New Spotify/streaming mode suggestion: car CD player mode Choose an album & any time you open your streamer it carries on playing the same album, restarting when it gets to the end. Occasionally it offers to eject the CD to change it for another one. Posh version has a six CD multichanger #music

Thank you all for the orders so far! I'll keep this on until Monday! So there's still time to treat yourself (or a geek in your life), get 10% off /and/ help @compiler-explorer.com

Android auto has been phenomenal for me over the last five years, but Gemini just invaded. Need to switch it off. When the voice changed from female sounding to male sounding I thought huh? Then it "introduced itself" as Gemini and I realised yet another part of my life has had AI crowbarred in 😬

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Just rewatched The Matrix for the first time in years, my god that movie holds up, it's a fantastic film to this day.

Feeling sad about Mani x #StoneRoses #music Loved seeing them at the Etihad, despite expecting it to be terrible it was amazing!

#Gardening advice for the weekend! Look after your roses now and they'll reward you next season! youtu.be/gaiRPeDhcIc #garden #rose #gardens #plants #gardeningadvice #potsandtrowels

Bloody hell, latest The Rest is Politics had nearly four mins of ads before they started! Way to put me off!

Spotify/music streamer playlist idea: "back in the day" mode Scenario: you want to experience a band/artist you never really listened to: Playlist: the first single a couple of times, maybe the second single, then the debut album in full. Repeat through their career... #music

A massive reminder to Microsoft and any other tech company shoving AI down our throats that it should be optional Original post: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/11...

Just followed one of our own videos as I can't retain all the info! Take a look at this video, 'pots and trowels plant garlic' share.google/zexGY1eq8TC3...

I've begin to hate eBay. Second time I've sold the same item and both times the bidder has asked to cancel their bid. Which eBay allows, leaving me wasting my time yet again. If anyone wants to buy the ryzen9 3080ti gamingPC/Edit Computer I used for Computerphile videos for three years let me know!

Quite enjoy listening to Rest is Politics US but they have banged on about "salt" convention or something on last couple of Eps & while I could search it, I can't be arsed -if you're making a podcast, people are often listening while doing other things -part of the job is to explain stuff to them :)

This week's Computerphile video with the excellent Matt Godbolt (of Compiler Explorer game) #ComputerScience #ethernet #data #CompSci

BBC iPlayer, you used to be able to put parental PIN in via numbers on the handset but it changed to a keyboard on screen interface, a right PITA

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

Watching the Celebrity Traitors, absolutely love the sound design. The way the 'traitor' sound effect is subtly mixed in when a traitor is in shot works so well.

Internet winner! Original post: mastodon.social/@sjvn/115459...

If any music fan is looking for a podcast recommendation, I've loved Bill Bailey talking about Queen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... (prob available from regular podcast provider outside UK - search Eras)

Often find (as a Brit in UK) that Masto/Bluesky (am using Openvibe which combines the timelines) are heavily UScentric and that's fine but I often wake up to see responses to things before the things, making me then need to go search the things... Timezones huh!?

Beware AI 'Summaries!' Original post: xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/...

Dolphins pass by the Giants Causeway

Giants causeway what a wonderful experience, great visitors' centre too! Plus a pod of dolphins passed by...

Nearer to the far side... Original post: wandering.shop/@cstross/115...

This sign is annoying as my car keeps thinking it's a 40MPH limit (for cars it's 60) and auto switching my cruise control... (I'm not driving as I type/photograph here!)

Looking for Autumn/Fall colour for your garden? #garden #gardening #autumn #fall #plants #planting #perennials #gardener Check out the latest gardening video from the Pots & Trowels team: youtu.be/f5g9f0w8xQw

Watching the US protests from afar. Any connection between the frog thing now and the frod far right thing from online about ten years ago?

I've used Waze for routing for years, having had an EV for nearly three of those years I still can't believe it's still not an option for 'preferred fuel type'

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I've had this far too many times with SanDisk SD cards and adaptors - all my recent purchases have thus been Lexar.

I watched Tron Ares and while the whole premise, plot and tech is laughable I put that to one side and enjoyed myself! It was a great spectacle and the visuals were lovely in 3D

In case it's interesting to anyone am selling my gaming pc that I used as an edit machine: ebay.us/m/xdqQB2

Best large language model I've seen for ages.... Original post: hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/1...

Thinking about AI Slop music, I'm wondering if the odds of AI making great music that cuts through might be only as good as humans' chances. Think how many millions of musos there are out there and how few 'make it' - just an idea. Obviously we could be flooded with slop before the ai touts give up!

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Yes yes yes Original post: twoot.site/@luci/115293...

Meta's systems are terrible: A/ Reviewed all the scam posts I'd reported, not a single ad was removed. B/ Worked my way through all the copyright strikes they meted out for P&T videos -they were all wrong. Either bad actors willfully playing the system or a bad algorithm misidentifying material 🙄

Love this graphic of where rain falls in the UK! Original post: zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6...

I quite like the "for you" tab on Openvibe but every now and then I'm reminded that I ticked as an interest 'b T s' because I enjoy "behind the scenes" looks at stuff to do with media and in the media that's what its abbreviation is. So yes, I know get k pop in my feed lol

Watching a bit of "Last Night of the Proms" and it's brilliant that they still wave dozens of EU flags :)

I took the Osmo360 camera to band practice and set it up in the middle of the small room with all five of us around it. We all dutifully ignored it for a song or two. When home I copied to my son's VR headset, it's fabulous, even in low light.

Keep getting video ads for some AI Slop making system called Base 44? Why is their logo the BASF logo from cassette tapes?!

Happy birthday Wish You Were Here! ##We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl##

The LLM problem in a nutshell. It's a handy tool used correctly but shouldn't be forced into every area possible! Original post: mastodon.social/@mcnees/1151...

The new Green Party leader sounds good so far, Vine giving him a bit of a grilling and he's impressed me

Love a bit of Douglas Adams! Original post: mastodon.social/@Hitchhikers...

A bad camera can stop you taking pictures. It shouldn't, but I discovered it can. I'm addicted to photos. If there was a photographers anonymous I should be there, but my previous phone had a camera that was "meh" so I stopped bothering, only taking pix when I had a "proper camera" with me.

AI (or LLM/Transformers etc, whatever tech the ambiguous phrase is covering) has it's place, but wholesale replacement of existing technologies with this bloated, energy hungry, IP stealing, not always correct system is concerning! Original post: mastodon.social/@JulianOlive...

I've been making pointless niche videos again... Got a Sony ZV1? Got a Zacuto EVF or Zfinder? Here's how you can use them together to defeat the sun's rays! youtu.be/nn_CTl5QSAc #filmlife #sony #zacuto #hack