johneth

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by johneth 9mo ago
I wonder if any of these people are proud of the work they do.
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by johneth 9mo ago
> I imagine many of their privately held beliefs are just as horrible but they’re not dumb enough to say them publicly. Why would you support a company run by someone stupid enough to say their polarising beliefs publicly? It doesn'
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by johneth 9mo ago
It makes sexual images of real people without their consent. That's what's breaking the law.
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by johneth 9mo ago
It's nonconsensual generation of sexual content of real people that is breaking the law. And things like CSAM generation which is obviously illegal. > It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us. Welcome to the rest
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Octopus Energy to sell stake in software spin-off Kraken at $8.65B valuation(theguardian.com)
5 points by johneth 9mo ago|0 comments
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by johneth 10mo ago
When you start a subscription, you're agreeing to pay X amount every Y period of time; you're not starting a new agreement every single Y period of time.
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by johneth 10mo ago
I'm sure people who can afford to run virtual desktops in the cloud can also afford a phone/laptop/desktop to access sites that block those virtual desktops in the cloud.
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by johneth 10mo ago
I think, for many, the web should be free for humans . When scraping was mainly used to build things like search indexes which are ultimately mutually beneficial to both the website owner and the search engine, and the scrapers were not ab
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by johneth 10mo ago
> Hulu and Disney Plus have taken centuries in this endeavor. Only in the US. Everywhere else Hulu has always been integrated into Disney+).
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by johneth 10mo ago
This is where a quick "kindly fuck off" response would save a lot of time for everyone involved.
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by johneth 11mo ago
Better if nobody buys it.
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by johneth 11mo ago
> That is standard practice. It's standard practice for commercially-sponsored software, and it doesn't necessarily fit volunteer maintained software. You can't have the same expectations.
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by johneth 11mo ago
I didn't say it was. I understand that profit = revenue - cost. I said they're profiting from other people's hard work, a separate concept.
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by johneth 11mo ago
If you boil it down to the AI companies are making money (subscriptions, etc.) based on content they did not pay to produce, then they are profiting from someone else's hard work.
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by johneth 11mo ago
He either doesn't know who he is, in which case why is he pardoning him, or he does know who he is, in which case he's brazenly lying. Or he's so dementia ridden that he did know who he was, but no longer, in which case why i
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by johneth 11mo ago
NATS is also half-owned by the UK government + they have a golden share.
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by johneth 11mo ago
Why build a synthetic data Wikipedia when Wikipedia exists? Except to push some political point like Grokipedia seems to be for.
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by johneth 1y ago
It's good that all of those things are definitely not prone to massive bubbles.
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by johneth 1y ago
It's an interesting idea, but how would you actually calculate that value? It seems to border on impossible.
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by johneth 1y ago
Luckily Larry Ellison is 81, so he's got a limited window in which to do too much damage.
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Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release(news.sky.com)
74 points by johneth 1y ago|36 comments
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by johneth 1y ago
It's not worth anyone's time to meticulously fact check known (and I'm being kind here) 'exaggerator' Sam Altman, because by the time you're done, he's already spread 10 more 'exaggerations'.
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by johneth 1y ago
Just FYI: I got a modal in Chrome asking "Did you mean opensource.google? Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making hard-to-see changes to the web address." I'm sure there's nothing you can do about it, but thought you m
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by johneth 1y ago
> It's discriminatory against robots That's the entire point.
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by johneth 1y ago
Well done on pointing out exactly what everyone here is saying in the most arrogant way possible. Also, well done on linking to your own comment where people explain this to you. The problem is that there is no way to "block me if you
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by johneth 1y ago
> It’s difficult to verify that because Yoti is privately held and its backers are secret. You can see some of these things on Companies House. This is Yoti Holding Ltd., but you'd have to look at its subsidiaries, too: https:&#x2F
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by johneth 1y ago
Also on the CMA's blog: https://competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/23/cma-pro...
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UK competition watchdog to act over Apple and Google's mobile platforms(theguardian.com)
2 points by johneth 1y ago|1 comments
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by johneth 1y ago
16-year-olds do pay into the system. Some may have jobs or apprenticeships that pay them, for which they're directly taxed. Some may have started their own business, which will pay tax. All will pay VAT when they buy products and servi
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Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election(bbc.co.uk)
46 points by johneth 1y ago|158 comments

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