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250 karma · joined July 16, 2013

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/phelan; my proof: https://keybase.io/phelan/sigs/l4OkJxZDbEd_m6j-o8KhcUxEn1NYi2W20Nl_OnfXoSw ]
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vool··on The EU Open Source Strategy
Just a reminder that "Made in America" Truth Social is an EU funded Open Source project.
vool··on Root System Drawings
There's a Mastodon bot for that...

https://stefanbohacek.online/@roots

vool··on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
Ireland: can confirm that both '#democrat' and '#democrats' gives "we've hidden these results"
vool··on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
This is the Freedom you voted for !
vool··on Creating a simple internet radio station
Just to note that you could omit Liquidsoap here and go directly from mpd to Icecast [1] and by setting always_on

[1] https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html#shout

vool··on We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
TLDR

> While this has been interesting to document and research, we are a little exasperated. Something-something-hopefully-an-LLM-will-solve-all-of-these-problems-something-something.

vool··on AI Regurgitating Propaganda
neal.fun's Infinite Craft is a fun app, you play by combining two words to make a new word, e.g "Water" + "Fire" makes "Steam", "Shark" + "Hurricane" makes "Sharknado", etc.

Except it's exposing AI bias, combining "Palestine" + "Child" makes "Terrorist".

The underlying LLM (Meta AI's LLaMA) doesn't know who Palestinian children are. It doesn't know they're dying en masse from bombings and starvation. It's only regurgitating propaganda that associates them with terrorism.

vool··on Camera Restricta (2015)
See CCamera by Marco Land and Blind Camera by Sascha POHFLEPP
vool··on Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Looks like Dunmore head (Kerry, Ireland) in the photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/missus_magik/9982718923/
vool··on Booting from a vinyl record
The 8-bit Construction Se LP(2001) had two data tracks/ applications by Paul B. Davis which could run on Commodore 64 and Atari respectively.

http://www.beigerecords.com/products/beg-004.html

vool··on Google Maps Hacks
This paper (2013) might be of interest "We demonstrate in practice how hackers can take control of navigation systems and, in the case of a wide distribution of floating car data, can actively control the traffic flow."

https://media.blackhat.com/eu-13/briefings/Jeske/bh-eu-13-fl...

vool··on Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
As if aisatsana was not beautiful enough, it was first performed in London's Barbican Centre in 2012, on a suspended grand piano, swinging in the air !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHsT8kEyzs

vool··on Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights
@jonluca

If you are looking to take this further, you can find some more info on Ryanair API endpoints here:

https://gist.github.com/vool/bbd64eeee313d27a82ab

vool··on GDPR isn't to blame for all the permission emails you're getting
ah,thanks for the clarification !
vool··on GDPR isn't to blame for all the permission emails you're getting
As it happens I just received an email from Kickstarter informing me about their policy changes due to GDPR, the mail does not contain an not opt-out or unsubscribe link ! That is required by GDPR, or at lease good practice right ?
vool··on London Cutaways
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14964855
vool··on Death of a Pig (1948)
some pig
vool··on Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software
We still have Tower in Ireland too, I think it's under a franchise agreement
vool··on A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
this seems to have overwritten my session, I now have your score

Lucky I had it open in another browser

vool··on A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
hi score ?
vool··on The .blog Bait and Switch
haa, when this came out I reg'd horseoutsi.de and set it to play the video fullscreen/loop.

also this email address:

fuckyourhondacivicive@horseoutsi.de

vool··on Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Hope they continue to contribute to Leaflet, especially seen as Mourner is on the Mapbox team.
vool··on Lenin was a mushroom
Anyone see my pocket fish ?
vool··on Hearts on Twitter
So my 'like' show up under my 'favorites'

Clear as mud !

https://twitter.com/favorites

oh

https://twitter.com/likes

vool··on A Tale of Two Ports: Automation at Oakland vs. Rotterdam
''But in many ways, the Port of Oakland, and most American ports in general, are some of the most technologically antiquated in the world.''

This BLDGBLOG post from earlier in the year details to automation on the on the East coast.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.ie/2015/04/infrastructure-as-proces...

vool··on Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]
[The User] did something similar back in the '90s with their 'The Symphony #1 for dot matrix printers'

https://vimeo.com/6868193

vool··on Ask HN: What is this triangle in the Philippines?
Trap Streets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
vool··on Submarine Cable Map 2014
Was thinking the same, considering that the first few transatlantic landed in Ireland. Recently visited a section of the first transatlantic cable in Valencia Island no idea how they got much of it on a ship.
vool··on Layer cam
Reminded me of the blind camera by Sascha Pohflepp: http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html
vool··on Oil Pipeline Pigs
Discovered this a few yeas ago when I wondered about the meaning of this sign in Dublin -> https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/10601153425/
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