trantion

@trantion@masto.ai

#Python developer by day. Other interests on here include #Hiking, #TTRPG (mainly #DnD but hoping to branch out), #Gardening, #Cycling, #Urbanism, #Photography

#Sheffield
#PeakDistrict

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kde, to microsoft
@kde@floss.social avatar

In view of the latest news coming out of Microsoft...

Yeah, KDE's Plasma doesn't do that either. Your stuff is safe.

https://kde.org/distributions/
https://kde.org/hardware/

@kde

#recall #microsoft #windows11 #privacy

trantion,

@kde @kde But if you wanted to, I assume you could write a cron job to take a screenshot every minute and upload it to some random server :-D

trantion, to Sheffield

over

View of faint aurora from a park. The bottom and right of the frame are filled with silhouettes of trees, with the sky above mostly dark blue-grey with a fuzzy green band from top left to bottom right.
Aurora over Sheffield. The sky goes from red-pink-purple at the top left, fading to a green band from top right to near bottom left, then fading to normal city night grey at the bottom right. Underneath are some hills covered in city lights.

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

I was rushing earlier so didn’t post pics

I went from Bruxelles to Paris via Marne La Vallée today so as to check the suitability of the station there for Channel Tunnel services

The good news: there’s a platform that can be cordoned off, Lille Europe style

Less good: there’s either little or no stabling space south of the station. So you’d have to timetable fast turnarounds to use MLV

Nets separate passengers on escalators. TGV below stopped at the secure platform
Platform level - secure platform to the left

trantion,

@jon @fishter_uk Is it possible they intended to do passport controls here when the station was built, but then decided not to for whatever reason?

Kokirimuscle, to random
@Kokirimuscle@woof.group avatar

When I hear people say in that they like to make up the character’s backstory and personality as they play rather than beforehand or at a session 0, I think they must have players that are far better at improv than the ones I play with.

In my experience, if a character doesn’t have a backstory at the beginning, they never will have one.

trantion,

@DejahEntendu @zdl @Kokirimuscle I've heard stories of GMs just announcing that the bad guy has killed a PC's family, so you should care about the plot. That sounds bad, disempowering & off-putting; but on the other hand I like the idea of finding your home town is under threat and your next mission is to defend it. That sounds empowering and could be lots of fun. More role-play opportunities, too

TechConnectify, to random
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

Things are really heating up in this new video:
https://youtu.be/ff04ecF9Dfw

trantion,

@TechConnectify It all makes sense now, having grown up with ceramic hobs (as we brits call the glass ones). Is the reason for not using the simmerstat on induction because those aren't resistive loads, and so the controls are more complex/precise?

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Your periodic reminder that if you:

a) Dislike long threads and;

b) Follow someone who routinely posts long threads;

that is a YOU problem, which you can solve by unfollowing, and, if need be, blocking that user so they don't show up in your federated timeline.

trantion,

@pluralistic I have a filter set to block anything with "Long Thread/" in it from my feeds but not when viewing the actual post. That way I can see the start of the thread and choose to read it (usually on your website), and I also see your boosts and other stuff. Win/win

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Garden centre has no bike racks. So we occupy one 🙂 🚲 🚲

trantion,

@jon How sturdy is that box? I find it quite easy to either crush semi-rigid boxes with tight bungee cords, or they're loose enough it can fall off.

schizanon, to ai
@schizanon@mas.to avatar

To put this in perspective; electric bicycles are commonly regulated at no more than 500W https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/nvidia_turns_up_the_ai/

trantion,

@schizanon Now I'm imagining an AI system that only runs while the user is doing some of the work. Like, you press one key and it makes up the next letter.

bedirthan, to DnD
@bedirthan@dice.camp avatar

The peoples in the eras of history that inspire and other fantasy had hobbies. They sang, danced, played games and other things that didn't have "value."

Your characters should have hobbies too! Use a skill or tool on something without any mechanical value to your PC and expand the stories that you tell.

https://fullmoonstorytelling.com/2021/03/21/your-dd-characters-should-have-hobbies/

trantion,

@bedirthan I've played with this a little by developing the mechanics of a class into a personality, for example we treated my beast master ranger's companion wolf as a big dog that everyone could pet, and my future bard idea is going to be an established musician & storyteller who is on an adventure (rather than an adventurer with some class abilities).

But I've not got very far yet with developing pure hobbies - maybe because there's not much time between each dungeon to dig into it yet.

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Google Maps, showing the storefront for Golden State Lock as an empty building.

trantion,

@mbpaz @pluralistic But Google Maps does allow anyone to add random features like a rock, or a place in the middle of a field where they launched a drone from, name it whatever they want, and put it onto the map

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

And yes, I hate the ‘discussion’ about short haul flight bans.

The idea in principle is fine, but the crux is HOW you do it and WHAT you ban (France bans very, very little) - but the number of people going “ooooooh can we have the same here?" massively outweighs the number of people who’ve examined the ineffectiveness of France's ban

trantion,

@jon I linked to your blog post when someone posted about the Spanish short haul flight ban this weekend. Another thing is, France and Spain both have compulsory reservation for high-speed trains, right? Do they run any extra trains where flights are banned, or do they just say "train's full, sorry 🤷 "

ajsadauskas, to fuckcars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

#fuckcars #walkability #urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars #walking

trantion,

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I love how the majority think you should have to drive to a bar

thelinuxEXP, to random
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar

The amount of misogynistic comments on my latest video is just off the charts.

You can doubt the new CEO for her skills, her vision, experience, or the companies she worked at. But saying « another woman CEO, Mozilla is dead » is just… wow.

It’s 2024, people. Seriously. WTF.

trantion,

@thelinuxEXP Ah yes, because Brendan Eich was such a popular, stand-up guy

/s

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Wow. Brianna Ghey's mother is watching PMQs in the gallery this week, so Sunak decides to attack Starmer on his unwillingness to state the difference between a woman and a man.
Jesus.

trantion,

@BashStKid @fkamiah17 Yes. Starmer immediately pulled him up on it. It was also Starmer who had just welcomed her to the public gallery.

trantion, to fantasy

Is there a word used in to replace "humanity" in worlds where multiple races live together, of which humans are one?

Mainly in the sense of "identity as a person" or "the standards of behaviour and ethics expected of a civilised, sapient being".

I don't mean a replacement like "elvenness", but a word that could be used by anyone in a society where different races live side by side and consider each other (more or less) equal.

TechConnectify, to random
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

Ok, with the gas stove thread, people won't stop asking why I'm not considering an induction cooktop. So here's another thread where I try to answer this.

Perhaps the bottom line is this: I'm a Midwesterner. It carries a lotta baggage.

To elucidate, first you should understand that I have tried induction! Not the best experiences of it, to be sure, but I've used two portable burners and found them both to be impressive (with a few caveats). But on the whole, not a game changer to me.

trantion,

@TechConnectify I thought you'd made it pretty clear you'd already tried induction, so I'm not sure why people missed that.

When I got my new kitchen I thought I'd be fine with ceramic hobs, but in the end I thought I might as well pay an extra £100 + pans for induction. Having previously used a badly fitted landlord-special gas cooker, I was very keen to get fitted hobs so I wouldn't get any more crumbs falling down between the cooker and worktop.

vmbrasseur, to random
@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com avatar

Take every opportunity to recharge your solar-powered kitty.

trantion,

@vmbrasseur I've got a full manual over here

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Right then, it's done 🥵

The longest and most complex blog post I have ever written

Everything about the future of long distance through the Channel Tunnel

  • Routes
  • Stations (and passport, luggage scan constraints)
  • Rolling stock
  • Operators

No single problem is insurmountable, but in combination I’m not hopeful for new or expanded services - from Eurostar or anyone else

https://jonworth.eu/the-future-of-long-distance-train-services-through-the-channel-tunnel/

trantion,

@jon As an alternative to de-training, do you think it would be feasible for someone to run a service based on changing trains, with guaranteed connections, presumably at Lille or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy? In the UK-bound direction, the first train would then continue somewhere else, or park in a siding, instead of blocking a platform for an hour.

RobertJackson58585858, to Horizon
@RobertJackson58585858@masto.ai avatar


Have just started watching the committee hearing ... "There is a risk that some post masters who HAVE engaged in fraud will be acquitted/compensated" ... seems like a slow smearing of post masters ... needs to be nipped in the bud.

trantion,

@RobertJackson58585858 Aye, more important to punish the little people who might have committed fraud than the big companies that definitely falsely imprisoned them and destroyed their lives

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

finally! i've always wished i could look at my on [checks notes] the dashboard of my mercedes

trantion,

@molly0xfff Good idea displaying the NFTs inside the car, that way passers-by can't take photos of them :blobcatthinksmart:

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Eurostar “Red” (ex-Thalys)

Where the extra staff intensive boarding process involves a surly guy checking your ticket for you to board while a queue of passengers waits on the cold platform and blocks passengers trying to get to the carriages further along

Top process design, this

trantion,

@jon Usually I see it the other way round, people wanting to put big bags on the seat next to them because they daren't leave it in the rack at the end of the carriage for fear of theft.
That's on British trains with tiny overhead racks that won't fit anything larger than a small backpack

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Few nights ago in bed I was wondering; "is a plastic bottle basically the same as a dinosaur?"

Luckily we have the internet and now I know!

It's not :ed_grin:

"the petroleum we use to make plastics actually comes from ancient ocean floors, where there weren't any dinosaurs"

trantion,

@stux Randall Munroe looked into this for and apparently the answer is more "not much, but maybe a little":

https://what-if.xkcd.com/101/

GayOldTime, to Vintage
@GayOldTime@masto.ai avatar

Never mind flying cars, where are my tidying robots?

trantion,

@GayOldTime The robot paints the murals so that the human has more time to tidy up

pfefferle, (edited ) to fediverse
@pfefferle@mastodon.social avatar

We just released version 2.0.0 of the plugin for (WordPress.com release is planned for tomorrow).

Main feature: Full bidirectional/threaded comment federation 🎉

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.0.0

Thanks @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel and @janboddez for your contributions

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

trantion,

@pfefferle How long does it normally take before a site is accessible over ActivityPub? I've just set up a new Wordpress install on a new domain with the ActivityPub plugin, and when I search on here I get "503 Remote SSL certificate could not be verified". SSL appears to work fine in Firefox. Hoping it works in a couple of days

bamboombibbitybop, to random
@bamboombibbitybop@mastodon.social avatar

I hate the stupid "draft me an email" 'use case' that Microsoft, Google, OpenAI etc keep parroting over and over again. Draft me an email about what, motherfucker? To whom? With what tone? What information do you want to convey? How do you want to sign it? If you provide all of this necessary information to the LLM, you already wrote the goddamn email. The fact that these companies keep highlighting the same 3 or 4 nonexistent use cases is proof that this is all useless garbage. Fucking christ

trantion,

@passenger @bamboombibbitybop We've had anti-compression for ages, for example taking a screenshot of some text to post it on social media. What LLMs have innovated is, now we have a lossy anti-compression algorithm: the text output is similar, but not the same, as the text input. Innovation!

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