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Bluedonkey

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British ex-pat living the island life in the #SanFrancisco Bay Area. #Alameda.

Architect of #Cloud / #embedded / #IoT systems. Working on #AI #GunDetection.

Like #ElectricVehicles, #CleanEnergy, #Photography, #3dPrinting, #Electronics and #Travel.

All opinions mine.

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Bluedonkey, to Dogs
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Somebody is a sleepy puppy tonight. Two walks to the kids’ school and back probably helped.

Bluedonkey, to microsoft
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If companies like keep sending out emails with big login buttons in them, how do they expect people to learn not to click buttons and links in emails. Corporate marketing people need to be fired for sending emails like this. Period. No second chances. Send a link in an email, lose your job. Immediately.

Bluedonkey, to photography
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This is a really good idea. Ice cream trucks tend to sit in a place all day, running their fossil fuel burning engine to keep everything chilled, and pumping noxious fumes into the air and over the lines of children waiting for their ice cream.

This one is 100% electric. No fumes. Also, no noisy engine. Just the gentle hum of the compressors keeping the ice cream chilled.

Bluedonkey,
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@stuart That does seem a little suspect for sure. 100% electric, powered by a diesel generator 😞

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@stuart Interestingly, I just looked up the one I saw by its number plate and it appears to be diesel powered. Maybe the solar/battery 100% electric part is just the ice cream stuff. The one we saw did not have its engine running when we bought our ice cream. I can see it moving under diesel power but not needing that while it is serving ice cream.

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Just back last week from two weeks in Paris and London, and this article is spot on: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/travel/overcrowded-europe-summer.html Everything was crowded in June just below what I'd expect in July or August—there were lines but not long waits at major museums. The Métro was absolutely packed on nearly every ride in Paris.

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@glennf We’re in the UK now, and London was indeed packed yesterday, although a large part of that at the Tower of London appeared to be local school field trips (the schools don’t get out for summer here until early to mid July).

Same at Duxford last week - a lot of field trips.

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@glennf We only had one day in London itself and the kids wanted to see the Tower of London and ride a double decker bus! We also did Duxsford Imperial War Museum up near Cambridge, and spent some time down in Devon (Pecorama miniature railway, the Donkey Sanctuary and Sidmouth beach).

Bluedonkey,
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@glennf It is handy having family & friends you can stay with in various places 😀

We rented a car and drove, but I learned to drive in London suburbs so the roads here are more familiar (although all the speed cameras make it a lot harder).

Bluedonkey, to random
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Flying south over England yesterday, en route to LHR. The plane we were on had a “tail cam” giving a view down on to the top of the plane, and whatever is beneath it.

Bluedonkey, to random
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There is something oddly amusing about a company that sells online collaboration tools insisting that the only way its employees can be effective is to be physically in the same building.

Also, given the distributed nature of the offices these large companies have, I suspect a lot of their meetings have at least a few people from another site in them.

This is not about the workers. It is about the managers, not knowing how to manage a remote team.

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/companies-trying-everything-to-get-workers-back

Bluedonkey, to random
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Just went looking for a post I made earlier that I couldn't see on here. Finally, I have found the @ivory drafts, and shockingly there are 50 posts in there that it has for some reason failed to post, and failed to tell me that it failed to post.

How can it silently fail to post? That seems like a serious flaw. There are posts, and replies, going way back. Might have to try some of the other apps again if I can't trust this one to actually post when I tap the post button.

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@AlanSill Not that I am aware of. This morning there was no indication of that and a post I made just before the one that failed was ok. As was one a few minutes later.

Bluedonkey,
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@AlanSill I’m less bothered about the failures and more about the lack of warning. Even a clear indication that there are outstanding drafts would be better UX than hiding them behind what looks like a settings icon.

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@ivory @AlanSill That may be the case with the older ones, but the post this morning was not showing up on my browser on my laptop, and did not show the red failed warning.

I do think something in the UI making it clear there are drafts would be useful too. Then I would at least be aware they were there.

Bluedonkey, to infosec
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Just watched a video from a large intl company proposing a system for K-12 schools using to allow students & staff access, to detect former students on campus, to block access to non-custodial parents & sex offenders and more. All using AI based facial recognition.

Leaving aside issues of accuracy, just think about the database of personal information behind that. Then think about this:

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-04-17-student-privacy-is-at-more-risk-than-ever-before-can-k-12-schools-keep-it-safe

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