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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

Even the backwards track which I always used to think was just filler

First spin of “the stone roses” in ages. Forgot how good it is

synth...

IBM ThinkPad 550 BJ (1993) - Included an integrated Bubble Jet printer!

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies

My PhD thesis has been published: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/handle/10443/6607

Cheers Thunderbird, for seemingly intersposing random HTML in my email headers:

<BR><FIELDSET CLASS="moz-mime-attachment-header"></FIELDSET>

Luckily I can clean this up with mutt (many other mail clients are downright refusing to show me the messages)

@lp0_on_fire @srtcd424 @revk I can't go within a click of that place at this time of year without feeling uneasy. Or Northumberland Street.

@jzb I’ve just started watching “shrinking” and I’m really enjoying it

Re BR, I’d probably always put the Final Cut on now, for me.

Bought a Pi 3A+ (for Amiga PiStorm). First testing it works. Yes. Composite video out, too! Looks horribly lovely. Would be fun to play with glitching it

@neil @penguin42 those can be worked around trivially (by users or exploits) so it’s not a safety feature just an inconvenience

Fixed.

@pndc true: but one of the dramatic personae does as you describe :)

@pndc haha definitely not (pertinent given some other news today)

In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online harassment. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London. In turn, they countersued me for harassment. The case was heard last month and I'm pleased to say that the counterclaim was dismissed and I prevailed in my case. The court awarded me £70,000 in damages.

@lproven @theregister yeah, and sadly it's a particular egregious one, where to opt-out of everything you have to scroll and click 10 or so separate things.

Just realised I've spent 20 years in Academia training my Spam filter that "Dr Dowland" was a sure sign of junk, and that's no longer true!

@lproven @theregister Liam do you have any leverage to get the reg’s cookie pop-up to be less dark-patterny?

@lproven @dan613 @theregister even Debian support on that platform must have stopped about a decade ago. (Still have one in my loft)

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