Posts by Chet Mannly

You also could not download from the website if you had one of their new 2024 Kindles before they dropped the hammer on everyone else.

Re: Now brave is the default browser

Brave has their own advertising network and at one point were using people's browsers for crypto - you SURE that's a better option than Firefox?

Re: 'privacy'

According to the company, Google's decision to shift to V3 is all in the name of improving its browser's security, privacy, and FINANCIAL performance.

Re: Just a shame

100% this. I wanted to rewatch a series, searched for it by it's exact name and it didn't appear in the search results. Show was there, by going back to my history I could watch it, but WTH...

Re: LLMs cannot summarise

"Often it will drop something in the summary that I look at and decide "no, that bit is important, I really want that in" and I put it back in"

Serious question - if you have to review things in that depth anyway, and it's only 100 words, is it actually more efficient?

I could do a 100 word summary of a doc I wrote in about 2 minutes and not have to revise it - is the AI really helping all that much if you have to apply so much effort into review? Let's leave aside the nightmarish reality that probably 90% of people wont bother to review output at all...

Re: Slow charger rollout

All that red tape and seemingly endless complexity slowing everything down is a good argument for a review.

Whether Trump's review is the review it needs is another question though...

Re: "The ones at the gate are private"

Whay would they need to? There's security cameras running facial rec all over the airport

Re: Same story, different year

"Eventually your jalopy can't keep up with traffic on the highway and becomes a hazard to everyone else on the road."

I have a 65 Mustang that would love to differ with that statement.

Err he IS releasing it in Texas. The article states test cars are running in Austin.

Re: And

No, you were a citizen of what was an EU country thereby making you a citizen of the EU by extension. Now your country is not part of the EU ergo you aren't an EU citizen.

If EU citizenship is important to you them become a citizen of an EU country. In most EU countries that means living there for 5 years.

Re: Too early...

"Students all over the world already recognized that writing "good" prose and correct grammar has become as easy as using correct orthography."

Those students haven't learned enything except gto get a computer to do their work for them.

And I'd hardly call what GPT produces as good prose. It's grammar is hit and miss as well...

Re: Columbus?

Not to mention Columbus actually made the full trip - Magellan died less than halfway into his trip, before they even decided to try and circumnavigate the world.

Elcano was actually the Captain that circumnavigated the globe...

Re: What is interesting is the economics behind it all

Safe bet - you can say those 2 things about every administration in the last couple of decades.

The only thing that varies slightly is which group of squillionaires get to line their pockets the most...

I did the same last year when I got a new laptop and MS refused to activate my "perpetual" Office licence on the new machine.

Interface isn't quite as polished but does absolutely everything MS Office does, and with a lot less fuss.

They do lots of real-word research - in California :)

Re: Size of productivity improvements can depend on where you're standing

Depends on if the employee is paid hourly. If they are on a salary then there's no benefit to the company...

Re: No limit for the Netherlands but for EU?

It means he has handed the Netherlands a monopoly on selling AI/chips in the EU.

Assumedly it's quid pro quo for something...

Re: Perpetual?

You can still download the v1 Mac installer from Affinitiy's website.

Re: Easy fix, Redmond

That's bigger than the recovery partition on my laptop!

Re: I'm pleased to hear this!

"we were supposed to have boots on Mars this year."

Did he say those boots would have people in them? LOL

Re: I'm no fan of the Space Karen but...

I assume it's aimed at journalists. If they quote something said on X, they get slapped with a fine for accessing it, as with the ban VPN is the only way they could do it.

That's really the point of this, to keep independent stuff about the government published on X out of the papers...

Re: Firefox

Google was actually ruled a monopoly yesterday - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-06/us-judge-rules-google-has-a-monopoly-on-search-in-antitrust-case/104187194

Cmon it also has a terrible launcher that you can't change and blocks you from installing software like FDroid to force you to use their apps.:)

Re: I have to ocassionaly use skype...

It's used widely by language teachers as it's free, allows screen sharing etc and runs on pretty much anything. Like Whatsapp in Europe - there are better alternatives, but it's pretty much become the default.

Re: killing music...

The other issue I have with streaming services like Spotify is they change the mixes of songs from time to time - mostly for the worse. And once they are changed that's it, you can't hear the original/real version anymore.

Another good reason to have CD's or at a minimum buy a downloadable version of tracks you really like.

"Unless they used those credentials I can't see how unauthorised access to a computer system occurred."

I assume they found evidence of that when they searched his home. HIghly unlikely he was doing it for educational purposes...

Re: Why make it personal?

Tesla actually bought the entire mechanical design from Lotus - it was a superceded model.

It's actually not unusual. IIRC the Chrysler Crossfire was a superceded Mercedes SLK chassis design, and half the small cars in Europe are either VW Golf or Polo designs underneath.