Do you have a project on GitHub? Does it use GitHub Pages for documentation or other purposes? Would you like to archive a copy of those GitHub pages in the Internet Archive automatically whenever you release a new version?
I wrote Waystation, a simple and free GitHub Action, exactly for this purpose:
I never realized Amazon's automated checkout technology was just an outsourced, creepy, Mechanical Turk:
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."
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Hallo! I’m trying to get a bit more social interaction in my life, so here I am writing an #introduction post on #Mastodon. :moogle_peek:
I’m Jaden (though I go by different names in different circles :bulbasaur_confused:). I have a silly potato (@nuz) and a silly sausage (#sillyDoggy). I’m fairly socially awkward, a bit #autistic and very #ADHD. :ms_neurodiversity: Sometimes I say very little and sometimes I say a whole heck of a lot, depending on the topic. I’ll probably be posting random facts or videos that I find particularly cool/amusing~ :cat_wow:
I love science (and have a PhD in #physics, but was it really worth it? :frog_think:) and maker videos that try to bring comic books and fiction to life (shoutout to #Hacksmith and #JLazerVideos, amazing folks)! I also really love technology (in particular, I really like #LTT / #LinusTechTips, although I know he can be a bit problematic :shiba_hide:).
I'm also an avid video gamer! :gaming_love: I play a lot of #RPG, #Survival, and #Automation games. Some of the ones that I've really enjoyed and/or played recently are:
Feel free to say hello, boost, follow, or any combo of the above! I'd love to make new friends on here, but I feel awkward a lot, so I might just end up favoriting your posts if I can't figure out what to say :panda_derp: (but I appreciate you nonetheless! :blob_heart:)
If you're going to read just one thing about #Tech today, let it be this.
Great piece by @Mer__edith on the historical context that underpins #automation, with a focus on Charles Babbage.
I'd long suspected that today's overemphasis on quantitative metrics was for maintaining control at a distance.
This piece shows how the overemphasis of the surveilled & quantifiable (and neglect of everything else) is a relic of colonial labor needs, but a relic we still revere.
We recently got a wifi-enabled hot tub. Some enterprising soul had already created a HA addon to work with it, so I set about implementing #observability, #automation and #alerting.
Amongst other things, it now starts heating automatically if there's plunge pricing on #octopusenergy Agile
💬 Announcing the launch of Ansible Community Forum, a place for Ansible users to ask questions, developers to discuss projects in the ecosystem, and the whole Ansible community to gather and connect through sharing ideas, events, and more!
This week we're testing a new tool called the Mastodon Scheduler to automate our posts. It's self-hosted, doesn't expose itself to the internet, and runs as a background service so you never have to worry about keeping an app open.
Been tinkering about with rsync to automatically publish static sites. Found out some useful stuff after much trawling of Stack Overflow et al, so thought I’d write it up. I’m sure that future me will find this useful.
TIL: An automation trigger can be "Time of your phone's next alarm" and now I can automatically turn on two WLED and one proprietary RGB lighting automatically when I have a wake up alarm set on my phone and my phone is at home.
Tim Harford summarises the paradox of #automation (something we should all be concerned about):
;An automated system can assist humans or even replace human judgment. But this means that humans may forget their skills or simply stop paying attention. When the computer needs human intervention, the humans may no longer be up to the job. Better automated systems mean these cases become rare & stranger, and humans even less likely to cope with them'!
In the US we treat it as totally normal for bosses to be able to fire workers for no reason, but it's often taboo to talk about workers organizing, joining a #union and going on #strike. That's so obviously unfair and it doesn't have to be that way!
#AI and #automation are not inevitable. Bosses can choose to care about more than their bottom line