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Charlie Balogh
@chainq@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The upsides of self hosting:
AWS was down - my server worked.
Azure was down - my server still worked.
Cloudflare was down - my server didn't care.
Hetzner was down - my server was still chugging along.

The downside of self hosting:
Two years ago, after 12 years of 24/7 operation, the motherboard died. The server was down for months, because it was a 1000km drive to get to it...

Pick your poison. 😅

#sigh #selfhosting #cloudflare

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Jonathan Schofield
@urlyman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

There was an old country that swallowed some wood;
We should recall it had loads of wood!
It swallowed the wood to catch the coal,
It swallowed the coal to catch the steel,
It swallowed the steel to catch the oil,
It swallowed the oil to catch more coal,
It swallowed more coal to create The Cloud,
That squiggled and jiggled and tickled its crowds.

It swallowed The Cloud to catch AI;
I don’t know why it swallowed AI – perhaps it’ll die

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc
@deborahh@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@urlyman @Dianora well done, Jonathan! "… to catch AI!" 😂😭
#sigh
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David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

‘there is not much other explanation’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olG8wvK8SpA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/ - text

office worker in white shirt with glasses dozing on his laptop, "ZZZZ" above his head
office worker in white shirt with glasses dozing on his laptop, "ZZZZ" above his head
office worker in white shirt with glasses dozing on his laptop, "ZZZZ" above his head
oberonsghost
@oberonsghost@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@davidgerard @jojoeffe If I were writing consultancy contracts I’d be adding, in “outputs” “… [consultant] reports must be written by and checked consultant’s actual human staff … “

#sigh

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Incidentally, if you notice any basic numeracy errors in my toots—eg. out by three orders of magnitude—I blame COVID19.

Caught it in 2022 and the first time round, for two months afterwards I was worse at mental arithmetic than ChatGPT: I couldn't reliably add two single-digit numbers correctly. I've gradually gotten some of it back, but: sub-clinical brain damage sucks, okay?

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc
@deborahh@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@cstross @gdinwiddie I'm with you there: I lost some spatial ability and facial recognition. Simple things like taking a bus or watching a gangster film became stressful puzzles. #sigh

Don't get Covid, folks 😷.

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