Armand1
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- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 6 days ago:
Has anyone here actually read the article? As far as I can tell, facial recognition is being increased in availability, but it was already in use.
Every police force in the country will be able to use live facial recognition vans, with the number of vans set to rise from ten to 50.
It’s also worth noting that in the UK for a very long time now any data that is not E2EE can be seized by the government from companies without the consent of their users if a warrant is issued. That’s obviously bad but nothing new.
It sounds like what’s actually new here is that the police is becoming more centralised and organised. Instead of a lot of smaller departments in local areas with lack of expertise, more centralised organisations will do the policing.
The article covers some pros and cons from different people’s perspectives.
- There might end up being more policing in cities and less in rural areas.
- There might be some downsizing of policies forces
- Police forces may be less accountable as they grow.
- Police forces believe they will be better equipped to tackle cybercrime.
Overall, to me, this seems like a generally negative move. I don’t want the police to spy on people, and I want them to be more knowledgeable about their local area and more accountable to their people. It does look like there might be more surveillance, and that’s bad too.
Please read don’t take headlines for granted.
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 1 week ago:
Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.
- Comment on I liek tudles 1 week ago:
It’s not certain this is true, but it’s somewhat likely. At least, that’s what I’m getting from the Wikipedia article.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s why I’d like them to build more social housing.
The lifecycle of social housing projects like these, as I understand them, is meant to be that you continue to build them, and as the old ones reach the end of their lifetime (around 60 years?) you demolish them and move the people into the new ones.
In practice, most places are not continuously building them as they should, so many of them are reaching the end of their lives without a plan for where to move people afterwards. This shows a lack of foresight and long-term planning.
Of course, politics are a fickle thing so the latest government can choose to decide that actually, poor people should be punished for the failures of the system and long-term initiatives fail.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 week ago:
For me I found out when I wanted them to fix something and they refused to honour the warranty because of the blown fuse.
As far as I know, this is illegal, btw. They have to prove that the error you are reporting is caused by user action. If your battery craps out, they can’t blame it on you rooting your phone.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 week ago:
Samsung has been blowing fuses in your phone when you root since at least 2015. I know because it happened to me. Never bought one again after that.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
Social housing typically doesn’t look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn’t have to look terrible. Here’s some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.
It’s kind of the China Town of Paris.
It’s right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.
If you’re curious, here it is on Google Maps
I’d live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 1 week ago:
This is obvious. It’s literally trained off of English-speaking Reddit comments and designed to give the most likely answer to a question.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Return of the Obra Dinn be like:
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 2 weeks ago:
Micron: “But guuyyyyyyys… What about the money? We could be making so much more money!”
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 3 weeks ago:
Explorer already crashes enough without this.
Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?
You know, useful software development work?
- Comment on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team 3 weeks ago:
It’s not particularly bad value for what they’re offering, which seems to be a component library and set of templates.
For a comparison, the company I work for are paying over a £1000 / year for MUI-X, which is a set of paid React components. It’s cheaper and more efficient than paying someone at our company to maintain our own component library.
Even a single engineer spending 10% of their time (as I used to) maintaining this stuff would cost the company over £5000 / year in manpower.
- Comment on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team 3 weeks ago:
It’s effectively an alternative to plain CSS. Works well with component-based systems like React and Svelte.
I used it for a few years and thought it was pretty good. I still use it on some of my projects.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know why people are saying a 200km range is bad. Most people I know don’t drive more than 25km to work per day. Surely even 100km is perfectly fine for a daily driver.
My brother had an 80km range car for years and was perfectly fine.
Is it just that it’s not competitive at this price?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 weeks ago:
Good article with many links to other interesting articles. Acts like a good summary for the situation this year.
I didn’t know about the MAHA thing, but I guess I’m not surprised. It’s hard to know how much is incompetence and idiocy and how much is malicious.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 weeks ago:
That’s a much better sourced article and an interesting read, thanks.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 weeks ago:
What is this website used as a source? It doesn’t have an about page or even proper navigation. Is it some sort of blog?
- Comment on TheRealKuni, this is for you. 5 weeks ago:
Cruel and unusual punishment.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 1 month ago:
I don’t think I’ve had a locked phone since around 2012.
I’m guessing people still get them because they need financing? Seems like a poor choice most of the time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
I have met people in Britain who genuinely seem to hate food. They have a plain cheese sandwich, the worst imaginable bread or eat Huel every day.
That doesn’t necessarily reflect all Britons, but I do think they genuinely care about food less on average than other cultures.
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 1 month ago:
Awwww was baby Hegseth triggered by the mean old font? Authoritarians are so sensitive, they get upset at everything.
- Comment on Are they the same person? 1 month ago:
Christian Nationalists are basically white nationalists. White nationalists are US-flavoured Nazis. KKK material.
They should be a fringe group shunned by all society, perhaps given mental help and deprogramming treatment. In this timeline though they are out-and-proud and in positions of power.
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
I have a habit of getting into trouble for criticizing the work of others. I do it constructively, but not always tactfully.
One I pulled a few months back was something along the lines of “don’t do this, as it means other people will have to clean up after you”.
I’m… working on it.
- Comment on oh no 2 months ago:
Rule 34. I’m sure someone’s on it.
- Comment on Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 2 months ago:
Still better than the Cass Review.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 months ago:
In the UK the calculus is quite different, as it’s £0.25/kWh or over double the cost.
Also, an empty Synology 4-bay NAS can be gotten for like £200 second hand. Good enough if you don’t need much performance. Mine draws about 10W compared to an old Optiplex that draws around 60W.
With that math using the NAS saves you 1.25 pence per hour. Therefore the NAS pays for itself in around about 2 years.
- Comment on Oh no! 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Oh no! 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 2 months ago:
Going to the charity shops the week after Christmas to get all the stuff people didn’t want real cheap 👌
- Comment on Power word: STUN! 2 months ago:
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