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- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 4 days ago:
Is normally unknown due to not knowing the person though. Using “they” with someone known to you feels rude. As if you’re saying “I don’t include Grace in my circle, so I use “they” to keep them distant”.
It really sticks in the throat.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 4 days ago:
“you” isn’t a pronoun at all.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 4 days ago:
At least the trend of putting “AI” in product names should stop.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 4 days ago:
Even then, which is much better than the cloud models, most people seem to be as Dell said. They are not buying AI.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 4 days ago:
Oh no!
Anyway…
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 4 days ago:
Using AI gets you fired.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
…and how show I access this cloud compute? Stick my fingers into a network socket and wiggle them?
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 5 days ago:
How to disable Copilot
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 5 days ago:
From the BBC article:
The Liberal Democrats said the policy was “doomed to failure” from the start and called for “the billions of pounds earmarked for their mandatory digital ID scheme” to be spent “on the NHS and frontline policing instead”.
Damn right. We want our money spent on something useful.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 5 days ago:
I can’t read the full article, but it says it’ll be optional. That sounds like they’re still wanting to develop it, spend the money, and then say “well now we’ve got it, it would be silly not to use it!”
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 1 week ago:
Sad fact is, very little government policy appears to be driven by the values of those voted in. It’s just bandwagons and financials.
- Comment on Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m just not sure the two use cases meld very well. Mastodon tends to be “reply and fly”, whereas Lemmy can get into discussions.
I don’t know why that is. Maybe it’s the twitter character limit that’s been baked into people even though it’s not a thing on mastodon (might depend on instance).
- Comment on Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 1 week ago:
For a long time it was just a software implementation of OpenGL. It’s grown into a completely different beast.
Talk about feature creep!
- Comment on Blue could have been a warmest color 2 weeks ago:
Can we agree it’s not orange? That is what I was originally pointing out.
- Comment on Blue could have been a warmest color 2 weeks ago:
White light is light that contains all visible wavelengths at the roughly the same proportions.
The key word there is “visible”. Our eyes adapted to the spectra of our star when filtered by our atmosphere. We perceive that spectra as white.
- Comment on Blue could have been a warmest color 2 weeks ago:
The sun is, by definition, white. White is what we call it when an object reflects all spectra of sunlight.
It’s only at sunrise / sunset when the atmosphere filters out more of the blue spectrum that it apparently turns more orange/red.
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 2 weeks ago:
One of the biggest examples of equality Vs equity there is, and how the Blair government picked the wrong one. A university education was a dividing line in society they said. It was something only available to a select few. Everyone should benefit from a university education.
Thing is, apart from Oxbridge, the dividing line was never about race, sex or class. It was about academic ability. If you had the grades, you could come from anywhere (Equality). Now, there was a problem with high schools and sixth-form colleges not being as good in certain areas, but that wasn’t a problem with the universities. Many even tried to take such factors into account during admissions. If they’d solved the school education issue instead it would have been a fair system (again, apart from Oxbridge).
…but Blair felt that everyone should go to university. So they pushed up the intake numbers, converted all the polytechnics into universities (blowing away further education for less academic people) and turned the now unsustainable grant into loans.
End result: 20 years down the road and the bachelors degree is now largely worthless in hiring circles because everybody has one, and the masters degree is going the same way.
Qualifications are meant to give prospective employers information about people’s strengths. Now everyone appears the same on paper (Yay… Equity!) and the qualifications have lost their reason to exist.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 2 weeks ago:
No. Just Oracle crap.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 2 weeks ago:
Manatees aren’t the only ones.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 2 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.
- Comment on Darth Vader was NOT a bad person 2 weeks ago:
…and yet the death of Qui-Gon is meant to be the event that set Anakin’s fate.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 weeks ago:
No. The board can decide to issue more shares, but this is a sub-dividing of the already issued shares and so normally requires a vote from the shareholders. Major shareholders normally sit on the board, so the two groups overlap but are legally distinct.
If a company buys it own shares, it’s normally a “buyback” and the shares cease to exist.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 weeks ago:
Of course. They are shareholders.
The company is a separate legal entity though.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 weeks ago:
The company doesn’t care if the stock price hits $1. If the company is paying it’s bills, it just continues. It’s the people who hold shares that care. The company doesn’t hold shares in itself.
Enron collapsed because the company financials collapsed, not because the stock price collapsed. That happened after all the bad accounting practises and hidden debt came to light. Now, in that case the shareholders succeeded in suing for their losses, but they only had a case because of the mismanagement.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
This is what you get when AI fanaticism combines with Rust fanaticism.
1 million lines a month is 2-ish line per second. That “engineer” is just someone to blame when things don’t work. They aren’t going to be contributing anything.
- Comment on Reginald D Hunter: Judge quashes antisemitism case brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that the hate speech laws are, like in this case, open to abuse. Somebody can have their career damaged whilst they fight an abusive case for over a year just because somebody feels offended.
They shouldn’t be on the books. They need repealing, or at the very least made much more specific.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 3 weeks ago:
It’s a subsidy to the shops and businesses in a town. Businesses that pay taxes back to the council. A thriving town provides more funds than a dead one.
In a rural area there isn’t public transport to get people to the centre of towns to buy things (and there never will be because the population is not dense enough to be practical). It’s personal transport, or people order online and the town dies.
In an urban area the equation is different.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 3 weeks ago:
Yes! Councils see parking charges as a money making scheme to bolster budgets, but having available free parking attracts people to the town centre. This is especially true in market towns that might have a large catchment area.
There’s a reason supermarkets don’t charge for parking when they can avoid it.
