Further adventures in the fediverse
I’ve added the ActivityPub plugin to the site, so it should be possible to follow the blog by following @mcphail@neil.themcphails.uk on Mastodon, Pleroma or similar.
I’ve added the ActivityPub plugin to the site, so it should be possible to follow the blog by following @mcphail@neil.themcphails.uk on Mastodon, Pleroma or similar.
In prevailing literature, people on the autism spectrum have all of their traits, their behaviors, and even their very existence pathologized. from https://theaspergian.com/2018/09/23/allism-spectrum-disorders-a-parody/
Most people will have seen at least one headline over the last couple of years describing animal attacks on humans. This needn’t include the elephant from a Zimbabwe National Park that trampled a tourist or the Sumatran tiger that killed a keeper who entered his zoo enclosure in Birmingham. from http://theconversation.com/keeping-monkeys-as-pets-is-extraordinarily-cruel-a-ban-is-long-overdue-122278
Following from the Echo Dot 3rd Gen Smart speaker Teardown post we have been exploring how the Echo Dot works and if it is possible to connect it to a computer to replace the firmware or install third party applications. from https://www.briandorey.com/post/echo-dot-3rd-gen-digging-deeper
Cannabidiol (CBD) products are popping up everywhere from beauty products to drinks and more. Like the gold rush, we now have cannabis fever with the market estimated to be worth £16bn over the next decade. from https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cbd-cannabis-legalise-thc-weed-drugs-david-lammy-a9038626.html
Facebook’s AI tool has added some 480,000 kilometres of previously unmapped roads in Thailand to OpenStreetMap, BBC News reports, but some local mappers have been complaining about the quality of those edits, and the overwriting of existing edits by Facebook’s editors: see OSM Forum threads here from https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/08/complaints-about-facebooks-automated-edits-in-thailand/
Senior doctors have called for ”urgent clarification” of plans to supply cancer treatments in the event of a no-deal Brexit, BBC Newsnight has learned. from https://www.bbc.com/news/education-49153073
Data can be prohibitly expensive, especially in developing countries. from https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/07/web-on-50mb-budget/#top