drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14hWhy would you want to get into a robot taxi instead of one driven by a human? What's the incentive for the user? 000 0
Reposted by drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 19hCloudflare posted their own in-depth analysis of the effects of Yandex strikes. Search crawler automation verified, bots started migrating, and footnote: traffic has recovered to 85% pre-strike level. Last night Ukraine did a second pass. blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outageblog.cloudflare.comYandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the moveWhen strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks. 001 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026Wow. AGAIN with the (deliberately in my view) misleading statements. Both hospitality dinners WERE declared when they happened. Furthermore, the recent update references two meetings that were these dinners. So the fact that the Greater Manchester Combined Authority dropped a meal from Aug 2017 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026I @#£%^&* HATE those !@#££% PASSKEYS!!!! Anti-pattern UI EVERYWHERE I have a perfectly good password manager. But no. First Samsung, then Amazon hijack my attempt to login a total of 5 times, trying to trick me into a passkey instead of my chosen method. With anti-patterns like that, no you […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026No she didn't. She said it felt like Alzheimers. Get. It. Right.flipboard.com 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026Leaving the hype aside... Couple of interesting things. AI's passing information to future model instances is worth pondering. But this kinda says you don't need a massive data centre... what you could do is distribute your LLM models across a network & use spare compute to do things you want […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026When an LLM flips someone the bird and cranks Motörhead up to 11, then maybe there’s something going on. When an LLM spontaneously shows someone a drawing of something it was thinking about. Maybe something is going on. Till then. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Geoffrey, when there’s proper evidence of an LLM spontaneously daydreaming or otherwise engaging in undirected, unprompted activity, then maybe you have a point. I’m not aware of any models autogenerating prompts and then acting on them, without ANY initial starting prompt […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 100 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Gonna see how things look at 30mins and if good, move to the next part of the mosaic. M31 way to big to all fit in the sensor. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Right then. Collecting photons from M31. Wondering if some creature over there is collecting photons from here. Or will be in 2.7 million years time, or right now is collecting photons from when we were yet to be, and our Australopithecus ancestors were shaping tools in Africa. 100 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Study commissioned and paid for by company wanting new Oil and Gas fields in North sea, claims that it would be a good thing. That's not a 'study'. That's PR. And ITV News are being disingenuous by not making that clear in the headline.flipboard.com 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026A truly terrible argument. So bad it looks like apologia or shilling. In the UK, planned AI datacentre build out has Energy and Water (part of climate lads) requirements equivalent to the entire countries current energy consumption. That's just the UK. Cherrypicking a weather model, which is […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026Nationalism has falsely appropriated the term 'Christian' would be a better title. You can't classify these idiots as religious when they don't do any of the things associated with practising that religion. Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report | […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026Here's a timelapse of last nights #Aurora taken from North Oxfordshire. 51 degs north. This covers about an hour and as you can see at the end, things were dying down in my neck of the woods at least. #Astrophotography youtu.be/wDS8oiNMxZU?is=3Ufs4Xsrjr-… 010 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026This. No colour. Unless its a very strong storm indeed. Compare this to the pic i posted earlier in my timeline. I could see the rightmost pillar with the naked eye. The lwftmost was washed out in the light pollution. Relax your eyes. And averted vision often […] [Original post on mstdn.social] 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/20263/ (unless it's a massive storm, in which case look up!) Your phone camera is massively more sensitive than your eyes. Use it. Visual... Looks a bit like... 100 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/20262/ Dress up Warm Get the Glendale web app (it's the best) Find a spot with a view of the northern horizon. Away as much as possible from street lights and light pollution. (I have a hill I can go up - easy visual there can be not visible from my house) You want to be able to see the big Dipper […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 100 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Seeing as there has been a geomagnetic storm. And hopefully we'll have a few more visible from the UK. Here my quick guide to #Aurora hunting. 1/ 001 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Here's an unprocessed shot from tonights geomagnetic storm. Purple rays were visible with the naked eye (no colour, white streaks). North Oxfordshire. 10s iso 1600 and f2.8 17mm #Aurora 011 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Looks like the #Aurora show is ending. Activity dying down. Just a green and purple glow now. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Live view. Sony slr #Aurora Oxfordshire 010 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026#Aurora visible naked eye. No colour yet. Northern horizon nth oxfordhire 010 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026#Aurora. North Oxfordshire. Right Now! 014 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026No. IT. BLOODY. DIDN’T Bad code, was sent live without any proper testing or adherence to recognised standards of governance on the release of code to a live environment. BBC Stop anthropomorphising software.flipboard.com 002 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Why would this relatively simple matter require Palantir AI to uncover? There's lots of ways to do image analysis. This feels like somebody got some Palantir PR into a news report.flipboard.com 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026God lord. This story just gets worse and worse. These systems are unsafe at any speed.neuromatch.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026BBC Director General doesn't seem to understand that an AI generated 'episode' of Dr Who, must by definition be a massive copyright infringement. On the IP he is supposed to be protecting. There's no 'fair use' here - it's UK copyright. BBC Boss Walks Back 'Doctor Who' AI Comments […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Iridescent clouds now. Quite the sky show this afternoon. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Another picture of this cloud formation. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Right then. Any #meteorologist s or #cloud (sky) experts know,what these clouds are? Overhead right now here in Oxfordshire. A very defined line and then wisps fan out from that line. Further away are other narrow wisps 101 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Just took the MGA out for a SPLENDID 30 mile country drive. Did my mental health a world of good. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning Mrs Hamilton. Go dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 010 0
Reposted by drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments… 41460 0
Reposted by drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them. 714149 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026I see Paul Krugman is cherry picking data and talking utter nonsense. Again. Economists. Stop. Cherry. Picking. Data. And. Learn. What. A. Null. Hypothesis. Is. As. Well. As. A. Confounding. Variable. Also, back your stupid theories up with evidence. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026@eliocamp In the UK, yes. Computer misuse act covers accidental as well as malicious hacking. Precise details of what one did, would determine whether charges were pressed. 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Quick boost there of Laura ‘I’m impartial me ‘cos I work for the BBC’ Kuenssberg on Sunday, writing for the BBC news website… Here’s John Crace describing the capacity of the main hall at the Conservative Party conference […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
Reposted by drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026RE: 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 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 001 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026RE: 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 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 001 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026@liedra.net Did you see the Timnit Gebru toot about the utterly blinkers network in the SF area these people all come from? Mindblowing 100 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026After 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 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117378… Godspeed Mr Windler.mastodon.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026@koen_hufkens no ikea knowledge. fwiw here in the UK, I home brewed and expanded my DIY solar setup. Used an AP Systems microinverter (widely available in Europe I believe, I imported mine) And I sourced some Q Cells panels, which are not too heavy (20 kg each). If you can, you want to […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 001 0
Reposted by drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026The best-selling music act from each English county 306 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026RE: 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 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Public 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 […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 000 0
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026"TEMU SKYNET" Yeah, made me laugh. 000 0