Posts by Dan 55 15447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
We won't be getting a KITT, we'll be getting a KARR:
Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
In the same way that Sadnad threw out the Trustworthy Computing group because it put the brakes on software development, looks like he's decided to throw out ethics people because there's a bubble to ride.
Watch a new Windows feature be announced with great fanfare a year from now which has all those things you mention and several security holes you could drive a bus through so the end result is the exactly same thing as the present day Net Send but 5000 times more bloated.
Think you're back to front in this, RIPA was in 2000, the WTC attack was in 2001, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive was in 2002, and the UK got a wrist slap for some aspects of RIPA by the ECHR.
We could ask New Zealand:
Facebook finally responds to New Zealand on Christchurch attack - social media's fault.
Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later - social media's fault.
A Year Later, Christchurch Attack Videos Still on Facebook - social media's fault.
They don't say anything, the person causing the inconvenience just vanishes.
When it's appeared when I use DDG, it's just clippy saying "Hey, it looks like you're searching the Internet, shall I open the Wikipedia page for that?"
I'd link to The Register's clippy video but I can't find it, so here's another.
Seems like you really need to be careful of the results, because the expression evaluator isn't really like Python's.
Windows calculator actually does phone home. I think it's just a data fetish at this point.
About food imports, if the UK were still party to single market agreements it could do something about substandard food. As it is, the whole of the EU knows that the substandard stuff can be dumped on the UK which now has no in-market controls or legal remedies and has chosen to waive import controls to avoid slowing down the supply chain even more. Before this food would probably have been destroyed.
brain in a box
Suddenly had a flashback to Tales Of The Unexpected - 'William and Mary'. I wasn't traumatised by this at all, oh no.
Are you sure there's an account recovery mechanism on Signal? If you mean setting a PIN so other people can't register using your phone number, they don't store your phone number to do that.
You could, if you wanted, register Signal using another phone number.
So making left wing policies for different reasons make them right wing? Okay.
Different parties with different places on the political spectrum can have have the same policy for different reasons, yes.
Regarding the medical cannabis, thousands of people are now using it as it is possible to get a private prescription
That is right, and using the law to carve out a new market just for the private sector is definitely not a classic left-wing policy.
The linked FT "study" is simply bollocks, as they are just parroting the WEF narrative
... and yeah, I can tell this is going to be a productive thread. I'll get off here if you don't mind.
The small business thing is easy to understand. The Tories' biggest donors are now from the financial sector, they want tax cuts and fewer regulations and that's what they get. The welfare state is sacrificed, small business is taxed to make up the difference. That is not left-wing.
The things you list that you claim communists are over the moon about are also things that authoritarians are over the moon about.
In practice it is impossible to get an NHS prescription for cannabis. It seems to have been a law made for just for two children who needed it in 2018 to get the public off the government's back, since then the NHS won't fund or prescribe it.
Finally same-sex marriage was passed into law relatively late compared to neighbouring countries and opposite-sex couples couldn't even enter into a civil partnership until 2019. It took a long time for the UK to allow something as common sense as civil partnerships and marriage for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Nothing particularly left-wing about that.
When Truss had her mayfly-like premiership an FT study found this:
Study names Tories as ‘most right-wing government’ in the world
Since then the Tories have inched back, but only because they realised they were boiling the frog a little too quickly.
Okay, if the concept which proved useful for both MacOS and Linux users is not no-root installations after all, you'd still need to set up a /home/linuxbrew directory on Linux which in most distributions would require a password to create the new linuxbrew user. It's not e.g. ~/.linuxbrew which would not require a password.
Homebrew was originally built for macOS, but the concept proved useful for Linux users, too. Either you may not have root access to the machine – or even if you do, that may only let you install ancient versions which aren't much help, but you can't readily update.
Installing Homebrew outside of /usr/local is not officially supported and Apple removed permissions to access /usr/local for non-root users years ago. Then a few years later they removed root. In short, on a Mac, no user installation for you - you need the admin password at least once.
"You may have a little bit of comfort in saying that I'll work three days a week, you may get a little bit more money by moonlighting."
He seems to think turning up to the office three days a week means working three days a week, WFH means not working, and the time employees spend WFH for his company is actually time they spend freelancing for other companies. He seems a bit confused.
There is also the Wartime Broadcasting Service. In the true spirit of pointless secrecy so beloved of the UK, whether it actually works or not is a secret.
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