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I found Noah Smith's piece on this a good read. It's from November 2023 : "People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone" [1] "It’s important to clarify, by the way, t…

Yes, it's all very bad. > 2) if you remove fujitsu then you're handing it to either crapita or atos. who are also shite. Yes, agreed, although (at least) Capita are probably much w…

Publishers and "professional editors" have been releasing crap for years, even decades. No LLM needed. Humans are perfectly capable of writing so-called "slop" without a machine.

I see mentions of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in that thread but what this really seems to be mostly like is Vernor Vinge's "shred and scan" factory in his novel "Rainbows End".

There's a site in the UK [1] that shows images of the front page of various newspapers. I think they try to put them online the evening before. Sometimes worth a look and a Europea…

https://archive.is/U2fWP

There's a good article on White and the book in the "Encyclopedia of Fantasy". It made me appreciate that this set of stories is more than just a book for children. I haven't actua…

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610055

Nothing has changed in that regard. Moscow still receives much more monetary attention than any other city in Russia.

Yes, that's what I ended up using. I was wanting to program something myself but it was too difficult. MusicBrainz Picard [1] is excellent. [1] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

My hell was trying too make sense or and organise audio/music ID3 tags. What a nightmare that is. EXIF seems much nicer to me.

It's a shame that the title doesn't say what the s/w is : keyd. I actually use keyd on my laptops because it seems to do everything I need and is easy to get going without any fuss…

Thanks. I'm sure Sprang loved having Hockney as a user! I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.

I wrote this on another submission here about his death : Inevitable of course. He was getting on in years and starting to show his age. He's an artist I started to really apprecia…

Inevitable of course. He was getting on in years and starting to show his age. He's an artist I started to really appreciate about 10/15 years ago when visiting the one of his big …

Yes, magpies are very intelligent birds. Also very annoying! I don't like hearing their "cackling", especially if you're in bed trying to sleep. Magpies at mine also figured out ho…

Mine's been mostly fine. Second hand Pixel 10 (previous 2nd hand 8a) and I am extremely happy with an excellent phone. No problems like you've had.

Thanks for writing this. Perhaps a part of your therapy at the end. Also, a way to understand and recover. I hope all goes well for you!

Yes, I agree. It was magic to me really. I still love Perl.

Respect for programming this. I did some date/time calculations a few years ago using Perl and it was full of corner cases and trouble. Did I enjoy it? I enjoyed seeing it work. Ho…

That's great news. Fwupdmgr has made a huge positive difference to me over the past few years. A BIOS update used to be painful, perhaps even impossible, but not now. Thanks to all…

Whatever the reason for "hiding" Mythos, it seems clear that these systems are getting very good at finding software security exploits. Mythos has made more people, even the US gov…

Desktop and server vulnerabilities are one thing. At least many are actively maintained and will get patched. I have a concern about all the common and cheap internet firewalls and…

"Theft-resistant" I have two Bromptons (a 3 and a 6 speed). Unfortunately, I've also had TWO stolen .. painful. This was years ago now and both were locked up in central London. Th…

I've just donated. I use Thunderbird every day and have used it for years now. Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird are very important to me and my internet usage. For all the complain…