Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

@RantyHighwayman The tiniest crop of anything I ever harvested was off my coffee tree.

Four or five cherries. Not enough for even a single cup of coffee.

@keefeglise Which in turn might be outweighed by all the friends and family members who are never going to fly KLM again because it isn't worth the risk of getting stranded.

@keefeglise They're having to pay out for a more expensive flight on a different route, and a hotel, and €600 cash. That must surely be a loss to the airline.

Kid's just got bounced off a flight due to "overbooking".

I get how that was a thing back in the day when everyone had open tickets and the airline never knew who was going to turn up for which flight, and didn't want to fly empty seats they weren't being paid for. But today? When the ticket is […]

@sundogplanets Smart street lighting systems enable police to do things like call the council and say "hey, we've got intelligence that there's something going down in the city centre this coming Saturday night, can you keep the lights on full brightness all night please?"

@w7voa I once got the last rental car on Gatwick airport when our plane was delayed and arrived after the last train (which we were planning to take) had left.

@VeroniqueB99 In our house that would have to be the CO alarm too. But only when roasting chicken. I don't know why.

@cjlemire.com Yeah, I thought those were fairly sophisticated lyrics for teenagers to come up with.

@kolombiken "app where he pays his bills"? There are many ways to pay bills - choose another one?

@whitequark I've still got a tiny amount of 1970s real solder left - lead and nasty poisonous flux.

But I don't use solder very often, so this is probably enough to see me out.

@laravista Which is of course bollocks. WTF use is a MacBook if what you're being paid for is to write Windows code?

@GreenFire Any ATCO who feels that they are unsafe because they are worrying about how to feed their children instead of concentrating on pushing tin MUST declare themselves sick and not work, it's in the rules.

Which means that the ones who *are* at work should be as safe as usual. And if that […]

It's not much, but at least for #COP30 Republicans have reduced the number of airplanes polluting our atmosphere.

@juergen_hubert There are at least two other systems I use daily (Slack and IntelliJ) where one of the first things to try when it goes wrong is the "clear cache and restart" button.

@skinnylatte There is of course a contamination percentage that's allowed in the contract between the collecting council and the recycling firm.

Which is not of course publicised. Because everybody involve wants the public to target zero contamination, not the allowed percentage.

@Free_Press Cancelled flights? Yet more MAGA green winning!

@Plumbert @mayintoronto Visiting pilot walks into office, grabs a blank form off the pile, scribbles on it, puts it in the fax machine, presses the preset dial button, job done. No need to have a reception staff member hand-hold them through using an unfamiliar computer system. Dunno if they […]

@Plumbert @mayintoronto The other place I've seen them used in recent years is airports, to transport paper forms from one place (eg the ops front desk) to another (eg the control tower).

@thetnholler.bsky.social Strange approach, banning postal voting. Round here postal voters were traditionally believed to be older and more conservative, and thus not a segment of the vote that you'd expect the right wing to try to suppress.

@vees Yup. Very close wins do wonders for activist morale! - everybody thinks that they personally won it!!

(Which they did. In that if none have them had done the work the victory wouldn't have happened.)

@briankrebs In any other walk of life, "it takes vast amounts of computer power to run this workload" would be responded to by "so how can we make this code more efficient?"

@servelan If a news report about Newnham is illustrated by a picture of Kings how accurate do we think the rest of the article might be?

"What does that ticket mean? - I can't make sense of what it's asking me to do."

I should have been able to guess the reply, shouldn't I:

"Oh, I think that ticket was generated by AI."

FFS.

@The_Sun Australia has, surely, more than enough sun to power the entire world. So why is it burning *any* coal?

@tante And then to actually configure anything you have to reverse engineer the image to find out how you can communicate configuration from outside the container to the actual contained application (which *is* documented and which you know how to drive *without* a container).

If you're really […]

@KrissyKat I've heard, and taken part in, plenty of communications with ATC where some ordinary English was used where the phraseology of CAP 413 doesn't quite cover what needed to be said, but "super chatty" you don't get, and you certainly don't get "super crisp and clear".

The chattiest I've […]

@subjacentish Buy a new car every five years?? WHY???

Not here. I buy a new car when the old one wears out. Which is currently 22 years old and counting. And I now use it so little that when it does wear out might hire, instead of replacing, for the few occasions each year I want a car.

@servelan Less unnecessary unwanted disposable plastic tat bought and given and never used! YET ANOTHER green win for Trump and MAGA!!

Toe being used to turn on/off power block on floor

@stux I still do.