-smoke/
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UK politics, Hieronymus Bosch, PartyGate
#PartyGate being back in the news has reminded me about when my mind wandered from the Downing Street garden party to the Garden of Earthly Delights, and insisted I made this.
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
