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Whooo! I know what I’m doing this weekend

\"Julia

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Of course a venture capitalist doesn’t believe that corruption should be punished. That would threaten his business too much.

\n\"Post\"Maguire\n
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In journalism it’s always important to get the local angle

\"Facebook

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The traditional way of testing out a new Apple Pencil.

\"The

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Now about these options you're presenting me with...

\"Cookie

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You know, Bing, these are not the most helpful suggestions for follow on searches for my query about Lenovo Copilot+ PCs.

\"Bing

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One of the delights of this time of year: the tiny fledglings working out that you can go into the peanut feeder and just grab food. The little floofball at the top hasn’t got it yet

\"A

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Hey, Copilot, you OK hun?

\"a

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@simon_lucy @kitten_tech @lauren @gozzy No, that’s wrong: Firefox, Opera, and Chrome also support browser content filtering (this wasn't clear when it was launched, and I got it wrong)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/manage-recall

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This is just such a weird reading of this. The data is encrypted AND if you have Windows 11 Pro, also protected by Bitlocker. You would have to be parsing the sentence pretty oddly to read it as \"not encrypted on Windows Home\".

Maybe this is a privacy PITA, but writing breathless pieces based on press releases is just silly. Let experts pick it apart when they have their hands on it.

\"Microsoft

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Well that’s quite pretty

\"Whitstable

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There's a wonderful tone which the seriously Christian* take when scolding someone who thinks their very conservative views = the heart of Christianity. This is that tone.

(*That's people who take the teaching of Christ seriously, who focus on peace and tolerance, rather than BURN THE UNBELIEVERS)

\"Statement

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@BashStKid Of course, there actually is a minifig.

\"Irina

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Lord help me I’m watching “Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Easily the worst of the series. But hey Cate Blanchett.

\"Cate

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My feelings whenever I watch any Apple event.

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Uploading this because I know everyone here will find it useful at some point.

\"Uncle

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Jack Dorsey, yesterday

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I see Dorsey is well into his “two croissants short of a breakfast basket” stage.

\"jack\n@jack

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Over on Bluesky, J Edward Rando has decided that my posting something about going outside and blocking people who pass along antisemitic shit under the disguise of opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza means I am insufficiently committed to The Cause, which can only be furthered by shouting at people online.

\"ded_lej

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That time in the 90s I persuaded a Japanese film crew that my friend was Richard Branson, inadvertently foreshadowing the “geek pie” incident in “Nathan Barley”.

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@lukem It took me a while, but it's all about getting a set of plugins which make it look and feel how you want, plus adding in automations to support however you work. This is what my setup looks like – it's a long, long way from the default.

\"A

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Walking this morning listening to Katy J Pearson’s version of “Willow’s Song” and suddenly this view appeared, which turned everything a bit “Wicker Man”.

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GET IN

\"Derby

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@loke It's quite the contrast to his attitude towards Facebook when it was Apple stopping them track people.

https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy

\"The

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I absolutely adore this quote from a 2004 profile of Walt Mossberg.

https://www.wired.com/2004/05/mossberg/

\"Mossberg's

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You know I just don’t think this is the real Musk

\"New

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Well, Lynks turned out to be absolutely as magnificent as expected last night...

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I mean, I don't know, Guardian Leader Writer, what might have contributed to the treatment of trans people becoming \"a toxic and polarised debate\"? Not, surely, a leading and supposedly liberal national newspaper consistently publishing transphobic articles over two decades?

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Imagine, for one second, if a national newspaper referred to gay young people as “sexuality distressed”, rather than just calling them “gay young people”.

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Thanks!

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Daughter of Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer, says what?

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@franksting Oh I wouldn't say John is by any means the archetype here. I'm thinking more of stuff like this, from 9to5 Mac just a couple of months ago

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/16/whatsapp-more-users-in-the-us/

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And here's the key point. Importantly, the DOJ didn't have to *legislate* to keep Microsoft out of mobile: the chilling effect of worrying about the antitrust implications slowed the company down enough to make space for others.

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If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship

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@craiggrannell @jamesthomson @dmoren @markv Sneak peek on the end of what I'm currently writing...

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@ceri \"And you must be physically located in the European Union\"... If you're gone for too long you'll lose access to some features...\"

That really doesn't sound like an eligability issue, that sounds like they're tracking you physically.

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@virtuous_sloth @ivolimmen It’s the future, I tell you!

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@ivolimmen @virtuous_sloth You’re using the wrong AI!

(Microsoft Designer, prompt “photo of an Apple-branded car”

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@neil @http_error_418 SHAME. SHAME.

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@agiletortoise That is an amazing collection! Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0cQiQjd18

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I mean…

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@Daojoan This is absolutely the best use of LLMs.

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@Daojoan Asking it to rewrite them but in the Cthulhu mythos and cute was pretty good too.

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@Daojoan OMG I asked Gemini to write some of these and every single one sounds real

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@jeffjarvis I see Calacanis was on his soapbox too

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@babe Still a bit to go, but looks interesting!

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I mean just look at how pretty this is.

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@synx508 Hmm, probably not that helpful for you, but this is actually a pretty interesting answer…

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@tehstu Oh sure, the whole notion of *what* it’s been trained on (and who consented/got paid for that) is a whole other world of pain.

It’s also interestingly quite “knowing” about what it is…

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@ant Here’s an example of what I mean. I was having a conversation with it about UBI, and it mentioned arguments about the impact of UBI on regional wage variation. This isn’t something I had thought about before, and it’s interesting. So I asked it to elaborate, and it came up with this (note: I didn’t ask it for sources, but I could). It’s food for thought: none of this is about “truth”, it’s about stating points for exploration – my exploration.

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