🎈137/366 📸 Mmmm …
Whichever way you look at it
.. and tasted rather good.
👁️ A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.
🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London
🎈136/366 Translating A Transcript
German Language Podcast.
In 🍎 Podcasts - you can see the German language transcription.
BUT - you can’t copy the whole thing.
Looks like you can.
But you can’t.
I use software to record meetings.
Ooh I thought.
Play the podcast - and record - at end of podcast one german transcription. Run that through a translator and voila … or so I thought.
I did an experiment - thankfully.
What the software actually seems to have done is taken the german audio and decided as best it could as to what the german audio was saying - as if it was English.
This was the transcription ..
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Back to the drawing board.
Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, is nearing a multiyear deal to spend $10 billion to rent Oracle cloud servers
💬 The Information
10 BILLION. To RENT.
📸 Sad
Here’s what I’m thinking. Trump announced the Barron story .. and Melania killed it.
📸 Early this morning.
And then a bit later ….
You got to stop taking them eventually. Right?
🎈135/366 Looks like Sam has gone all in on the nuts brigade.
🔗 Simplified - though still a WIP.
I’m no developer … but I disagree … what do you all think.
🎈134/366I must have missed the announcement at the time but apparently Break Dancing is now an Olympic sport .. no mention why the centuries old waltz has been an outcast since it all started.
🎈133/366 Seriously people .. this straight quotes and curly quotes difference needs to be fixed. Am I the only one that gets messed up .. regularly.
When I was a kid, buying a box of ‘choks’ for my mum whilst not cheap against my pocket money, was still doable … wondering how kids today do it, I can’t afford these as an adult.
They stole the Sybase logo..
A Public Service Announcement.
You already know that the Internet is fifty years old this year. If you want to take part in celebrating half a century of connectivity - The People Centered Internet is promoting these three links.

Fri, May 17, 3pm PST- The Office of the Future: 3 IEEE Milestones Honoring SRI and Its Xerox PARC Heritage.

Sun, May 19, 12 Noon PST - A Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet.

Mon, May 20, 1pm PST - IEEE Milestone Celebration: TCP, 802 Standards, and Google.

You are welcome. # PeopleCentered #DigitalFuture #IEEEi50 #IEEEMilestone #IEEE
📸 You might have heard that New Zealand was given a rare taste of ‘Aurora Australis’ last night. Just a 4 year old iPhone - this was one that I took. No effects added. Will put some more up later.
Trotting through my threads this morning and stumbled across this. You are being noticed @benwerd
🎈132/366 Very happy with myself. Up at 4:30, sucked back some caffeine made myself and house ready for the day and out - with time to walk down to the 6 o’clock ferry.

Got there in record time and plenty of time .. fully 10 70 minutes ahead of departure.
I had forgotten it was a Saturday. 🥳😂🥱
🚧 Shame
I have deleted what should have been this post since it wasn’t doing what it should. No time to debug now .. will come back and flag when I have fixed or got a workaround.