I doubt it’d raise that much (the article states £1.72bn), as there seems to be an assumption increasing the tax wouldn’t lead to a reduction in SUVs, and that everyone would just absorb the cost.
However, I still say go ahead! Even if it only raises a quarter of that, that’s still money coming in, and it means fewer SUVs on our roads. That’s a win-win.
The Adwaita team, and a bunch of devs that make Adwaita apps explicitly said that theming their apps is fine, they simply asked for users who theme their apps not to submit bug reports that are actually just theming issues.
There’s nothing worse than spending hours and hours trying to replicate or resolve a bug, only to find out it’s because the user installed an anime girl theme that’s caused some issue.
Those devs were completely right to put out that request, and I think it’s wrong that they received a lot of hate for it.
They are open source devs, donating their time to give you software for free. Is it really that bad they politely ask not to receive time-wasting bug reports for things that they never broke in the first place?
The difference is that Google decided this was a task best suited for their LLM.
If someone seeked out an LLM specifically for this question, and Google didn’t market their LLM as an assistant that you can ask questions, you’d have a point.
But that’s not the case, so alas, you do not have a point.
Yes, it. It’s not a person. Were you expecting me to call it anything else?
The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.
Ding ding ding.
It’s so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.
“Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!”, with no thought put into what user problems it actually solves.
It’s the same as web results in the Windows start menu. “Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn’t that great? Look at that engagement!”, completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.
Line on chart must go up!
You aren’t wrong about why it happens, but that’s irrelevant to the end user.
The result is that it can give some hilariously incorrect responses at times, and therefore it’s not a reliable means of information.
He knew it would be removed, and wanted it to be.
That’s why, instead of spraying it on a random wall like usual, where it would’ve likely been left alone, he purposely chose a grade 1 listed building, where it legally must be removed.
Grade 1 listed buildings are very protected, you even have to use period-correct ingredients in the paint when you’re doing maintenance, that’s how serious about preservation the laws are.
It’s a quite dishonest, because the implication from headlines is of course going to be that it’s a government attempt to silence him, but it’s certainly an effective strategy for advertising your work and raising your profile.
They didn’t try to remove 32-bit support. One Fedora contributor floated it as an idea, and the press/comment sections went wild.
The only reason I’m still on Spotify is that I can pay like £2.20 to be in someone’s family.
But the incessant push towards podcasts bugs me. When I’m driving, I shouldn’t have to scroll through 5+ pages to finally get to the music section. That shit is dangerous.
As soon as Spotify inevitably enforces that families have to be the same household, as so many other streaming services have done before it, I’m gone.
Already watched it when it came out, I guess I’ll play it in the background while I work, muted, to help the algorithm.
I enjoy using Jellyfin and hope it continues to improve, but it has some problematic security of its own.
Honestly the whole Rayner thing has been very frustrating.
Woman who is not a financial expert or housing solicitor engages the services of a housing solicitor to sort out a house sale (as 90%+ of people do in the UK), then follows their expert advice on what to do throughout the process.
She later finds out that some of the advice given may have been incorrect, and immediately refers herself for investigation.
Investigation says the advice she received was likely incorrect, and that she owes tax. She pays the tax.
Media and right wing agitators, many of whom have purposely avoided tax, go apeshit, forcing her to resign.
What a joke. We had an ex Conservative chancellor who dodged tax, didn’t refer himself for investigation, then threatened to sue any journalists who talked about it. The media stopped talking about it after a few days. Total two-tier journalism.
Tories/Reform can do no wrong, Labour can do no right.
When I got my mortgage, there was so much paperwork, outdated processes, legalese, etc. when my solicitor said to do XYZ, I did it. If they advised me incorrectly, I’d also have had no way of knowing.
Why would you assume local papers in England are awful and the ones in Wales and Scotland are better?
There’s a great deal of romanticism about Scotland and Wales, but they’re culturally virtually identical to England. The only major thematic difference you’re likely to see from local papers from those three home nations is if you’re reading a Scottish nationalist one.
This feels more like politics news than technology news. Sure it’s done over social media/messaging apps, but so are plenty of things that I wouldn’t really call technology news.
I’m somewhat surprised that boys are at a much greater risk of online sexual exploitation than girls, though.
You think any and all instances of a country’s flag being flown means the person who put it up is racist? That seems like a bit of an extreme opinion.
Where I am, I see plenty of Scotland/Northumberland/Ukraine flags, interspersed with the occasional UK, England, and Palestine flag. Are all of these people who raised these flags racist/bigoted?
Do you think your bank serving your data/account access to someone that isn’t you would be acceptable?
After all, their servers are just serving data, therefore they’re correctly doing their job, right?
I mean some of them have been good. I actually really like the offline translation, for example. No more sending data to Google Translate servers is a genuine privacy win.
There’s also been some better screen reader support integrated because of it, and my sister loves it, she just wants it to be expanded further.
Yes, there’s also the LLM integration, which I’m… less enthused by, to say the least.
But at least it’s optional and can be tied into local models if you wish. Plus there’s the factor of new normie users testing out Firefox and going “it doesn’t have a gpt bot? Pfft I’m going back to Chrome, Firefox is so far behind” to contend with. If the market decides it wants that feature, then Mozilla can’t really ignore it.
I had issues with his trying out Linux series, but that is not one of them, and I’m tired of seeing him be shat on because of it.
Firstly, he was trying to install Steam via instructions he found on PopOS’s website. Even if he did do something stupid (and I would argue he didn’t really), it is not the fault of the end user that doing that can completely fuck your install. It should not be possible to do that, yet it was due to a PopOS packaging error.
Yes, he did receive a generic warning about how by proceeding to attempt this installation, he could cause damage. Hidden in a wall of text of hundreds of package names.
But do you know what else has scary messages like that? Android. Windows. MacOS. A whole host of smart devices. Any new user could easily think that message was normal and would appear any time you try to install something via the terminal.
End users are used to seeing scary messages like that, and they’ve become numb to them. Deflecting criticism of that PopOS bug by saying “well there was a warning, so actually it’s the end users that are idiots and PopOS/Linux is actually perfect” doesn’t help anybody.
Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.
Like…
It’s actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they’ve still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.