thehatfox
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- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 days ago:
That’s a gross assumption that people care about any of this.
For any form of federated community to be sustainable, its users have to care about that. Otherwise those communities will eventually be consumed by whichever instance gains the critical mass to close itself off and become another Twitter or Reddit.
To achieve the benefits of federation, users must be educated on principles of federation, not be obfuscated from them. The question is how the Fediverse can do that.
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- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
I expect (at least) one party will eventually adopt Rejoin as a distinguishing policy, and maybe sooner rather later.
But the appetite for Rejoin will probably depend on the shape of the UK economy and the political direction of the EU in 10+ years. If the Starmer project really has been delivering tangible growth by then, people may feel Brexit has (inadvertently) “worked” in the end. If the EU achieves greater and greater integration in the UK’s absence it may seem less palatable to enough voters.
Both of those are also going to be influenced by external factors like the direction of a possible Trump second term, the outcome of the war in Ukraine etc.
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- Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax reliefwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
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- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 1 month ago:
So I’ve heard they have already switched eBay in Germany to this no-fee system. It proved more profitable for eBay because private sellers who accrue an eBay balance from sales were in turn more likely to spend it on eBay.
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- Comment on A Next Generation Approach to Heating and Cooling Buildings 1 month ago:
Presumably this adds more cost and complexity to buying and installing appliances though if they have to integrate into these systems, which I’m guessing aren’t currently well standardised.
It’s an interesting idea nonetheless. I’ve heard of other projects using excess heat from large data centres to provide energy for district heating systems.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 1 month ago:
The current population of the UK is somewhere around 68 million.
Thats enough people that you could probably find “dozens” who would say yes to just about anything.
- Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about itwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling 1 month ago:
We are going to need much stronger image rights for individuals in the AI age.
There’s no way to stop the technology itself (although current development may plateau at some point), so there must be strong legal restrictions on abusing it.
- Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I don’t think Mozilla running a Mastodon server is losing focus. The ethos of Mozilla and the Fediverse have a lot of overlap, and Mozilla should desire to have a foot in it.
An official Mastodon server is also a useful platform for marketing and outreach. In contrast an organisation claiming to be all about privacy and open source retreating from a social media platform that embodies those is not a good look.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
High energy bills and misinformation about energy saving seems to be causing some odd behaviour here in the UK.
I have relatives who go round turning off every device and appliance at night, despite the negligible power draw they have in standby. Another will only charge their phone at night during cheaper the electricity rate - but runs the tumble dryer during the day.
I also often hear stories about people fearing electronic devices will catch fire if left on standby over night. Which may well be a risk for charging a dodgy Chinese e-bike but probably not for a home router.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
I think the difference here is that medical reference material is based on long process of proven research. It can be trusted as a reliable source of information.
AI tools however are so new they haven’t faced anything like the same level of scrutiny. For now they can’t be considered reliable, and their use should be kept within proper medical trials until we understand them better.
Yes human error will also always be an issue, but putting that on top of the currently shaky foundations of AI only compounds the problem.
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- Comment on Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast! 2 months ago:
They are more comfortable than they look. The lack of a second analogue stick is a big limitation though.
- Comment on Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast! 2 months ago:
There was a prototype VMU MP3 player in the works before the Dreamcast was discontinued, alongside a music store.
Sega also produced a digital camera for the Dreamcast, the DreamEye.
The tech world could have looked very different if the Dreamcast went differently for Sega.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
The P and D symbol is the DisplayPort logo. I’m not sure when it was first used, but the DisplayPort standard itself is quite a bit older than USB Power Delivery.
It’s still confusing though regardless of which can lay the best claim to the letters P and D. I would have suggested Power Delivery could use some sort of lightning bolt symbol, but then I realised that would probably conflict with Thunderbolt, which also uses USB-C.
It’s almost as if having all these different features would be easier to differentiate if they had different physical shapes.
- Comment on Term-time holiday fine rise won't stop us, say parents 2 months ago:
Having a holiday threshold sounds like a good idea. Allow a set amount of days and fine beyond that to discourage excessive absence.
So long as it’s not during exams or something I can’t see the harm in allowing a 1-2 week holiday a year. It would be much fairer and more flexible for families, and less complicated than things like different areas having staggered term dates
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- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 2 months ago:
It’s nearly the same for me, depending on what offers Dominos have that week.
We tend to mostly get Chinese takeaways now because it comes out at almost the same price as fish and chips but with a lot more variety. Even just a portion of chips from the chippy is pricey now.
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- Comment on Hundreds of Brits used website to look for ‘suicide partner’ 2 months ago:
Reducing suicide is always approached as trying to black pathways to death, rather than by improving life.
As always with this country it’s putting a plaster over the symptoms rather than addressing the cause.