@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-02 17:35:38
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% "taxi tax" on total fares (Simon Goodley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-02 15:40:00
KI-Suche, Nummern, Fotos & Co.: Was nach dem Fahrrad-Diebstahl helfen könnte
Anzeige erstatten, Technik nutzen, Online‑Marktplätze prüfen: Welche Schritte nach dem Diebstahl wirklich helfen und was viele Betroffene übersehen.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-01 19:03:27
My #silentsunday contribution is not mountains this time.
This is a memory to our visit to #scotland. Kylemore Abbey to be precise. We have this photo printed on the wall. And to me it's indeed "silence" that I feel with this photo
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-02-01 18:26:34
Evening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 19:52:36
On January 1, 1994,
Indigenous peoples from #Chiapas, Mexico, rose up.
They took control of city halls in towns across the state.
They took the state capital #San #Cristobal
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-01-02 15:47:06
#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-02 20:42:01
#Toronto #TTC should try this, would be cheap, could employ actors, no chance of violent escalation, and best of all would be witnessing that moment when a great flurry of Batmans leave the shop to begin their shift!
C-mon @… even just a trial run?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/801844027262730240/toronto-ttc-should-try-this?source=share
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-01 14:00:52
"Octopus numbers exploded around the UK’s south-west coast in 2025 – a new report explores this rare phenomenon"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Octopus
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 16:11:07
Neither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…
![Syntax color highlighted TypeScript source code:
```
import {
cycle,
map,
normRange,
permutations,
str,
take,
transduce,
} from "@thi.ng/transducers";
// LUT size (number of samples per axis)
const N = 9;
// example curve of N samples in [0,1] range
// (the curve here is y = x^1.2, i.e. a basic darken effect)
const curve = [...map((x) => (x ** 1.2).toFixed(4), normRange(N - 1))];
// compute cartesian product to produce RGB tuples
const lut = permutations(curve, curve, curve);
// alt…](https://mastothing.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/645/234/959/322/403/original/b9dc6bcea2fe1257.png)
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-01-02 18:18:34
#FotoVorschlag 'mein bestes Foto 2025' 'my best Foto 2025'
I was curious which photo might show up if I sort my Catalogue by my rating. Yet there are still some unprocessed folders.
But .. regarding my rating, I took my best photo close to the end of the year! Due to many reasons I didn't take as many photos this year as usual. But this one really resonate…
