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4 hours ago@seraphine @technocrit the cookie banner is often now a “accept or leave” button, similar to how this sounds. Or “accept or pay”, commonly.
I never accept.
Mostly a lurker.
I read books to pay the bills.
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@glitchdx hmm. I’ll have to look into it. Most of the companies I work with are locked into office so I may be stuck with it but it’d be lovely to get rid.
@Gsus4 @TheBat the more worrying thing is how many times it has made something up that nobody has spotted because it looks normal.
Proofreading spots spelling/punctuation/formatting issues. You need a deeper copyedit, not just a scan, to check the sense of something. And that won’t necessarily catch factually untrue, but perfectly plausible, things.
12·3 days ago@guyoverthere123 @CAVOK only by a 4% majority, heavily skewed to the older population. Ten years later, even natural demographic change would mean we’d vote to stay in with the same referendum now - but also we’ve had a pandemic that largely affected the elderly.
So when you say that you’re talking to dead people.
@Redditquaza @rumschlumpel 6% drop last year though (admittedly not enough)
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/
@Holytimes wooooah.
I thought voice controls not understanding women or accents was bad enough, but I forgot those things have eye trackers now. They haven’t allowed for different eye shapes?!?!
Insane.
11·8 days ago@floofloof @FishFace the Quiet Riot podcast was discussing their utter consternation (surprise is the wrong word) that in the same year Starmer couldn’t accept so much as a pair of trousers from a donor, and Reeves and Rayner were being leapt on for everything, Farage has accepted a £9m crypto donation (90% of Reform’s funding for the year) and nobody has pushed him on what influence that has bought, or what went on with Nathan Gill and the Russian bribes.
@NikkiDimes @Wlm racism is about far more than tone. If you’ve trained your AI - or any kind of machine - on racist data then it will be racist. Camera viewfinders that only track white faces because they don’t recognise black ones. Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands. Diagnosis tools that only recognise rashes on white skin.
@Wen @moderatecentrist can’t say the same for NI. Wonder what would have happened with the Theresa May Brexit situation if Arlene Foster weren’t such a lunatic.
@Wen @moderatecentrist although I am grateful for Scotland/Wales still being in the UK because without them the HoC would be Tory all the time (not that that’s a good reason to stay)
@return2ozma so they crash 12* more than human drivers, even though they currently *have* human drivers?! The AI makes human drivers 12* worse. Cool.
@Zombie @pasdechance of course it wasn’t *entirely* scrapped - two of my friends (both also teachers) have children in the Wirral and Bucks, both of which still have grammars. They hate it for the psychological pressure, the financial burden (it rewards rich kids who get tutors) and the difficulty for local non-grammars to meet targets without a normal mix of students.
Anecdotally: my mum passed and my uncle didn’t, and I suspect it’s affected their sibling dynamic ever since.
@seraphine alas, I am in the UK. Who knows what’s illegal or not here