mcfedr

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by mcfedr 23d ago
unfortunately this has become typical in Britain, no one can be trusted to have any responsibility or agency. its all systems with room for the real world
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
i did that, and really wish i bought something , mostly because i have like 4 hhds just lying in the bottom of the case
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
the EU has been creating testing frameworks, and the UK much as governments have tended to be slow in tech, they actually seem to be making some solid work on this front tech companies like Anthropic should be collaborating with these progr
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
they have been very clear they don't want to be the ones deciding
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
is it so hard to fathom that China whilst wanting to beat the US in many ways doesn't want a biological war to destroy the world?
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
you can say that about a lot of things, but we do largely trust parents. but all these social media bans seem to stem from parents who claim to be helpless, when really they are lazy and the wider impact of these laws is massive. no technic
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
it's very simpler, i recently got an android tablet for my child and it would take a lot of effort to miss all the stuff about setting it up for a child
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
if parents wont make the slightest bit of effort why should the rest of us pay to keep their children safe?
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
especially disappointing as there is valet parking at Gatwick that works exactly like that
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
its crazy its taken Java so long to realise this
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
its not the source though is it? its not like it's downloaded via the hdmi cable, it comes from Microsoft that offer the service of installing crap
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by mcfedr 2mo ago
well you can plug the same monitor into a mac and not have this issue.
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by mcfedr 3mo ago
they provide passports for travel, driving licences for driving, national insurance number for taxes, but its not a single id that everyone is required to have there is no point in it being open source if i cannot modify and run it
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by mcfedr 3mo ago
there is no single government id in the UK at the moment, they currently do not control my identity you specifically talked about an OS without user changeable software, thats the definition of open source
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by mcfedr 3mo ago
Which part of that is avoiding the distopian control? the very first line, government issued digital id - we have been avoiding that for a very long time how does this work on an open source operating system?
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by mcfedr 4mo ago
yes only writes y, not the whole word yes
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by mcfedr 4mo ago
whats the appeal of that kind of content? its objectively worse than real content, and its not like there is a shortage of real content
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by mcfedr 4mo ago
makes sense really, nothing this sensible is gonna happen under the current US administration
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by mcfedr 5mo ago
mostly people know if from windows i assume
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by mcfedr 6mo ago
I'm sure the copyright holders would consider your use of their content as direct financial damage
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by mcfedr 6mo ago
they mostly get elected to positions of great power i guess
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by mcfedr 6mo ago
AI sucks doesn't it
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by mcfedr 6mo ago
wait, are you saying a hospital that charges 60K for surgery is a charity? because it cheaper than other options or what?
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by mcfedr 6mo ago
the first words on the site - this is for American sites...
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by mcfedr 7mo ago
wow, look at me stuck in the world of freeciv (civ 2)
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by mcfedr 8mo ago
everything about this reads like an excuse from a team that doesnt want to admit they screwed up nitpicking at the RFCs when everyone knows DNS is a big old thing with lots going on how do they not have basic integration tests to check how
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by mcfedr 8mo ago
its pretty concerning that such a large organisation doesnt do any integration tests with their dns infrastructure
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by mcfedr 8mo ago
i like to think of LLMs as random number generators with a filter
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by mcfedr 1y ago
Quality of the rails makes a big difference, take the train from Ukraine to Poland and it's suddenly super smooth once you cross over into the EU
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by mcfedr 1y ago
Choose is a strange word here. There is an algorithm that calculates the color.

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