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- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 1 day ago:
The company now operates in 12 countries and employs around 20 people.
That sounds like hard work.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 days ago:
You make it sound like it’s rare to get into good universities in the UK from state schools. But most of the students at the UK’s top universities come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 days ago:
It’s quite possible to get into the best universities in the UK from state school. More than 67% of undergraduates at Oxford University come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 days ago:
Maybe they had to sell their photos to an agency so they could afford that 5th holiday. Times are hard.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 days ago:
Well fuck me, it’s real. Eat the rich.
- Comment on A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I. 1 week ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on The AI revolution is underhyped: The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. 25:37 1 week ago:
When was the last time Eric Schmidt was worth listening to?
- Comment on demon named racecar 1 week ago:
People named MarjorieiorjraM.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
I just have the regular subscription. I wouldn’t pay for the lifetime one. I want to support them but I am not confident enough that they’ll be around for the long term since video hosting is a hard business to make money from.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
I have stopped buying lifetime subscriptions to cloud services unless they pay off within a year or two. Any longer and you just can’t trust that it will be honoured.
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 2 weeks ago:
The LLM isn’t trained to be reliable, it’s trained to be confident.
And it’s promoted by business people with the exact same skill set. I would argue though that there’s nothing wrong with what LLMs are doing: they’re doing what they were trained to do. The con is in how it’s being sold to us as a source of knowledge or understanding akin to a search engine.
- ‘If it isn’t recorded it will disappear’: the Muslim photographer shining a light on Bradford’s Jewish communitywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 weeks ago:
When every single pope looks like a left-wing extremist to you, you may have strayed too far to the right.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 3 weeks ago:
Soulseek is basically the same thing too, and still works.
- Comment on Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping 4 weeks ago:
This, surely, is the revolutionary technology the world needs today.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 4 weeks ago:
Ssshhh! Don’t let the Americans know we can do this.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
I’d imagine the $20K price is for a model so basic many people won’t want it. it will be interesting to see what the price is for a model most people would consider an acceptable basic car.
- Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathonwww.thepinknews.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 5 weeks ago:
Good question.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 5 weeks ago:
I was just pointing out that whether you use women’s bathrooms or men’s, the same point applies: this concern about the genitals of the person in the next stall is a weird non-problem cooked up by bigots, yet the politicians scramble to appease them.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 5 weeks ago:
Yep, and we get this headline too today:
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 5 weeks ago:
Then when was the last time you looked down a man’s pants in a public toilet, to check they had the approved genitals?
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 5 weeks ago:
Pandering to the most awful bigots in the country is an awful thing to do. This is a spineless government with no principles other than “don’t offend the right wing”.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 22 comments
- Comment on Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges 5 weeks ago:
Might it not just result in them increasing domestic students’ fees to make up the difference?
- Comment on Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges 5 weeks ago:
For Republicans, destroying universities and colleges is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 weeks ago:
One minister said: “Trump and [the vice-president] JD Vance have shown the advantage of getting out there and not worrying about making mistakes.
Yeah, they have a whole cult behind them that will interpret their every idiotic blunder as an inspired move. Starmer, not so much.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 month ago:
Yes, apparently their protocol sends everything to every node, so it would overwhelm anything but a very powerful and expensive server. The Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol is more efficient and only sends traffic where it is needed.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 1 month ago:
From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.