Notices by Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (pa27@mastodon.social)

@GossiTheDog Talk about single point of failure. A failed substation should be a case of switching around, power issue for an hour tops. Heathrow also had a massive battery backup - I went there as part of a battery monitoring system install, though that was 30 years ago. It was huge - a costco sized warehouse full of racks and racks of cells. I wonder if someone decided it was too expensive in the intervening years?

@gamingonlinux Try not paying a "negligible small thousands" to the taxman and see where it gets you...

@dansup @aral Thanks for the info on small tech. Looks great, what they are doing. 😀

@glynmoody Why is anyone using facebook anyway?

@pluralistic Well written, well said. I still suspect that the advertising revenues that support these crappy services are a bit of emperor's new clothes, and there's a internet advertising bubble due for a burst. Anyone who has to stay on these parasitic feeds, please ignore, block and don't click any ad links. Do your best to screw with the funding!

@glynmoody Ah - that's just Fake News. They are nice cuddly people really... 😜

@glynmoody True. Not sure what the payback is though. "Please invest in expanding musk's ego" 😆

@glynmoody Yeah, but you have to convince the Saudis or whoever is loaning it that it's a reasonable risk... Not sure how much obvious political interference they are up for...

@glynmoody Musk doesn't actually have any money - not on the scale this would need. He uses his assets to leverage loans. That works for buying twatter but....

@dansup I hate polls that leave out the "don't care" option...

@pluralistic Great article. Reality is often weirder than fiction!

@_elena I start to wonder if this is backwards. Big companies will always find a way to get the data if they want it. But it only has value if we allow it to. After all - what do they do with it? Advertise, badly? ... Which we can simply ignore, and let them waste their time and money.

@Gargron It's not even AI, that's just a marketing misnomer. Interesting algorithms, but no intelligence.

@Gargron Fingers crossed! Great news if he does it!