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iFixit (@iFixit@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 video The Bosch eBike Flow App wins the CES Worst in Show award for Enshittification!

https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/115881176706138985

We had broadly-deployed WebDAV and we threw it away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV?wprov=sfla1

does anyone know if there's an activity pub based tool that is strava-like? strava appears to have just killed third-party apps, big need for an open tool in this space I think https://youtu.be/EFqjRLeFGXc?si=Msq9k6y6_HXBdQJS

Haven't been posting much over here, mostly on bsky these days. You might not like its protocol politics, but the thing is it's got the juice. like Twitter in 2010 juice. I appreciate all the technical work that masto pushed forward but I think it's missed its launch window

A screenshot from an AP article, The text reads: "The publication bills itself as “the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events” and says it has 4.3 trillion daily readers. Recent headlines have included, “Trump Boys Have Slap Fight Over Who Gets To Run Foreign Policy Meetings,” “Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb” and “Man Forgetting Difference Between Meteoroid, Meteorite Struggles To Describe What Just Killed His Dog.”"

An excellent side effect to the excellent news that The Onion is buying Infowars is that it's led to places like the AP printing a bunch of stuff from The Onion. Look at this glorious paragraph. https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

Apple: LLMs are bad at logic, reasoning, math https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

Google: so are our execs! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/15/google-buy-nuclear-power-ai-datacentres-kairos-power

Peter Kyle (science, industry, and technology minister) on the Today programme this morning said "AI is a general purpose tool, that means it doesn't fit in the neat silos that regulators sit in their sectoral positions"

This is non-sense. You could swap 'AI' out with like any newish […]

Quite aside from the utility of carbon capture, I cannot get my head around why the government thought it would be a good idea to push around a 25 year spending figuring that just happens to be the same figure that they've been pushing as the current financial year black hole.

There's a really important difference between eating your own dogfood and getting high on your own supply

does anybody know of work (maybe from the FAccT crowd? though doesn't need to be academic) around regulatory structures for algorithmic feeds in social media that are trying to emulate something like CAFE standards or other notions of whole system targets?

does anybody know of work (maybe from the FAccT crowd? though doesn't need to be academic) around regulatory structures for algorithmic feeds in social media that are trying to emulate something like CAFE standards or other notions of whole system targets?

I’m certain that the exploding pagers will in no way change what we can bring on airplanes or into stadiums.

there is nothing that so effectively demonstrates our fragility and dependence on systems beyond our control than the rail replacement bus service

Hey fellow Americans abroad! Now's a great the time to registered to vote and/or have your overseas absentee ballot set up so you can vote in the November election. If you're a US citizen you can vote in the election, no matter how long you've been out of the country! Details/instructions: FVAP.gov

eg. https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/vintage-shop/original-overground-signs/platform-1-shoreditch-high-street-line-diagram-1702024

friends, the transport library appears to be selling off the signage from the Overground as it get new signage along with being split into a bunch separately named and coloured lines. Some real gems in there if your into eccentric wall coverings […]

The Kamala Harris holding a record meme, here she is holding Prince's Purple Rain

Friends, look at this https://kamala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me/

Was trying to figure out who the last Republican president was who didn't do crimes and/or subvert democracy. Is it maybe Eisenhower?

A screenshot of the linked Guardian article. It reads: "Recent analysis for the Royal Society found that the largest upfront cost for researchers taking a post in Britain is the immigration health surcharge, which increased 66% in February to £1,035 a year. A researcher coming to the UK for five years would need to pay for the full period upfront before a visa was issued. The fees apply even for those coming on a global talent visa, which is designed to attract “leaders or potential leaders”, who will have a job offer and would pay taxes like anyone else working in the UK. The fees multiply for researchers planning to bring their families to Britain. A researcher granted a five-year global talent visa and who has a partner and two children would be liable to pay £20,974 upfront, with no option to spread the payments. In total, upfront UK visa costs are 17 times higher than the international average and more than those for any other major scientific nation analysed"

The NHS surcharge on visas is terrible for so many reasons and the next government should remove it entirely. https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/29/top-scientists-turning-down-uk-jobs-over-tax-on-talent-says-wellcome-boss

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hey this is good news https://www.cityam.com/evri-drivers-to-swap-cars-for-bikes-in-19m-sustainability-drive/

I have spent the last hour specifying the requirements of tableau worksheets in postgres statements, if you were wondering how my morning was going

Been thinking lots about dusting off the old blog (well converting the dusty wordpress install to something like eg. hugo) and gathering some thoughts about data practice in the age of overripe AI hype