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- Your sermons on integrity are a bit rich, archbishop, given your faith in Paula Vennells | Catherine Bennettwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 105 comments
- Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parentswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 17 comments
- Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solvedwww.sciencealert.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to history@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Former teen models accuse magician David Copperfield of misconduct 1 month ago:
Aimee Bendio, a 15-year-old American contestant, says she believes Copperfield also showed an interest in her during the 1991 competition. Footage from the contest shows Aimee being interviewed by the panel of judges in her swimsuit. Immediately after, the camera cuts to Trump and Copperfield leaning back in their chairs to talk to one another.
Yuck.
- Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar 1 month ago:
He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn’t look as hard as they otherwise would.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 month ago:
I like it, it’s a smart and revealing strategy. Glad I originally misunderstood now because this comment off yours is really helpful and interesting.
- Comment on Joe Biden to raise solar import tariffs in bid to protect US industry 1 month ago:
Making solar power less affordable is exactly what the USA and the world needs right now.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 month ago:
Sorry, I misread “from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man” in your first comment, so I misunderstood your intent.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 month ago:
Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn’t 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn’t.
I think you’re underestimating the care and caution with which these decisions are approached. No one is rushing kids into transitioning if they’re not sure. There are many safeguards to make sure transitioning only happens where it’s appropriate and the person fully understands and agrees to it.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 month ago:
Yes, if you can trust every driver to follow the rules exactly and have their eyes open, you can risk your life by walking out. Otherwise you might wait anyway. And the rules about right of way depend on your country and state.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 month ago:
This applies when you’re a pedestrian waiting to cross too. There are always those drivers who think they’re doing you a favor by stopping one of the lanes of traffic so you can walk out into the other.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
Once the company goes out of business (or they focus on a different business) they tell you to get your tires or they will be discarded if you don’t. So you have to get them from them and you stop paying for the storage.
That’s where there’s no analogy for media purchased through streaming services. When streaming services withdraw content, the analogy would be the tire shop sending you an email saying “Just so you know, we’re burning your tires next week. No, you can’t come and get them.”
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
If the backup HDD was the only copy, it was an archive and not a backup, and you also need backups of the archive.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
The only difference between Steam and the streaming companies is that Steam seems to have managed to create a lasting profitable business. If this changed and Steam faced more challenges, they’d put the screws on the users just like the TV and music services do.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
Ah yes, and unsanctioned art will be classified as a form of terrorism.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
The account reads like they’re pasting AI-generated responses to everything. Maybe it’s someone’s experiment. The prompt must include “You are a self-righteous asshole.”
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Problem is, it still results in turning the Internet to shit. We just do it manually to preempt the AI doing it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Market forces lead to the creation of large corporations that then shut down market forces and undermine fair markets. Once a few big corporations dominate they coordinate their behavior and prices and shut down any new players entering the market. Regulation can counter it to a point, but once the corporations are wealthy enough to dominate government regulation also fails. Right wingers hasten the process by opposing regulation, and have no good answer to how to prevent markets collapsing into monopolies or cartels. I’m not sure anyone has a good answer to that in a capitalist system.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I don’t know. It feels a bit like “When I quit my employer will realize how much they depended on me.” The realization tends to be on the other side.
But while SO may keep functioning fine it would be great if this caused other places to spring up as well. Reddit and X/Twitter are still there but I’m glad we have the fediverse.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
If we can’t delete our questions and answers, can we poison the well by uploading shitty questions and answers?
- Submitted 1 month ago to securitynews@infosec.pub | 8 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on The BASIC programming language turns 60 1 month ago:
BBC BASIC was best BASIC. Fight me.
- Comment on For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report 1 month ago:
Does this mean that Flutter will be taking a tentative step toward the “Killed by Google” graveyard?
Flutter looks fine, but who would choose a Google framework for their app given Google’s reputation for suddenly killing projects?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Afghanistan interpreter told his British citizenship bars family from UK visa 2 months ago:
Someone should start a crowdfunding site for him. The British government are a nasty bunch.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Familywww.hackster.io ↗Submitted 2 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 11 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 13 comments