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Nobody gets fired largely copying eachother. Releasing something new and risky often isn't worth it, sadly.

An increasing proportion of UK citizens are deciding not to pay for a TV licence that funds the BBC as consumption patterns have changed. The BBC will be a zombie in 10 years unles…

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This will cause some major headaches.

Apple only does things to progress their own business model. Apple failed at becoming an ad business so they pivoted to subscriptions and app revenue. Now they are building an ad b…

Apple doesn't care about privacy, its a convenient USP.

Good fun, my highest was 30, it took a while!

I'm a semi-retarded product manager that was interested in what it was like building linux desktop apps. With a hand from Claude, I was surprised to get a simple Gnome/gtk widget t…

We are living in increasingly weirder times.

I like the idea of this, so will definitely check it out!

""Apple has better app selection (for most people). Apple has been increasingly implementing the core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS."" You mean Ap…

It's easy to discover an exploit when you're hallucinating:)

I thought the same, except I realised some of the reports were submitted back in 2023 before AI slop exploded.

Sounds like you just got stuck with a shit PM to be honest.

As a British person working for an American company, my spelling at work is an inconsistent mess.

I would like to skip most of my meetings, but it would likely damage most of my working relationships.

Performance reasons LOL. Apple fans love plausible deniability.

Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products. However, I speak with a small subset of our most experienced engineers and they all love C…

The content you consume has a large influence in your education and career. If you get recommendations for "Technology" and someone of the opposite sex doesn't its completely discr…

I dont think you understand the implications of banning this. In principle you ban any kind of content recommendation. Reddit, Netflix, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

To ban this would mean in principle you need to ban any kind of algorithm that uses user and/or activity data for any platform. Ie. No content recommendations on reddit, tikok, fac…

I got burned by Apple purposely corrupting my music library. I'm still salty about it.

Sounds hugely unreasonable. At 1% I might've believed you.

I predict a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.

Not ashamed to admit that I never really thought about the distinct operator 'being redundant' as its essentially just a group by.