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@dflite.bsky.social

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dflite on here & Twitter. @[email protected] on Mastodon. Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/dfluff I fix things on your telly when they break. Like music. Like photos. Like comedy. Like computers. Like work. All views are my own, RT != Endorsement

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 6h

A man with a saxophone living his best life on stage with Public Service Broadcasting

Silhouettes on stage in front of an array of screens set in to a large mock up of a vintage plane cockpit panel.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 6h

I was lucky enough to be in the second row and was watching Wrigglesworth. I’m a very poor drummer but even I can see how complex his parts are. What a joy!

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 7h

I enjoyed the post already, but there are some good follow-ups in the replies. Now I want to hear the whole thing sing-whispered over a ukulele on a John Lewis advert

Boots @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · Dec 19

sack it off, pack it in
let's not begin

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Boots @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · Dec 19

sack it off, pack it in
let's not begin

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Pinot Evil @pinotevil.bsky.social · 10d

REPOST ME YOU COWARDS.

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 1d

Sandi Toksvig watched the first moon landing in Mission Control, holding the hand of Neil Armstrong’s secretary.

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 1d

Oh of course! I had a device in my hand that could have told me that and yet I still went with an "I Recon..!". My reply-guy training is obviously kicking in.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 1d

IIRC it was Garmin who bought the Pebble company and killed their watches

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 1d

My original Time is still going, just… but I’m very excited that I’ll be getting a replacement!

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 2d

With 10 eps I wonder if the original plan was two weeks of Mon-Fri but they then decided to ride it out longer.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll take it.

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d

Lady Miss Kier Starmer
Deee-Labour

Is that a thing?

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 6d

Well I’ve found the ep of MorL I was thinking of (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... ) and it doesn’t include that claim so I don’t know where I got it from or if it’s actually true.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Day light saving time and heart attacks

Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 6d

There was a More Or Less about the heart attack thing... something like there are more heart attacks after (one of?) the clock change weekends BUT the average number over the whole week is the same, so it doesn't cause more heart attacks, it just makes them happen a bit sooner.

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 7d

It had my AI senses tingling, especially coupled with the mention of “give your score in the comments section below” when there was no comments section BUT wayback machine shows the page has been online since 2021 and was correct in Dec 2023 so I think your CMS migration theory is very likely.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 8d

Really enjoyed this ep Gemma. Very glad the podcast came back after its break and the pairing hadn’t split.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 8d

I need to lay down for a moment…

Vintage Audio Love @vintageaudiolove.bsky.social · 12d

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 9d

Is Google sneaking AI in to Maps search now?

A screenshot of mobile Google Maps showing Boots The Chemist in a result for Petrol

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10d

Noel Edmonds and Blobby both phoning their agents. Saturday night shall be theirs again.

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 11d

I believe that in the US a study showed that storms with female names resulted in higher injuries because sadly people didn’t take them as seriously.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 13d

It looks like you’ve done almost exactly the same walk as me today!

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t know, but could it be that it was made deliberately bad so that people spotted it was AI and would then doubt all other footage of the events too? I feel that AI is both going to be used to fake events, but also to discredit genuine footage too.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 15d

Urgh! Could they not have spent even a LITTLE more time finding a word with the right number of syllables? “Break”, especially with the hard “k” stop is the punch in the face you’d expect from chocolate stealers.

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Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 15d

Nicholas Parsons once failed to hold a door open for me and it hit me in the face.

Mick from Supergrass asked if he could have the ashtray from our table in The Three Goats Heads in Oxford.

I think that’s all.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · Nov 14

Emergency Questions

20. What is your most mundane celebrity encounter?

I once saw Eve Myles browsing the CD racks in HMV. There is literally no more to that story.

Dave @dflite.bsky.social · 15d

The legendary Geoffrey Perkins once got in to the lift I was in. The woman he was with asked me what the yellow box I was carrying was. It was a Portable Appliance Tester. They then got out of the lift.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · Nov 14

Emergency Questions

20. What is your most mundane celebrity encounter?

I once saw Eve Myles browsing the CD racks in HMV. There is literally no more to that story.