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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 […]

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@liedra.net OMG! How does one ‘give rights’ to a calculator? And who is arguing for it? Gaaah! It’s the dead week twixt Xmas and the New Year - any old crap is being published.
December 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
@villavelius I think they are doing it now because the nutter far right keep making up the ethnicity / citizenship and religion of the accused in these cases. And stirring it up on social media. And that causes even more trouble.

They never used to and they didn't want to particulaly, but it […]
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December 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I am frustrated by how all machine learning has been conflated into this heated AI discourse

There is good DH work that’s being dismissed as "AI slop" when it shouldn’t be

The ubiquity & (political, economic, social, technical) power of these tools mean scholars *must* understand & teach them+
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@hfalcke I have just spent (too much of) a day sorting my cables out. I did.... cull some. It was hard, but necessary

I also have assorted dongles and things like 90deg hdmi adapters. Because.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
5/ There's something potentially interesting here about this technology space, about new interface metaphors & maybe even new OS's & ways of interacting with computers.

For those saying that these headsets are isolating - yup its true. Now pause & take a moment to reflect on all the people with […]
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December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
4/ I can tell you that an #AI upscaled and 3D converted video of your child riding their bike without stabilisers for the 1st time, takes you back to that moment in a way the original video does not... Why Apple didn't lead with that I do not know.
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
3/ And as someone who likes to play with 360 video and 180 3D video and indeed ordinary 3D video, it's also super interesting to see that FINALLY somebody has clocked that making your family/holiday video/image content immersive is a really amazing experience.

The progress in making 2D images […]
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December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
2/ I'm particulaly struck by the way that #AI is part of the interface. Leaving aside the toxic and troublesome #enshitification aspects for a moment (hard I know) - there's some really interesting uses of the technology on display here.
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
6/ #climatediary
Used EV demand is UP 29% here in the UK year on year vs 2024.

And according to RSymons (UK based independent EV car dealer who you can judge based on his Youtube channel) EV sales of new cars will by 25% of sales this year.

The graph below is […]

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December 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM