It certainly looks that way from the outside. After all, what has Assange done to justify a "supermax" prison. Surely that's where they put the violently dangerous people and/or those who have attempted to escape. I don't see Assange in either of those categories (bail jumping notwithstanding, that's not the same thing)
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US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo
OpenUK's latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption
Re: A company's commitment to participating ... would be much more prevalent
This! That vast majority of businesses are small. They likely don't have on-prem IT support at all, let alone anyone doing dev work that could contribute back. Almost all of them will be simple users/consumers of software. And even then, it's likely just some applications programmes which either does what they need "out of the box" or which they can can work around by changing their processes to match the software rather than customising the software to work the way they would like it to work.
YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds
"unless there's some common overlap between those interests among other YouTubers I don't understand what the algorithm is doing."
Could Youtube be going through the same keyword stuffing that search engines had to deal with and overcome years ago? Maybe they'll eventually spot that and "learn lessons"?
Or maybe bots "watching" the uploaders videos every 5th or 6th run with randomly selected ones between, gaming the "viewer also watched" part of the algorithm
Re: So, that's GitHub Copilot & YouTube recommendations..
The problem there is that so called AI can barely handle the text and context, let alone the subtext.
As for proper textual and contextual descriptions of the videos, relying on that from the users/uploaders is just asking for trouble. People will game the systems with lots of irrelevant keywords, just like used to happen with web sites. Your solution would require Youtube/Google to identify, with reliability, speech on the video. If you've ever used the auto-generated subtitle option in the same language as the recording, you'll know just how very poor that can be, even with their home language of "American English" and it's various accents, dialects and local/personal foibles. Give someone speaking English in local British accent, and it gets even worse. Using speech recognition as the source for a translation is often downright hilarious. And don't tell me that all they need is more source material. They already have more then enough. Same goes for computing power. What they are lacking is any actual AI or decent ML.
Re: You don't say
"I'd love Youtube to stop repeatedly recommending videos I'VE ALREADY WATCHED."
Maybe that's YouTube/Alphabets way of pretending they don't track you when you turn off history and all the other tracking options?
Additionally, I'm not signed in, despite their constant exhortations to set up an account.
Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine
Online shopping.
So, with all these 3D engines, some free to use, why can't I do my online supermarket shop in a gaming environment where I can push my trolley up and own the aisles browsing for my goods instead of horrible lists in awkward formats surrounded by "other customers also bought...", "other customers also looked at..." and "look at this totally unrelated special offer, 1p off!!!!"
Paris. because she has a questioning icon.
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
Re: There are two possibilities on how it turns out.
"The gullible media have been played and are promoting this cash grab like it's a genuine court case."
Only the Trump supporting media are behaving like that. All the other media have immediately pounced on the truth and pointed out that there is almost zero probability of it reaching court (other than for a formal dismissal)
Microsoft struggles to wake from PrintNightmare: Latest print spooler patch can be bypassed, researchers say
"That's a worrying, and dangerous, view of the thinking of whoever was responsible for fixing it. That's not how you patch a major worldwide security problem, not even on an emergency rapid scale."
It almost sounds as if it might be old code and there's no one left there that actually know how it works any more.
Hoe yes he did: IT pro record-botherer balances garden tool on his head for 2.5 hours
The black screen of BIOS borkage haunts Space Shuttle Discovery's new home
Kepler spots four rogue Earth-mass exoplanets floating in space, unbound to any star
Re: Spending eternity roaming space
"In any case, I think it is quite frightening to imagine that there are scores of planets out there that are just roaming around, not bound to a star."
So, potentially lots of planets out there with no accompanying stars? That could be a lot of matter out there in the dark.
Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad redaction
Re: The old tricks
Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland
"Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.
The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces, researchers said.
Re: The old tricks
...and the bean counters decide who goes, sometimes leaving the company with a complete lack of support for some older products that only the "old fogies" remember. Any organisation the size of IBM is certainly still relying on code that was written many years ago and will almost certainly need support as new systems are interfaced to it.
Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Laptop option on the way for ortholinear keyboard hipsters in form of MNT Reform add-on
Re: Innovation is essential
"It's the same reason that keeps me from trying those ergonomic, split-in-half keyboards with that entirely different layout. Or the Dvorak layout. I just can't be bothered to spend a few years getting used to an entirely new key disposition."
The other show stopper for me is that I use more than one keyboard. Work laptop, home desktop and laptop, and all the other devices with standard QWERTY layouts. It can be bad enough at times just switching between standard layout keyboards with different pitch and rake, or flat laptop and raked, full key travel desktop. Not to mention the different layouts of "special" keys.
The original Commodore PET was the first ready-to-use home computer, the Sharp copied the form factor.
And on the note of ergonomics, the offset keyboard is better IMHO because from the home keys you can easily reach the two above and the two below with minimal finger movement. With a "straight" keyboard, you can reach one key above and one below marginally easier, but the keys to side involve much more lateral movement. The finger joint doing all the aiming work is a ball joint, so using offset keys is more natural.
I'm just surprised they didn;t decide to go for broke and get rid of the whole QWERTY[1] idea at the same time!
[1] Other language specific QWERTY-alike layouts are available.
Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features
Re: Hindenburg
Maybe they thought it a good idea because not was it before they were born, but quite probably before their parents were born. It's "just" history. For those of us a bit older, it still feels wrong, maybe because we are closer to it time/generations.
After all, there are increasingly large numbers of people in the UK celebrating the terrorist uprising in the colonies back in the 1770's :-)
British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away
Re: No admission of liability
Especially since, in this case, they've paid out over £30m. That's not a "lets just pay up and make it go away" amount that would save on the time of going to court expecting to win. That's most definitely (IMHO) a "lets see how little we can settle for because we WILL lose in court and it will cost a shitload more, plus costs"
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
Now everyone can take in the sights and smells of a London tram station shut for 70 years
As a one off, ie it's not a museum, what are they going to spend it on? And how do you know that people with a real interest can afford it? Maybe people who worked there or on the system and now have only a state pension to live on might like to go too? Sorry if you think capitalism and supply and demand are the only options.
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs break out of nuclear hellscape home and into people's hearts
The wheels come off Formula 1's notification service as fans plied with attacker's messages
Arm chief hits out at 'ill-informed speculation' over proposed Nvidia buyout
Things that needn't be said: Don't plonk a massive Starlink dish on the hood of your car
Not for children: Audacity fans drop the f-bomb after privacy agreement changes
Re: Strike three
...and as of this posting time, it's the lead story in the BBC News Tech section. That's probably about as mainstream as it's likely to get.
Re: law enforcement and data sharing provisions are absolutely standard and reasonable
It makes me wonder if future plans might include looking at what files you are working on, just in case there might be some copyright infringement. Maybe the RIAA and their ilk are behind this? </tinfoil hat mode>
Re: Depressing
"The telemetry in particular can be used to see which features of the software are popular (and therefore should be optimised, and have a priority for bug fixes etc.) and which features can be dropped."
Dropping the least used features is often what turns a great piece of software into a plain vanilla clone of all the others out there. I've lost count of the number of times over the years that I've dumped software for something different because the original one "lost" the one or more features I needed.
Yes, if features aren't used by many, then they are less important to the majority so if dev time is limited, dropping support might be the only option. But ONLY if that option requires time to keep it working after other changes have been made. After all, it's "free" to the end user, so if a dev has no time to make function X work in the latest version, who am I to complain? On the other hand, I also have the choice to move on to something that DOES support function X that I want to use.
One good deed leads to a storm in an Exchange Server
Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before
New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional
Re: Reading between the lines of recruitment bullshit
"The recruiter - generally - has no idea of the difference between backend and frontend tools, and doesn't care, as long as they get their commission."
It's said that a good salesman can sell anything. Well, yes and no. A "good" salesman will thoroughly research the product before becoming a great salesman. And then do it again for the next product. Recruiters are the same. A "good" recruiter will at least know what the skills are for and will keep up to date on new skills requirements. But, like most salesman, most recruiters are just commission oriented sloggers who think a flash car, red braces, a shiny buttoned blazer and the gift of the gab are all you need to make it big.
Google has second thoughts about cutting cookies, so serves up CHIPs
Re: CMA
"Google should not be allowed to do business in the UK until they:"
Have you any idea how many schools rely on Chromebooks and Google services these days? That's just one example of Googles "too big to fail" power they have these days. You can't just say "ban Google until they change" any more. That ship sailed long ago.
Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race
Re: Is it just me...
"Masten Space Systems rockets Xombie, Xoie and Brutus were Lox/IPA."
IPA? Did Masten Space Systems think The Makeshift Rocket by Poul Anderson was an instruction manual?
Re: Third base
On the other hand, a stripped down starship could easily get to orbit with a lot of spare space inside. Considering the planned use as a shuttle to Mars, it can clearly get to orbit with quite a payload mass. I wonder if said mass would be enough to launch a fully operational space station? Launch a 6-way docking adaptor, permanently dock four Starship "space stations" in a cross configuration and leach two docking ports for a "lifeboat" and visiting craft on the other axis. Possibly even rotate it for some level of artificial "gravity". 1950/60's SciFi, here we come :-)
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