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danieldurrans

@danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk

Tech leader working in automotive financing and fleet management.

Street & documentary photographer, exploring the urban environment and human world.

Bristolian who is generally disappointed at the state of local politics.

Grumpy about national and world politics. Trying to be part of the tofu eating wokerati, but without actually having to eat tofu.

Occasional cat pictures & toots about home life.

#fedi22 #Bristol #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #ProtestPhotography

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ElleGray, to random
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All I saw was sandwich for at least 15 seconds

danieldurrans,
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@ElleGray You don't get that as part of a Tesco meal deal, that's for sure.

hobbitswife, to random
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Just finished watching on . Both series! Excellent writing. Doesn’t sell Belfast too well though!

danieldurrans,
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@hobbitswife I keep forgetting to watch Series 2. I loved Series 1, but you're right... it doesn't exactly make me want to visit Belfast.

30yrdscreamer, to random
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This is why the uk high street is in trouble.

Go onto store website - product is £15
Go into store - product is £20
The store can't negotiate down to the website price. They're literally undercutting themselves

danieldurrans,
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@30yrdscreamer In my recent experience:

  • Store item is soiled
  • Store doesn't have range of sizes for you to try on
  • Store doesn't have range of colours so you can see what it actually looks like
  • Store is closed when it is convenient for me to shop

... but you can buy it online with free returns!

danieldurrans, to random
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4514111
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/112497243524133218

rooster, to random
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People who take public transit are sexy

danieldurrans,
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@rooster Glad I got a bus today. Granted the first bus ride since Covid but it still counts.

hobbitswife, to random
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Youngest (8) came across Linkin Park on my random playlist.

He is now loudly singing along, over & over & it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

Our kids have always listened to different decades of music I just find it funny that he loves something from 20+ years ago

Probably should say that the song he likes is ‘In the end’ - our Apple Music / Alexa has parental controls so he doesn’t find the sweary ones!

danieldurrans,
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@hobbitswife It's very strange when I hear late 90s house music being played by the 20 y/o students next door.

ianbetteridge, to random
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The funny thing about Microsoft's new Recall feature is how little actual "AI" it's doing. It's basically just making automatic screen captures, then running OCR and image recognition to create a semantic index you can search. Unless I'm missing something, there's no LLM (or small language model) used in it. Maybe in parsing queries?

danieldurrans,
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@ianbetteridge I can only assume that AI is suffering from the same ‘it's sexy, everything is AI' we suffer from at work with one of our mobile apps. It's the new sexy thing so everyone wants to 'integrate with the app' or in some way associate their project with the app even if they have no idea what they are talking about.

dans, to random
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It was vaguely en route south, so a geeky diversion had to be done.

danieldurrans,
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@dans I hear that it can go into a turbo mode and make a great smoothie.

danieldurrans, to random
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Awww my new eBike (well, newish.... 700 miles ridden since I got it in January) now has a failing front fork.

danieldurrans, to ai
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I assume that Google accidently used the PageWank algorythm rather than the PageRank algorythm when training Google Gemini

revk, to random
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Legitimate interests… I wonder if that will get tested.
But objection applying “going forward”. Surely one can object to how data “was” used as well?

danieldurrans,
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@revk I objected and my objection was honoured within 15 minutes.

Most people won't object. I bet my wife didn't even read that notification.

danieldurrans,
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@revk You need to be logged in to see and submit the form. The facebook app annoyingly opens the form in a pop-up browser window and doesn't SSO you into Facebook. They must have designed this pattern to be annoying as possible.

jamesoff, to animals
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Had to say goodbye to Chaos this morning, the curliest, squeakiest, most rain-absorbingest cat you could ever hope to meet. A sad day at home today, give your pets a cuddle from us <3

A ginger cat inside a cat teepee. He’s looking and the camera and looks very happy.
A ginger cat crouching on top of a wooden fence. There’s green leaves of a hedge behind him and he’s looking intently at the camera with green eyes.
A ginger cat sitting in front of a low-profile led-backlit keyboard. He has a paw forward on the wrist rest as though he’s mid-typing.

danieldurrans,
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@jamesoff :( A sad day indeed. Pets cuddled as instructed.

danieldurrans, to Facebook
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Interesting… notification in Facebook telling me I can object to my data being used to improve AI at Facebook and that if my objection is honoured then that will be the case going forward.

I submitted the form and just got an email saying they will honour my objection.

#facebook #ai

danieldurrans,
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@yesterzine Yea, it was fast enough to make me think they were not really doing any kind of review but slow enough to make me think it wasn't automated yet.

foone, to random
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I keep forgetting that I hate keyboards

this makes it a bit of a problem given that's like 1/3rd of everything I do

danieldurrans,
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@foone YMDK Carbon? I got some of those in a different colour. Love the look and the font but you’re right, they feel rough.

danieldurrans, to random
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@girlonthenet I followed your lead and listened to Punk Rock Factory while doing a 4 mile round trip to the supermarket on the bike.

I am not sure the people of Bristol really appreciated me hollering Gummi Bears along the cycle path, but it made me feel fantastic!

Dashing and daring,
Courageous and caring…

yesterzine, to random
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I'm surprised this needs to be said but...

"If I have to give you an email address or phone number or worse, phone you to find out the price of your good or service I will never find out the price of your good or service".

danieldurrans,
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@yesterzine I'm good with the idea of an indicative price for things that can't be a fixed price. At least then I can form a vague idea of budget needed, likely quality, etc.

It's the same with job adverts not showing a salary range.

danieldurrans,
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@yesterzine delivery and tax will be calculated at checkout, or if you are unlucky Royal Mail will hold your parcel hostage.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Village WhatsApp groups are such great spaces to find out how people think the internet works. Just write “is anyone having trouble with their internet?” And immediately you’ll get all kinds of bizarre theories about what to do to get it back. Today’s: “we had a power cut so it might take a while to come back on”

danieldurrans,
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@CatherineFlick It's probably dognappers trying to hide their tracks.

Shared in Weston hun x

danieldurrans, to random
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It's all going on in my street this evening. Lady walking her cat on an extendable lead. Unleashed dog, the size of a 12 year old, running around. Cat runs under a parked car. Lead gets tangled under the wheels. Man drives up looking for his dog, leaves car in middle of T junction. Dog runs away. Man chases dog. Man carries dog back to car with one arm under each doggy armpit. Woman with cat is now hugging the cat and looks distraught (the woman, not the cat).

mw1cgg, to random
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Not one person has pulled me up on my t-shirt. Bloody philistines.

danieldurrans,
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@mw1cgg It looks a little like a train? Intercity 125?

danieldurrans, to random
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Sunbathing

oglaf, to random
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www.oglaf.com/original-sin/

danieldurrans,
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@oglaf https://www.oglaf.com/original-sin/

danieldurrans, to bristol
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“It's not ‘quack’, it's ‘hissss’”

Swan with its cygnets in Eastville Park,

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