@ai6yr how does one discover “no nosewheel steering” while the plane is still in the air?

my guess is that some sort of hydraulic pressure has gone to zero, so therefore it’s non-functional, but what do I know…..

State of the BBC

Ich muss euch mal was erzählen. Über euch, die wundervollen Menschen im Fediverse irgendwie.

Schwimmen kann ich. Hab ich nie verlernt. Was mit meinen Augen nicht mehr klappt: die Bahn halten. Und nicht andere Leute über den Haufen schwimmen. Ich bin im Becken quasi ein Geisterfahrer aber immerhin mit Badehose.

Also hab ich hier im Fediverse einfach mal gefragt: Hätte jemand Lust, mich beim Schwimmen zu begleiten? Und kurz beschrieben, wie ich mir das vorstelle.

Zack. Es haben sich Leute gemeldet.

Seitdem schwimmen wir zusammen. Wir quatschen einfach, Bahn um Bahn, über Gott und die Welt. Und ab und zu sagt jemand ganz nebenbei: “Bisschen nach links.” Kurskorrektur, weiter geht’s.

Das ist alles. Kein großes Ding.

Aber für mich hat es die Welt verändert. Ich hab ein Stück Freiheit zurück. Und das nur, weil Menschen, die ich vorher nur als Profilbild kannte, Lust hatten, mit mir nass zu werden.

Ihr wundervollen Wesen: Danke.

#Fediverse #Schwimmen #RetinitisPigmentosa #RP #Inklusion #Danke

@ai6yr i remember that the smart fridge was the holy grail of IOT back in the early, every single IOT ‘strategy’ deck had some hilarious scenario of the fridge ‘knowing’ you were out of milk and ordering it for you.
every single UX person i knew responded to it as that’s great and all “but I buy milk before i run out so i have it in the morning” or “but what if i don’t want it” etc.

such a narrow case fantasy of a user need to disguise implementing stealth leasing infrastructure

@lina replace it with whatever the talking fish is from the YouTube channel Apollo the Talking parrot

@jrf_nl A lot of this is accurate, but not all of it. See my replies in the thread.

I do expect the bubble to pop in the next year. At which point hardware prices will probably drop to where they were a bit over a year ago. At which point some folks will grab hardware for local LLMs as cloud-powered services get more chaotic.

I don't think LLMs are going away at this point absent worldwide regulation, including US/EU/China. But the poles will definitely shift.

@mastodonmigration

“I think we need more democracy within the Senate Democratic Caucus.”

— #VanHollen, spitting 🔥

@me_valentijn Yes, that's the flight per ACARS Jumpseat. I'm watching it... they have not yet declared an emergency.

Je regarde la vidéo de Macron où il propose un plan de 50 milliards d'euros sur 5 ans pour l'IA.
Le mouvement lycéen et étudiant ? 5 milliards sur 5 ans.
Le dérèglement climatique ? 6 milliards par an.
Mais l'IA (qui impacte les 2 précédents), c'est 50 milliards.
Juste envie de le gifler.

It is probably a brain fart but if I wanted to start with pottery, how much time and money would it take to get from "total newbie" to "decent-looking hand-crafted beer mugs"?

#homebrewing #pottery

@mikehaber Interesting! You don't often see 1/3 mile signs (usually in quarters of halves) but there's one for the first turn-off to Morpeth, my home town, from the A1 going north.

I think that's because there's a turn-off to White House Farm just prior to that.

@murodegrizeco https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled

@nytpu i think it's one of the early-mid stages of this https://mastodon.social/@jk/117621476159159245

@mcc software in cars, especially Volkswagen, is so laughably, extremely bad, that I don’t even bother connecting Bluetooth audio in rental cars anymore. The menu is unintuitively hidden, it takes for ever to set up while I impatiently want to get going. Sometimes I have to remove previous pairings before I can connect my phone, and occasionally it doesn’t work at all or fails to switch between codecs after phone calls.

I miss cars, where you’d just dock your iPod or connect via AUX.

Do you ever think about platforming fascists? Why not ban them instead? It's easy.

@portugalense as far as I know it doesn’t affect us right now, will see as time goes on

the more a piece of software turns from "program with a purpose" to "platform with a prospectus" the more the code gets overgeneralized and slow, hard-coded behaviors are replaced with dynamic adaptive configurable options, extra abstraction layers appear so that design decisions can be deferred forever and mutually-contradictory concepts can coexist, and then you've got yourself a nice, fertile landscape for ambitious product managers to really make a mark by adding a new button feature suite

The explanation below is basically what I said yesterday.

Ça y est ! Le porte manteau est installé !