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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧

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Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two […] [bridged from mstdn.social/@drs1969 on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

After they have paid for it. Or have negotiated some appropriate usage conditions eg for research or non-commercial usage of content in a model. This isn't difficult. Some of us were dealing with issues like this back when we were building semantic knowledge graphs. It's just software and […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117378… Godspeed Mr Windler.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/politics-oea… Wow. If you want proof Laura is a Conservative, and thus abusing her position as a BBC journalist, this is the article for you. Labour Party conference was at the Liverpool Experience Centre […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The best-selling music act from each English county

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-… OMG! The Bank of England boss is an idiot. Netscape was a browser company not a search company. They were bought by AOL when Google was just launching. They were done for by Microsoft abusing […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Public Service Announcement Redo the thermal paste on your laptop cpu and gpu. Prepare to be slightly astonished. My Dell XPS15 is, um, whisper quiet. Previously it would spin up the fans with furious abandon, to the extent that it was offputting to work on. An hour spent removing the heat […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"TEMU SKYNET" Yeah, made me laugh.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Just got to read some of 'Joe' the Open AI cybersecurity engineer's defense of the manifest failings of the Open AI agents and their hacking spree. I gave up after about 10 paras of waffle and 'u dont unnerstand us we just an R&D lab that grew' bleating. Mate... OWN IT. OpenAI fucked up […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The very definition of objectifying a woman. Sorry, the non-consensual objectification of a woman. Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert | Greta Garbo | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/3…

theguardian.com

Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Anybody in the UK got any ideas how to do something about this? It's an advert link on Youtube that goes to a fake BBC News Web page.

Fake BBC News Webpage linked to from a scam ad link in Youtube. They are faking an article from a real BBC reporter.

Scam advert link from Youtube showing a confrontation outside the BBC in London. Picture is fake.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 28/09/2026

Hey “godfathers” who also happen to be AI company execs, if you were this worried you would instruct your companies to stop building it. The responsibility is yours. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Not only does this fundsmentally misunderstand what it is 'to teach', what would you bet that such transcripts are ultimately being collected for the purpose of getting rid of the trainers altogether? […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/09/2026

@drs1969 ( also, since it's scrolled pretty far down the page at this point, the link to that other one is blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fract… )

Deciphering Glyph :: The Futzing Fraction

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/117346820196… Very good article. Do read it. (And if you haven't read the 'futzing fraction' article from a year or so ago, read that as well. ) #AI #Computing #Workflow

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@itvnews/itv-news-im7… No. They. Didn't. Shit coders let malware out.

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/11… I do not understand how any responsible cybersecurity risk assessment would allow this supplier into any enterprise environment. Furthermore, if this is happening in the UK (or has happened) then it's a clear breach of the […]

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? With some quotes by Ivan Oransky, Elena Vicario, and me: "We are at a point now that we cannot distinguish fake from real," said Elisabeth Bik By @rachrobertson.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

medpagetoday.com

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

You can stop reading this at para 7. British Rail being crap is a myth. And British Leyland and Steel were both running in the environment of 50yrs ago and you simply cannot sensibly apply that world to the one we live in now. Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Just to check: Holding up a placard with a slogan / spray painting stuff - terrorism Attempting to sink a boat with a person in it, whilst livestreaming that... not terrorism. Still. Glad they've arrested the racist criminal. Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after ‘dinghy slashed […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationClima… Not really... 26 degrees here today. A total of 21mm of rain so far this Sept. Nowhere near enough.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Ed Zitron with another absolute zinger www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the… Everything about this #AI blitzkreig seems to go back to 2008. Where the finance types learned that they would not face any punishment for what they did […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

How on earth does Meta or any of the rest of the toxic network spoofers still manage to argue common carrier protections. Meta filtering Virginia Woolf play ads is proof enough that they ARE bog standard publishers and should play by the same rules.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/11730814142… Nkw here's a #ClimateDiary story to rejoice in.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Have found the source of the annoying glow in my Seestar captures I think. Seems that ZWO turned OFF dark frame capture and you have to enable it manually. The older sensor in the S50 has much more amp glow than tthe newer scopes

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The Veil Nebula, which I've managed to see once visually, is a thing of real beauty. Currently collecting photons from the Western end of the nebula.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/politics-oea… Idiot

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

My other successful capture from last night's impromptu bit of stargazing - The Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. Caught an hour of photons. Stacked and tweaked in the Seestar app. There's a strange glow in the corners of the image, not sure what's going on there […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus
Thin diaphanous tendrils of gas and dust from a supernova some 25 thousand years ago, drift acros a carpet of stars.

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

This is a very good article on how to think about what an LLM model actually is, and therefore what it is good for and what it isn't. pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise…

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Re the #Microsoft #AI #Theft revelations. A bit of extra contex: Fair. Use. Is. A. US. Copyright. Defense. Only. So they absolutely stole it. “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Barely dropped a frame during tonights photon fishing. Seestar owners will know how uncommon that is. I'm doing 30secs subs this evening. Skies are about as good as it gets from my location.

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: mastodon.org.uk/@feijoa/11728821045… This

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Finally! Been ages! Some clear skies and I have the Seestar out to do some #Astronomy / #Astrophotography Aaand I nailed the EQ alignment so running 30sec subs at the moment (fist pump*) Aaand we had rain, so the dust etc has been cleared from the lower […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Quick screen shot of M16 the Eagle Nebula being captured by my Seestar S50

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-… Probably shouldn't have been a filthy cheat then. Mate, you cheated. You got caught And you kept your international career... You knew what was right and wrong, and you picked wrong.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I see the AIs have been prompted to hit the Creole area of the latent space. AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/u.s.-and-can… "US makes unverifiable claim about what it has done in space" Who is writing these headlines?

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@gdnsillustrated/meet… Mostly that it's about to be an Ex-Plant I'd imagine.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Remember the UK Office For National Statistics 'AI boosts UK economy' reporting? Not mentioned once in the actual report. GDP first quarterly estimate, UK - Office for National Statistics www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesti…

GDP first quarterly estimate, UK - Office for National Statistics

First quarterly estimate of gross domestic product (GDP). Contains current and constant price data on the value of UK goods and services.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… Read it. #AI

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Anthropic arbitrarily interposed itself into the #scientific process. #Research #grants are screened for ethical issues as well as a whole bunch of other safeguarding processes. Nobody will be funded for Gain Of Function research unless they have cleared some very steep hurdles indeed. This […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Good article. For me the BBC has been infrastructure as much as content and talent. The BBC going in on fediverse tech would be very interesting. The BBC offering a neutral and impartial algo to compete with Youtube would be super interesting. A locus for rights respecting AI training? Pay […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: journa.host/@fulelo/117245238412146… Thing is, this article finally (riiiight at the bottom) gets around to actual cybersecurity experts calling BS on the control / containment escape narrative. AI isn't becoming harder to control. Software programs are being written completely […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-… Bye!

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/117225121… This is so instructive in so many ways.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-… Racism

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/business-h8s… Well... JLR built a brilliant class leading EV back in 2018. It was called the I-Pace, and as an EV, it's superb. I have one. Then they did... nothing with it. Internally it was called a […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Not, apparently, terrorists in a terrorist organisation. What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth? | Far right | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/s…

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What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?

Campaigners say anti-migrant collective, which gathers together a series of local groups, is home to a host of violent criminals

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

#Northumberland #meteor / #aurora cam on Youtube right now.

Stunning sunset on youtube webcam

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: mastodon.ie/@2legged/11721870643077… Now if she'd only dressed in black paramilitary gear and put a balaclava over her head, she'd have been fine. The rozzers don't arrest them.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Plans for #astrophotography this evening thwarted by the worst sort of cloud. The thin stuff that taunts you with gkimpses of starlight.... grrrrr!

It's dark and it's cloudy with annoying thin low clouds that mean NO ASTRONOMY for this evening I think

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The lesson from the Dover "protest" seems to be that you have to show up in black with balaclavas to safely protest for a livable planet.