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This is how I hit on people

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, "As much as I would like to rejoin the EU that is not happening" "This is about creating a sensible working relationship with our closest allies" So whatever Labour announces will not be as good as when we were in the EU, which means Labour are the blockers to economic growth

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

*Buys bamboo socks*

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well this sucks. A new paper in a Springer journal has plagiarized verbatim an entire paragraph from something I published a few years ago. Before I write the editors, does anyone know of a good tool for checking to see if other parts of the paper are plagiarized form other sources?

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

If only there were alternatives, such as writing your material and only using google to share the finished item. But hey, the AI functionality in Google Docs js probably* also using your material to plagiarise to train the LLM. So if you're writing anything novel, valuable... *almost certainly

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Wait, I can’t read what it—oh. I get it now.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Seriously google, how much processing power does it take to shove this unwanted, misleading crap up when for once the search engine pulled the right summary...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Ohhhhhh NOW I understand the Nicki Minaj song Beez in the Trap (err_cash_overflow)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Rust, on an Italian car? I'm shocked.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Kids are locked out of home ownership, burdened with tuition fees, suffer massive poverty, are threatened by the climate crisis and AI, had their live chances whacked by Brexit, have no healthcare support, and are constantly monstered by the press. They don't need "grit"; they need fairness.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Good grief. Is Bono determined to give us vertigo via Apple tech twice over now?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Magnum Cart. The singular of Magna Carta.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

*finds a hotel with 101 rooms* *puts a 2014 Mac Mini 1.4GHz dual-core with 4GB RAM just inside each room, in a position where it conveniently prevents the door from closing* *takes a picture of each one* May I present: 101 uses for a 2014 Mac Mini 1.4GHz dual core with 4GB of non-expandable RAM

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

If you're in the UK and you're annoyed that you don't know which AI companies are training on your copyrighted work without permission, the reason is now simple: the Labour party. This isn't a political statement - it's a fact. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

If there's one thing BSG original series and Buck Rogers show - and anything where Glen A. Larson had to depict "futuristic disco/club/bar" - it's that humans in the space-age future of the '70s were assumed to have lost the use of their ears, and any sense of rhythm or musicality.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“It is astonishing that a Labour government would abandon the labour force of an entire sector. My inbox is filled with individual artists & global companies who are bewildered that the government would allow theft at scale & cosy up to those who are thieving.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

If you ask Google, the Thesaurus was prolific during the Jurassic period but was wiped out by Asteroids in 1975 when Nolan Bushnell left Atari to found Intel with Steve Ballmer.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Quote post with a picture of an aircraft you'd accept as a bribe.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Biology is sacrosanct to the Trump cohort, and I've thus determined that the Trump-Musk combo is conclusively, female in nature. The pair of them never seem to be more than a inch or so apart, though you're welcome to draw your own conclusion about which of the duo is the asshole and which is the c

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"Knowledge" "Snippets"... literally everything google does with search other than presenting your link and meta is about keeping users away from your site and within monetised stuff for google. FWIW Safari's "hide distracting items" on later iOS devices is very useful.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Labour party just voted for a future in which writers and artists can't make a living from their work, in which the quality of art and information is locked into a downward spiral of regurgitated slop, and in which data centres make the planet increasingly uninhabitable.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Computers are very confusing now. On the one hand if it weren't for 4K/8K video & various security updates 2011 Macbook Pro i7 and crappy 2013 Mac Pro I have are more than responsive, powerful enough for daily use - yet entry level Mac Mini now kicks the arse of a £10K 2019 Mac Pro dream machine...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Shots fired, Neil.

submitted 15 days ago • 554 comments

Will you look at that statues getting better protections than trans people in the uk lmao

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments