Hans GruBen
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Happy #Hogswatch to all 🐗 
Happy #Hogswatch to all 🐗
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Sometimes I have a perfect idea... and the ability to execute it. What if you could buy Dibbler's sausages in your local grocer?
Hand drawn, by me. No AI used.
Sometimes I have a perfect idea... and the ability to execute it. What if you could buy Dibbler's sausages in your local grocer?
Hand drawn, by me. No AI used.
Anke
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First exhibit in the Royal Signals museum: a model of a 6-bit clacks.
The one at Blandford was part of an Admiralty chain between Plymouth and Whitehall, operating in the first half of the C19th and superseded by the electric telegraph. There was also a branch to Portsmouth.
EDIT: Sceptical? Some lovely people have checked the facts for you - please see the replies. 😃
Hans GruBen
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@TheBreadmonkey It's like the ever-prescient Terry Pratchett's Dis-Organiser on steroids
"Good morning, Insert Name Here! How can I help you today?"
First exhibit in the Royal Signals museum: a model of a 6-bit clacks.
The one at Blandford was part of an Admiralty chain between Plymouth and Whitehall, operating in the first half of the C19th and superseded by the electric telegraph. There was also a branch to Portsmouth.
EDIT: Sceptical? Some lovely people have checked the facts for you - please see the replies. 😃
Just had a sales email with an opening line that reads "Paste company's LinkedIn here / craft icebreaker." and then an insult.
Excellent salesing, you fucking gibbon.
@TheBreadmonkey It's like the ever-prescient Terry Pratchett's Dis-Organiser on steroids
"Good morning, Insert Name Here! How can I help you today?"
der.hans
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Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!
@brucelawson I wonder if this is where Terry Pratchett got the name from for the unusually nasty (for his books) secret police organization the "Cable Street Particulars" in the book "Night Watch"
@anji @brucelawson “Cable Street Particulars” came from “Baker Street Irregulars”, apparently (see the Annotated Pratchett File, under “Maskerade”).
Cable Street itself may be named for London’s Cable Street, but who knows.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's LORDS & LADIES, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lygeecle4c2n
#KindleBook#TerryPratchett#GNUTerryPratchett#Discworld #LordsAndLadies
Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's LORDS & LADIES, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lygeecle4c2n
#KindleBook#TerryPratchett#GNUTerryPratchett#Discworld #LordsAndLadies
halcy :icosahedron:
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Years ago I bought an interactive map & guide to Anhk-Morpork, very impressive, with both a map and an aerial view up to the last detail. The app never updated and soon become incompatible, big loss. I dismantled it and recovered the 23766 tiles of 256x256 pixels each that composed the two images. I've been slowly rebuilding the aerial one into a giant 24064 x 16896 px image. Already 3/4 done. I intend to print a great poster for my studio. Detail is insane. #GNUTerryPratchett#DiscWorld
Detail of some of the buildings on the aerial illustration of the City of Anhk-Morpork, showing the detailed buildings and places described on the Discworld novels.
Aerial ilustration in sepia colour of the city of Anhk-Morpork as described in the Discworls series from Terry Pratchett
Detail from the illustration of the city of Anhk-Morpork showing one of the tiles that compose the final image.
Years ago I bought an interactive map & guide to Anhk-Morpork, very impressive, with both a map and an aerial view up to the last detail. The app never updated and soon become incompatible, big loss. I dismantled it and recovered the 23766 tiles of 256x256 pixels each that composed the two images. I've been slowly rebuilding the aerial one into a giant 24064 x 16896 px image. Already 3/4 done. I intend to print a great poster for my studio. Detail is insane. #GNUTerryPratchett#DiscWorld
Detail of some of the buildings on the aerial illustration of the City of Anhk-Morpork, showing the detailed buildings and places described on the Discworld novels.
Aerial ilustration in sepia colour of the city of Anhk-Morpork as described in the Discworls series from Terry Pratchett
Detail from the illustration of the city of Anhk-Morpork showing one of the tiles that compose the final image.
I get why some #AI companies need to resort to usage-based pricing, but from a user-centered perspective, it’s completely bonkers.
Let me explain.
The better the AI agent, the less you need to iterate, right?
Ideally, it just gets it right from the first prompt.
The more you iterate, the higher your usage.
Still with me?
So usage-based billing = the worse the AI software, the more it costs!
In which other industry would this fly? 🤔
@leaverou this isn’t new behaviour in the software / computing industry, or even more broadly under capitalism - it’s practically SOP & / or a badge of honour for many “entrepreneurs”
operating systems with long-standing security vulnerabilities & no / limited culture of secure-by-design development, OS vendor then sells you an antivirus / security product to “fix” the problem that they allowed to exist in first place (a whole ecosystem of 2° & 3° vendors has sprung up around this)
cloud platform requires higher-tier licensing to access security products to manage platform security, also charges for log storage necessary to fully utilise those licensed security products / components (again, an ecosystem of 2° & 3° vendors have sprung up to paper over the cracks)
and others have already mentioned “boots theory”^ – low-quality products requiring higher expenditure over time than higher-quality products is well-established in other industries (clothing, vehicles, mechanical spares, sporting goods, etc.)
even in healthcare (in some countries), people who can’t afford regular visits to a doctor or the medications they need to treat an initial medical condition will end up having higher medical costs as their un(der)treated illnesses develop into worse conditions requiring more-intensive, higher-cost interventions over time (which, depending on the country, they’ll either continue to be unable to afford and have miserable, shorter lives, or if they’re “lucky” will be borne by the state)
in for-profit healthcare systems, this is the system operating as intended ( #POSIWID )
one of the economic drivers for states that do provide decent healthcare (in addition to believing that citizens should lead healthy lives) is to ensure that people have good access to early interventions so that the state doesn’t bear the higher costs later on
there’s usually no similar incentive for for-profit companies to produce higher-quality goods & services, as weak regulatory regimes tend to go hand-in-hand with aggressive capitalism
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X-Clacks-Overhead: #GNUTerryPratchett
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It turns out "my" shirt design was stolen and used by some US assholes who now sell a Rob Anybody t-shirt.
I can't do anything about that, except giving everybody the design for free - if it has to be out there, nobody should profit from it.
If you end up using it, please PLEASE donate to one of Pratchett's favorite charities or at least to somebody in need.
And add a #GNUTerryPratchett line somewhere, maybe?
Edit: here's the SVG
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/slcpssbvoz1txzcbnup8i/hope-anybody-GTP.svg?rlkey=i0m9ln5otnac67uc9rgr5bjjp&st=5qwl623v&dl=0
