weebull @weebull@qoto.org
Joined Dec 2022
@neil The BBCs own rules prevent it from questioning in the style you want. Government (and opposition) statements must be treated as truthful, as anything else is seen as bringing opinion into the mix and so breaking impartiality.
This is, of course, bollocks. Impartiality is treating everybody to the same level of scrutiny. Whilst zero scrutiny is an option that satisfies that criteria, it's not a useful option.
@revk Heathen! That's a naan, not a poppadom.
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You know when you have a video loop, but to make it loop something disappears in an improbable manner?
And you think, that's a shame, because I really like this little clip.
And you could crop it so, for example, a bird doesn't disappear in mid-flight, but then it looks unbalanced so you need to find some unobtrusive way for the bird to disappear so it appears natural?
Yeah. That.
I think I need a quiet lie down.
#seascape #video #loop #animation #bird #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles
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During the debate on the Online Safety Bill in the UK House of Lords, Lord Moylan laid out the dangers of the encryption-busting clause that threatens our privacy and security.
Take action to stop the spy clause as the Bill moves into its final stages.
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"Trees are great. I love trees. Trees are friends of mine. Your tree plan, sir, will make no dent in global warming."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/02/republicans-want-plant-trillion-trees-scientists-are-skeptical
#climate #trees #carbonoffsets
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Right Labour, this is an easy win. Announce you'll revoke these on day one. No company will dare spend money utilizing a license with an expiry date.
@chu Evidence doesn't win an argument which is fundamentally about personal values.
COVID and climate disagreements can largely be distilled down to society Vs the individual. At one extreme society's needs always trump the individual's. At the other extreme the individual's needs always trump society's. Everyone is at their own unique point along that spectrum.
Because your values are at a certain point on that spectrum, the conclusion about what to do is obvious given the evidence. Somebody else will balance the societal cost Vs individual cost differently to you. You might see them as selfish, and they'll see you as authoritarian.
To argue effectively, you have to understand what your opponent values and why, then state why their values are impacted. There's no use winning the argument with yourself.
The thing I find difficult to get information on is the power draw of NUC class machines. The Raspberry Pi is a very low power solution, but I expect once you've got 3 or 4 it's time to consolidate.
I just don't want something consuming 100W continuously when Pis would do it for 20W.
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PSA…
Never stand behind a wall waiting for a hole to appear from the other side. And never assume you know where the hole will be, which was my key mistake really.
I have never got so close to being disemboweled in my life. New meaning for DiY…
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YouTube's back to its business of deleting almost every nontrivial comment on my videos again.
> Let’s take a look at the recent Cochrane review. This is a review only of controlled studies – the kind of study that is most likely to underestimate the effect of mask-wearing.
So the author would rather use studies with no control arm? How do you measure effectiveness without one in a scientific way? It's how we measure all interventions.
@talkpython @davidvujic @mkennedy
I think monorepos are a reaction to having to manage inter-project dependencies, and not wanting to pin versions with submodules.
An alternative is zuul-ci, which is also written in python I believe. It came about trying to manage inter-project dependencies for the open stack project.
Might be worth chatting to them.
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