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@trantion@masto.ai
mastodon 4.7.2#Sheffield based professional #SoftwareEngineer. Most experienced in #PHP, but also plenty of #Python, #Javascript, #TypeScript. Learning #Rustlang and #Golang.
In my spare time I like #Hiking (mainly in the #PeakDistrict), #Gardening, #Cycling, #Urbanism, #Photography (less than I used to). I play #TTRPG (mainly #DnD and #Pathfinder), #BoardGames and #VideoGames; and play in a #WindBand.
Sometimes I share art & photography, cute animal pics, etc. I can't draw and have no pets.
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Joined November 29, 2022
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@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social @jaredwhite@indieweb.social LLMs are non deterministic, so you can't know what it's doing and it potentially does different things when you run it a second time. They have no concept of architecture or design, just what is the statistically most likely next symbol. They are extremely inefficient because they have to re-read the whole codebase for every output token. Overuse encourages de-skilling, so you become more dependent on the LLM
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@andrew@social.hodgson.io @davidgerard@circumstances.run but the glasses are designed and sold more as a spying tool than a disability aid. Why not make the camera more obvious so people know they might be being filmed? It doesn't have to look bad, just obvious.
Besides, even if the user isn't spying on people with their creepy glasses, you can be pretty sure Meta is
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@robparsons@mastodon.social @andrew@social.hodgson.io @abucci @davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social I think it's better to target the manufacturer than the user where possible, simply because they're an easier target than chasing every user after they do something wrong.
It was Meta's choice to make the camera discrete. In theory they could have made a mistake in assuming people couldn't hide the notification light, but if that was the case they should have been required to fix the problem.
The hawthorn hedge I planted in 2020 is flowering for the first time!
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@andyn@social.lol @nixCraft@mastodon.social yes, but I think the bubble sooner is less damaging than either it growing for longer and increasing the damage, or if it turns out not to be a bubble and the billionaires get their dream of no longer needing any employees
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@lectrodan@mastodon.social @FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy What do people expect from these photos of people on the other side of the sea from a big fire? Should they be screaming in existential dread, and then photograph that to post online? What could they personally, realistically, do to help?
They're clearly not in an evacuation order. For all you know they're horrified at what they're seeing, but they're presumably on holiday and want to try to enjoy themselves as best they can in the situation
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@bagder One of my all time favourite Wikipedia quotes is that the Year 2038 Problem page used to say
64-bit time_t would introduce a new overflow on December 4th, 292,277,026,596. This is generally not considered to be a pressing issue.
Hooray! The #PeakDistrict has been given government approval (and funding) for a trial run of public transport with regular, frequent, and connecting schedules inspired by Switzerland.
Even urban public transport in the UK is bad at connections. In the past, buses in the Peak District have been labelled as "connecting" with an hour's wait, no bench or shelter. This could be fantastic.
#HopeValley #HopeValleyClimateAction #PublicTransport #trains #buses
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@0xabad1dea A few years ago I was talking to someone on top of a mountain in Norway. She apologised for her English not being very good, so I asked where she was from: Germany. So I switched to speaking German.
Then she asked where I'm from, and I said I'm from the UK.
"I thought your accent sounded British, but then I thought, British people don't speak other languages!" She said 😅
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@bignose@theblower.au @phil_b_reed@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange It is the same as SQL injection if the application passes a raw query string to the database: a single input that combines instructions and data.
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@ZachWeinersmith This is a decent proportion of the fairy tale inspired role-playing campaign I'm running. I've added symbols to the map for all the young women the party have rescued from towers. The players have decided locking women in towers is part of the local culture
#ttrpg
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@rpsu@mas.to @ysbreker@idlethumbs.social Because it's nice to have light evenings to do things in the summer, but it's not worth having it stay dark until 9:30 in the winter just to have the sun set at 4:30 instead of 3:30
I never imagined how much I could enjoy commuting to another city. Bike rides along the canal, and chilling out on the train with music, a book, and the #PeakDistrict going past.
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@Tarah My favourite is a website I recently stayed using that says it's sending a "2FA code" to your email. They don't let you set a password.
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@catileptic I dunno, I find the idea of a shopping robot telling you to buy less stuff quite refreshing 😁
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@rmikke@en.osm.town I can't see a sock, but vacuum cleaners taking socks comes long before heading out on the town in the rise of the machines playbook.
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@stux@mstdn.social Those cat stickers look like tokens from Calico (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283155/calico) You could make a full custom cat set for the game! Someone made a Krita template: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/223604/make-your-own-personal-cats-for-calico
As an aside, I love the huge number of images of that game, and that most of them are photos of people's cats on, in, or beside it.
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@Transbian_Arsonists @kouett There isn't even any evidence that the perpetrator tried to ride a train at all, with a ticket or not 🤔
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@dw_innovation@mastodon.social I should try something like that again. During lockdown I had a routine where after work, I'd watch a couple of random Tom & Jerry cartoons from the box set DVDs before doing anything else, like the 6:00 cartoons that used to be on TV.
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk That, BTW, is a 24 mile diversion if you're driving from Onksley Lane to Wyming Brook Drive, along the official diversion all the way into town and out to Ladybower. No cutting along Rod Side (6 miles) or Lodge Lane (16 miles)!
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@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk Apparently the official diversion for cars is via Ringinglow Road (AKA National Cycle Network route 6), then squeeze down The Dale into Hathersage.
I have questions... Sure, driving along Ringinglow Road is usually faster than the A625, but can it handle all that extra traffic? Why not divert cars along Eccy Road? Why not send them down the straighter and wider Ringinglow Road and set up traffic lights to help with the awkward acute junction just above the Millstone Inn?
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk I think so, the main reason is the collapse/weakening of the retaining wall on the right hand side of the photo
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@crinolinerobot@beige.party It's too short to be a major feature, although I wonder if anything will eat the fruits this year.
I do often see birds perching in the hedge, but my favourite regular thing is watching the sparrows picking aphids off the bird cherry plants at the start of the nesting season
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@krinkle @tomscott I saw the naval battle just after graduation from uni because I happened to be walking past Peasholm Park just before it started.
I love that Peasholm Park island has an entry on Wikipedia's list of islands in England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_England
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@forteller I'm not aware of one at that scale of a single junction, but #OpenStreetMap and brouter.de are pretty good for what you might call "normal" route planning distances
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@JenMsft I thought this was supposed to have taught my former clients that when they want to send a new photo for their website, it should be roughly the same shape as the place it needs to fit on the page
I started wondering about how dates could go wrong in D&D
She spilt food down herself. He tried to impress her by cleaning it up with Prestidigitation, but messed the spell up and set her clothes on fire.
It was all going well, until one of them prayed and their god made his/her disapproval known.
In 30 years time: "My father was a gladiators semifinalist, and his father before him..."
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@alberto_cottica I haven't been there but I'm planning my own trip to the area. Do you know that Euskotren doesn't appear in journey planners?
What I've read suggests that Hendaye is usually the faster route for north west Spain, and I'm not surprised planners are sending you via Madrid on the high speed lines. I did get routes further north with some effort and searching different sites, but AIUI Renfe doesn't show journeys with more than one change, and some journeys I found include Avlo.
We've been down at least one player for a while, so instead of rebalancing encounters I gave them a choice of pregen characters from the iconics (which I kept calling "ionics")
Kyra spent most of the session casting buff spells on whoever was holding her character sheet at the time 😆
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@cwebber@social.coop "We don’t just build and sell AI tools and platforms. We are our own most demanding customer." is a great way to show how much demand there is in the market for their AI tools and platforms
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@dmarti@federate.social @codinghorror@infosec.exchange @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I manually turned off YouTube ads and the result is about 80% stock gambling ads
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@reflex@retrogaming.social @abucci @andrew@social.hodgson.io @davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social Having these as mass market devices can be really useful: more innovation, lower prices. I heard about these benefits when smartphones became common. I think it would be better if the lens was surrounded by something to make it stand out (e.g. black lens on a white background), so you can always see if someone is wearing camera glasses. It would feel less clandestine, but I don't know how to deal with people putting stickers over them
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@reflex@retrogaming.social @abucci @andrew@social.hodgson.io @davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social To be fair, secret filming has been around for decades. The question is what's changed now. Are there significantly more people doing it? Is that because glasses like this make it easier or would they do it anyway? Cultural change that makes people think they'll get away with it? Or has it actually not changed that much but there's a greater perception of it as a problem?
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I think that's a pretty fair policy, and respect to the people who wrote it.
I'm going to share it with my colleagues: it's pretty close to what we do already except that AIUI agent based development is allowed with caveats & disclosure, rather than under strict experimental conditions. But the Rust policy adds more details and explanations
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@betamatt @iungomadre @Tarah I find it annoying having to sign in via email. Instead of a single step sign in with a password manager I have to swap to my email, wait for it to arrive, then switch back. And because it's not in my password manager I don't necessarily know which email address I registered with.
I get that email sign-in can be good for people who don't use a password manager, but I don't have to like it
What a co-incidence to hear #AnnaCalvi on #BBC6Music today, after her first album came up on random play on my commute yesterday. I stood on the station platform for a couple of minutes to revel in the ending of Love Won't Be Leaving before continuing to the office.
I must check out some of her more recent work.
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@jwz@mastodon.social I think I can work a variant of "All your base are belong to us" into #DnD tomorrow. I play a paladin, so "For great justice" comes naturally
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@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk I think it's 6 weeks just because of the amount of work they're doing. Here's a letter someone posted to CycleSheffield on Facebook
The reference to heavy machinery makes me think it wouldn't be surprising if it gets closed to pedestrians & cycles at some point, especially because the pavement is on the side where the wall is.
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Button Stealer works locally and doesn’t send data anywhere
This is no good to me, how will it tell the website I've got their button now?