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Apple Faces £3B UK Trial over iCloud Lock-In Claims

macrumors.com
11 points·by johneth·2 miesiące temu·2 comments

Octopus Energy to sell stake in software spin-off Kraken at $8.65B valuation

theguardian.com
5 points·by johneth·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release

news.sky.com
74 points·by johneth·10 miesięcy temu·36 comments

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johneth
·7 dni temu·discuss
> If you go in with the assumption that democracy does not work, then there is also no point in protesting

You mean peaceful protesting. There are other kinds of protesting that may have better success.
johneth
·8 dni temu·discuss
> i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality

It's called being out-of-touch obscenely wealthy coupled with a massive ego.
johneth
·15 dni temu·discuss
It is extremely difficult for me to care about the fate of private schools. In my opinion, they shouldn't exist. If the rich are forced to send their children to the same schools as everyone else, maybe they'll pressure the government to improve said schools.
johneth
·19 dni temu·discuss
Out of pure curiosity, which UK bank was it?
johneth
·21 dni temu·discuss
I think "over-18" posts on X within the feed are hidden behind a "please verify your age" button if you've not verified your age (in UK and parts of EU, probably Australia too). They're intermixed with non-hidden posts.

X lets post authors mark their content as NSFW, and I'd assume they're doing some sort of algorithmic checking or making use of user reports of content to classify content too, to varying degrees of success. It's definitely subject to the whims of the platform owner, given the sheer amount of racism, sexism, and porn that isn't marked.

My account is >18 years old so it never showed up for me (it just used the account age to determine I'm old enough), so I'm going by what others have said.
johneth
·24 dni temu·discuss
Completely ignoring all the ways in which space data centers are fucking infeasible for a moment.

Just because there are no laws in space, you still need to launch your rockets from a place that has laws.
johneth
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I've just been implementing a bunch of URL-related utility functions in Go. Decided the most pragmatic solution of handling IPv6 addresses in URL hosts is to outright reject zone identifiers because of the ambiguity in how to parse / serialize them, and the inconsistent ways others have done it (or most of the time, not done it).

RFC 3986 says "This syntax does not support IPv6 scoped addressing zone identifiers." Makes sense because '%' is a reserved character for percent encoding (hence the %25 that Go's net/url expects).

The URL Standard explicitly states "Support for <zone_id> is intentionally omitted."
johneth
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The stock market is not about future results, it's about gambling, especially over the last decade.
johneth
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
If you buy the "AI DCs in space" pitch, you deserve to be parted from your money.
johneth
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
All good points, but I think their main point of poor governance is still the pure motivation.
johneth
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
You can change the audio track back to the original.

Not sure if it remembers your preference, though, so if it doesn't that probably grates.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Why is it their job to evaluate a 1m+ line code rewrite?
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
All it takes is one determined journalist running experiments, or one whistleblower inside the company exposing these systems.

Plus, you'd have to offer this service somehow, meaning you'd have to describe it to potential customers... just another bunch of people you'd have to swear to perpetual secrecy.

I'm not denying it could (or even will) happen, though. Anything for a buck for these companies.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some sort of legal action against Google, the monopoly, to make the distinction in how their crawlers use scraped content.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
That's almost certainly illegal in many jurisdictions, and they'd definitely not be able to hide that they're doing it indefinitely. A sure way to be massively sued.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
A lot of the time they hallucinate the sources, too.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Are you forgetting that you need to launch from one of those "suffocating regulatory states"?
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
So it's a lot less dumb if 50 really difficult and borderline physically impossible things happen. On the word of a conman. Right.
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> The people who control the capital are building autonomous armament to protect themselves against both foreign and domestic enemies.

Rich people can build all the fortified bunkers they want, but they still need to get their food, water, and air from somewhere. It would be very easy to cut them off or smoke them out.

(I'm not advocating for violence in any way, I'm just pointing out that nobody's invincible, no matter how obscenely wealthy they are).
johneth
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
It may be incompetent malice.