A tricky one. DC can be built with focus on renewables, in areas that do not impact on landscape- and this should be the goal. Scotland (and UK) needs compute and data independence, so banning them outright cannot be an option. If we see sending our data overseas as a risk, we need local infra.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

These are lovely. Check out the rest of the thread on how they were built!

JamHamster@jamhamster.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, this has been a journey. I've been trying to crack reliable tape loading since lockdown and by jove, I've actually done it! 🥳 I have four built, one's mine and the rest are going out to some people who are a force for good in the retro community. They deserve a nice toy to 'test'. ☺️

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to hack this website but don’t go online” and it went online. That’s not sentience, LLMs are probabilistic

Today I made myself in lego minifig form.

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

Anyone from Google able to fix/prioritise this issue preventing Disney+ on Family-link controlled chromebooks? Disney+ peeps say its been investigated and its not them, but you cant speak to anyone at Google except rubbish AI chatbots. support.google.com/googleplay/t...

Had a lego day last week. This was in stock - so fun.

"sorry guys there was a 2x1 lego on the far outside of copse"

Colin Riley@domipheus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What the fresh hell is going on in the F1.

What the fresh hell is going on in the F1.

Yesterdays "Windows... sigh..." moment was it auto updating my laptop webcam driver whilst in an active video call. My video froze, and then I got a lovely windows update notification that I needed to restart my machine for it to finish updating the camera driver.

Obama: Why? Just Why? Confused Reaction

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Our #HPG2026 paper "Memory-Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies with Merged Nodes for Hardware Ray Tracing" introduces new ways of constructing BVHs that consistently outperform state-of-the-art BVHs for GPU ray tracing. Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro... @ebrunvand.bsky.social

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Chris Medland@chrismedlandf1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No further investigation. That's pole for Russell! #F1 #AustrianGP

Interesting that I am not in there by name. However if I search "Domipheus", it does resolve to my full name! To get most accurate, I have to search using both name and alias.

austin@aparker.io · 3mo ago

fun? I am in there. intheweights.com

What's the easiest way to create a massive nationwide database outside normal security protections? Excellent algorithm food? Adserve dream? Make everyone 16+ require website accounts and verification - and state its all about protecting children. Obvious and blatant spin, once you've noticed.

Into the Slimy Mines comes out THIS WEEK!

Tony Gowland@tonygowland.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Into the Slimy Mines is roguelike tower defense. Build paths enemies slither down, dig gold, squish slimes, and most important of all RESCUE YOUR CREW! Coming May 29th on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, Epic and Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3639440/...

Last week John Swinney owed Farage a pint. This week Farage owes Streeting, Rayner, and the rest of feuding Labour a pint. Absolutely massive self-owns all around atm. Party over country at its finest.

I made a blog! I'm not sure if it's that interesting to the few people that follow me on here (it's about making/engineering), but who knows, maybe? 🤷‍♂️ timang.us

Stuff What I Made

The Assorted Projects of Tim Angus

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Wondering if I can get certified as an electrician faster than waiting for the various sparkies I've messaged to reply to an email.

Very much disappointed in the Scottish Parliament tonight. Again.

"Nvidia says the core goal is to enable developers to achieve the artistic vision desired by game creators limited by the technological limits of today's hardware" 🤦 The big limit of "todays hardware" is that potential customers for games can't buy the affordable and efficient hardware needed today

Digital Foundry@digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We've brought back our "zoomer" screenshot tool and loaded up a range of DLSS 5 on/off comparisons from a range of games. Check it out: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nvi...

Has the F1 start of season been worth 4 hours sleep? given the first few laps, yesssssss.

Remember when online games had server browsers where you'd discover community servers that you'd wait ages for a free slot to open up on because you'd formed friendships with those playing at the same time each week and valued those new friendships & gaming social connections? Just me? I miss that.

I dont see any mention of the "cheap" automatic full-beam features being implemented in many cars with dangerous disable latencies. I suspect many people are running this feature without even realising and blinding folks constantly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why there's no quick fix in sight for the problem of dazzling headlights

Road users say headlight glare is an issue - but experts warn a solution might not be straightforward.

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Guys, woman only want one thing on Valentine's Day... 🤤 ❤️

The latest Deadlock update is wild. www.playdeadlock.com/oldgods

Deadlock - Old Gods, New Blood

This Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood — includes overhauled Patrons and bases, six new heroes, a fast-paced game mode 'Street Brawl', HUD updates, many quality-of-life additions, revamped p...

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Seems like the 2026 upscalers review bingo card is already filled with yeeting sharpness silently to 300%, folks will think it's extra detailed! 🤣 Its fun how opinions change so quickly over the years.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8mo ago

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

It's time

Excuse me Cadbury but where the fuck is the other half of my Boost? 🤣 its smaller than my thumb!