I am absolutely fascinated by these terrible AI products that are coming out like https://www.rabbit.tech/ and https://humane.com/aipin.
I just can't work out what and who the products for, they seem hilariously redundant items when compared to the misery rectangle I carry everywhere in my pocket.
Turns out the Rabbit isn't all that secure either:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/26/24186614/rabbit-r1-security-flaw-api-key…
I am not enjoying the announcements all round from every company that it's becoming the core of their products.
Just what is Microsoft up to integrating copilot and recall so deeply into their OS? As far as anyone can tell it's just screenshotting, transcribing and storing in plain text on your computer all the stuff you do so you can search ther past. It's been received so badly that people have reported them to the ICO and they've even paused shipping the feature, It's madness.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o
Apple seem to be taking a balanced approach with as much on-device work as possible, but you need to pay the apple tax for the privelige.
Hopefully most of these companies burn a pile of faceless investor millions on ai-as-a-product crapware that makes no sense apart from bandwagon hopping and burn themselves out. It's a shame that to do that they'll also burn physical resources, energy etc on this nonsense and at the end we get some software features that allow for useful computing.
I might have a play with this attempt at shepharding several models into a single, locally runnable interface to satisfy my curiosity.
https://gpt4all.io/index.html
Cheers,
--
Hibby
Debian Developer
Packet Radioist
MM0RFN
Hiya
Happy Tuesday amigos, it's open evening at the space today.
There is a Open Evening blurb at https://www.57north.org.uk/open-evenings
We are, as ever, located in the ever fabulous Bridge of Don, at Suite
H, Kettock Lodge Innovation Park, Campus Two, AB22 8GU
Hit back with a reply if you like, let us know your plans. If you need
a hand with transport, just ask. If you're coming along for the first
time, nice one, you could bring a laptop or something to tinker with.
I'll be in around 7:30, tinkering with some API bits and bobs, or
maybe just drinking Mate and puttering around.
Cheers
Andy
Hello
We'd initially planned to have the hackspace AGM tomorrow. However, due to
a combination of factors, we've decided to push it back to Tuesday the 30th
of July.
Hopefully that's an ok date. Any issues or questions, please let me know.
We'll email more info soon, but all the original details are as they were,
except the date of course 🙂
If you've not thought about volunteering for being a director, please give
it some consideration. The amount of practical time it takes up is pretty
minimal, and it's a great way to help the hackspace. Also it's fun 😛
Sorry if you get this more than once.
Cheers
Hi, Happy Tuesday, hope you're well
It's Tuesday again, so open evening at the space, I'll be along around
8pm I think.
There is a Open Evening blurb at https://www.57north.org.uk/open-evenings
We're at:
Suite H, Kettock Lodge Innovation Park,
Campus Two Bridge of Don,
Aberdeen, AB22 8GU
Reply if you like, let us know your plans. If you need a hand with
transport, just ask. If you're coming along for the first time, that'd
be awesome, maybe bring a laptop or something to tinker with.
Our 2024 AGM is provisionally planned for Tuesday the 18th of June, at
8pm, in the space, just to mention to save the date :)
Aberdeen Data Meetup is also on this evening, see
https://ti.to/code-the-city/adm-jun-2024
Cheers
Andy
Dear Friends and/or 57 North Members
57 North Hacklab Ltd. will be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) at
20:00 on Tuesday 18th of June 2024 in the Hacklab's space in Suite H,
Kettock Lodge, Innovation Park, Campus Two, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB22
8GU.
Much of the procedure for the AGM is laid out in the articles of
association which can be obtained from Companies House.
Our current membership count is about 10, a quarter of 10 is 2.5 which is
less than 5, so quorum for the meeting will require 5 members (see Article
44).
Our articles can be found at https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles and
we've been discussing changes to them at
https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues
The AGM is intended to be a check that we are sticking to our legal
requirements rather than going through the day to day running of the space
(issues about the day to day running would be better raised on the discuss
mailing list).
We are now accepting nominations for anyone who wishes to stand for
election as a director for the next year. Nominations can be made by
sending an email to 57north-announce at lists.57north.co stating that you
would like to stand (and some explanation of why) before the meeting or by
indicating that you want to stand when we get to that part of the meeting.
Please send it as soon as possible.
The details of how the election of directors will be conducted will be up
to whoever is elected to chair the meeting (Articles 48, 51 and 52) but
will probably be something along the lines of: if we have less than 5
candidates more nominations will be sought until we get to 5 or more
candidates. If we have exactly 5 candidates at the AGM then they will
become the new board. If we have more than 5 candidates then we'll have an
election to decide who gets to be a director.
If any member can't make the meeting there are a couple of things they can
do to participate should they wish to.
Any issues you'd like to have raised at the meeting can be sent to
57north-discuss at lists.57north.org.uk or privately to any of the
directors or to the directors collectively at 57north-ctte-private at
lists.57north.org.uk (please make it clear you are sending something you
want raised at the AGM) and we will see that it is brought up.
A proxy can be appointed to vote on your behalf at the meeting (see
Articles 47, 53 and 54). If you would like to appoint a proxy please send
an email to 57north-ctte-private at lists.57north.co
Email sent to the 57north-ctte-private address is redirected to all
presently listed directors and is not archived by 57North Hacklab (but may
be by the individual directors).
The email should contain:
- Your name and address (as it appears in the register of members
(hackhub))
- Who you would like to appoint as a proxy
- That this is for the AGM on 18th of June 2025
- If you have any specifications for how the proxy is to act on your
behalf.
The proxy should bring the same details to the meeting on paper and signed
by the member they are to act as a proxy for.
Remote participation in our meetings is allowed, if anyone who can't make
it to the meeting would like to participate remotely, we can set up a
conference call and/or video call for the meeting. Any members who would
like to connect via one of these channels should let me know - it will not
be set this up unless demand for it is communicated to me. If anyone has a
different preference for how they would like to participate remotely, let
me know and I'll see what can be done.
Sorry if you get this more than once.
The 57N directors :)
Hi
Hope y'all are well.
It's Tuesday again, so open evening at 57 North hacklab. Come along
and do some hacking, or just to hang out or whatever you fancy.
I'll be in from mid afternoon, puttering around with EMF Camp bits and
bobs, some 3D printing, maybe this chart dashboard thing I've been
tinkering with, or maybe some sewing.
There is a Open Evening blurb at https://www.57north.org.uk/open-evenings
We're at:
Suite H, Kettock Lodge Innovation Park,
Campus Two Bridge of Don,
Aberdeen, AB22 8GU
Reply if you like, let us know your plans. If you need a hand with
transport, just ask. If you're coming along for the first time, that'd
be awesome, maybe bring a laptop or something to tinker with.
Our 2024 AGM is provisionally planned for Tuesday the 18th of June, at
8pm, in the space, just to mention to save the date :)
See you there.
Andy
I'm going to Bring this back into discuss,
I disagree with membership being use as an issue here. Someone not being
a paying member is not a concern I have over decision making in 57north.
However the spending we do has to aligned with to forwarding 57north is,
I would ague that these stickers are really for Scotcon, where there is
an overlap and raises the profile of 57north in the national and
international community.
Midder
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: [57north-discuss] Re: Sticker making session & bulk ordering
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 06:07:13 +0100
Hi Vishnee,
I am taking this email chain out of the discussion mailing list.
We are appreciative of your work putting into designing stickers,
however there are some serious concerns about your request. Some have
already been raised by other directors of 57North.
We are a community led organisation, and do not have the budget to spend
£320 on stickers. If it were to be £100 or so, that would be different
story.
Our source of income is generated through membership fees, and we want
to ensure the money is not spend on a folly of one or two of the
members, but rather have a meaningful contribution to the community.
Without knowing the actual designs of your stickers, we do not have
sufficient information to assess whether your stickers are a folly or
benefit the hackerspace members. Looking at the file names, my
observation is they are for your folly, i.e. social centre activity, but
I am happy to be corrected.
Another point of concern is that you are not a paying member. While you
are free to make suggestions to the space, we are free to ignore them.
On this occasion we have given it consideration, and not deemed it
worthwhile for our cause. If you were a paying member, you would be
having more say in our spends, but not at this time.
If you have any queries on our decision making, I would encourage you to
become a paying member and raise them queries at the AGM.
Best regards,
Wouter
On Wed, 15 May 2024, 22:35 Victoria Neumann, <me(a)vishnee.de> wrote:
Sheet stickers are not durable though. They might be cheap, but that's
why they are cheap. Like the small Gary ones that are still having
around.
Looking for vinyl or PVC sticklers, the cheapest I found were those
from
https://www.stickermarket.co.uk/
If you can find some for similar quality, you welcome to search for it.
Took some stickers off the list and Midder is happy to pay £120, so
that
would make the whole amount for hacklab for just over £320 (see
screenshot).
cheers,
vishnee
On 15/05/2024 09:39, Andy Gaskell wrote:
> Hiya
>
> Who was the sticker printing with & how many of each of the 9
stickers
> would that be?
>
> Last time I got stickers done, which was a few years ago, I used FMG
> down in Brighton. I'd used them for stationery, flyers and cards
> before. Looking at their website they've got loads of options,
but you
> can buy 100 sheets of A4 stickers for £192. Depending how big the
> stickers were, but could probably get 4 sets of 9 on an A4 sheet, so
> that'd be 400 x 9 stickers.
> https://www.facemediagroup.co.uk/promo-print/stickers/sticker-sheets
>
<https://www.facemediagroup.co.uk/promo-print/stickers/sticker-sheets>
>
> I was wondering what we did before, and if we wrote it down, all
I could
> find was from 2016, on https://scottishconsulate.org/33c3/planning
> <https://scottishconsulate.org/33c3/planning> which mentions 500
> stickers for £20. Looking at the website it mentions,
> digitalprinting.co.uk <http://digitalprinting.co.uk>
<http://digitalprinting.co.uk> there are a lot of
> options, but, for example, it looks like you can get 100 sheets,
with 48
> stickers per sheet for £16.
>
> Not sure what exactly we can afford, but there might be more cost
> effective options.
>
> I'm happy to help with preparing design files for printing, done
a fair
> bit of that before in a past life.
>
> Looking back through things, the last 3 figure expenditure (aside
from
> rent) that was discussed, was the proposal for a load of welding
gear,
> which was £700-1000, but we decided we couldn't really afford that.
> The email thread from last January is at...
>
https://lists.57north.org.uk/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/57north-discuss@lists…
<https://lists.57north.org.uk/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/57north-discuss@lists…>
>
> I think we're generally pretty cautious on spending hackspace
funds, but
> I think that's kind of a fair responsibility to the membership,
which is
> where the money comes from, at the end of the day. Financials,
> expenditure and stuff will be things to go through at the AGM on
> (provisionally) the 18th of June.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 08:14, Tom Jones <tj(a)enoti.me
> <mailto:tj@enoti.me>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> £750 is far in excess of what the hackerspace can afford to
spend on
> stickers. Please do not order anything without approval from
the board.
>
> Anything ordered before approval will not be reimbursed.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 23:12, Victoria Neumann wrote:
> > hi everyone,
> >
> > there are now 7 stickers (in total 9 version) to be
ordered and
> it comes
> > out to about £750.
> >
> > Is that still ok to use hacklab funds for the emf sticker
exchange?
> >
> > cheers,
> > vishnee
> >
> > On 16/04/2024 20:59, vishnee wrote:
> >> hello everyone,
> >>
> >> the lack of cool buckie, gary and other stickers cannot
stand,
> >> especially before emf!
> >>
> >> for this i'm planning a diy sticker making session next week
> during the
> >> open day following the guiede by the c3stoc (c3 sticker
> operation centre):
> >> https://stickeroperation.center/how-to-sticker/
> <https://stickeroperation.center/how-to-sticker/>
> >>
> >> join with ideas, recommendations, or sticker files you'd
like to
> see!
> >>
> >> also, could we do a bulk order via the hacklab?
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> vishnee
> >>
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hello everyone,
the lack of cool buckie, gary and other stickers cannot stand,
especially before emf!
for this i'm planning a diy sticker making session next week during the
open day following the guiede by the c3stoc (c3 sticker operation centre):
https://stickeroperation.center/how-to-sticker/
join with ideas, recommendations, or sticker files you'd like to see!
also, could we do a bulk order via the hacklab?
cheers,
vishnee
hello there,
It's Tuesday, so we will have our weekly open night.
If you've not heard of us, 57North get up to a range of activities on
Tuesday nights in our shared workspace, including (but not limited to)
social contact, programming, manufacturing weird things, consuming sugary
treats and the odd can of alcoholic beverage. Typically we kick off at 1930.
We're located at:
Suite H Kettock Lodge
Innovation Park
Campus Two
Bridge of Don
Aberdeen
AB22 8GU
Instructions for getting in are here:
https://www.57north.org.uk/open-evenings .Hit the buzzer (Suite H) and
someone shall come and rescue you from downstairs after a brief wait.
There's plenty of parking, but if you don't have transport, then get in
touch either here or IRC and someone may be able to help you out! The
number 1 bus comes nearby too.
If you're new, I'd suggest you bring a laptop, and perhaps a project you
want to work on. If you're not new, shoot a reply to the list and tell us
what you'll be up to, and maybe consider bringing a friend. Please mention
a time if you'll be in before me!
If you are a regular on a Tuesday night, then please consider becoming a
member. More information on the benefits and application process can be
found at [1]
We like our space being accessible for all. When visiting, please ensure
you tidy up after yourself, clean any dishes, cups, cutlery and store them
away. There are vacuum cleaners too, for cleaning the floor. If you have
any questions, please ask one of the regular visitors or members for advise.
I will be in today from about 630pm, What are you up to?
Cheerio,Wouter
[1] https://www.57north.org.uk/membership
