Yet another reminder that “the cloud” is really just “someone else’s computer”. The end users of cloud based products are controlled by “someone else’s” rules and whims.
There was a similar thing done as an art installation between London and New York called the Telectroscope in 2008. Apparently it was the site of a few marriage proposals.
Well it’s a step forward for efficiency at least. Now I can see the LLM generated crap straight it in the search page, rather than having to click through to an automated blogspam page.
If they are really going all-in on this, it almost feels like Google admitting defeat on search, having now been drown by the (partially self inflicted) deluges of SEO and now “AI”.
Rental auctions are an idea worth trying, but rates on high street locations are only part of the puzzle of dying high streets. There need to be people willing and able to set up viable businesses, and the locations need to be both affordable and desirable.
Confidence in the economy is not exactly at a high at the moment, and the £500,000 bung is drop in the ocean considering the decade plus of local underfunding and inefficient spending practices of local government (my local council recently somehow burned through nearly 100 grand putting up a couple of benches and a flower bed 🙄).
That’s all before thinking about the broader cultural changes we’ve seen recently, from the shift to e-commerce to effect of COVID.
Platforms like Facebook have an incredible hold on some people. I remember a few years ago when the “Momo” hoax happened, an older coworker arrived at the office and started warning us about the danger of “Momo” they’d seen on Facebook. I’d already heard about the hoax (and was aware of the original creepyasta origins), and brought up a few news articles explaining it, including an official statement from the police. Everyone seemed satisfied by the truth, except for the Facebook addict. They just gave me a blank stare, and a few hours later I heard them telling another group of colleagues to beware of “Momo” getting to their children.
I have family members and longstanding family friends who have succumbed to this. Interestingly almost all of them were decrying the internet as something that couldn’t be trusted before the age of social media.
Police officers in Britain could be armed with Ghostbusters-style devices that fire electromagnetic rays to shut down the engines of ebikes being used in a crime....
Firing EMPs in urban areas does not sound a great idea at all. That’s a lot of potential collator damage on top of an already potential dangerous police action.
There are already methods police can use to stop moving vehicles, which would work on electric vehicles as well as existing ICE vehicles. These are still bikes, not magic carpets or something. Stopping a moving vehicle is also dangerous in itself, and it doesn’t sound a great idea to add to that the chances of frying everything from police equipment to vital medical devices that happens to be in the blast area.
There’s poo in the rivers and it’s now going to be illegal to be homeless, did I wake up in the past?
I think it’s time the Conservative Party had a rebrand because they really don’t seem to be conserving much these days. Except for established wealth that is.
I lived near a small artificial lake that was that was a popular unofficial outdoor swimming location. But the local authorities were always trying to keep people out. It eventually became a bit of a party spot and there was a couple of drownings, which lead to big fences and security patrols going up. Last thing I heard the place had been redeveloped into an expensive private leisure resort.
I gets there’s always a balance between access and safety, but there’s a real lack of free and open places in the country these days.
I’m not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it’s effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection....
I’m currently using O2 and their coverage is definitely patchy. Great in some areas, not in others.
The only reliable way to choose the “best” network is to get PAYG SIMs for each and try them all in the places you will most often be. The online coverage maps are not always that accurate and up to date, and can’t account for factors like the construction of individual buildings.
Smart meters were never going to be a real benefit for energy users, only a method to extract more revenue and impose more control over them. Being co-opted as another method of government surveillance is yet another problem they have caused.
following the highly-politicised appointment of the new Information Commissioner, the ICO adopted a new strategy for public sector enforcement that relies on public shaming and “very angry letters” rather than legally binding enforcement actions and penalty fines
Oh look, it’s another regulator being kneecapped. I really hope Starmer will consider giving these groups some teeth again.
macOS is really not optimised for touch though. macOS on a 13 inch iPad with a keyboard and trackpad attached would probably be usable, albeit with limited IO. But trying to use macOS with just fingers isn’t going to be much fun, especially for more complicated software.
Personally I’d rather see Apple further develop iPadOS as a touch first productivity OS, and leave macOS for the Mac.
Maybe if Apple opens up the App Store rules (willingly or not) more eventually virtualisation will be possible on an iPad, allowing people to DIY a macOS-on-iPad setup if they really wanted to.
Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters (www.theguardian.com)
Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content (www.dexerto.com)
Aspiring Author K. Renee was reportedly locked out of her own content on Google Docs after Google flagged it as “inappropriate.”
nobody moooove this is a robbery (leminal.space)
No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say (inews.co.uk)
take it easy now, we don't need any rush hour rambos! (lemmy.world)
"Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across England (www.gov.uk)
Like most normal human males… (sh.itjust.works)
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways (www.theguardian.com)
Police officers in Britain could be armed with Ghostbusters-style devices that fire electromagnetic rays to shut down the engines of ebikes being used in a crime....
How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories (www.theguardian.com)
"Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping soon to be frowned upon (lemmy.ml)
England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming (www.theguardian.com)
rule (lemmy.ml)
Conservatives mark 200 constituencies as vulnerable in next general election (www.theguardian.com)
Starmer to rip up Rwanda scheme and fund new anti-smuggling unit (www.theguardian.com)
Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful?
I’m not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it’s effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection....
Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again (www.openrightsgroup.org)
England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027 (inews.co.uk)
TikTok and Instagram face 40 new rules to protect children - but not for a year (inews.co.uk)
Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro (www.apple.com)