[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 points 21 hours ago

Hosting NSFW content is an absolute ball-ache, so a lot of instances that are not NSFW focussed do not host it.
In the early days of feddit.uk, we decided to go the path of SFW, to simplify things.
I absolutely salute the lemmy-nsfw admins in taking that load on.
And it makes a lot of sense: If you're going to deal with the headaches, you might as well focus entirely on them!

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 10 points 22 hours ago

That's the main reason I haven't bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

I still remember when the stock split happened, and somehow re-reached the previous price within days.

56
32
26
16
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23317790

Just rings for now, going to expand functionality later to handle authentication for unlocking the door and maybe other things lol

54
33
82
92
44
[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I still remember when they cut their bitrates and lowered video quality.
They denied it entirely, people proved that CR was full of shit.
So CR responded by...Attacking the people who proved the streams were lower bitrate than before.

7
147
[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 90 points 3 months ago

The way to tell so often seems to be if someone has called it AI or Machine Learning.

AI? "I put this through chatgpt" (or "The media department has us by the balls")

ML? "I crunched a huge amount of data in a huge amount of ways, and found something interesting"

15
[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 102 points 6 months ago

This is from the Woolworth's sit-in, where people sat at the segregated lunch counter in protest.
Other people who did not like this verbally and physically abused them.

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-anne-moody-20150211-story.html

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess it simplifies the game plan. If there is only one outcome to prepare for, it's easier to organise what you're going to do.
Plus, it gives him a face save.
"NO, we did not lose that FRAUDULENT ELECTION. I told the GOOD people not to vote, and they did not. I will be holding my OWN, FREE ELECTION in florida on friday."

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 77 points 6 months ago

The workload that's starting now, is spotting bad code written by colleagues using AI, and persuading them to re-write it.

"But it works!"

'It pulls in 15 libraries, 2 of which you need to manually install beforehand, to achieve something you can do in 5 lines using this default library'

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 57 points 6 months ago

Channel 4 had ice sculptures standing in for the Conservative and ~~UKIP~~ ~~Brexit~~ Reform parties at a climate debate after both leaders declined an invitation to take part.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50596192

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 61 points 8 months ago

I can't see how anyone involved with allowing this isn't complicit.
What possible reason did the police of a foreign nation need to be physically there for, other than physically removing someone?

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The traditional "british teeth" was the UK's dental industry focussing on healthy rather than pretty.
Nowadays, it's caused by underfunded patient slots at dentists.

You can find a private dentist pretty easily, but it's quite hard to get taken on as an NHS patient (which means when you need treatment for something, you're not in the capped NHS bands). Which is especially bad if you're eligible for completely free treatment, as you're blocked by available dentists.

The dentists are generally given funding (or access to funding) for a set amount of NHS patients to make up the difference between NHS capped costs and their true costs. And unfortunately, there often aren't enough slots.
I was lucky with my current dentist that they happened to have slots when I signed up. And a few years later, they let me know when slots were opening so I could add the rest of the household.

view more: next ›

GreatAlbatross

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF