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• Post #4307736

  Hurrah! On our way to Sweden from Helsingør to Helsingör (or something like that ;-) 🙂 (video shows the car deck door Herald-of-Free-Enterprise-ing its way close as we depart). It's a full electric ferry. Kinda cool :-)

• Post #4290058

  On articles about #meta #smartglasses often "aaactually" style comments appear stating they are not so different from how photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson operated. Henri used one unconnected camera. Between an event & sharing it with the "world" existed a delaying proces of reflection. Smart glasses are just one component of a near realtime data harvesting, matching & sharing machine. The only thing they have in common with Henri is a physical lens. What pe...

• Post #4107777

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@larstransportworld/116985085964903563 Apparently some people disagree but this is a DSB thing that I absolutely love. Four train sets combined in one. Years ago I had an absolute blast listening to two retired interrailing Irish women retelling how they first sat in the Struer section, then moved to the Aarhus section "just in time" only to realise later that Aarhus and Aalborg are not the same thing. I got to put the cherry on top for them by explainin...

• Post #4094468

  #Russia: I've seen people wondering what Wildberries & Ozone are. They're similar to Amazon in that they're both retailer & marketplace. Anyone can buy there, anyone can sell. Delivery is mostly in-store. They work with a ~100.000 pickup points where people can also test or try the items. They sell anything from Purina dogfood (WTF #nestle) or military body armour. Like Amazon you can share reviews, showing for example your armour while standing in front of your owl colle...

• Post #4057566

  Any #EU law experts here? As today the #USA administration use dishonest claims about forced labour to justify import taxes I wonder how the EU Forced Labour Regulation** will affect imports from the US. Will we see certain manufacturers or entire produce groups (as produce is pooled from different sources and the US government does not enforce its laws) blocked? https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/essential-workers-exploited-labor-perspectives-on-farm-work-in-the-us/ **https://single...

• Post #4039155

  One of the nicest things of using a bike as our main mode of transport is how easy it is to get by without much planning. Picking up kid from daycare, passing by a new cafe. Looks nice. Let's have a drink. Rock the bikes up to the outside seating and Go For Drink! Toddler (in good mood today as it's not too warm) is zooming around on their trike.

• Post #3994438

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116958240712308522 I bet the 24% who "never think about cats" think about the Roman Empire all the fricking time.

• Post #3979713

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116953202963631002 I'm into model trains. It's a hobby that attracts people who like to explore. If for some individuals tinkering with LLM fits into that I kinda get their interest. Over the last half year small companies and hobbyist alike started blatantly sharing LLM generated images though. And it truly puzzles me: in a hobby based around physically modelling a small version of the real world, what's the point?!? Is your hobby being contami...

• Post #3906387

  These days Danish DSB is all Serious and Professional with their branding. Large red walls with some basic functional black and white. With the new Talgo and IC5 their look suggests they might very well be temporary stock trains from a DB lease pool. How different was it until the late 1990s when domestic sleeper service was still a thing and equipment was to have a little bit of fun in their identity.

• Post #3880865

  I love the practicality of digital tickets. At times it's nice to have a physical thing though:-)

• Post #3863039

  20yr old me would be ashamed but here we are: I'm celebrating a laundry bucket. Quick review of the LIVARNO 452900 (purchased for 50 danish kroner at LIDL). With a capacity of 40L and rated at a solid 12kg this is one beast of a laundry bucket. Constructed from low-density polyethylene it's designed to warp and flex even in difficult situations. The three separately molded anti-slip handles are a joy to operate. 5/5 stars for now. 2026 update: Nope. Handles randomly snapped. Zero...

• Post #3825693

  Vegetable flowers can be so pretty :-) #gardening #bloomScrolling

• Post #3765436

  The biggest difficulty I find in interacting with other humans about the AI /LLM chatboxes is how so many struggle to accept these things are often confidently wrong. By accident I just pasted the URL of our domain (https://leslunesdejupiter.eu)in the Google search box instead of the address bar and an AI summary appeared. Nothing of this (different in Danish, French and English) is what our website is about: #ai #llm #FrustrationMachines

• Post #3668072

  Apple: you should update your phone for security reasons! It's important! Also Apple: "More Storage Required - This update cannot be installed because it requires at least 23,96 GB of available storage during installation." My phone only has 64 GB. 26 GB of that is currently used for the OS and whatever system data is. So that leaves 14 GB for everything else.. 💩 #phone #apple

• Post #3630832

  Question about normal distribution. Is the Egyptian military lacking a general on the right, or should they chuck out a general on the left? #statistics #science

• Post #3577401

  Ffs & wtf. I'm in the library with the toddler. Another parent has been swiping away on her ipad and asking her utterly disinterested kid for their opinion. Curiosity got the best of me and I asked. She just ordered 20 different toddler outfits from Shein (massive unregulated shit-'clothes' retailer). She marvelled on how cheap it is* and how she'll usually just throws away whatever is broken or arrival, doesn't fit or doesn't look nice. *foreigner in Billund. She...

• Post #3572454

  #Billund area tourism tip: the little trainstation at #Bindeballe is renovated and is now a free mini-museum. I'm especially impressed by the photo of a man with a glorious belly that can make a bellcurve jealous. Very Obelix. Good toilets. #tourism #denmark

• Post #3490358

  Maybe it's the hashtags I follow. The past months I keep on seeing fedi bots promoting terrible AI generated "learning experience" websites aimed at children. For some reason most of these sites include dodgy #LLM chat options. Often cutesy themed after animals or historical figures.* If you're a parent: are you actually ok with your still developing child being manipulated by these things? #abuse #parenting #AI #safety *Here's a Dutch one. The chat is unprotected https...

• Post #3484085

  "That's a lot of killing, and each year it gets harder." Jeffrey Lockwood is an entomologist whose methods kill billions of animals. Like an insect Oppenheimer he reflects on his work. The essay is named "To Be Honest" and included in the book "Grasshopper Dreaming" (2002). They're his reflections on the quest for efficient cheap killing & the silence that follows. I sometimes reread it trying to understand how we internalize this stuff. Can't s...

• Post #3465625

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116832021297021883 The only good thing about #WSocial is @_elena@mastodon.social's reporting on it. One day #WSocial will be used in a book to illustrate the type of companies where a bunch of management types think of a product but outsource the actual work to dispassionate employees or contractors.

• Post #3449008

  Hey #Europe. Don't forgot to cool down a bit over the next days in anticipation of the #heatwave next week. :-|

• Post #3446383

  Question. Is there like a "typical general public uniform" in your region? In Denmark women of all ages and backgrounds very commonly wear the "Danish Tent Dress": -a wide and loose fitting around the knees garment with a colourful flower motive. No waist. It has "poofy" shoulder-tops and provides coverage down to the elbows. For guys it's just the international-guy-uniform: -dark uniform shorts, socks, sneakers and a tshirt that's either plain or has a...

• Post #3344477

  There's a lot of sadness in the world. It's important to find some humour in things. The President of the USA signing their surrender agreement on the Iran war which includes something akin to a War Guilt Clause and a base for reparations at.. THE ACTUAL PALACE OF VERSAILLES. Comedy Peace Price to whoever suggested this.

• Post #2354761

  Uhh… Control, this is Ice 4... I've got pressure at the lower arse region... over. Copy that... standby... load testing.. reporting 50-65%... roger... continue sitting... end transmission. (I'm reading the Eurospec on seat comfort* and found this figure with a very unnecessary** background photo) *https://eurospec.eu/seat-comfort/ edit:** @juliette reminded me that every industrial safety training course book I've written had unnecessary photos of my cat. So there&amp...

• Post #2285007

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116516043996616769 Why I hope the @erpu succeeds: we don't need "any train travel" between #european regions. We need is mostly reliable, easy to book, long distance train travel a single parent *dares* to take with a toddler. The type of travel where a train company is liable of truly, and actively, help you out during calamities. Taking in account your circumstances. And them cancelling trains.. is a calamity. If that is secured...

• Post #2124862

  We built places. They built platforms. People became users. Users became data. Data became profit. Speech became content. Interchangeable grains in TheirSpace, sorted by rules we cannot see, by people we will never meet. Invisible rules from invisible rulers. Connection is no longer the goal. Extraction is.

• Post #2041540

  How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited? My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages. I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way. Mainly: tell us about your experien...

• Post #1878298

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115865066753163707 Tip: I just spotted the #FreeCADfriday hashtag. People are tagging it on some pretty creative content.

• Post #1756700

  Oh ffs. In 2026 alone dozens of journalists have been killed, murdered, by Israel, Russia and the USA. The White House has at the best of times been silent on this, and at other times actively argued the murdered journalists were at fault. The reporters / journalists reporting on "the white house" barely questioned this. And now you're the victim? For an event where in the end nothing happened, and with anything extremely unlikely to happen in the first place? Fuck of...

• Post #1535465

  I just spend five minutes chatting with someone and then they said: "you have zero idea who I am right?" I confirmed and we chatted for another ten minutes. Good talk, as usual. Once you're past the age of five it should be illegal to change ones hair colour. edit: no, I am not face-blind. I just don't really recognise people by their face alone.