Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 07/01/2025Best game (novel with game elements?) I've played so far this year was citizen sleeper. Really hyped for the second one at the end of the month now! 020
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 07/01/2025Dave the Diver was a nice one to pick up in short stretches. Balatro up great too but I had to uninstall it before I got hooked. 121
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/01/2025Coal-eyed snowmen, another thing killed by the woke climate agenda 0101
Reposted by Ruairí FahyShamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 31/12/2024Me waiting for 2 Jan to hit to creep up on FOI offices who used the hols to avoid meeting deadlines 1462
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 30/12/2024The engine was French to be fair but the Germans did package it up arseways in the car 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 30/12/2024Got a few different opinions too with others quoting €3k for a new cylinder head and €1.5k for a new timing chain. Only issue was the alternator belt had a nick on it and needed to be replaced. 050
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 30/12/2024Herself got quoted €7k to fix her car after a €100 diagnosis. Fixed it for €25 of parts and tools as well as cursing the Germans to eternal damnation 2100
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 29/12/2024I know publer.io works with Bluesky with a 10 post limit on the free tier There's also www.blueskyscheduler.com which is bluesky specific with no limits on the number of posts you can schedule but only a 7 day calendar deck.blue is like tweetdeck but scheduling is a paid feature €1/m per 10 posts 110
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 29/12/2024Na. We can replace them with big spikes that fly up into your sump if you're acting the bollix, or just driving an SUV 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 24/12/2024*everyone's phone goes off* Open up! It's the revenue commission 150
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 24/12/2024I'm finding that teaching the baby quantum physics is much easier since she hasn't had her mind polluted with causality #unschooling 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 23/12/2024«Qu'ils mangent de la brioche» www.nerdwallet.com/article/fina...nerdwallet.comEgg Prices Are Rising Again. Here’s Why They’re So High - NerdWalletEggs prices are high because a two-year-long bird flu battle has devastated flocks of egg-laying hens. 000
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 23/12/2024I really feel there's a “let them eat cake moment” coming with bird flu in the US after they cull the chickens and dump the infected milk #H5N1 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...kffhealthnews.orgHow America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health NewsExclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ... 140
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 23/12/2024“To paraphrase Bobby Sands, "our revenge will be the theft of German workers' pensions", in an era of economic crisis with manufacturing on its knees due to high fuel prices, a failed transition to renewables and record deposits by big firms there's no other solution acceptable to the CDU or SPD” 120
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 23/12/2024Read my latest accelerationist column on how to destroy the eurozone for good in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung www.faz.net/aktuell/fina...faz.netWo bleibt der Aufbruch? Eine Troika für Deutschland!Die guten Ratschläge für Griechenland hätten wir auch selbst befolgen sollen. 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 22/12/2024🔮 “We are working together to provide a new generation of defence contractors.” www.ft.com/content/6cfd...ft.comPalantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contractsConsortium likely to include Elon Musk’s SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget 010
Reposted by Ruairí FahyBig Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Arthur McBride is the Die Hard of Irish folk ballads. 2298
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 22/12/2024Butlerian Jihad kicking off in the house now (baby has learned how to turn off the computer, the speaker and the washing machine) 030
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 20/12/2024🤷 Looks like they just announced it "If working with militaries or defense-tech companies can help ensure that democratic countries dominate the AI race… then doing so will not contradict OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that AI’s benefits are widely shared." www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...technologyreview.comOpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivotA new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year. 011
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 20/12/2024As with everything in tech AI companies will look for an in with the US military to get billions in annual recurring revenue with essentially no strings attached to keep going and to avoid losses on the balance sheets of investors 120
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 20/12/2024Windows runs the world due to corporate deals, one of which was shown to be monopolistic but by the time it was proven by the courts the other company was bankrupt. Even if ChatGPT has some functionality it can't eliminate enough labour to justify the capital cost of models and hardware. 111
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 14/12/2024Since the way LLMs work is based on next word prediction those headlines would make sense for causing companies to have to backtrack on harmful practices and committing genocide 000
Reposted by Ruairí FahySiobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I got a paper back from an academic publisher a week ago that had clearly been copy-edited by AI. It took three hours to unpick the issues it had caused and the errors it had introduced. It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for. 710920
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024It's amazing how we forget about our own young Italian radical shooting an executive officer in a political statement. universitytimes.ie/2019/10/in-1...universitytimes.ieIn 1981, a British Businessman Was Shot in the Arts Block. Why Does No-One Remember?On March 24th, 1981, three armed men walked into the Arts Block and shot a visiting lecturer three times in the leg. Mystery still surrounds the event. 040
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024Although, when you can manufacture an excuse for laying off 10% of workers based on a metric that is unrelated to the tasks involved in the job $240K is a pittance for the shareholder value gained in the short term. www.businessinsider.com/tech-compani...businessinsider.comAs many as one in 10 coders are 'ghost engineers,' Stanford researcher says, lurking online and doing no workAs many as one in 10 software engineers lurk online, doing less than the bare minimum, a Stanford researcher says. 020
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024"Starting salaries at business schools can be $240,000 a year—double what they are at campus psychology departments, academics told me." That's a fine salary when you just need to come up with wild "discoveries" and then manufacutre the data to back them up www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting BiggerThe rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed. 021
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024If only they could overcome their ignorance by purchasing a fine book from an even finer establishment laying out the origins of commerce and both its relationship to as well as separation from primitive accumulation of capital 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024With a business like that we'd still be clearly anti-profit though 110
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 12/12/2024Ireland needs its Marxist-Leninist-Maoist bookshops again! 1123
Reposted by Ruairí FahyOrla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Sinn Féin think they can get away with abandoning trans youth in the executive against written party policy because the only thing the media in the south cares about as little as northern ireland are trans lives. 110251
Reposted by Ruairí FahySiobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Well, that's shite. 24814
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 09/12/2024I wonder where CEOcide is going to rank on the list of men's hobbies women find attractive 100
Reposted by Ruairí FahyCian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Just another example of how AGS's repeated denails that it racially-profiles is nonsense And this practice of creating profiles of Traveller babies and children on PULSE has been widely known about for over a decade That's why the Policing Authority has been looking at it 12316
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 07/12/2024I'm really looking forward to the articles like "There would have been no 1905 if not for 2 decades of adventurist assassinations" 000
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 06/12/2024I'd hoped that the Apple switch to ARM chips would have made it more of a first class citizen as developers needed to get stuff working on their own ARM machines but I guess we're still only at the start of that process. 000
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 06/12/2024Finally got around to redoing my home server and I can't see understate how much I regret getting an ARM SBC instead of something x86 At least I can feel good about the power use since it does all I need it to do while drawing less power than an LED bulb, but it needs so many workarounds 110
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 06/12/2024Can't believe ycombinator rejected my pitch for "whosnext.ceo" offering a hot or not style ranking system with the option of 10× returns for users who chip into each CEOs fund #innovation 020
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 06/12/2024Yes Hitler may have instigated the systematic murder of millions but he fixed the roads 001
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024People get all "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" when they have to choose to take a pay cut or build out surveillance tools at a CIA backed company 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024Don't know what everyone's upset about we should be happy to have experts in the room to create all of the systems we need for a police state without being ripped off by unscrupulous contractors 020
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024Seeing tech people be like "we all worked with the IDF" No we fucking didn't. You can tell your company to fuck off and go on strike or you can refuse to work on those projects until they fire you. Have a bit of backbone. 1164
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024I still can't find it. I've no idea where she put it, but it is my fault to be fair as I was getting her to press the test button on the smoke alarms the day before she took the carbon monoxide one 020
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024That was before the election too bsky.app/profile/ruai... 210
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 05/12/2024With all the outsourcing going on it's hardly a surprise 010
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 04/12/2024The baby has stolen the carbon monoxide alarm. She's up to something 250
Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 04/12/2024Like playing a crane game to get a few that fell the wrong side of a fence 271