thehatfox

thehatfox, 20 days ago

I think it’s becoming fair to label a lot of commercial AI “scams” at this point, considering the huge gulf between the hype and the end results.

Open source projects are different due to their lack of commercialisation.

thehatfox, 20 days ago

Any distro should be fairly stable and supported on an older Thinkpad.

I’m currently using Debian stable on my X220 and it’s rock solid.

thehatfox, 20 days ago

I wonder why he’s not standing this time. Maybe he doesn’t want the embarrassment of losing a 9th parliamentary election. Or perhaps he wants to ensure he has to ties for an eventual return to the Conservative Party.

thehatfox, 20 days ago

Hopefully that’s the end of the Rwanda policy for good then. I’m a bit surprised he didn’t try to ram it through before calling the election, he seemed to be staking so much on it.

But now they can use it a campaign point for ”stopping the boats” instead - safe in the knowledge they’ll now not have to see it through to the end.

thehatfox, 21 days ago

Disappointing the non-terminal route was rejected, but a step in the right direction nonetheless.

Starmer has made previous pledges to bring forward a vote in the UK parliament, with an election now confirmed hopefully we can make similar progress.

thehatfox, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

I have a ThinkPad X220 that recently turned 13, with SSD and RAM upgrades, basic maintenance, and Linux it’s still running great for plenty of tasks.

Plus it’s so well built I could probably stick it in a plate carrier and use it as body armour. Doesn’t seem to matter how much it gets dropped or dropped onto, ol’ Thinky keeps on chugging.

thehatfox, 21 days ago

Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband

David Cameron, May 2015

Oh how I wish we chose chaos with Ed Miliband.

thehatfox, 22 days ago

My worst fear is not a Tory comeback but a lurch in more radical and populist direction if Labour fail to start visibly turning things around after the first term. It’s unrelated to expect many if any first term miracles considering the state the country is in, but people are going to need to feel some sort of progress to stop the frustration boiling over.

thehatfox, 22 days ago

I was starting to think they would dither their way into defaulting to January at the rate they had been going.

thehatfox, 22 days ago

Parliament will be dissolved on 30th May. When the Commons is dissolved all business is ended and MPs stop being MPs. When the Lords dissolves business ends but Lords still remain Lords.

The government still remains and ministers keep their positions, but is effectively only a caretaker for the pre-election period, and cannot enact new polices except in exceptional circumstances.

The campaign period proper starts once Parliament is dissolved. Parties will publish manifestos shortly after, TV debates may be organised etc.

thehatfox, 22 days ago

About bloody time.

It’s been raining hard nearly all day today, only just stopped. But I guess it’s true that every cloud has a silver lining.

thehatfox, 21 days ago

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I think you dropped this.

thehatfox, 22 days ago

We’ve been here before, haven’t we?

While he is taking a break from YouTube, perhaps Tom Scott can put together a sequel.

thehatfox, 23 days ago

Everything GB News has done so far, and only now are Ofcom stating to consider taking action? O suppose whatever action they take will be equally as limp. A strongly worded letter maybe.

thehatfox, 20 days ago

Might be worth looking into LoRa for longer range, it’s got quite cheap to play with now.