Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected])

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@shashj @theELN @vertic_org @TheElders @PaxSapiens @Justin_Br0nk "mass still counts"

[Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB]

🐕 LIGHTNING has gone missing on 5 Jan 2023 from Little Bradley #Thurlow #Suffolk #CB9
She was wearing a brown leather collar with a brass tag and has a blue lead rope attached. Please RT https://t.co/jM4XunXqdd

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@eyebrowsofpower Or Beborn Beton?

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

The government's words:
"utilising our Armed Forces for non-emergency, routine tasks where the military do not play a specific and defined role should be seen as an indication of policy failure, inadequate resilience planning or chronic underinvestment."
https://t.co/LzJqXR04Io

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@UKDefJournal Quite seriously, was that generated by ChatGPT? The repeated "In addition to" and slightly wooden phrasing looks a lot like this:

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@shashj Speculating here... we know there was a lot of work (e.g. Baum, Welch, Petrie, Soules & Weiss, Cave, Neuwirth) on Hidden Markov Models at IDA-CRD in the 70s, and those can be used for cryptanalysis which would have been very computationally expensive at the time.

[Kiel Institut @kielinstitute]

Germany's new commitments and its contribution to the new EU package now make it the largest donor in Europe in absolute terms, overtaking the UK for the first time, with a total of 12.6 billion euros in German pledged support to Ukraine.

[Kiel Institut @kielinstitute]

Update #UkraineSupportTracker: Europe has for the first time surpassed the U.S., EU countries and institutions now total nearly 52 billion euros in military, financial, and humanitarian commitments. Main reason is 18-billion-euro Macro-Financial Assistance package.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Thousands of Next Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon (NLAW) systems will be assembled in Northern Ireland to boost the UK's 🇬🇧 stockpile, following a £229 million deal with @Saab announced today by @BWallaceMP.

Read more: https://t.co/W6cdKywEDM

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@PickardJE @pmoore1975 https://t.co/FUx6YWNS9N

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@shashj Very interesting that it's "Russia has", with no PHIA probability language framing the statement. That does suggest it's past the >=95% "almost certainly" to being a simple statement of fact.

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@ootastic Thanks!

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

Apparently I've been on twitter since 2008. I'm moderately surprised that it's been that long.

I think I saw this new service getting somewhat popular as a way of telling people what you had for lunch, and just wanted the @mobbsy username before somebody else took it.

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

Kiel (population 250,000) decides to build a four-line light rail/tram network. cost:benefit ratio of 1.47. can raise local funding and also gets € from state and federal governments. nothing unusual about this, except in the UK https://t.co/bYtUc1j3d9

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@StarkUK What translation are you using for Deuteronomy 28:5 ?

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@Flemn8r @t0nyyates I largely agree with that post. Mastodon will have painful scaling issues; for the protocol, the implementations and for individual server admins. That said, they've had an order of magnitude growth in a couple of weeks and broadly coped, which speaks to some engineering quality.

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@t0nyyates However, the success of walled-garden services like Facebook and Twitter (though built on top of open standards, aren't designed for interop at all levels) suggests that some systems are better built as monoliths. I suspect there's some social and economics drivers for that.

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@t0nyyates That success has led to a mindset in some (many) software developers that the answer is open standards and interoperable protocols regardless of the question. It also speaks to the libertarian techno-utopianism tendency, we're all free to control our own data.

[Andrew Mobbs (@[email protected]) @mobbsy]

@shashj Could Macron's briefing have distinguished "Offensive" vs "Counter-Offensive" and he's just repeated that without (important) context?