Sean Riley

Keep thinking now would be a good time for a Europe based phone manufacturer (remember the dominance of Nokia!?) to really get back in the game?

Text messages - as I understand it, originally just slotted into GSM phones for the engineers. Users took to using them and the rest is history. I remember in nineties when you could only text people with the same first part of your mobile no. and only on same network

It dropped when I was 16 but it was still on rotation when I was 19 and went to uni, absolutely amazing album but a toss up between that and Pearl Jam's Ten tbh! Ten had longer lasting impact tho!

Drop and album that was important to you when you were 19

Gutted for Kirsty Muir #TeamGB

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

xkcd.com/3202/

As our CEO beautifully puts it: "We spend our engineering time on stability and features users actually requested. Not on AI assistants that hallucinate answers, while training on your private browsing history. Novel idea, apparently. 🎯

I ran Linux for a few years and I think it might be a step too far in terms of my work needs. (See my videos on editing on open source sw and raspberry pi!)

I have to be realistic too, most of my income comes from the US!

Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

@bobbyllew.bsky.social on Bluesky I am struggling with what to do, and I know I'm not alone. But that aside, there is a shift taking place, a big, global realignment and it will affect us all. https://llewellyn.substack.com/p/melania-and-americania

Decent article on current shenanigans

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Managed to remove 2TB from Dropbox and downgrade my plan, which feels like a semi-victory in my battle to de-US-ify my tech. Long way to go.

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Cracking podcast from Josh Widdicombe

Museum of Pop Culture with Josh Widdicombe

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Ooh nearly missed one, a cutaway added over the top of a speaker that was resized and showing some of the interview shot 'underneath' on one side!

Lastly, and this is hella annoying, the variety of 'out of the box' name captions using default font is crazy! All three are different and I'm here to edit them together meaning I need to cover them up or avoid them!

Framing. Bloody hell, have you ever tried photography :)

Colour correction is nonexistent on some of this stuff, and those who've watched my stuff know I'm no expert!

I've seen auto audio levels (see how as the speaker begins to talk the waveform is maxed & squared off and then as the tech realises how loud it is the waveform reduces in size meaning a few sentences start extremely compressed but become more normal...)

I've spotted reversed footage (no head /facial expression moves like that!)

As a videographer I normally edit my own (mistakes) footage, but really interesting when occasionally you work with someone else's stuff. Been given three finished clips to extract parts from..

Just back from emergency vets, Marley swallowed a raisin. Thankfully he's emptied his stomach now and although he's a bit woozy he seems ok

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

Happened upon an old (2013?) episode of Top Gear last night, watched out of curiosity, despite still being annoyed by the trio of presenters there was a stunt with 80's/90's hot hatches. Ooh this'll be good I thought. Then they omitted the 205GTi ?!?!?! I turned off!

Brutal article on how LLMs are simply storing copyrighted material

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

When I read and enjoyed John Niven's book "Kill 'em All" I wasn't expecting it to turn out so true...

(An excellent book btw, but you have to stop and remind yourself it was written in 2018)

@vivaldi.com on Bluesky PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

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Reckon the only people watching will be watching ironically and/or as a drinking game.

Aside from the Clementine Clown's acolytes who'll love it...

Dammit, glanced at Tottenham and thought it said Nottingham. Hope it goes well!

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Maybe how it was edited but her Rachel "evidence" was pretty flimsy. And "FBI Training?" - really?! Sadly I had Harriet in our sweepstake...