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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧

@drs1969@mstdn.social
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Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Aug 01, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @ifixcoinops@retro.social
@ifixcoinops@retro.social Is that an old microsoft media PC? Must be a tv card decoder / input. Windows used to have a (very good) media centre setup in the XP / vista days.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
@dangoodin@infosec.exchange @wdormann@infosec.exchange @glyph@mastodon.social Apologies Dan - I was not having a go at you at all. That's clearly the aurhors take, not yours. But unless you have specific laws out there that reference AI self determing agency... whatever a defence might try, this is 'humans used a computer to hack another company" their motivations are arguable. I don't think the outcome is though.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
@dangoodin@infosec.exchange Oh deffo my (british) opinion! But having said that, an AI is just a computer. Unless there's US laws that make some distinction?
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
@dangoodin@infosec.exchange That's an insane take. The humans set the machine running, using code they built and infrastructure they deployed. Humans did this. Using computers and toolsets to do it, just like every hacker does.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @drs1969@mstdn.social
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social oh HANG ON... this is about building speculative asset classes of orbital space, so it can be sold to people who DO actually want to put satelites up into ( or maybe just intersecting) those orbits. Like the 'air rights' or whatever its called over New York, for sky scrapers.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I'm absolutely convinced it's a scam for getting investment funding. Thats all they have now. Look at the SpaceX IPO vs today. 1/2d in 'value' and the early investors don't care cos they made out when it listed on the stock market. It's just a super fancy version of the Nigerian Prince scam. (See also reflect @#£%ing Orbital)
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @flowfx@chaos.social
@flowfx@chaos.social I reckon Trainline (website or app) is your best bet. https://support.thetrainline.com/hc/en-gb/articles/5183350424095-How-do-I-reserve-a-space-for-my-bike Scotrail or northern rail are the two train companies I think. But Trainline will give you all the options.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 22, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Um.... https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter Not good. Not good at all.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Oh Arse is on the pitch. 🤮🤮🤮

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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No. I don't have to spare a thought for the men in blue and white. They were an absolute disgrace. In any other game they are down to 9 or 8 men. And the scenes at the end werw utterly appalling.

Well done Spain for trying to play football. Deserved winners.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Come on #Spain 👍👍👍💪💪💪🤞🤞🤞

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Mastodon 🐘

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Come on #Spain 👍👍👍💪💪💪🤞🤞🤞

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Mastodon 🐘

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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‘No’

This is a pretty nonsense article tbh.

Claude doesn’t get distressed - it can’t. It. Doesn’t. Have. Agency. What it has is attention heads with weights that correspond to vectors associated with ‘distress’ responses in language, that can be triggered with a suitable prompt.

Etc etc

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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RE: @simon_jf@mastodon.scot

This

mastodon.scot

Simon Fowler: "With all of the ACM discourse going on, might as …" - mastodon.scot

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 19, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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RE: @bbcnews@flipboard.com

BBC football correspondents being idiots:

World Cup winners since 1966

Brazil 3x
West Germany/Germany 3x
Argentina 3x
Italy 2X
France 2X
Spain 1x

How our best ever finish since 66 can be described as a failure is beyond me. It’s insane.
Oh and the 2 best games of the tournament?
England Mexico and England France.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 18, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social
@emilymbender@dair-community.social According to others on Mastodon, it appears that this article may have been at least partially written using ChatGPT. The links in it have gpt modifiers attached to them it seems. Might explain some of the things you've highlighted?
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 18, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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RE: @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club

Via @janeishly@beige.party

This is an eyepopping write up. Do read it.
When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, it's going to be apocalyptic I think. It's 2007/8 subprime market all over again. Only its not banks, it's compute infrastructure.

Can AWS and Microsoft and Samsung survive this market imploding?

mastodon.sprawl.club

Ludic 🧛: "I have, after two years, allowed myself to talk a…" - Sprawl Club

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Sounds like a splendid idea. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. No sir. /s

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 10, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @BaronWalschap@mastodon.nl
@BaronWalschap@mastodon.nl @AkaSci@fosstodon.org @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Oh it's not. None of those so called use cases withstand 5 mins with a calculator. Solar? Forget it, nowhere near enough energy reflected. Lord knows how they'll do collision avoidance on a large reflective sheet. These folk are all cult idiots at best, thinking they know more than actual experts. Somehow, this doesnt stop them being given lots of money.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 10, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @AkaSci@fosstodon.org
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org it's a proposal to scam VC money, just like the mega constellations are.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @womble@infosec.exchange
@womble@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social People do all sorts of things other than look at the road ahead. It's not a surveilance device. It's a realtime sensor for guaging where the driver is looking in terms of zones of concern. I'm sure it will be as annoying as the lane assist rubbish we have to deal with, and the speed alert stuff. But here I don't think you can argue for surveilance if you read the specification for compliance. Whether it can be hacked however...
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @donaldball@triangletoot.party
@donaldball@triangletoot.party @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social Section 2.3.1 This is a regulation, not guidelines. You can't sell a car that breaks these rules in the EU.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @hackbyte@joinfriendica.de
@hackbyte @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social Ok - 'necessary purpose' is the key GDPR law here - and the penalty is 8% of annual turnover... It's only neccesary to determine the drivers gaze direction, in order to trigger an alert if needed. Nothing else is neccesary. The closed loop specification is there to isolate that data. The EU broke Volkswagon for cheating on engine emissions. So a manufacturer getting caught here would be in very very serious trouble.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social for Privacy - In the US, I'd agree with you. Not so in the EU. My primary concern with these systems is that they are rubbish - esp in rural areas with our narrow roads and hedges. But yes, on the security front it would be good to pen test these vehicles systematically, to see what could be done. This is about competing harms though. Driving without attention would benefit from sensors to alert the driver. Esp with all the touch screen interfaces now.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social The detail can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=PI_COM:C(2023)4523 It's very clear that biometric identification is forbidden. It's also clear that it can be turned off for each drive. It's also quite detailed on the areas that will trigger it. It's explicit that it's closed loop onboard processing only. So there isn't really a privacy angle here. There might be a security angle if the car can be hacked. Personally I'd be interested to see if 'lifesaver' checks trigger it.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jun 15, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @astro_jcm@mastodon.online
@astro_jcm@mastodon.online saw the picture… immediately heard the soundtrack in my head.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jun 08, 2026
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@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @mattburgess@infosec.exchange
@mattburgess@infosec.exchange leaving aside the technical aspects for a moment... Is this a sign that Govts are getting to the conclusion that these guys ARENT neutral pipes, and that they ARE responsible for what flows through them. Because that would signal massive change in liability. And if it applies to such images, it can apply to other problematic content as well.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 31, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange if Ed Zitron is right, is there a process anywhere right now that still delivers a positive ROI when the cost is 8 to 10x what it is at the moment? I'd love to know, even generally, what that might be.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 13, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @JMMaok@mastodon.online
@JMMaok@mastodon.online I have a very zero tolerance view of this. And people publishing faked results. Should be blocklisted and handled like drug cheats in sport.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 13, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

RE: @aclmeeting@sigmoid.social

I have zero sympathy for the authors here. They wasted everybody else’s time and their work cannot be trusted if they cannot be bothered to check/ faked the citations.

A million yrs ago when writing my thesis, I was told to make sure my references were all correct OR ELSE. Back then they were handcrafted… there’s NO excuse now.

Good on the ACL for their decision here.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 11, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @sstendahl@floss.social
@sstendahl@floss.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @pluralistic@mamot.fr According to Ed Zitron, it's 1 Trillion of investment next year. Or $125 for every living human on earth...
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 01, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @drsimevans@mastodon.energy
@drsimevans@mastodon.energy Like for like you want to compare on the 7Kg vented dryer (bottom left) in terms of energy spent vs capacity. That one is only £20 cheaper.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · May 01, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

I wonder if these academics took a step back for a moment at what they have written, & wondered whether it might come across as sociopathic and patronising. I guess not.

The UK deer argument is facile btw. We cull deer in this country because they have no real predators now, so their numbers have to be managed.
It's a bit different to killing a Lion or other endangered apex predator.

A ban on trophy hunting would harm, not help, conservation | Hunting | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/30/a-ban-on-trophy-hunting-would-harm-not-help-conservation

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 30, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

RE: @bbcnews@flipboard.com

This is shocking and completely unnacceptable.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 29, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

It is always worthwhile reading whatever Jamie Bartlett has to say. See below. Also he has a new book out which I will be getting.
If you care anything for the digital world we live in, go read Radicals - one of the best books about where we find ourselves - Jamie was there poking around at the seeds of what has grown.

Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’ | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

I'm sorry but if an #AI can delete your entire company database in 9 seconds, then so could a threat actor. Or a human employee making a horrible mistake.

You didn't set up your environments properly. You had no proper access control set up and yohr permissions structure was not fit for purpose.

You gave the keys to the robot and didn't supervise it properly.

Claude didn't go rogue. It entered an untrapped error state with no safeguards in place.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social

Pop pop poppity pop...

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Ars Technica: "GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on…" - Mastodon

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

RE: @bbcnews@flipboard.com

‘Write your name high on that silver screen’

Rest in Peace Mr Wilson.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 25, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @dangillmor@mastodon.social
@dangillmor Well they gonna have a great time with London’s traffic cameras and the even more feared traffic wardens. And then London’s cycling community will probably want to have a chew on them as well. Idiots.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 15, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I don't even know how to imagine that. The sky would be infested with these wretched things. I wonder if anyone could simulate this in Stellarium? Might help to show how appalling it will be?
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Apr 13, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @petergleick@fediscience.org
@petergleick (Brit) I don't see Congress doing anything to remove him. His health may render him incapable i guess. Thing is, he's not a huge aberation is he... Biden wasn't fit to hold office for 2 years of his term? Reagan wasn't either in his second term. The guardrails and checks of your written constitution are in tatters, and have been for some time. And on that cheery note...
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Mar 19, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @stargazerrob@mastodon.online
@stargazerrob is there a hint of tbe zodiacal light? To the right of Orion. Lovely picture.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Mar 05, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

RE: @drsimevans@mastodon.energy

Wow! This is a bit mindblowing. #ClimateDiary

mastodon.energy

Simon Evans: "NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as c…" - mastodon.energy

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Feb 22, 2026
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social

Nice #aurora display getting started on the Northumberland Astro webcam in northern UK right now.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8vZZMvqBNHQ?si=TKbkIhMLHiLj5leX

mstdn.social

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Dec 27, 2025
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @astro_jcm@mastodon.online
@astro_jcm Good Lord!! That is AMAZING! Wow!
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Dec 13, 2025
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @TheMightyGit@mstdn.social
@TheMightyGit@mstdn.social @robinince@mastodon.social +1 there.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Jan 14, 2025
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

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Replying to @BBC5Live@social.bbc
@BBC5Live hi! Does this mean more frequent posting? That would be nice.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Oct 22, 2024
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @richvn@mastodon.social
@richvn@mastodon.social I'd be VERY interested in an institutional view. It's very analogous to infosec problems in my view. You've got a variety of bad actors... but actually it's all criminal behaviour when you boil it down. But there's clearly networks targetting networks and we are at the inspect every file stage (maybe) of countermeasures. With the bad actors facing zero penalty until they do something so egregious that they finally get caught.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Oct 22, 2024
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @richvn@mastodon.social
@richvn@mastodon.social there's plenty of data sources out there for good institutional disambiguation. I just feel there's an important actor in this sorry mess who is not doing their bit to solve the problem cos there aint nobody shining a bright light on them. And the 30+% they get from funders that appears to y'know be used for misconduct and fraud. Puts cold flannel to brow and goes and lies down again.
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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969@mstdn.social · Oct 22, 2024
drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧
@drs1969@mstdn.social

Refugee from The Winchester. Amateur lot of things including astronomy, photography, and mucking about with classic cars (owner). Leccy car owner. Owned by two cats, slept on by a beagle, shed on by a Golden and tolerated by Mrs S. Head of Technology Strategy at The IET. If this takes off, it'll be the starry nights, Scholarly Publishing, bits of old MGA, a rant or two. Bit of F1, and probably a loathing of the Tories /GOP

mstdn.social
Replying to @richvn@mastodon.social
@richvn Wish they'd do the data by institution...
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