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billbennett, 8 days ago to random

Chorus anticipates high-bandwidth IoT demand: https://billbennett.co.nz/chorus-high-bandwidth-iot/

thurrott, 14 days ago to random

Report: Apple Killed Self-Driving Cars to Give Siri an AI Makeover https://www.thurrott.com/apple/302350/report-apple-killed-self-driving-cars-to-give-siri-an-ai-makeover?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

thurrott, 1 month ago to random

Google Improves OneDrive and Microsoft 365 Integration with ChromeOS https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/301345/google-improves-onedrive-and-microsoft-365-integration-with-chromeos?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

robincapper, 1 month ago to animals

I have a spare tire for AHBART* on top of a cupboard in the garage. Heard cat noises while servicing my bicycle and took a while to find the source...

#catsofmastodon #caturday #Birman

*Abarth takes a slightly odd size and has no spare wheel. When a rear one was punctured I replaced both and kept the good, but slightly worn, one if replacement not available

Cat peeking our under a car tyre

acute_distress, 1 month ago to random

Pak N Save and New World are using facial scanning in their stores. Here’s the list of places to avoid. The trial has just started and they have already wrong accused a woman based on the system

https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/news-room/Facial-Recognition-Trial

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musks-x-botched-an-attempt-to-replace-twitter-com-links-with-x-com/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

KiwiEV, 1 month ago to random

Mildly interesting: these two trucks have the same bed length.

iangriffin, 3 months ago to random

Sheesh. Note to fundraisers. i keep getting invited to fundraisers which involve golf or dancing. I'm an introvert who hates sports and dancing, and the idea of an evening "socialising" is an anathema. Sort a 1 on one photography chance and I'm in there. #hintstofundraisers

Rjdlandscapes, 3 months ago to climate

In this hours massively infuriating move NZF is crowing about moves to further destroy our 100% pure image and send us into a more serious #climateCrisis

#nzpol #NewZealand

robincapper, 3 months ago to Fiat

Autocar's "Best cars of the 1990s"?

Guess, or click the link to see, which one I picked...

Surprised they say ~6 left in the U.K., probably that many still in NZ? One, albeit the later 2001 year 155, in my garage.

#weirdcarmastodon #fiat #Cars #autocar

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/best-cars-1990s-which-your-favourite-10#46

iangriffin, 3 months ago to Halo

A pretty impressive solar halo visible here in Portobello at the moment. Annoying seagulls always try to photobomb the moment… #halo #hellohalo #seagulls

KiwiEV, 4 months ago to random

The 2024 Polestar 2 Long Range is a beast.
With this clean machine I broke a personal distance record on one charge: https://youtu.be/EgKgN2Rv7kg
Genuinely impressed. Imagine a fast petrol car without any of the downsides.

iangriffin, 4 months ago to random

First world problems. What’s with the beetroot shortage? Every Subway in Dunedin doesn’t have any beetroot. TBH the only reason I go into subway is to have a mostly beetroot wrap. #firstworldproblems

carnage4life, 4 months ago to random

It's incredible to me that years later we are dealing with another set of life threatening quality issues in Boeing 737 MAX planes which can all be traced to the company deciding to optimize for shareholder value instead of listening to its engineers.

https://www.fromdayone.co/2022/05/01/lessons-of-boeings-cultural-decline-and-how-it-can-recover/

iangriffin, 5 months ago to random

Xmas day question. What was the last movie that got best picture Oscar you have seen. Mine is Argo….:

billbennett, 5 months ago to random

Online firms are not the only ones that use dark patterning.

I bought a 12 pack of imported beers for $20 only to get home and realise that each bottle was half the size of a standard bottle.
(Next time I need to take my glasses to read the small print on the packaging and MY WORD it was small.)

And then there are those evil packs of 10 eggs deliberately designed to trap shoppers in a hurry who might think they are buying 12.

thoughtfulnz, 6 months ago to random

Nationwide poops.nz covid in wastewater not dropping largely being driven by Auckland not dropping

billbennett, 6 months ago to random

Is it me being fussy or do other people think that news media, including specialist tech news media, doesn’t do a great job reporting AI? Specifically, there’s often not enough explaining and background information for someone coming new to a story to get a handle on it.

billbennett, 6 months ago to random

In the populated parts of New Zealand you are never too far away from someone selling decent quality pies.

jonoabroad, 6 months ago to random

Can remember I mentioned this the other day or not. After several years I have worked out the tape measure icon in the Tesla is the radio icon.

jwildeboer, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Munich

Booked my #Flu and #COVID shots for tomorrow. Let's see if the pharmacy gives me both at the same time :) In case you also live in #Munich, have German health insurance and also want to get your shots: I booked at Saniplus in Riem via https://apotheken.com/impfen.html #CovidIsNotOver #GetVaccinated #WearAMask

Binder, 6 months ago to random

Thinking about how many times I was lectured about needing to cut the circles in plastic beverage grouping material before disposal while cos filled the oceans w/ plastic, anyway.

Phil_Tanner, 6 months ago to random

This morning was a very obvious demonstration of Kiwis rejection of Mastodon to me.

I checked my feed with about 5 mins of this morning's rugby game left. Twitter would've been alight with every person's views on the play so far, their predictions for the result, and a smattering of "IDGAF about sport, please everyone shut up". There was nothing here. It took me a further 3 hours to see anyone mention who had actually won.

Maybe it's a symptom of my echo chamber? But it was screamingly obvious