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by phatfish 1y ago
I think it has improved significantly. For the last few years KDE has been great and getting more polished. The pain points are nothing worse than the crap Windows 11 throws at you. The only difference for the average person is that their g
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by phatfish 1y ago
"The stored data amounts to 858TB (terabytes), equivalent to 449.5 billion A4 sheets" Just so we can all visualise this in an understandable way, if laid end-to-end how many times round the world would the A4 sheets go? And what i
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by phatfish 1y ago
Depends which sort of government you live under obviously. Luckily in the UK we do have control over our government. If people got off the internet they might realise they have all the tools needed to make their country a better place.
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by phatfish 1y ago
Agreed, all the scaremongering is hilarious. As if a digital ID is what is going to be used to repress the common (wo)man. News flash, if your "liberal western government" wanted to they have more than enough tools to do it alread
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by phatfish 1y ago
As the parent said, you need proof of address to open a current account that can be used for day-to-day payments. A savings account you don't need proof of address but I think most will ask for your NI (social security) number. Some wi
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by phatfish 1y ago
Because Brexit was a hilarious foot-gun incident (for anyone outside the UK at least). It hasn't taken 700 years because ~5 years after Brexit really happened everyone just feels sorry for us. I assume the tariffs the parent is talking
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by phatfish 1y ago
The radical left are everywhere!
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by phatfish 1y ago
Yup, I find I hard to believe kids have suddenly discovered hacking in the last two years. It's either covertly state sponsored, or outsourcing everything to India is finally showing some results.
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by phatfish 1y ago
The hate speech laws are just badly written for the online age, which is a problem but they are not going to result in the fall of democracy. They are catching what would normally be bigoted comments someone makes to their mates down the pu
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by phatfish 1y ago
Most pensioners don't need financial help. The fuel allowed was introduced by Gordon Brown when they were the poorest cohort in the country. Now they are they amount the most well off. Pensioners that need it still get it. Strangely th
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by phatfish 1y ago
I'd love to know how this "march towards authoritarianism" actually manifests in the real world. Not just in the head space of podcast grifters and privacy nuts. I've lived in the UK my whole life. Multiple other countri
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by phatfish 1y ago
The accountability will be with the engineer that owns that code. The senior or manger that was responsible for allowing it to be created by AI will have made sure they are well removed. While an engineer is "it" they just have to
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by phatfish 1y ago
I guess you don't live in the UK, because winner takes all is far worse for backroom deals. The deals just end up being between factions within the same party! Deals and bargaining all happen AFTER a party takes power and completely hi
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by phatfish 1y ago
Countries that stop their young people being preyed upon by Meta/Google/X etc. will be kinder and more productive societies. It's a shame it won't be happening in the West any time soon.
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by phatfish 1y ago
> I wonder how the Jewish employees at Micro$oft don't quit en masse... I suspect the sensible ones are keeping a low profile and praying for it all to be over, much like the Palestinians (except they are starving in a wasteland not
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by phatfish 1y ago
Can a war of self defence turn into a war of aggression?
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by phatfish 1y ago
DYOR guy on the internet tells me something is bullshit. That's settled then.
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by phatfish 1y ago
Pretty sure the cost of helping Ukraine is pocket change compared to the rise in welfare payments since COVID and the "triple lock" to keep pensioners minted.
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by phatfish 1y ago
A Channel 4 documentary reckoned locked iPhones end up in Shenzhen. Because (according to someone they were interviewing) that is the only place that can deal with locked iPhones. People who's phones were stolen got pings from the Shen
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by phatfish 1y ago
Having watched colleagues land jobs where they had almost no experience in (what were apparently) key areas of the job description. I would advise to apply to anything that looks interesting to you, and fluff your CV. The job descriptions a
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by phatfish 1y ago
Hardly, the Indian government weaponises their diaspora in the same way China does.
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by phatfish 1y ago
Youtubers have armies of sycophants (check their video comments if you dare). Not saying they even court them, something to do with video building a stronger parasocial relationship than a text blog I think.
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by phatfish 1y ago
Probably because they would expose themselves legally? Not sure what the current situation is exactly, but I assume it's "at your own risk".
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by phatfish 1y ago
iOS is filled with UI junk at this point. Not having a consistent way to go back is the least of my problems when attempting to use my wife's iPhone. It is the most obvious though, having to tap right at the top left (usually) of the s
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by phatfish 1y ago
I am not a big social media user, to be honest it is too stressful. Minimal social interaction is fine for me, and I'm happy with the boundaries IRL social encounters create where you can walk away (politely at the end of course) and i
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by phatfish 1y ago
A slim chance of getting outed for watching porn is more important to UK males than enforcing an age gate to stop kids having unlimited access. This is all that shows.
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by phatfish 1y ago
No need to skim headlines, just skim his Twitter history. Perfect headline material from source.
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I don't code every day and am not an expert. Supposedly the sort of casual coder that LLMs are supposed to elevate into senior engineers. Even I can see they have big blind spots. As the parent said I get overly verbose code that does
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by phatfish 1y ago
Parents don't follow their child 24/7. Society has a responsibility too. There is also the possibility of minors not knowing what they are clicking or kids with shitty parents destroying your hard work. Another non-parent with an
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by phatfish 1y ago
It's "viral" marketing for progress-party.uk, if you play to the end there is a link to a Google doc to register your interest. The veiled racism and bigotry in the "sim" is cheap. The current housing situation may

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