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by bigfudge 4mo ago
For me, it's real regulations about what data can reasonably be hoovered, what it's used for, for how long. And a culture where the majority don't blindly click yes to all messages like that because the only alternative is no
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I do too, but in this case the choice isn't between apple and the EU. It's between apple and the <random rapacious vc backed ai startup looking to hoover your data> your non-technical friends foolishly trust, without much un
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
Yes, there's a lot of cargo culting in web development. Many US based companies also do this for US visitors, which is absolutely not required by the GDPR and related regulations, because they don't apply there. The law states: &g
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
Nothing in the law requires the pop up. It definitely doesn’t require the obnoxious bullshit that most companies put up (aka the dark pattern to get you to agree to every unreasonable part of their terms just to read the page). The alternat
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
This is such a shallow take. There are obvious privacy and security tradeoffs here. The EU competition framework is good in many ways, but this is actually something I don’t think we have the regulatory frameworks in place to handle yet , o
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I think we’re actually agreeing the terms are confusing. The point is that Western European socialism is not the same as the thing that was essentially synonymous with communism in the USSR in the early 20th century. In the UK at least, the
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I’ve installed Hex on os x. You just hold down a hot key to talk and it writes into whatever text entry widget is focussed.
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I remember people saying the same thing. It was some time ago. Turns out some markets really aren’t that efficient and corporate capture really is a thing…
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
The funding bill is never getting past the Senate, and even if it were the money is unlikely to reach Ukraine unless the current admin has a fundamental change of heart.
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
But this is to privilege 100+ year old origins of these terms over their actual application and development in most of Western Europe. It’s anachronistic and misleading.
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
You can’t have it both ways though. The policies enacted in Northern Europe would definitely be agreed on as communist/socialist by the majority of mainstream American politicians, Democrats included.
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I’m sympathetic to this view, butI don’t see any evidence they actually do know or care though. This (workers rights) gains no traction in US elections. You have this weird macho culture around it, almost like complaining about this abuse w
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
This is incredibly complacent. The Heritage foundation view of where the US is going has been thoroughly inserted into American public life by a thorough politicisation of all public agencies. It would take an equally dominant and ruthless
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
Yes, the one authorities are struggling to contain because of recent withdrawal of resources, and consequently predicted to be more prolonged and at greater risk of wider spread. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026&#
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
They have a head start on you, but you're catching up quickly! Worth remembering they have been shooting peaceful protestors recently in the US too. Trump and Hegseth are explicit in their admiration for Putin and Xi. So being technica
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
Democracy is about more than elections. Having a functioning public sphere, justice system, and media are all part of it too. From a Northern European perspective, the US hasn't been a functioning democracy for quite a while now — it&#
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
I think this is complacent. The rest of the world is actively seeking opportunities to decouple. The US is so embedded in defence ecosystems at the moment that is a delicate balance because we are all still dependent on US space and logisti
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by bigfudge 4mo ago
The problem with Moodle is that it's terrible. Yes you can customise it, but the core must be 20+ years old now, and it really shows. Universities don't have the talent in house to do anything more than bodge solutions for local b
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
By most accounts Somalia is a beautiful country. It’s currently at war, in part because of its colonial legacy. But if that stopped I would love to visit.
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
I’ve found recent Claude to be much better in this regard. I think a lot rests on the quality of the harness and the work behind the scenes done to RAG up to date docs or search for docs proactively rather than guessing. I also don’t have i
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
Saw. Not see. It can’t always be said in public but European governments all know now.
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
Snide comments like this are easy to make, but navigating the political complexity involved in this is non trivial. I’m glad they’re starting the conversation. Even doing that is an important signal. We’re only 18months into realising and h
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
I got my first job by meeting someone on a train Thursday night and starting on Monday morning! (1998)
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
That is an optimisation for stability of the phone over its lifetime.
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
Can you share it?! Will save me the trouble …
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
In the Uk it’s about £3-4k I think. Beyond that the differences in function are very small and would make no differences at all in an amateur road race. For time trials it’s a bit different and there clothing does make a measurable differen
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
The context was a comment about a “track weapon” and normies buying cars.
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
I do that too. But isn’t it true? You might need it later. And you really have to save an awful lot to cope with a truly rainy day…
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by bigfudge 5mo ago
Even in motorsports, presumably it’s still mostly showing off? Unless you are a pro, you’d still lose any seriously comepetitivr race and have plenty to learn and enjoy driving a not-quite-top of the line sports car? I don’t know motorsport
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
This is becoming such a weird romanticisation of rural Americana! Your civilisation is being destroyed because a largely rural constituency is able to clean a rifle in 60s but appears to have no critical thinking skills when it comes to a c

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