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airwhale

@airwhale@mastodon.social

Hi all, I am Tormod 🇳🇴🇸🇪 (he / him)

My days are spent as a consultant in enterprise IT organizations, mainly focusing on teamwork and the people side of delivery. In particular with coaching, processes and enabling teams to work better together across departments and vendors.

My passions are in the areas of #photography, #graphicdesign, #typography and #music. And, of course, family ❤️

Happy to talk to anyone, and I will assume you're awesome until proven otherwise.

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airwhale, to random
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I find it really annoying that lazy people are being mocked and ridiculed. We didn't do ANYTHING!

dgar, (edited ) to ethelcain
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I have a playlist on Soundcloud of my own original rock music and I’d love for you to check it out, preferably on some good speakers, up loud. I’m really proud of this, and would love to hear what you think.

If you have “I like music” in your profile, you must listen. It’s the law!! 🫶

Boosts very much appreciated! 🤗

#Dgar #DgarMusic #Playlist #Indie #Rock #Music #Pop #Dgarheads

https://on.soundcloud.com/cM4PLN4hep1urK3N8

airwhale,
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@dgar

That's actually my favorite part of the trip. The pre-launch Sinatra track is a bit on the nose..

arstechnica, to random
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Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”

The telltale error messages are a sign of AI-generated pablum all over the Internet.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

airwhale,
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@jhilden

Or these auto translated nuggets (in Swedish) 😄

Amazon.se auto translated product listing: "Jätte fluffig kuk plyshleksak" (det är en tupp)
Amazon.se auto translated product listing: Leksakstält i "ljusa färger och slottstema gör tältet en vacker gåva för din egen, eller en gåva för en prostituerad, barnbarn eller lillasyster."
Amazon.se auto translated product listing: "Jävla svamp - trästoppningsminivävmaskin". En svampformad träbit för att stoppa strupor.

airwhale, to random
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Many of us are about to cozy up by the fire and exchange gifts to commemorate the day a tired young couple was desperately searching for shelter and a place to rest with their donkey.

Today, an entire population in the immediate vincinity of this "holy place" are without shelter, electricity, water, food and medical support of any kind. So many of them are just young kids living in constant terror.

A few world leaders has chosen to support the madness.

Inexcusable!

Jyoti, to random
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Here's my music:

https://songwhip.com/white-town

I love that I can bung you one link which then has every service my music is on, plus other stuff.

Well, sadly, #Songwhip is shutting down.

So, lil tooters, what is the best alternative to Songwhip? I've just gone through a couple of 'BEST ALTERNATIVE' lists and they were obviously generated by drunk AIs. In a coal scuttle. With low batteries. Just awful.

I'm hoping you ugly bags of mostly water can do better?

#MusicLinks #Links #Umm...

airwhale,
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@Jyoti

Dang, so are shutting down? One of the truly great services that consistently did just what it was designed to do, with no fuss and a straightforward interface.

Miss it already...

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Witnessing another occurrrence of the anti-pattern this morning inspired me to write some thoughts about this social behavior that is so common on our that is based on mechanics.

On the forum I created a category for (or ) patterns, and the "Reply Guy" is the first entry in what might be turned into a pattern library collection.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-considering-the-reply-guy-anti-pattern/530

airwhale,
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@smallcircles @zdl

Also worth remembering is that we are a global community. Nuances of conversational style might not be obvious to a non-native speaker.

Guessing style differs quite a bit between, say, US English, UK English and AUS English as an example.

A lot can be gained by assuming good intent. Most people are pretty nice, but I sadly realise there are plenty of drive-by attacks as well…

Jaden3, (edited ) to random
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Yall ever think skinny jeans will ever be ass?

airwhale,
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@Jaden3 @DoubleTreble

Ah, I am 59 and still wear them. Find your style, disregard fashion when it doesn’t suit you.

airwhale, to random
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airwhale, to ai
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I am SO tired of all the stupid white humanoid robots used as illustrations for "AI" - who came up with this nonsense?

An AI lives in a rack in a datacenter. It is 100% software. It does NOT need to use human interfaces like a screen, a QWERTY keyboard, mouse or a g*dmnd headset!

Robotics is NOT the same as AI.

#AI #Robot #Robotics #illustration

White, humanoid robot in front of a computer screen wearing a headset.

airwhale, to wordpress
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Trying to get my WordPress blog to show up on Mastodon, and I am really not getting very far. All plug-ins are installed, I can find my user and am now "Subscribed" but none of the posts seems to load in the Mastodon web-ui or in my Ivory client. I do get my "Profile bio" and a count of the blog posts though.

Using the "Friends" plug-in, I was able to pull posts into my WordPress UI, but nothing is going the other way.

Any tips for how to overcome this? Thx!

#FediHelp #WordPress #ActivityPub

airwhale, (edited ) to affinity Swedish
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Edit: final version now completed. Added detail to his hand and ear, plus a few other highlight / shadow tweaks and background.

Work in progress, vector portrait of David Bowie. Still some details to fix, but kinda close to done I think...

Based on a photo by Greg Gorman from 1984.

airwhale, to random
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airwhale, to IBM
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One day while picking my son up from day care, I noticed all the kids checking me out in a very particular manner. I asked him what they had done today, and apparently, they had been talking about what their parents did for work.

"I couldn't remember if you are with the FBI or the CIA, but the guys thought it was pretty cool" he said

While he had a few details wrong, it made for a good story at morning coffee with my IBM colleagues the next day.

#FBI #CIA #IBM #DayCare #TrueStory

airwhale, to random
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She had me at "Ted Lasso", but now I'm on S5E2 of Fargo, and DANG!

That Juno Temple has got my full attention over here... 😍

airwhale, to random
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airwhale, to random
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airwhale, to affinity
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Timeline blowing up today with the news of puchasing . Posts are pouring in, written in SO many languages. ALL of them worrying about yet another good software suite falling victim to and a license model moving from perpetual to monthly subscription.

Users universally loathe subs and we have all seen this story play out before. Nobody trusting the "no changes planned at this time" message.

A sad state of affairs when we all now EXPECT to be worse off shortly.

airwhale, to random
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Me with sleeping granddaughter ❤️

airwhale, to random
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Loving this album by @Skeewiff So much fun! A fresh take on goofy tracks from (mostly) the 1960's, re-imagined with a contemporary sound and a deadpan delivery.

A wonderfully deconstructed "Soul Bossanova", a "Spanish Flea" that (almost) never ends, probably the best (to date) version of "MahNa MahNa", all rounded out by UK parlamentary political anthem #1 "Yakety Sax".

This album shows a true love for the originals, played in the most skilled and respectful way.

https://tidal.com/album/341997933

airwhale, to affinity
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Here is the official statement and FAQ from #Affinity on the merger with #Canva.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

purplepadma, (edited ) to random
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Do you prefer your battles to use…?

airwhale,
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@purplepadma

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

kmmfoo, to random
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@ajsadauskas Listened to a random podcast on Pushkin, suspect that one problem with drone delivery in the US is the hobbled air-traffic rules that allow civilian aircraft to fly without transponders. Just sayin’
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/launching-drone-delivery

airwhale,
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@kmmfoo @ajsadauskas

Drone delivery doesn’t scale.

At its current range and load capacity, you would need (low guesstimated) at least 25 drones for every one delivery truck. We know AI can’t be trusted, so every 2-3 drones would need a human pilot. Batteries would need to be changed and charged at a depot. Neighbours complaining about the noise.

Sure, for a one-off delivery to a nearby island, drones rock. It’s a very limited use case though. One human in one truck is way more effective.

inthehands, to random
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Windows Recall…just…good god.

The phrase “Microsoft jumped the shark” just doesn’t feel strong enough. Can we say Microsoft fucked the shark?

airwhale,
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@inthehands @Rycaut

I have been hearing about this type of service being in the works for years. The “productivity pundits” have been discussing it quite a bit on their podcasts, so yeah... someone was thinking to basically record everything into a massive “browser history” equivalent for your life.

They also mentioned wearing body cams to take photos with a similar frequency, so maybe that Humane AI pin will get a second life as your personal surveillance cam :)

ned, (edited ) to random

Just thinking about how wrong the phrase is, "You have to earn respect".

No, you have to earn disrespect. As a human being, I'm naturally going to respect you if I don't know you. It's when you earn my disrespect, that I'll stop showing respect.

I give people respect freely, until they prove to me that they don't deserve it.

#musings

airwhale,
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@ned @inthehands

Agree. People should be assumed to be awesome until they prove themselves to be otherwise.

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