Notices by Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st)

If you're gonna get a billionaire to keynote fosdem. At least make sure he pays for the whole beer event in the Friday.

Then do the sit in to stop him talking.

Google maps does not handle z position very well. I'm not on the motorway in the tunnel. I'm on the footpath on the hill. Stop trying to send me along the motorway...

@cstross "as the authors ventured back towards what was once civilisation, they reflect on how productive the last two weeks writing retreat has been.

The ash layer on the car should have been the first hint, but when they found they couldn't unlock the car due to there being no longer a cloud for the car to connect to, it started to sink in that maybe something big had been in the news while they were writing"

Given the way so many companies act with the emails they send out, how can we think anything negative about anyone who falls for a phishing scam ?!?!

I may have just had yet another false positive on an email, but I'd rather hundreds of false positives than a single false negative.

Esp when that email is about SSO integration with our AD.

What the hell. Have you any idea the noise that six geese make ? Especially in a small Hallway. They seem to be laying too, which is a little out of season. Omelette for dinner. Five more gold rings, which is good. I ebayed 1 from yesterday to buy bird food. Between the noise of the geese, another four calling birds, another three french hens who seem most vocal at the geese, fucking turtle doves, & yet another bloody partridge. This started out cute but it's getting abusive

#12DaysOfChristmas

@dalias Yep, that's what I'm doing. The problem is cos the body of the print has a curve to it, there's a small bit of support filament on each layer, So there's a lot of filament changes. The support filament from bambu isn't soluble, so this is ust to mske it easier to remove.

Just started off my longest ever 3d print. Gonna take 18 hours, Mostly due to requireing 275 filament changes in order to use the support filament.

Maybe if the UK hadn't decided to get rid of freedom of movement, it might be a bit easier to get people to come to the UK to help build those homes that are so desperately needed?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg1471rwpo

Reading a guide on Nginx. It lists in the requirements "an aws account" why the fuck do I need aws to setup Nginx?!? Wtf is wrong with people? This is like the static site generators that requires a GitHub account... Or all the how to use git guides they start with creating a GitHub account.

Does noone host their own shit any more ?!?!

Just seen an advert for a fireworks advert calendar. Wtf.

@fazalmajid @cstross I'm curious, have any of you read Robin Hobbs farseer series (and the following trilogies)? I read them before I read GRRMs stuff. And I feel like he's blatantly plagiarised her in places. But also her books are just so much better.

@fazalmajid @cstross true. But doesn't help with my current search for what to read next...

@fazalmajid @cstross have run out of banks... have been working my way through the murder bot series.

Am currently trying to find books ideally by women, ideally with queer main characters.

I realised I can't relate to most of the people in the books I read, and it's depressing. Also fed up with my to read author list being a sausage fest.

Once more for the people at the back.

There is no ethical use of LLMs.

@cstross except those dragon thing books are really badly written. Excessively verbose, and incredibly repetitive. No meal can be mentioned with our grease running down a chin, no lady can be mentioned without the moisture level of her downstairs being detailed. He's in desperate need of a good editor.

@UkeleleEric @wmd @vaurora I'm all for communities that work together. I am of the view that community is everything. But my 1000 closest neighbours and I can't convert the IJmuiden steel works to electrolysis. We can't build more railway lines. We can't build large scale wind turbines. We can't roll out bus routes. We can't build cycle paths.

We, as individuals, and at a local community level have zero power here.

It has to be large scale, national level change.

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@UkeleleEric @wmd @vaurora

I just don't know how to get us there. Humanity has shown that we can identify a threat, and take effective action to mitigate it. 197 countries ratified the Montreal Protocol, the use of CFCs virtually stopped. Now the hole in the ozone layer is starting to heal.

Humanity CAN work together on a global scale. It's just right now there is a very small minority of very rich people, trying to stop that happening again.

That is the problem we need to fix
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@UkeleleEric @wmd @vaurora Unfortunately the physics just don't work out there. Low head hydro only works if you have massive flow, and in other locations you need flow and head.

We have passed the small scale stage. We need large scale developments that can only be done on a nation state scale. 5000 15+MW wind turbines in the north sea.

A massive roll out of railways and a complete end to all new road projects.

Personal individual efforts have zero impact.

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@UkeleleEric @wmd @vaurora

The thing stopping us from having a sustainable future is Capitalism. It's that simple. We can have capitalism, or we can have a sustainable future. We can't have both.

We have nearly all the technologies necessary for a sustainable future (we're missing zero carbon concrete, and ammonia). We just have yet to roll them out and replace the old carbon heavy version.

To quote a certain sci fi author. The future is here, just not evenly distribute

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Replacing human jobs with automation is not an inherently bad thing. Society is where we are today because we have robots in factories, and machines to fill bottles, and the like.

What makes automation taking jobs an issue is if there is no alternative for the people who no longer have an income source. As we roll out automation to more and more jobs, then a universal basic income is going to become inevitable.

I'm inclined to think we should roll out UBI sooner, rather than later.