Rant Post... with request for comments :-D

What's the deal with Calendar Categories?
Or
How do you manage calendars to display different event types in different colours?

https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/whats-the-deal-with-calendar-categories/

Responses welcome!

#Blog #Ponderings

@bitwarden this form runs like absolute garbage on a non-modern device (fairphone 3+ on lineage using ironwolf browser).
Almost impossible to fill it out. Oh no, wait, in fact, it is impossible as now I'm getting errors when trying to submit answers.

Sort it out, will you? And leave the AI shit questions out of it will you!?

How do I get into a new domain? I read. A lot.

Here are my books I read for getting into oncological AI (kaiko.ai), supply chain management (alloy.ai), autonomous military drones (vibedroning.ai) and maps (HERE Technologies).

You shouldn't trust engineers who don't read. People who don't understand the domain create suboptimal solutions and cause unnecessary iteration.

If you need someone who respects the complexity and nuance of your domain to apply AI in it properly and successfully, don't hesitate to connect and send me a message! I am still available for new opportunities.

#books #medicine #oncology #virology #radio #drones #SupplyChain #mapping #RemoteSensing #radar

AI hype isn't so much about technology; it's a way of communicating within the oligopoly that they intend to drop product quality in concert.

It's the same as how they used to collaborate to keep prices artificially high-- only now consumers have no money left, they're chasing a profit margin by reducing production costs and therefore product quality. The stuff AI produces is objectively bad and unmaintainable, and it's not that businesses don't see that, it's more that they've decided that producing this level of output is a good business strategy.

Consumer choice has been an illusion for a long time. We can't take our money elsewhere because everywhere we might go is in on the conspiracy. (By which I simply mean "people conspiring". This isn't a conspiracy of dark smoke-filled rooms, but a bland one of coded language and tacit agreements). And this swing was happening well before AI became its favoured tool-- when was the last time you bought a piece of technology that Just Worked?

AI is terrible in its own terms, yes. But it would have been just a stupid novelty had it not happened to coincide with the spiraling end stage of capitalism.

Has anyone set up SSO for self-hosted stuff? If yes, how? I'm currently wondering if it's worth the effort.

The mask dropped sometime ago, but the true face of the brutality of the Trump administration and their lickspittles screams louder every day #poetry #reneegood #politics #justice #JusticeForRenee

According to Newsnight, the UK government say they can't block X—despite the deepfake CSAM—because people could evade such a ban using VPNs.

But the #OnlineSafetyAct is working just fine even though people can use VPNs to avoid having to upload photos of their passport (etc.) to some shady unregulated age verification company.

The UK government's internet policies are totally rational and coherent. Nothing to see here. Please don't ask us any more annoying critical questions.