Hi. I’m Adam.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:32:18 +0000

I hear Facebook are adding Ai chat bots to all their social networks now.

Want to waste time on the computer but your friends are too busy to talk to you? Don't worry! Zuck's got you covered. Now you can talk directly to their advertising training models and they can gather profile data about you without even having to bother your friends at all!

Social networks were already about cutting you off from your friends to promote celebrity and advertising content into your face instead, and now they don't even need the celebrities. They can just fake up what they would say.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:03:26 +0000

re: #ukpol #sicknote

👩‍⚕️: This patient is too sick to work, working may worsen their condition, they should be off sick.

😡: No.

👩‍⚕️: What?

😡: No. You're lying. The patient is just a bit sad. They're perfectly fine to work.

👩‍⚕️: But, all my medical expertise and training...

😡: No. You're a woke liar. Hey, Craptia.

🕴️: Yes?

😡: Is this person well enough to work?

🕴️: Ahem.

😡: Oh, sorry, of course. Here's thousands of pounds given to you so that you will deny claims. Are they fit for work.

🕴️: [Counting money, barely looks up], Oh, sure, they'll be fine. Couple of Apsrin. Call me in the morning if their head doesn't reattach.

👩‍⚕️: I don't think this is....

😡: Shut up you, fuck off to Australia. We don't need no woke medical staff here. Have a pay cut. After Brexit there's no drugs left to prescribe anyway.

👩‍⚕️: [Packs bags, goes to a country that appreciates medical expertise]

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:22:27 +0000

re: #ukpol #sicknote

😡: There are too many people off sick. What can we do?

👿: We could give the NHS doctors the pay-restoration they've asked for so that they don't all quit?

😡: But how would that make our corporate sponsors more wealthy?

👿: Ah, good point. Perhaps we can give billions of pounds to Crapita and ask them to assess the sick?

😡: Brilliant! But they have no expertise on the issue and no prior knowledge of any of the patents.

👿: No problem, we'll just tell them to find half those assessed are lying malingerers, you don't need expertise to do that.

😡: Brilliant, call the press, I'll do an announcement.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:14:14 +0000

#ukpol #sicknote

And now let's find out what's going on with with Normal Island's Nasty Party, how are they doing?

These young depressed sick malingerers are too woke, the woke doctors are signing them off sick too easily, we''ll set up corporate death panels to make the decisions instead, get these skivers back to work 😡 🤛

Alrighty then, gonna suck even more to be sick on Normal Island in the future.

Join us again next time when the Nasty Party will be taking a wrecking ball to the country while scapegoating some other distressed minority in a desperate attempt to drum up some votes from their reactionary base.

#ukpol #nhs #sickNote

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:37:20 +0000

Lighting still looks awful though. Lots still to do.

A whole pipeline exists now though. Importing, puppetting, editing, rendering.

I can actually record a segment.

Maybe when the lighting is fixed.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:33:56 +0000

Well, it turns out that the #godot 360 panorama #vr renderer I wrote still wasn't right.

It does a final image-warp to map from the perspective projection it renders into an equirectangular projection for playback, and the function was doing the opposite of the intended job.

I only thought it was working because it also had an eye-switching bug which fixed the eyes-rendering-wrong bug in the earlier code so really seemed to make things look better.

Only really became apparent as I got to rendering things other than test graphics.

That's fixed now, by reversing the mapping function.

Is it right now? Yes? Maybe. I dunno. I don't really understand the maths let alone why I had to reverse it.

Like the Doctor says, you can just #reverseThePolarityOfTheNeutronFlow, give it a try.

https://github.com/revpriest/godotPanoRenderer/commit/1c09ad2114035b10bfd0a6c35528afff54f55d47

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:26:50 +0000

Feels odd that it's a law made by people born before 2009 which only applies to people born 2009.

As though it's people making rules for other people, by which they will never be bound.

But I suppose that's just normal really. Lawmakers are always making rules that don't apply to the lawmakers.

And also technically not even true coz the law binds the sellers not the zoomers.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:16:29 +0000

What I like about the new rules saying zoomers and below are banned from cigarettes is how many people are justifying it by saying they wanna stop kids starting young.

"I was 12 when I started..." they'll say "so we just want to ensure they never start"

Hummm.

Buying cigarettes was already illegal when you were 12.

The law makes no difference at all to anybody under 18. They are already banned from buying fags.

The idea of different laws for different generations is fun though. Maybe we should pass some laws that are exempt only for boomers.

Assisted suicide legal for anyone younger than a boomer, but the boomers still have to suffer slow painful death?

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:00:22 +0000

Looking forward to being invited to all the young folk's raging parties coz I'm the only one who can hook them up with cigarettes.

Hope they also hook me up with dope and pills.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:16:07 +0000

When #youtube was putting suggested videos in the side-bar they were easy enough to just ignore.

Now it's moved them to be twice the size and under the video in a way that you can't scroll away I have blocked the element and no longer see suggested videos at all.

It's much nicer now. I should have blocked it was just a sidebar too.

Thanks Element Blocker! Screw you youtube designers!

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:04:47 +0000

Iran / Israel / Gaza

The radio is asking people what they think Israel should do, what Netanyahu should instruct his government to do.

Here's my suggestion: Take all the money you're thinking of spending on bombs and death and pain and instead give it to Iranian secular dissidents to fund their internal campaign to overthrow the Iranian regime and support it's Iranian victims.

Worried that the regime won't allow that kind of money transfer? Fair enough, that is what Bitcoin is for.

Do it secretly if you want, or tell the world that's what you're doing.

Bombs will just make the internal dissidents rally behind their leadership whereas funding the opposition well enough could cause the regime to fall.

I am not optimistic that this is what will happen though. They'll do the escalation which causes more escalation etc.

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:20:40 +0000

Gary Stephenson finally addressing the question everyone asks him: How to get rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ohZ74hdeI

Get rich by being born to rich parents. Trading won't work for you. It's either have rich parents or dismantle the social order. They're the only choices.

#economics #politics

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:53:39 +0000

re: nudity eye contact camera

Not really entirely sure which of the filters and file-copies that the file went through during image-processing and file-copying were spying back on me.

It definitely keeps asking me to back-up on the cloud, even though I keep saying no.

Today's upgrade it was like, "just some files? Maybe backup just some files? It doesn't have to be everything. Just a few."

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:43:29 +0000

tasteful nudity, eye contact, camera, satire

Don't think I've ever posted a nude before.

This one is weird eh? Does it feel like I'm looking back? What a strange reflection from the eye.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:48:23 +0000

ukpol

Starmer matches Conservative pledges on defense spending you say?

Crikey. Sure is good to see what good opposition looks like. I remember in the days when Labour would vote against Tory policy.

"That's not good opposition" these people would say.

Confusing though. Looks a lot like furious agreement.

#ukpol #defense

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:50:20 +0000

The obvious bias on this poll, if it even gets statistically significant votes at all, is that people with so many followers that it's annoying to get replies don't follow me and so won't see it to vote No as much as you'd otherwise expect.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:44:23 +0000

If I reply to your boost should I at-mention you?

No, that's between you and the boostee
Yes, please @ me
Obviously, the software should do that by default
I even want notifications for replies to quotes to quotes to quotes to quotes

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:45:43 +0000

ukpol nhs

I'm hearing that there's spare capacity in the private health sector even as NHS patients are on waiting lists!

If this is true the solution is obvious: Nationalize the private health services and put them to work on NHS patients!

#ukpol #nhs

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:50:51 +0000

This is the greatest thing about activitypub and fedi and the permissionless protocol openness.

Free experimentation, lots of really good clients. No restrictions on paying to use the APIs or being banned because you don't show the adverts. No permission needed from a CEO or a Tech Support to just make the best client and nobody cares if everyone stops using Mastodon front-end.

Doesn't matter how many millions you spend on software development if the aim is serving the corporation not the user. You still get manipulative shitware.

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:38:56 +0000

I am loving Mastodon-Api client #Phanpy
@phanpy now I find myself operating multiple accounts on multiple server-types.

Catch-up mode is really great. So many ways to sort and view the things you missed while asleep or working.

Works just fine with Mastodon and GotoSocial accounts at least. Presumably anything else doing Mastodon API.

But I do wanna run it on a list instead of just the home-feed though 🙏