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Mastodon gets Sovereign Tech Agency funding(blog.joinmastodon.org)
13 points by edent 6mo ago|1 comments
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by edent 6mo ago
All the GPS data are nulled / set to zero.
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by edent 6mo ago
I've just tried that in Chrome and Firefox on Android 16. Both just show zeros in the GPS EXIF - the rest of the data are passed through unaltered.
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by edent 6mo ago
The default camera app has this off by default. Most of the ones I've tried do. But do you remember every options you've randomly toggled over the years? It's pretty easy to see how someone would flip on geotagging, forget
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by edent 6mo ago
> But I don't honestly think Google could have consulted their community. It's just too big. The thing is, they frequently do . They have developer relations people, they publish blog posts about breaking changes, they work wi
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by edent 6mo ago
I don't think that's quite right. Up until recently I was able to share photos with geolocation from my GrapheneOS device.
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by edent 6mo ago
OP here. I'm not conflating them. That's why I used the word "or". I don't know how modern your Android phone is, but on all of mine sharing via Bluetooth strips away some of the EXIF.
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Android now stops you sharing your location in photos(shkspr.mobi)
427 points by edent 6mo ago|319 comments
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by edent 6mo ago
I was part of HMG. It was a joint effort with the telcos - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mobile-networks-remove-da...
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by edent 6mo ago
At the height of the pandemic, the UK mandated zero-rating data for mobile connection to .gov.uk and .NHS.uk domains, along with several other charitable sites. (I was part of the team working on that proposal.)
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by edent 6mo ago
Yes. The arbitrage difference between filling your battery cheaply and discharging when prices are high is greater than any theoretical wear on your battery. Even better if you are being paid to charge your battery.
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Today Is CSS Naked Day(css-naked-day.org)
41 points by edent 6mo ago|4 comments
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by edent 6mo ago
It is commercially viable. A UK energy company already has a Vehicle to Grid tariff. https://octopus.energy/power-pack/ See also https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/case-study-uk-electric...
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by edent 6mo ago
Yes. I have a 4.8kWh battery which is slurping up electrons. It charges either from our solar panels or from cheap grid electricity. It discharges when prices are high. So it'll mostly go into my oven tonight. If export prices are high
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by edent 6mo ago
I'm in the UK and am currently being paid to use electricity. My energy provider uses a tracker tariff which can change every half hour (it does have a maximum cap to prevent the issues seen in Texas). Prices are currently negative, so
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by edent 6mo ago
Cheers mate, I appreciate it.
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by edent 6mo ago
(OP here) Nope! For all their faults, Amazon don't seem to have leaked anything of mine. Yet.
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by edent 6mo ago
Yes. It literally says: > The cost assumptions assume utility-scale solar panels and batteries in large parks. Smaller-scale rooftop solar and home batteries would cost 2-3 times more. I've installed domestic solar several times. Th
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Solar and batteries can power the world(nworbmot.org)
292 points by edent 6mo ago|460 comments
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GitHub for Lesbians(git.gay)
6 points by edent 6mo ago|1 comments
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Why we're winding up in 2027(connectedbydata.org)
1 points by edent 6mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 6mo ago
I don't think that's quite accurate. Flats and terraced homes aren't the majority - about 55% of people live in detached or semi-detached houses. See the ONS Census data at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat
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by edent 7mo ago
Could you not have downloaded one of the hundreds of Open Source event systems and configured it in less time?
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by edent 7mo ago
I'd love NixOS more if they had any decent documentation. Everything seems scattered around a dozen forums, a hundred old blog posts, and a thousand issues of "this work on my machine (3 releases ago)".
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by edent 7mo ago
> I legitimately don’t understand how companies get to this point The people who start a company care deeply about the problem they're trying to solve. The first N employees also care - they're willing to risk working for sta
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by edent 7mo ago
Did you, by any chance, hit the "Drunk UI" option on a previous visit? If so, click one of the other themes at the top.
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by edent 7mo ago
Cool. But every time I use them I get a wrong answer faster. I know, I know. I'm prompting it wrong. I'm using the wrong model. I need to pull the slot-machine arm just one more time. I know I'm not as clever as Terrance Tao
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by edent 7mo ago
I recommend going to the pub with some friends and having a chat about anything that isn't work.
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by edent 7mo ago
You're welcome to read my MSc and see if I was "going with the hype" https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10542 The answer was quite the opposite. I wanted to see if the technology lived up to the hype. The answer
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by edent 7mo ago
You can make pretty much the same arguments for LLMs. Pollution, corruption, and war are all things I'm keen to avoid.

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