johneth

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by johneth 5mo ago
Why is it their job to evaluate a 1m+ line code rewrite?
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by johneth 5mo ago
All it takes is one determined journalist running experiments, or one whistleblower inside the company exposing these systems. Plus, you'd have to offer this service somehow, meaning you'd have to describe it to potential customer
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by johneth 5mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some sort of legal action against Google, the monopoly, to make the distinction in how their crawlers use scraped content.
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by johneth 5mo ago
That's almost certainly illegal in many jurisdictions, and they'd definitely not be able to hide that they're doing it indefinitely. A sure way to be massively sued.
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by johneth 5mo ago
A lot of the time they hallucinate the sources, too.
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by johneth 5mo ago
Are you forgetting that you need to launch from one of those "suffocating regulatory states"?
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by johneth 5mo ago
So it's a lot less dumb if 50 really difficult and borderline physically impossible things happen. On the word of a conman. Right.
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by johneth 5mo ago
> The people who control the capital are building autonomous armament to protect themselves against both foreign and domestic enemies. Rich people can build all the fortified bunkers they want, but they still need to get their food, wate
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Apple Faces £3B UK Trial over iCloud Lock-In Claims(macrumors.com)
11 points by johneth 5mo ago|2 comments
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by johneth 5mo ago
It may be incompetent malice.
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by johneth 6mo ago
> Anyway, there is no sense to listen to Trump. TACO is a thing. It's never a good idea to disregard something just because you want it to be true. Trump's done a lot of shit that he said he'd do (tariffs, capturing foreig
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by johneth 6mo ago
It's easy to cancel a direct debit / standing order from internet banking.
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by johneth 6mo ago
> Providing Internet to the entire world that's faster than fiber. Bullshit. You're not going to be faster than fiber from orbit, with congested bandwidth. > Providing space launch capability that's 1/10th what NAS
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by johneth 6mo ago
I would assume most sites that block access to your AI assistant do so because they want to show a human ads, i.e. not run at a loss. Seems reasonable.
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by johneth 6mo ago
> This is ultimately just going to give them training material for how to avoid this crap. > The arms race just took another step, and if you're spending money creating or hosting this kind of content, it's not going to make
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by johneth 6mo ago
> this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly Some of us want to write well thought-through code, rather than letting an AI just spew poorly thought-through unmaintainable shit.
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by johneth 7mo ago
Re: the design of the site. Please use higher contrast colours, especially the barely visible grey text on black background. It's annoying to try to read.
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by johneth 7mo ago
I think the county list is set in stone because Royal Mail refuses to update them (for some idiotic reason they still control the postcode database, which I guess lots of websites use and therefore use the old county names / boundaries
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by johneth 7mo ago
RFC 1738 was superseded by RFC 3986 (URIs) 19 years ago, and the URL Living Standard.
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by johneth 7mo ago
> Revolut works similarly. You don’t pay any fees on transfers to other Revolut accounts, but you do for other bank accounts. Does it? I'd be surprised if it does in the UK at least, as all banks do free transfers to every other ban
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by johneth 7mo ago
Or just use <input type="checkbox"> in the first place and save humans and machines a whole bunch of time.
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by johneth 7mo ago
The only downside I can think of is that links to your website that are shared on Facebook / WhatsApp / Messenger won't be able to show a rich preview because they won't be able to access the OpenGraph tags on the shared
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by johneth 8mo ago
Comments as short-sighted as this give me confidence in the future job security of people who actually know how to write software. > the gatekeeping has now been removed 'Gatekeeping' being 'knowing'... nobody was sto
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by johneth 8mo ago
It's a classic American worldview.
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by johneth 8mo ago
UK-India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_C... UK-EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93UK_Trade_and_Cooper...
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by johneth 8mo ago
As of a few days ago, yes: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/announcement-from-the-new-tiktok... Only TikTok in the U.S., though; everywhere else it's Bytedance still.
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by johneth 9mo ago
Is this only for companies within the EU or EFTA? I can't spot a single UK company listed, even though there are plenty that would fit.
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by johneth 9mo ago
Similar to Trump and MAGA, Reform UK's popularity relies on Farage's cult of personality. Without him, they're significantly less of a threat. He's not a young man (not as old as some, but not young), and he smokes and d
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by johneth 9mo ago
Palantir is a mediocre company staffed by mediocre people making mediocre products, owned by a mediocre person.
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by johneth 9mo ago
Or Europe dumps its considerable U.S. debt holdings, killing the U.S. economy.

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