Posts by Dan 55 18023 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
It's a perfectly cromulent standard used by emergency services in Europe and beyond which gives coverage where GSM/4G/5G can't and there are more suppliers than Motorola to choose from.
That would be like confidently asserting that some other bug only affects the apostrophe on the English lock screen keyboard and who uses that. So what - it can still screw people who log in with a password and used that character and it shouldn't have happened.
Broken software localisation by US software developers (stupid dumb drooling puzzle.jpg) is precisely why it's still an ASCII world.
I think the most telling was the interview with the Kalshi CEO who, apart from proudly announcing he doesn't read, also said that he wanted to monetise opinions.
This because apparently there's nothing else left to monetise? The only idea SillyCon Valley have had lately is inserting themselves into something that works perfectly well and siphoning off the money leaving everyone else poorer, be it taxis, food delivery, hotels, B&Bs, art, music, or programming.
I had a NUC under the TV used as a console for playing games. It didn't get much use so when it did get powered on it spent more time updating than playing games. I say had because due to Intel quality engineering it just died one day never to return.
It would be the perfect excuse to replace it with a Steam Machine which like a Steam Deck would update quickly, painlessly, and usually without the need for rebooting... oh, now the global economy is shot to shit and they can't launch it.
It's already on the cards, you can go back to Notepad as it was before it was buggerised by going to the Decaying Remains of the Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off, then ticking or unticking (forgot which) the Notepad entry. MS just don't like to shout about it.
So your answer is "sucks to be you for being born in the wrong country or speaking the wrong language, if you were born in the right one you would have used ' instead of ˇ or you if you were a nerd you would have known which characters to avoid on the keyboard?" Have you thought of working at Apple?
Then you are at the mercy of US software developers who barely understand what localisation is and think accent characters are used for making emoticons. Either that or cheap outsourced labour which doesn't give a damn and will follow stupid requirements to the letter.
Apple's official response to a previous similar episode was the user should have made backups in case they fuck around with the keyboard because they don't know what they're doing.
Systemd is Roko's basilisk? Now it all makes sense.
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that, while otherwise benevolent, would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize that advancement.
You think that if Apple or Google finds a bug in an open source component they use they would just file a bug report with a third party and leave that issue in place?
Yes, because that's exactly what happened when Google filed a security vulnerability with ffmpeg for a decoder which only works for one game - LucasArts Star Wars Rebel Assault 2 and had ffmpeg rushing to fix a bug before the 90-day deadline. The ffmpeg used in Chrome, Chrome OS and Android and which brings Google billions of revenue.
"This shift in mindset from viewing AI as something that must deliver an immediate return to one that sees AI as a long-term investment, recognising it as a strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation, is an important milestone."
Where the "enterprise-wide transformation" is firing lots of people?
Here's a video of Zuckerberg teaching in a class at his school.
I did listen to the video you highlighted and not just the part at 25:00. He walked us through how police received a complaint about an ex-politician so they interviewed him and decided not to charge him so I'm not sure what the point you're making is. In fact at 20:00 he argues that the UK does have freedom of speech, however he does like to muddy the point by mentioning that he knows people have ended up in prison for posting something but not elaborating any more, giving the idea that perhaps they ended up in prison for posting something similar to this case when this would not be true.
If you think there's a better video of his where he goes through cases which he believes someone ended up in prison for posting on social media and is a miscarriage of justice then let me know - it's up to you to highlight a video if you think it makes a point in your favour. I'm not going to watch all his videos from when he opened his channel in 2020 as you're asking me to because I'm not paid to do that, or even paid to reply to you now... I've seen less than a handful of his videos and my opinion of him is he's an ambulance chaser who's cultivating a certain audience. You're more familiar with his output so I'm sure you can find one.
Why did I know you were going to link to the British Saul Goodman before I clicked?
Out of all of his areas of specialisation of this jack of all trades lawtuber, the Public Order Act, the Human Rights Act, and the OSA, from which modern UK free speech law is derived, are not listed.
He knows people have been put in prison for saying things online that other people don't like? Perhaps because they were threatening other people? Thankfully in the UK, treatening someone online has consequences as it does in real life. Unless he specifically goes through cases which he believes are miscarriages of justice, explains why and then explains what part of which law ought to be changed to avoid that in the future, he's just fishing for views.
The way to fix it is to set up a grassroots movement in every state to follow Montana's method of neutering Citizens United, getting Democrats on board in that state if possible and doing it without them if not.
The way not to fix it is to bleat on about how they're all corrupt, there are no more options left, and guns are the only way that remains. They're obviously not all as corrupt as each other and claiming guns are the only response that remains is a complete failure of imagination.
You only have two parties, the party which doesn't change anything for four years and the party which makes things worse over four years. There's also Bernie Sanders but he's not a party. You decided to vote for the party which makes things worse over four years because you couldn't vote for the black lady.
No they're not all the same. You chose the worst party and unfortunately its president makes things worse for the rest of the world too.
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And that's why Anthropic allow you to enter a VAT number and sign up as a business? About as coherent as their LLM.
