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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve recently watched this video on YT about some guy that replaced all his social interactions with AI models for for a while. And he, too, said that his ChatGPT “best friend” was too friendly and later in the test preferred some Character.AI “dominatrix” model instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to lose full control. They could be following too closely and swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid a collision with a car and end up striking a pedestrian.

  This is a matter of the human factor - and you can never make that disappear. There will always be the odd idiot driver.

  The reduced speed limit should also be accompanied by lane narrowing, speed humps, and other traffic calming techniques.

  This is totally fine for housing areas, but definitely not for through-roads. There’s no one-for-all solution in the same way our bodies don’t have only one size of blood vessel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If these drivers don’t obey the rules now, what makes you think they will obey them if you lower the speed limit?

  And you don’t just lose control of your car at 30mph or even 50. Especially not in today’s cars with all their safety features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shooting someone or throwing someone off a cliff is a deliberate act to hurt/kill someone else. No driver wants to kill someone. (Well, apart from these extremists that occasionally drive into German Christmas markets…)

  People mindlessly walking into traffic, because that funny video on Instagram is more important than watching their surroundings, they are the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the intelligent ones will survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for survival of the fittest. If people are too stupid to stay on the pavement, it’s on them. Why let drivers suffer to protect those idiots that blindly run into traffic?

  Maybe we should ban ALL cars to get traffic related injuries to 0… 🤦‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the EU possibly, not Britain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says the £2000 were accumulated over 10 different events. So, it’s more like £200 fine for 5 minutes - which still seems ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the summaries of notifications. This way, I don’t have to guess what an email is about from the first few words which usually are “Hi mbirth, I hope this email reaches you well”.

  The rest of the Apple Intelligence is stuff I can live without. However, Image Playground is nice to create contact pictures or some funny sticker. The newer proofing and grammatical suggestions are nice for second languages. So, it’s not all useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will, starting with 18.2 which is to be released next week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolut customers say e-money firm failed them after being scammed - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re in the process of getting a proper UK license, though.

  Also, Revolut has a European banking license for some years now.

  And I’m not sure whether, after handing out your 2FA and other security details, your money is still covered under that 85k insurance. I know that German banks have a clause in their contract about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a discussion about this topic on Hacker News a few months ago:

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

  One ex-Googler pointed out that due to the machine learning stuff and every new employee trying out the latest “AI” stuff on top of it, no human can understand and thus debug the search engine properly anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will save so many £££s heating costs, though!