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"AI automating jobs", which is the narrative from tech bros to raise funding translates into "AI is going to take your job", for the average Joe. If you are a graphic designer that…

Somewhere along the way, consoles lost where they fit into the 'living room space'. The biggest thing (for me) was when games stopped with local co-op. Having two controllers and b…

Yes, what we remember is interesting, especially while reflecting on posts such as OPs. The Internet that I grew up with didn't have bots, neighbourhood gossipers, weaponised propa…

I had the same weird feeling reading the post. Where OP was 'living there' in 2007, I was building sophisticated apps with big teams to do things build commercial insurance systems…

I had to do an age check in the UK recently. There were various options (credit card, face scan, etc). The one that I chose was email address. My email address has been around long…

Social media platforms are offloading detection of harmful content and algorithms to UK parents.

What kind of class teaches 'tech-illiterate' parents to help their children not succumb to a multi-trillion dollar industry pushing out addictive and damaging content? It should be…

If the only benefit of space-based datacentres is a hedge against infrastructure attacks in a world war then we are in an awful place. I'm not disagreeing with you but peace is far…

An curious example where an academic at full-time at Harvard is obviously less qualified than millions of people that live in 15-minute cities all around the world. Maybe he should…

It was only really the US that was left with the legacy of installed fibre. The 2000 crash left a lot of broken economies worldwide. Many non-US stock markets benefitted from the t…

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Oh the sad irony! I have to work with ISO-purchased pdf documents that are heavily DRM-controlled. I can only open them on two PCs with a plugin that only works in Acrobat reader. …

I am surprised that people are surprised by this finding, and support your position. Anecdotally, doctors get things wrong quite frequently. Almost everybody has a bad medical diag…

Our company made a 'bet' that energy management, sustainability, clean energy and whatnot would become a big thing. This was around the time of COP26 (2021) where there seemed to b…

There is a little bit of a political kerfuffle underway in the UK regarding police being overcautious in banning a group of supporters for a football (soccer) match. The political …

Money, mostly

In my experience, marketers wanted quick and catchy copy to post on linked-in and copywriters obliged. It reached a point where the content was irrelevant. You just had to get some…

This is how the world ends. Administrators on both sides being replaced by AI and consuming all the worlds available compute arguing with each other about healthcare bills.

The 'unrestricted web' from your youth did not have you uploading 8k video of you performing sexual acts that both landed up on pedo sites and was used for blackmail (the threat se…

We would expect the 'city' to police the illegal cigarette sellers, and vote them out if they didn't.

I try to comment on Roblox whenever it comes up as my daughter was pulled into a grooming pedo gang through Roblox. Read some of the comments from a HN thread from 3 years ago wher…

I think that a lot of people will still support Brexit. Leaving the EU allows a (future) government to do a lot of stupid things. Throwing out good fiscal policy, eroding human rig…

It is the financial risk that is obvious. The big players are struggling to show meaningful revenue from the investment. Because the investment is so high, the revenue numbers need…

Also reported in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-eng... For non-brits, Bank of England the UKs central bank and is a lot like the US Fed. The…