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markhughes

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Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

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fulelo, to random
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- trial live: Judge Merchan has returned to say the jury has a - live page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-69069142

markhughes,
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@fulelo "guilty" not "accused" 🤷‍♂️

markhughes, (edited ) to random
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jurors:

markhughes, (edited ) to Israel
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is a gangster state that threatens judges and journalists while committing , with the support of US and UK against the rulings of the International Criminal Court, and Donald Trump is a criminal who may be elected US president in November.

What a fucking world.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

markhughes,
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@GossiTheDog
Ah , the sham regulator. 🤦‍♂️

hanse_mina, to Ukraine
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“The percentage of Russian battlefield weaponry with or allied branded components is alarmingly and unacceptably high,” Daleep , the deputy national security adviser for international economics, said Tuesday. “Put your creativity and resources to work, know your customers, know their customers, and know the end users. Ensure that American firms are not unwitting cogs in Russia’s arsenal of autocracy.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-28/too-many-us-goods-still-getting-to-russia-us-official-says

markhughes,
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@hanse_mina
Business: profitssiz profitssiz

sarahtaber, to random
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Everyone get ready for MEMORIAL DAY FOOD FACTS tonight

Starting at 6pm Eastern, for every donation to this link, I will post one (1) fact about food, agriculture, & military supply chains.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon

markhughes,
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@sarahtaber
If you have access there's a 1hr #docudrama based on the writings of #FlorenceNightingale who was a volunteer nurse in the Crimean war.

It is free on BBC #iPlayer at the moment.

Amazing story and typically good dramatisation.
#healthcare #history #UKTV #war

stefan, to ai
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Good news for folks who enjoy AI embarrassing itself with nonsensical answers!

"Well, according to an interview at The Verge with Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem.""

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-google-ai-hallucinations

markhughes,
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@stefan
They are errors, not hallucinations.
And errors are bugs not a 'feature' of .

markhughes, to random
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/ USA and / UK are complicit in the mass killing of refugees overnight in , and in much else.

They have offered a protective shield against the and so his war crimes and continue.

This is also on you , and your silence is shameful and racist.

glynmoody, to random
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Once Britain is back in the EU, things can only get better - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/once-britain-is-back-in-the-eu-things-can-only-get-better indeed, we need to start planning for this

markhughes,
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@glynmoody Brits won't accept the Euro and that will be a condition the EU won't drop.

We may creep closer, rejoin CU etc but I can't see full membership again. So stupid and sad.

Free_Press, to news
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It's time to lift restrictions on the use of weapons provided to Ukraine — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

"This is Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. Ukraine has the right to defend itself. And this includes strikes on targets on the territory of Russia".

markhughes,
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@Free_Press Joe is happy to let use it's weapons on a civilian population, and to defend these criminal actions against the but won't allow to use its weapons against military targets against an invader of its sovereign territory.

All with support from UK's and .

markhughes, to LLMs
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Using for technical design is like asking Picasso to design aircraft.

Engineer: more wings please. No, not that many, and make them symmetrical this time. No, no, no...

glynmoody, to random
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18-year-old would not be jailed for refusing 'mandatory' national service, says minister - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/26/labour-criticises-rishi-sunaks-national-service-plan-as-unfunded-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-6652e8ff8f080a302f01f83b#block-6652e8ff8f080a302f01f83b so people can safely ignore. stupid idea already crumbling before our eyes...

markhughes,
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@glynmoody this would be another poll tax.

dentangle, to random
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My next task involves hitting something with a hammer. 🔨

I have the hammer.

I have the training.

I am ready.

markhughes,
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@dentangle one of the best tasks is hitting something really hard with a hammer.

Living on a boat I get a good dose every few weeks.

Hit it!

markhughes, to random
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Gove, Gove .. gone.
🥳

markhughes, to iPhone
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I've just appended '_nomap' to the name of my WiFi (SSID) because apparently that's the only way to stop every passing from capturing the SSID and sending it with its location back to Apple, who use it to create a global database which tracks devices that offer WiFi or have a WiFi hotspot.

Every person with an iPhone is a roaming mule and doesn't give a shit about anyone's or the potential harms creating such a database enables. Remember that.

Brian_Mahoney, to tv
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'Maigret' is on Kanopy, two free episodes. I watched the first last evening. Rowan Atkinson doesn't have many lines so he has to use his face for acting purposes. Pretty good, all in all. My dad loved Simenon's books. Now I'll hunt for a couple and try them out.

markhughes, (edited )
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@rivets
The 90's series is French with Bruno Cremer. He's superb and I'm watching the series free to air on (in UK). I never miss it. They have some real gems and this is one, far better than Rowan Atkinson.

While waiting I've just seen a young Brian Cox in Manhunt (1970) which was a treat.

I don't remember how good the eighties BBC series was but I probably wouldn't have liked it at the time.

@Brian_Mahoney

markhughes, to random
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Waiting for .

glynmoody, to random
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is dramatically out of touch with voters on . He may lose because of it - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/biden-gaza-2024-election looking increasingly likely...

markhughes, (edited )
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@glynmoody siding with Netanyahu against the is unbelievable and stupid.

It's as if he recognises he's complicit in 's crimes and doubling down rather than getting back on the right side of history.

markhughes, to drama
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If you have access to BBC and like a bit of Le Carre, there are seven episodes of A Perfect Spy waiting for you.

These old BBC dramas are gold. Go dig. Oppenheimer was another treat.

Let me know any gems you uncover.

markhughes,
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@bernat sounds about right.

markhughes, to Israel
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and 's attempt to characterise the as likening to is a despicable lie, worthy of the worst tyrants.

The ICC is judging Netanyahu and Hamas leaders individually against their actions and the law. That's it, and they should all have their innocence or guilt tested in court, just like everybody else and not be spinning lies to hide from that.

carnage4life, to random
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The story of DeviantArt, a community site now overwhelmed by content from AI bots and which is itself selling user content to train AI, reads like a cautionary tale for Reddit.

The saving grace is there’s no Reddit alternative for users upset about their content being sold to AI companies

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

markhughes,
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@carnage4life two alternative on the fedi: lemmy and kbin.

markhughes, to Israel
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So nice to hear the words and arrest warrant in the same sentence.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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With everything that's going on in the world, at least Birdseye - a self-proclaimed ethical fishing business, owned by a massive conglomerate, previously fined billions for fraud, artificially inflating the value of produce, price fixing, overturning ethical standards, discrimination, hazardous working conditions, destroying culturally significant land for offices and public health violations - but apart from all that (and all of the product recalls for E.coli, Salmonella and fatal bronchiolitis), an ethical fishing company who use the highly destructive bottom trawlers (responsible for damaging up to half of Norway’s cold water corals reefs), but apart from that an ethical fishing company who buy a third of their produce from pirates who deal in illegal catches and over-fishing.....have commissioned someone to spend 100 hours to make a cute miniature sandwich! Aah, sweet!

World's smallest fish finger sandwich measures under 1cm tall
https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/15/worlds-smallest-fish-finger-sandwich-measures-1cm-tall-20844820/?ico=mosaic_weird

markhughes,
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@TheBreadmonkey I knew it was right not to buy because of all the advertising I've seen them do throughout my life, much of it targeted at kids.

Now I know why, thanks.

YorksBylines, to random
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With the numbers not in his favour, and having run out of ideas, Hunt has opted for the classic finger pointing "look, Labour will be worse, honest!" | Sue Wilson MBE

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/hunts-tax-speech/?feed_id=879&_unique_id=66477fbd02a63
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/hunts-tax-speech/?feed_id=879&_unique_id=66477fbd02a63

markhughes,
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@YorksBylines

would have to be just like the conservatives to be that bad.

🤔

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