I just had an ad tell me Nando’s are “shaping the future with AI”, I can only assume they mean a different Nando’s because the one I know sells chicken.
@TomF kind of depends on your objective though. Do you want to encourage as wide a use as possible, or would you like to subtly put off big corporations from using it? If the latter the wtfpl mentioned in another reply is great because all the super serious lawyers don’t like to put the word Fuck in their documentation.
@TomF MIT is probably the way to go, Unlicense is a bit less known and may result in people deciding not to use whatever it is due to uncertainty while MIT is understood and permitted by basically all licensing lawyers.
@grajohnt so many cases of people get lost or injured because everyone with experience was up front charging off and didn’t notice someone lagging ever further behind the group.
@grajohnt one of the best bits of group hiking advice I ever heard was from a friend who’d worked in a kid’s residential activity centre. “Always have one of the most capable people at the back of the group so they can stay with the ones who start falling back”.
Acast have decided I’m German. This is wonderful because I can tune out all the podcast ads much easier when they’re in a language I don’t speak.
Come on Sky. You and I both know that selling 900Mbps-5Gbps connections as being best for 4K streaming is only true if what you’re streaming is the raw video from every single camera covering a sports stadium.
James Hoffman demolishing a terrible coffee machine really was a treat to experience over breakfast.
@pikesley @thechaoszone @jonathanhogg the deer park isn’t big enough to maintain an appropriate distance between your ukelele and me.
@jonathanhogg far, far away from wherever I happen to be at the time please.
One of my favourite bits of the EMF lead up is the point at which the Unaffiliated Village, an anarchic collective of whoever felt like attaching themselves to meet some new people, achieves self-organisation.
It starts as nothing more than a registered village and a link to (this year) a Signal group, and by the time gates open it’s 20 odd people who’ve got a communal tent, things to sit on, and this year a Tim Curry Shouting SPAAACE flag.
The boy’s school have very generously assisted in EMF preparation by taking him and 60 or so other children to Cornwall for the weekend. The opportunity to lock myself away for a few days and get shit done really couldn’t have come at a better time! (Just got to get through a day of doing my real job first)
@BodgehamVillage I’d like to issue a correction to my previous statement about almost saying bad words.
Fuck you too, buddy. 😘
It took 82 minutes for an EMF discussion to get from “just put a sign on the door” to “lorawan button available which is quite expensive and will require custom software”. We’re losing our touch, that should have been under 20.
@SnoopJ @whitequark @0xabad1dea wow, mentioning the infantry guide suddenly threw me 15 years into the past with vivid memories of weekly ArmA sessions.
@jonty I just cackled so loudly I fear my neighbours will be wondering what’s going on.
I’m once again regretting not booking an extra week off work before EMF as I contend with an extra full time job on top of having a child and my usual full time job.
12 years ago we asked people to book workshops at EMF by emailing. Dealing with the immense volume of messages was so traumatic we swore we would never, ever do that again.
It is 2026. EMF is now >3x larger and attendees 10x more rabid. The blacksmiths *insist* they want to book workshops via email.
We tried to warn them. We really tried.
@tibimac @nikitonsky I’ve owned many laptops over the years and MacBooks are the only ones which smear whatever was on the keyboard all over the screen.
The level of chaotic energy in an EMF leads meeting in inversely proportional to the number of weeks remaining before the event. Tonight’s had the energy of a classroom the day before summer holidays start.