Proponent for world-positive tech. Software/data stuff. Determined generalist. Big fan of nature.
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Joined February 2013
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4 months to Race Day! 🏃♂️🏃♂️ 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthus…
My @MindCharity stash for @LondonMarathon has arrived & training has begun! 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthus…
Are the spheres not LNG tanks taken from a ship? @planet Snapshots 84: Vessel Detection
medium.com/@planetsnapshots/…
Barney Jackson retweeted
Has the world become less colourful?
(This graph shows the colour of objects over time)
ALT Colour of objects over time (Cath Sleeman, PEC, Nesta, Science Museums Group Collection)
The "Responsible Financial Innovations Act":
Don't worry banks/Wall St, you can still be irresponsible.
Gotta love when Republicans pretend to be pro-regulation.
RE bbc.co.uk/news/business-6160… @loadedlove:
@brave browser should get a mention - protecting user's data and optionally paying them for their browsing/attention since 2019
Barney Jackson retweeted
#BREAKING MPs are to receive a 2.7% increase in pay, IPSA has confirmed.
MPs pay will go from £81,932 to £84,144 from the 1st of April.
Coincidence that Tass.com seems to be down, but Tass.ru @TASSRussia is fine? #Russia #RussiaUkraineCrisis
"while Green New Dealers concoct schemes.. that involve destroying the fossil fuels industry, billionaire capitalists.. are developing solutions that do not involve.. economic calamity"
This is some colossal #ElonMusk fanboy nonsense @MarkWhittington
thehill.com/opinion/technolo…
Be cautious of devs who call out choice of programming language before potential system design/implementation weaknesses.
Language is so rarely a barrier to making substantial optimizations, particularly in a young project.
#Chia @blaktron #cryptocurrency
The Chia Plot - Is the Chia Full Node hot garbage? #Chia #ChiaNetwork #cryptocurrency #FullNode thechiaplot.net/?p=5306
Or, bear with me now, maybe it's time we:
put a real value on pieces of animal,
paid workers an actually decent wage,
produced / consumed less in general?
theguardian.com/business/202…
#CommonSense #BrexitReality #BuildBackBetter
Why do reputable news outlets still insist on portraying "hackers" using images like this?
Lights off, the hoody, matrix viz on the phone... htop, bmon and error logs running - they look more like a wannabe vampire-cum-linux-sysadmin from the late 90s?
bbc.co.uk/news/business-5827…
Brilliant/fascinating to see the wave of new devs joining the profession 👩💻👨💻🧑💻🚀 From @StackOverflow dev survey:
More than 50% respondents have been coding less than a decade, more than 35% having less than five years experience.
stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/0…
BREAKING NEWS: Completely unbiased media avoids real issues and government failings with alpaca-based sensationalism. Life of single potentially contagious animal hangs in balance as protestors rallied
Other stories, millions of healthy animals killed daily with public approval
Hell of a lot of greenwashing going on at @ISBAHQ @UN #UNCLOS and others pushing deep-sea mining right now.
Surely there is no sustainable way to mechanically exploit an ecosystem that develops at 1mm per millennium where life moves at glacial speeds?
ALT Deep-sea mining machines, src: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/deep-sea-mining-machines
✅ Voter ID laws
✅ More tax breaks for multinational businesses
✅ Reduced public scrutiny
✅ More limitations on the right to protest
✅ Worrying procurement/subsidy changes
Rebuilding & prosperity for @BorisJohnson and pals, dystopian oligarchy for the masses.
#QueensSpeech