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Trying to diagnose an issue with work Gaggia Ruby; every now and then the machine will run water through the grouphead without any controls being pressed - I assume this is something related to pressure release, but can't find anything in documentation

If I wanted to be full-on conspiracy, I would suggest that the push for on device assistants and AI would help to make this more feasible, because you could process all the audio recordings in real time on the device and then just have to get the synthesised data off the device

Isn't the distinction between nation states or other sophisticated agencies using malware to target specific individuals (re Snowden), vs. a wholesale collection of audio (which I'm still inclined to believe isn't really possible - if nothing else I would assume the footprint would show up in data usage statistics)

Amusing (or not, really) article on the BBC, with different people's struggles before the upcoming budget. Most people struggling to make ends meet, and then the one person earning an extra 0, and spending more on childcare than other parents are earning in a month, worrying about how a raise in CGT will impact their potential "earnings" 😂

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyv8y68e25o

(Didn't want to derail, but since someone else started it I can't resist)

A bump with a price raise seems a bold move

Bought something 6 months ago listed as new, now no longer working. If I claim back via PayPal is that directly with the seller, or is there potential for it to be a black mark on my own eBay account?

Finally someone willing to sort out the real issues plaguing this country

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33v3e0xkr7o

I don't think that bit is relevant, since the Met apparently didn't know who was driving the vehicle before the stop, but that the vehicle was involved in a shooting the night before probably is

Edit: ah, didn't clock the US numbers was just for shootings, not total fatalities.

Ignore, serves me right for commenting at work

The supposed reason for the search however was that the officers thought they could smell cannabis.

I was left-hooked by a driver in Brixton, filed a report with an officer on the day (irony, I was riding on the way to see a friend who'd also been knocked off that morning), and didn't hear anything back for about a month.

Then suddenly heard from the police station and they were very keen to get me in (apparently the reporting officer had gone on holiday and the report had been misplaced).

One of the first questions I was asked was if I "smelt anything suspicious from the car" 😂

Pretty obvious why they'd suddenly got interested in my case; I declined to answer their leading questions (#CSB)

If you change providers, do you have to get a new one each time?

I believe that was an issue with the first wave of installs but that was years ago, any new instal should be supplier agnostic

At the risk of flogging a dead horse

How people waste time washing rollers and brushes is beyond me. In the bin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo

Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power

In his speech, Sir Keir will say he will “do everything in my power to galvanise growth including getting rid of regulation that needlessly holds back investment”.

Australian firm Macquarie, which has been blamed for saddling Thames Water with unsustainable debts when it was its biggest shareholder, is promising to invest £20bn in the UK over the next five years, including an electric car charging network.

🤔

I've bought an OTP node (although specifically a child unit) that connected just fine to the CF parent

Is that a fair test

Not that it's a fair test; but rather that if your publicly facing service with no apparent guardrails provides "advice" that would cause death or serious harm in 22% of its outcomes, perhaps it shouldn't be public facing yet

100% having finally got round to trying SMPs years ago I would not go back to wearing padded shorts for all but the roughest of riding. If you can manage normal underwear+ shorts/trousers it's just so much more functional for most touring activities

We shouldn’t rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for accurate and safe information about medications, because some of the information AI provides can be wrong or potentially harmful, according to German and Belgian researchers. They asked Bing Copilot - Microsoft's search engine and chatbot - 10 frequently asked questions about America's 50 most commonly prescribed drugs, generating 500 answers.

Only 54% of answers agreed with the scientific consensus, the experts say. In terms of potential harm to patients, 42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm.

But, y'know, great progress, corporate responsibility etc etc

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/dont-ditch-your-human-gp-for-dr-chatbot-quite-yet

Don't worry,

many big tech firms are very aware of their moral obligations and

there are a lot of people and companies that are acutely aware of their societal responsibilities and there is a long track record of successful industry-wide collaboration to improve and standardise areas of concern.

And remember that

Human progress has always come at a cost, but usually it's a short term cost than benefits more people in the long term

Ha, that would be telling 🫣

I was mostly confident that we weren't going to make people sick, but it was more to point out that it's not super hard to score a 3, and then never be checked on again

Bryan Johnson I have a bit more time for; he's rich, and is doing a one man experiment to try and get as much longevity as possible. He's not harming anyone else (beyond the general harm that being a millionaire+ entails)(I do feel a bit sorry for his Son though, you can't choose your parents and all that), and maybe something interesting will come of it.

Huberman is much harder to square, since it is much more prescriptive (i.e. buy this shit to look/feel like I do).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bryan-johnson-blueprint-aging-biotech/

My real concern, is how underfunded the system is. The last place I was at the Chef had a fridge full of out of date stock, which was hand waved away by a note on the door saying "not for use for customer products", and denying the fact that he kept Sausage rolls un-refrigerated for a couple of days, reheating them each morning.

We got a 3, and were deemed good enough to not need any further checking, and most of that amounted to knowing what to say

Bump for good seller

Ah, I thought they'd just specified listing fees but it looks like it should be all fees, in which case yeah I dunno