Today in Labor History March 11, 1811: Luddites attacked looms near Nottingham, England, because automation was threatening their jobs. At the time, workers were suffering from high unemployment, declining wages, an “endless” war with France and food scarcity. On March 11, they smashed machines in Nottingham and demonstrated for job security and higher wages. The protests and property destruction spread across a 70-mile area of England, reaching Manchester. The government sent troops to protect the factories and made machine-breaking punishable by death.
I've just shared a new Shortcut over on my own Shortcuts Archive.
It's a simple one this time, but one I use an awful lot to quickly test out new Shortcuts actions or whip up a prototype. It's called Shortcuts Playground.
So, you just started with #ansible? Or maybe you want to improve in it? In the past, I wrote a couple of articles about @ansible , how you can get started and practical examples.
I hope these help you with #OpenSource#Automation. In case you miss something or want to provide feedback, please get in touch. I would love to address your topics, too.
I don't talk about the #Science /work stuff I'm doing, just sheepish really (even if it is pretty cool). But here's a nice article that previews the @CarnegieMellon Cloud Lab that will soon go online here in #Pittsburgh with oversight by the Emerald Cloud Lab. I'm quoted a bit but I like this article mainly because I got the query from a student & it's in the student run paper: the Tartan.
CMU Cloud Lab to bring remote science into mainstream
#AI#Automation#Philosophy#FreeWill: "Experiments show that people tend to confirm decisions made by machines, even against their better judgment.
We’ve all seen the GIF of the tourists who have driven into the middle of a lake because their GPS system told them to. We humans are ultimately herd creatures. We are rather lazy and prefer to follow orders – even those of a machine. A doctor who has to make a lot of decisions quickly under great pressure would probably welcome a machine to help her decide what to do. But the world isn’t built like that – there isn’t always a right answer as to which patient should get the precious kidney. In the most interesting cases in human life, the options are «en par.» That’s why AI systems should ask for an active decision in hard cases."
I am looking for an electric motor that 1️⃣ can be controlled remotely (Modbus, HTTP, whatever), 2️⃣ can coil a cable/rope holding an object (here a sail) of 30-40kg, 3️⃣ will be used indoor.
It’s been a year I’m looking for this, with no result. Please help me.
Alright, you #opensource perverts. You convinced me to share my code. I hope it was a worthwhile use of my evening. If you're interested in setting up your own build server for the #Mercury#browser, check out #MercuryAlloy on #github.
The splitting of the atom, for example, once that technology was invented, it was up to us (humanity) what we did with it. We could use it to create weapons of mass destruction, or we could use it to power cities.
AI is another invention that we cannot unlearn and forget exist. But we do have the choice of what we design AI for.
Finally got my #automated#browser building #server working. Now I'm just eagerly awaiting the next Rocket.Chat notification that an updated version has been built and is available for download.
Okay, even though Home.app on #macOS says it’s version 8, and I've never seen it here, I'm not even mad. This is amazing. This is the minimal home #automation I'm comfortable with (audio, lights, temp, motion). Thanks, Apple.
OC MercuryAlloy - Automated Build Service for the Mercury Browser (github.com)
MercuryAlloy automates the build process for the Mercury browser....