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@onepict With the biggest hat you can find, and a parasol, I hop.

@onepict It surprised me it comes with a builtin wireless cellular system; they give you a year free then if you want to be able to access it, you have to subscribe. But I assume it never stops phoning home.

@onepict I have an app for my car and the entire journey history is in there and I don't think it can be opted out of.

@garryknight He's either in for the night of his life, or is already dead

I am trying to stop myself going on a rant of the consequences of managers getting excited about buzzwords. I have been through this, in the course of 15yrs, with CRM, Cloud, and Containerization. It comes up every few years.

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My boss has asked me to 'investigate Kubernetes'. Here we go again.

It's on Reddit so I have already eaten my own fingers this morning, but this is an interesting find about the dangers of automotive telemetry. Of course they're fucking selling it. One ithat made me think of @onepict
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Frank Dernie (of Williams fame) talks to Tom Clarkson, mentioning how his ASD was a key part of his approach to work. youtu.be/O3FnvISSNsE

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ive said this before but i dislike the term "hallucination" for AI because that implies that there's some malfunction going on when it says glue is delicious on pizza, when in reality it's doing the exact same thing as it was before. it's only doing symbol manipulation and is running into the exact same hurdles that computer scientists ran up against in the 1960s: it only knows about the signifiers and not the things they signify

@checkervest I did start to laugh at the endless scenes in Westward where he just wonders around looking bewildered, much like the audience.

@countcol@mastodonapp.uk I don't think the RN is doing that great on force projection themselves. I wouldn't worry too much unless the Germans have a go again.

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