Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
My absolute favourite thing about the bus service in Luxembourg is that it's free! The same goes for the trams and the trains!
@pikesley I have no idea who any of the people involved are - too old - too sad!
She taking a huge risk that the impacted parties will have her killed! Alzernatively, that others holding similar 'compromat' will toss her out of the window of a tall building!
VIM (makes the sign of the cross and grabs a huge bunch of garlic) do people still use that awful piece of shit?
Quite but I don't think we should forget that those stinking fücking bigots didn't flee Europe to escape religious persecution (as you were probably taught at school) they fled Europe to escape religious tolerance! They wanted the right to impose their foul, disgusting form of christianity on everyone else and neither the English nor the Dutch where they moved when they fled from England, were having any of it!
Paul Brownjohn
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The next dominoes in the AI bubble that I expect to fall (if you’d excuse the mixed metaphor):
Insurance companies explicitly exclude coverage of any system using AI and any outputs of AI systems.
Lawyers in big companies issue advice that using AI systems is too high risk.
Big companies demand IT suppliers provide an enterprise-management system switch to disable all AI functionality in products, or provide an AI-free version.
The first is starting. A consortium of insurance companies has asked their regulator to approve this blanket exclusion. Their argument is that the risks of these systems are too unpredictable to be able to insure. They can’t reason about systemic or correlated risk if you add a bullshit generator anywhere in an operational flow.
The second has happened in a few places, but is not widespread. Some places are hedging. When I was at MS, the AI policy was basically: ‘look, we give you all of these shiny toys! Please use them! By the way, you accept all legal liability for their output! Have fun!’. One ruling that this kind of passing-the-blame-to-employees-for-correctly-using-company-provided-tools policy is unenforceable and the lawyers will get very nervous.
The third is a consequence of the first two. If your lawyers tell you something is high risk and you can’t buy insurance, you want to make sure it isn’t used.
Paul Brownjohn
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Hey you! Yes you!
Use that car until the wheels fall off!
Keep your phone for as long as batteries hold out. There are no real leaps forward worth annually upgrading for nowadays anyway.
Keep that wallet until the stitching fails!
Buy nothing! Fuck them!
Oh yes absolutely! No doubt this human tide will hear of this and start secreting jewelry in hard to search places so that Britain will have to implement anal and intimate searches for such items on arrival. What penalty should be imposed on those who attempt to secrete their valuables about their person? Gas chambers would perhaps be appropriate?
(for the benefit of the extremely dumb - this is sarcasm!)
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@KrissyKat They all have their fetish. Bush liked torturing people at black sites, Obama like drone striking weddings, Biden swooned over genocide, while Trump likes blowing up fishing boats. Every president has their favorite war crime.
In every European mainland country in which I have resided, Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve evening. Christmas day is for getting over the appalling hangover acquired the night before and in France at least, Boxing Day is not a holiday, it's back to work day!
Gifts, on the other hand, are exchanged on the feast of St Nicolas which falls on 6th December, in many countries including Luxembourg, where I currently reside.
Christmas is very, VERY much a family thing and you will not find a bar, night club or restaurant open on Christmas Eve, in many countries.
Supermarkets and shops are open all day Christmas Eve but close at around 16:00 or 17:00 so that staff can get home in time for the massive piss-up!
In every European mainland country in which I have resided, Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve evening. Christmas day is for getting over the appalling hangover acquired the night before and in France at least, Boxing Day is not a holiday, it's back to work day!
Gifts, on the other hand, are exchanged on the feast of St Nicolas which falls on 6th December, in many countries including Luxembourg, where I currently reside.
Christmas is very, VERY much a family thing and you will not find a bar, night club or restaurant open on Christmas Eve, in many countries.
Supermarkets and shops are open all day Christmas Eve but close at around 16:00 or 17:00 so that staff can get home in time for the massive piss-up!
Paul Brownjohn
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Release the files.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lvk3oansdk2u
"In the case of OpDeathEaters, child rapists in high places, the six crimes are usually followed by an institutional web of obstruction of justice...
What not even an incy-wincy little luxury aircraft???
Yes, when I was a lad, my hometown of Eastbourne in Sussex (a bit of a 'god's waiting room') both needed and had ample provision for the care of the elderly and infirm in the shape of the huge All Saints Hospital, along with Downside Hospital and several other units of varying sizes. These were entirely dedicated to geriatric medicine. They did have a bit of a reputation for being places that once admitted to them, you only came out in a box not altogether true but...
All those places were run by the NHS then in a stoke of pure genius, the responsibility for caring for the elderly was transferred to local authorities who farmed it out to to the private sector. Thus we now find ourselves in the invidious position of having 1000s of beds in hospitals blocked by patients too frail or unwell to return to their former living arrangements but for whom no other accommodation is available! As I said a stoke of total fcükin GENIUS!
It's ex-girlfriends I have a allergy to returning to!
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
