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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
I think underestimate how suspicious the British people are of carrying ID. You don't have to have your driving licence with you when driving a car. Having to show ID to vote was controversial when introduced, remains controversial, an
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Suppose the user isn't using a device that leaks its location to any userland software that asks?
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Of course, it'll be possible to circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy. So what this will achieve is it will reduce the number of British muggles on social media, thus bringing us a bit closer to the Good Old Days when only nerds were o
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
I thought this was going to be about LLM-generated conspiracy theories, but the website was funny anyway. There's a technical documentation link at the bottom of the page that documents an actual working hand-crank-powered Raspberry
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Microsoft is called Microsoft because they make software for microcomputers. Networking and multi-user systems aren’t in their DNA.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Attachments are a feature of PDF; I often attach LaTeX sources to the PDF output.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Bill Bryson claimed to have received a letter addressed to ‘Bill Bryson, Writer, Yorkshire’. I have some cousins who live in a small town in Australia where the houses have neither names nor numbers. You just address the envelope to ‘<na
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
> These tools are here. They’re not going away. They might very well go away. There is definitely an AI bubble, and it remains to be seen whether it deflates gradually or pops spectacularly. Geoeconomics might destroy them by constrainin
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
By 'architecture of the internet', the authors mean the nature of social media feeds.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
The documentation is a work of art. Every time I try to work out what just one of the unexplained ideas is, it just introduces new unexplained ideas. I don't know where these ideas came from, how they fit together, or why putting them
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Speaking as someone who subscribed earlier this year, the Lex column does provide subtle stock tips, but my real interest in it is the fact that it’s aimed at people who have a financial interest in accurate news, so the reporting doesn’t v
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Not decline, but Australia considered its population too small after the Second World War and very successfully integrated immigrants from an increasing diversity of source countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
I think it's supposed to be interpreted as 'the hardest thing on your list of possible startup ideas', not 'the hardest possible thing in the universe'. I think it's also an alternative way of thinking about a
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
'Font' and 'fount' are synonyms, although they tend to be used in different contexts nowadays. Even in the sense of a font for setting text, there are older works that discuss 'founts of type'.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Why would Wellington have to answer to the Foreign Office for the administration of the forces under his command when that was the responsibility of the War Office?
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
There is a widespread belief (on which I am personally undecided and not interested in attempts to sway me one way or the other) in the UK that asylum seekers already have too much access to recourse. Making it easier and cheaper to reject
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
This is a great article, but it under-emphasises the fact that it’s middle-class jobs under threat. The studies that are summarised show what happens when working-class people are kicked out of the economy, but the historical record shows t
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
> New York City’s new tax on second homes will more than double property taxes owed by many wealthy luxury apartment owners, according to tax experts. > State lawmakers on Wednesday passed the tax on nonprimary residences in order to
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
Just before LLMs became available to the general public, I worked for a small (fewer than ten employees) strategy consultancy. They had some industry-specific analysis tools that were in Excel, and my job was to turn them into a software pr
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
I run Gitea on my own server. (I didn't switch to Forgejo because it's not in the Debian repositories.) I don't have a backup of my private key... I should do that.
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
I store my passwords using this: https://www.passwordstore.org/ It's a shell script that stores passwords in a git repository, containing one file per entry. The files are encrypted using a GPG key. Because it's j
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
Not on all of them.
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
A pity the Latin text isn't made available as well.
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
> Live facial recognition will scan the faces of those heading to the “Unite the Kingdom, Unite the West” rally in the borough of Camden, marking the first time the technology has been authorized for use at a protest in the UK. The rally
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
Someone in the UK did this years ago, but they painted rather cruder designs around the potholes. Naturally, the media dubbed them 'Wanksy'.
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
> There is an extreme idealist view of education that might see the threat of AI as good precisely because it could transform those kids — the former connoisseurs of SparkNotes and Mathway, the ones snickering in lectures and inking form
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
Meta-study: How many times can you child submit a 'is this cliched saying physically possible?' experiment to a science fair before their teachers realise that they're taking the piss?
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
> Already, as many as a quarter of Americans seem accepting of violence as a tool for achieving political change. I'm surprised it's only a quarter: violence as a tool for achieving political change is the entire point of the r
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
They said that the First World War was impossible due to increasing trade dependencies between the European powers, and look how that turned out. ‘This is a terrible idea,’ is sadly not the deterrent to starting a war that it ought to be.
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
The author isn't just moving their personal setup; they're also moving their business operations. It's not some slacktivism 'I don't like the US any more' issue; it's a 'how can I maintain my income n

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