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samueljohnson

@samueljohnson@mstdn.social

Scientist, MBA, ex IT professional, Irish & European
Lived 30+ years on 4 continents, now back in Ireland.

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thelinuxEXP, to random
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After talking about it with my Patreon supporters, and here on Mastodon, I decided to stop publishing to Odysee. I wrote a short blog post about the reasons, and the options people have to keep watching outside of YouTube if they want to:

https://thelinuxexp.com/Im-leaving-odysee/

It's not a decision everyone will agree with, but it's the one I'm comfortable with.

samueljohnson,
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@thelinuxEXP Well done.

hughsheehy, to random

There isn't even a word for this backwards attitude. Social luddism? Head-up-your-assness?

samueljohnson,
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@hughsheehy https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/04/27/britain-is-dead/

bullivant, to random

Bobby Sands (Robert Gerard Sands - Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) was born on 9th March 1954 in Dunmurry, County Antrim. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. He died as a result of the hunger strike on 5th May 1981.

samueljohnson,
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@devxvda @bullivant They have an abiding animosity toward the British (the "Little Satan", whose power and influence they still have an entirely outdated notion of) and a willingness to regard the enemy of an enemy as a friend. It's little more than a snook.

beerladiespod, to random

IT'S TODAY!

Time for our 3rd-annual special! As always, we are so excited about this year's songs - the good, the bad and the bonkers - and we have been studying the entries, and pairing with appropriate beers...

shows.acast.com/beerladies/episodes/eurovision-2023

samueljohnson,
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@beerladiespod For sale in Dublin? Where?!

samueljohnson,
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@beerladiespod @craftgeeksa synaesthesia

Cloudguy, to random

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    samueljohnson,
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    @Cloudguy Login isn't working for me atm.

    samueljohnson, to random
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    Some years ago demutualisation of credit unions and other mutual financial entities was popular in the UK, with shareholders effectively paid a bribe to go public, freezing up assets for management to speculate with and reward themselves extravagantly.

    Why has nobody thought of demutualising the crown, or most of it?

    samueljohnson, to random
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    Britain is Dead.

    https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/04/27/britain-is-dead/

    🔥

    bobjmsn, to random
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    This is the email address to complain about ID being introduced . Be awful if everybody used it.

    samueljohnson,
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    @harriettmb @bobjmsn @kravietz Vote suppression surely, rather than gerrymandering (as practiced historically in NI). Borrowed from the GOP, and hopefully going to reap some payback later.

    ottocrat, to random
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    Argh, again on the royalists’ so-called ‘gotcha’ is slapped down: “who wants an elected President B Johnson?” In a parliamentary system, the symbolic Head of State has no political power and there’s no bloody reason to make them elected ffs! Follow the example of Germany or Canada and have them appointed by consensus! Don’t make me go on Twitter and @ @iandunt 😩

    samueljohnson,
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    @ottocrat We manage reasonably well in Ireland.

    Met an unbearably up-himself posh Brit married to a foreign diplomat posted in Ireland who, having met him, made condescending remarks about the President ('s stature --principally). Utterly ignorant of his background: sociologist, human rights activist, academic, writer, linguist, poet, politician, minister, senator etc. Better than a hereditary booby I ventured. He wasn't amused nor did he agree.

    The forelock tugging instinct runs deep.

    samueljohnson, to random
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    https://theconversation.com/ai-is-helping-astronomers-make-new-discoveries-and-learn-about-the-universe-faster-than-ever-before-204351

    Astronomy and AI.

    How AI is enabling astronomical acceleration in productivity in science based on large data sets, not just astronomy.

    YlvaJohansson, to random

    Corruption is a threat to our security, with 60% of organised crime groups using corruption.

    Now the @EU_Commission is proposing a comprehensive set of corruption crimes to bring the fight where it hurts the corrupt the most.

    Details 👇
    https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2516

    🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/YlvaJohansson/status/1653718959860903936

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    samueljohnson,
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    @YlvaJohansson @EU_Commission 👏Ireland has been dragging its feet on anti-corruption legislation. This will hopefully help address that, right across the EU.

    yacc143, to random

    Funny how the Brits cannot understand that a common currency is important to a single market: Just was doing my travel reimbursements, and being holier than the pope, I did take the exact costs that were charged to my card for the train tickets in the UK.

    4 days difference, and 6 cent difference. €14.25 versus €14.19.
    0.4% in € price difference.

    One might argue that this is irrelevant, but with margins in many industries being way below 5%, these currency fluctuations are major.

    samueljohnson,
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    @yacc143 There's also the overhead in calculating these costs, accounting for them, and currency hedging. All of which add up to burden those in the €zone don't have.

    samueljohnson,
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    @yacc143 I studied finance, incl hedging, as part of my MBA. Your assertions aren't entirely accurate (one can only hedge specific transactions would be news to many corporate treasury depts). Apologies for triggering your thread, I merely intended to add an underline to a good point.

    samueljohnson,
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    @yacc143 You're not wrong. Don't forget that it has happened quite often that the likes of BP have made more money from treasury operations than from their core business operations, and, ofc, others have blown up. People sitting on lots of cash like to find ways to juice their returns regardless of the underlying fundamentals (and reward themselves accordingly, leaving the subsequent fallout to successors & govts + taxpayers).

    A few, like the Bank of North Dakota, have different values.

    jeremybmerrill, to random

    “I absolutely was never thinking or planning a sex robot brothel in rural Georgia.”

    https://www.ajc.com/politics/no-a-bionic-bordello-isnt-coming-to-rural-georgia/DFZZUBSUCRBKHCBHIHDGG3XXAA/

    samueljohnson,
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    @jeremybmerrill @jon_harbert You aren't just giving them your money. You are paying with your privacy. The site is "unavailable in most European countries [ie the EU] due to GDPR". Nope. It's because the scummy business model based on misuse of data is illegal

    https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror

    Getting a pass on that for your subscription? Nope.

    SarahOestreich, to books

    News from the suit: Joe Tacopina has filed for a mistrial. It revolves around the Trump lawyer initially not recognizing, then not understanding a classic piece of satirical . From @emptywheel with an appearance by @KlasfeldReports https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/05/01/joe-tacopina-complains-about-woke-jonathan-swift/

    samueljohnson,
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    @SarahOestreich @emptywheel @KlasfeldReports 700 years ago? The year 1729 to be exact. Not even 300.

    BrideOfLinux, to random
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    Absitively! Steed!..., we're needed.

    samueljohnson,
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    @BrideOfLinux The lovely Ms Peel, the Helen of Troy for many, with a manual on purring? A bit of a cliché.

    mastodonmigration, (edited ) to internet
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    Let's make it a game to figure out the insane overreach are attempting.

    Hint directly from their Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):

    a. "...website located at bsky.social (“Site”), [AND!] the Authenticated Transfer [AT] social protocol (“Protocol”)"

    b. "...our Site, Protocol, and App... are collectively called the “Services.”"

    c. "By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky..."

    Any guesses?

    1/4

    samueljohnson,
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    @mastodonmigration The Internet runs on TCP/IP not Ethernet. Your devices may use Ethernet locally as well as TCP/IP but it's not ordinarily possible to discern this for any content transferred across the Internet.

    samueljohnson, to random
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    Brilliant weekly Brexit analysis, as usual, from Chris Grey

    https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/raab-brexit-and-civil-service.html

    EU_Commission, to random
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    🛂 We want to make travelling across EU borders smoother.

    That’s why we are launching a public consultation on the digitalisation of travel documents. Your contributions will help establish a common standard in the Schengen area.

    Digital travel documents can be easier to issue than physical ones and can facilitate border checks.

    This initiative aims to decide on a common format for digital travel documents.

    until June 28: https://europa.eu/!8CGq6H

    A GIF showing different EU passports with the superimposed sentence: "Digitalisation of travel documents."

    samueljohnson,
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    @newsorpigal @EU_Commission You're surveilled anyway when you cross international borders*. Get over it unless you're proposing not doing any checks at your own borders.

    *Except inside the EU's Schengen zone.

    sinabhfuil, to random

    Damn, wish I could have solar panels https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41127427.html

    samueljohnson,
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    @astaines @Tarbh @Cbfoley @sinabhfuil That's useful. I have a quote from one company and have contacted and am waiting for a response from 3 others (14 400W panels, battery, etc). My impression is that they simply can't keep up with demand.

    Previously I solicited quotes for installation of a Zappi charger. 23 invites, got 1 quote, a few apologies (mostly too busy) and no response from the rest.

    samueljohnson,
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    @Tarbh @Cbfoley @sinabhfuil https://suncalc.org crossed the radar earlier FWIW

    adrianfry, to random
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    A reminder to check your for compliance with rules post-Brexit.

    really is such a catastrophe for the dis-United Kingdom.

    All the more reason for

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/apr/29/briton-valid-passport-barred-from-flight-brexit-rules-eu

    samueljohnson,
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    @adrianfry Don't miss this superb column

    https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

    MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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    Redding up and found this copy of The New York Times from Saturday 25 June 2016. I was in NYC for work as the referendum result hit the fan.

    It's still hitting the fan now.

    samueljohnson,
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    @MadeyeTheCarnaptious I had already left UK but was back on the day of the vote. Overheard in a coffee shop next morning:

    Feels like 9/11, 1939

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