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TIL the Netherlands hides massive rubbish bins underground so their streets stay clean 🤯
@TheBreadmonkey This seems great until: Someone before you managed to block the chute, and only a specialist can fix it.
Classical case in my neighbourhood was cardboard boxes. If some lazy person didn't bother to rip them into sheets, I could my self clear some space in the bin. But with those underfloor bins, you're prevented from helping yourself.
The problem with using LLMs to research information is that this technology generates text, it does not report information.
Generating a map is not the same as finding an accurate map that already exists. Same for any other pieces of information.
And even if it was able to find and report information without modifying it (what a search engine does basically), it cannot in evaluate if this information is accurate.
Adjust your level of trust accordingly.
Mad SF idea: the Hollow Earth theory is semi-correct, except Earth isn't a hollow sphere, it's a Klein bottle.
@cstross a pity Richard Lupoff has passed, this sounds like a worthy companion to Circumpolar!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpolar!
Back in high school math we had a series of posters up showing the Earth remapped onto various geometries and genuses - done with styrofoam and paint given the tech of the times. I managed to obtain my own copies, decades later.
"This is what the emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth. This technology will help us find Luke Skywalker as he traverses the universe in his X-wing." https://www.404media.co/darth-vader-spoke-in-support-of-flock-at-san-diego-city-council-meeting/
A chi dice che i migranti che salgono su una nave Ong tedesca hanno messo piede sul suolo della Germania, che quindi è responsabile di loro, faccio presente che il nuovo Patto Ue migrazioni e asilo stabilisce altro.
Quando il richiedente asilo - sanciscono le norme - è sbarcato in uno Stato membro a seguito di un'operazione di ricerca e soccorso, è quello Stato a essere responsabile.
Quindi, per il diritto di asilo la bandiera della nave non c'entra niente.
P.S. Con Dublino III era uguale.
For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have so far. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.
@codinghorror
I think The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down is going to be your sweet spot.
Others:
Run DMC - Hard Times
Talib Kweli - Eat to Live
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I have a Ugreen 20Ah power pack that's fantastic! Most useful feature is the USB-C cable sticking out of it, so I never have to find a cable somewhere.
It's a bit big for my pocket though. Do any of you have a 5000mAh power pack with a USB tail like this? I've found a few in searches, I'm after personal experiences.
@davidgerard I've had this little 10Ah Anker for a month or so - just about pocketable, seems good quality like most of the Anker kit. https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Battery-10000mAh-Retractable-InstaCord/dp/B0DGKWTQQC
Periodic offer to try to organize a trans group chat on signal about:
- parenting,
- processing issues with spouses or family,
- working-while-trans,
- oh-goddess-I-need-a-group-chat,
- or polyamory support (talking and processing, not looking for dates).
If you are interested, reply on this thread and indicate which you are interested in. My preference is for ya’ll to self-organize, but I’ll step in if I feel it would help.
@TheBreadmonkey @i_give_u_worms I would definitely watch that. Look, I love going to the ICA to see three-hour Portuguese epic about an 18th-century aristocrat walking to Munich to buy a goose or something but I am very happy to spend a Friday evening watching the 27th incarnation of The Statham Film.
current view 👀
TFW you redo your home network and somehow have an extra WAP and you aren't sure where it was supposed to go.
Big success of this week: I got all my coworkers to stop using LLMs by making a pretty good security and data protection argument.
Please clap.
Are they taking the piss?
@TheBreadmonkey having them look left while cutting off the left side of their faces makes them look acutely cross-eyed and now I can't unsee it, thanks Ben.
RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117131151023152719
We've added an additional perspective from participants in the response to the murder of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisconsin—exploring what it would take to make police think twice before committing murder.
What does it take to stop police terror?
You can read it here:
https://crimethinc.com/coreyruiz#appendix-ii-brief-thoughts-for-madisons-community-defense-movement
Watching the original Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer" that first aired in 1968. The premise was how computers (AI, really) could run a starship more efficiently and more effectively than humans and replace them…until the AI went rogue. To hear Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy having the same conversations about the technology that we're having today is a bit…eerie.
@pixel_pioneer24 I’m going to look through my connections to find who is on that instance. I will DM each of them in hopes they’ll see a notification about it. Maybe that will help.
@markwyner Thanks for reaching out to help them find folks! I’d gladly share a list of my Mastodon connections if that’d help you out. Let me know.
iMac spotted in last Columbo episode, looks like a prop.
@thomasfuchs Just one question...
I said Newcastle was four years winless against Liverpool but the historical record is less charitable to them than I even thought.
NUFC's last Premier League win over Liverpool: 2–0, 6 December 2015. The score was from a Martin Skrtel own goal and a late strike by Georginio Wijnaldum, who later went on to join LFC to become a Liverpool champion.
If you want to find who was the last non-Liverpool related player who scored and won a game for Newcastle you have to dig further back.
it's an odd one to point to as a "win" since the match-winner, Wijnaldum, was on Newcastle's books for barely half a season before joining Liverpool himself in 2016.
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