Notices by Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st), page 2

A conversation from this week.
"Eggs are getting too expensive to throw at Nazis"
"Have you tried bricks? They may cost less and have more impact " I reply.

This weekend is FOSDEM, in Brussels. This is the FOSS community's biggest superspreader event.

Many of us are not going. If you are feeling some FOMO at not being at ULB this weekend. Remember you can get the same experience at home.

Print out a sheet of paper with "This room is full" on it, stick it on your front door. Then sit outside in the hallway on the floor, and livestream the talks on your laptop.

It's just like the real thing, just with less plagues.

Enjoy!

#FOSDEM

Deepseek is at least making it very very clear that these models merely encode the biases of the cultures that make them.

Deepseek doesn't want to know about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan.

Gitlabs copilot won't let you talk about trans people, or gender (or transactions...)

The software systems we use implement the biases of those who make them.

Think about that and remember the techbros making the software we all use and rely on.

What will OSM and Wikipedia do about the names of the Gulf of fragile masculinity, and the mountain named after some Republican politician... Will it stick with the proper name, or change to be wrong...

Remember. Today is an excellent day to post pictures of your adorable furry pets.

Possibly one of the most important machines you've never heard of. This is Vaucanson's metal cutting lathe in the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris.

This is credited as the first precision metal cutting lathe. From this device every modern metal cutting lathe can trace its history back. From the prismatic ways, to get carriage, lead screw, and cross slide. Even the interchangeable cutter on the end of the cross slide.

From this lathe, modern precision mechanisation began.

Not only do I have the incredibly radical view that every station should have a service in each direction at least every 15 minutes (yes including those tiny rural village stations) from very early in the morning until very late at night. But I'm also of the view that these stations should be staffed during all their opening hours.

@dalias oh of course. That's kinda what I'm expecting.

On the plus side. If there's one community of users you can guarantee to work out how to hack your product to remove your cloud dependency and related evils, it's the 3d printing community.

Here's hoping an unlocked firmware for bambu labs printers comes out soon.

A friend who has worked in the computer industry for 40+ years has just had an automated rejection from a job application.

The reason? The company doesn't have the capacity to mentor people at the start of their career...

Said friend has been a UNIX developer since before I started school...

@cstross that's a lot of downsides to avoid some mail...

"sorry officer, I can't show you my driver's license as my phone battery is dead"

"Due to a misformated command from the DVLA, all licences issued on the digital license app got accidentally revoked. Oops".

The failure modes for things like electronic driving licenses are horrible. And I'm not even sure what the problem is they are trying to solve.

Imagine going to all the effort to try and import a polyhedral incelmobile into the UK. Only to then have it seized by the police due to it not being legal to drive it in the UK.

Ah schadenfreude.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo

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.