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31.
by RegW 11mo ago
... and just a by-product of chicken production at that. Gotta eat more chickens to save the oceans.
32.
by RegW 11mo ago
Surely there is still some merit in having competition in the market place?
33.
by RegW 1y ago
Oh, I remember the joy I felt when Phil Collins finally f'd off to Switzerland. I can't wait for Ed Sheeran to follow him - clearly we need to more to make those pips squeak.
34.
by RegW 1y ago
I don't think they have ever pretended not to be a platform that gathers data about users.
35.
by RegW 1y ago
I'm not in the EU but I am in Europe. It was on for me. From my reading of the article, this is Linkedin (an American company) that has decided to collect data about Europeans - the EU is not involved. Linkedin has decided that makin
36.
by RegW 1y ago
I was once contracting at an ISP/telco in the naughties. While working on a UI to obtain PAC codes and transfer phone numbers, I was coding a modal confirmation dialog, when I almost unconsciously translated the specified "You su
37.
by RegW 1y ago
Strange - I don't get this in Firefox. I wonder if its because I'm in the UK or perhaps Privacy Badger is blocking it.
38.
by RegW 1y ago
Well, he has labelled other people as pedophile before. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50641397
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by RegW 1y ago
> I think Copilot made that up. Hmm, I guess I was suspicious. It's like the old bloke at the end of the bar, who always wants to have something interesting to say.
40.
by RegW 1y ago
Copilot says: "This chair, located directly to the left of the Speaker’s chair, remains vacant as a symbolic reminder of the time when the monarch’s messenger or royal representative would sit there." ... but I can't find a l
41.
by RegW 1y ago
Apparently not - provided for the king to use when he's putting his crown on before the state opening of parliament. https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/pal...
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by RegW 1y ago
No. No. No. Microsoft need to update the spec for all new personal computers to include mandatory pre-load hardware. This would have a secondary CPU, RAM and storage used for pre-loading licensed Office products before your laptop boots.
43.
by RegW 1y ago
Imagine the gravel rash if all goes pear shaped.
44.
by RegW 2y ago
> I can't pick my own domain when using Gmail, and still works just fine. I do. I've used my own domain with GMail for many years. I moved it there from another provider when Google were giving such things away for free to be
45.
by RegW 2y ago
Ah! There is a deity. Mobile app? You must be joking - work occupies too much time as it is! But yes, you are correct it is now there under Setting -> General -> Suggested replies -> Off.
46.
by RegW 2y ago
Certainly not! That would be a faux pas.
47.
by RegW 2y ago
Currently next to the send button in one of my Teams chats are the suggested responses: "I look forward to it", "Haha, no problem" and "Haha, I know". I assume some sort of AI is involved, but I not sure who wo
48.
by RegW 2y ago
Proprietary software is just one part of this issue. There seems to be a growing trend in attempting to entrap a servile subscriber base within your own walled enclosure. To be successful you need to keep your buyer unaware of the trap unt
49.
by RegW 2y ago
Not always anywhere. Sometimes there is just an assumption that you will know that they want it.
50.
by RegW 2y ago
I think it was in a book by Grady Booch that I read something like: No one would ask an architect to add a third basement to an already complete skyscraper, but it happens in software all the time.
51.
by RegW 2y ago
Well I would guess its an app. Spend some money and make a pretty, shiny or even actually useful app. Market it. Get people to download and install it (possibly for free), and ask for permission to access the microphone. If this is the c
52.
by RegW 2y ago
I suppose it would be relying on being trained on code that followed good practice. If this is true then we might suppose that this API isn't following good practice. However, a gigantic feedback loop is appearing on the horizon. Th
53.
by RegW 2y ago
It's great to see this sort of stuff still goes on. In 2000 (I think), I put 2 Java Applets into the 5k competition. One a maze game with a thousand rooms (10x10x10), the other a spelling checker that checked the contents of an input
54.
by RegW 2y ago
On reflection, I think a more likely explanation is that Facebook just harvested, used and shared your WhatsApp metadata. Metadata analysis doesn't seem to count as an invasion of privacy in the modern world. So while you and your fri
55.
by RegW 2y ago
In Antonio Garcia Martinez's 2016 book "Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine", he talks about a deal done between Google and Facebook to exchange data. So I'm pretty sure that would be happening. Not s
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by RegW 2y ago
Well it's not as rampantly inciting as "is Evil". https://www.infoworld.com/article/2160788/why-extends-is-evi... https://www.infoworld.com/article/2161183/why-getter-and-s
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by RegW 2y ago
Interestingly the option has a link to an explanation on how it works. Which was handy as I couldn't get past the German cookie dialogue on the original article. I guess the question is whether the aggregation services can be persuaded
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by RegW 2y ago
A long time ago - may be 15 years ago, I got really bored of listening to an hour of drive-time news on the radio twice a day. I then discovered podcasts, so I bought an MP3 player and wired it through my car stereo. I found downloading po
59.
by RegW 2y ago
> ... a thin outer layer of negative mass ... Brilliant! My antigravity boots are nearly here.
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by RegW 2y ago
I'm using 10 - it doesn't work for me.

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