Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
Don Thompson
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Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them
Saga highlights how slow, opaque action by publishers threatens the integrity of the research literature
@NotTheLBCGuy @fesshole bowel confusion?
Don Thompson
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Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans.
Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read.
If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an #LLM.
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@ricmac Congrats to the migration off Substack and to Eleventy/Buttondown. In the same spirit I would also consider migrating away from Google Analytics to something more privacy focused. I am a big fan of @plausible.
@edfattell @sdw
People are taught to drive cars. So many drivers, in whose cars I’ve rode as a passenger, have demonstrated that they have little comprehension of how to use the features built into their car: aircon, phone integration/hands free use, in-car entertainment.,,
@ispreview
‘Cuckoo’s website still only depicts their *Openreach based* Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages’.
I’d go further & say ‘TalkTalk based’.
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Cool to see #DuckDB and #MovingPandas on Action to analyze flight data #ADSB
https://tech.marksblogg.com/global-flight-tracking-adsb.html#generalising-routes
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I used to work at Very Large Multinational Company and the Legal department was quite clear in "don't email us. always call".
@neil
Ta! I’m close, and others have been successful it so must be missing some key step.
@neil
Thank you for that information, am about to return to getting an OpenWrt config on a 4G modem config’ed router working. Might be a few useful hints.
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@neil meanwhile teens will be sharing underground photorealistic face models and tutorials about how to load em up into vtubing software as a virtual webcam
@jon @ilumium @photoprism @mrchrisadams @rafa_font
I looked into migrating from Evernote to Obsidian. It seemed sensible that I could use a common file sync service for the latter but one that wasn’t bound to only Obsidian. Resilio seemed to tick the boxes - peer-to-peer replication. Another option in ‘syncthing’.
@Indyposterboy Great Britain & Northern Ireland, and being British. That’s also a good topic to mull over.
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Did my bit at the anti-AfD demo in Berlin today
After having lost my EU citizenship rights through Brexit, then regained them by becoming German, I don’t want my adopted country going the right wing populist route the one of my birth did!
#StormIsha Internets broke for about 2hrs but Voxi/Vodafone are first to restore (between Three, Vodafone & Openreach/TalkTalk).
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@neil I see it as another way in which the delivery options available to small businesses will fall further behind the likes of Amazon. Those in major urban areas I believe can get at least a subset of items the same day or even with 1 hour delivery. I get next day delivery with pretty good order tracking on the edge of the Highlands. Our postie is great and generally finds a way to avoid us needing to collect a parcel, however is massively let down by the rest of the system.
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RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.
@TheSnoopySnoop
I’d love to see a pic of the cabin.
Standard Ryanair seats & a cargo/package cage?
@dans @jon
Understand, convenience often translates to short crossings and lower cost.
Living on Ireland, options are limited for direct ferry service to mnland Europe. Ferries tend to be priced for those truly wedded to their car/camper van/motorbike.
I enjoy combining the journey and the destination as the experience but, sadly, flying to Amsterdam or Paris is often a necessary first leg.
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
