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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
  • Immediately critising someone/a group for doing the right thing but not doing enough/quickly enough is probably one of the main reasons its so hard to get traction for progressive politics. It's incredibly tiresome.

  • Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time
  • maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux

    As some one who runs both: no, not even close. Mac has more direct ports than Linux true, but proton vastly outweighs that. I have dozens of games that show up on steam on my mac as unplayable where as I dont have any that wont run under proton.

    Five years ago you'd probably have been right, but Linux is far superior to OSX for gaming now.

    (E: assuming you're talking about an apple silicon macbook, IDK the status of proton on x86 macs maybe it works there?)

  • A tutorial I got from AI to help me improve font rendering.... And it worked fantastically
  • The point you are missing is that yes, asking an LLM about these things is not at the level of advice from someone who knows their stuff. But if you dont know what you are doing and dont know enough to even know what the right things to search for are then even partialy useful advice about the thing you are trying to do is a massive help.

  • What are your plans to replace first past the post voting in your state after the election?
  • Its not true, but the only time a Republican presedential canditate has got a majority of the votes in the 21st century is GWB in 2004. In the 20th century the winner in every election was the one who got the most votes, D or R.

  • Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk
  • The development of new product lines for use in service of critical infrastructure or [national critical functions] NCFs in a memory-unsafe language (e.g., C or C++) where there are readily available alternative memory-safe languages that could be used is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety

  • Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media
  • It really isn't, you just go the way the recent EU laws have gone and write them such that only large services (with over x million users or similar) are under obligation to comply and implement age gates and the like.

  • European auto giants launch a flurry of cheaper electric vehicles — taking the fight to China
  • As someone who has lived in China, no that's not the case. Of course Chinese people can and do make high quality things, but there is a huge amount of incredibly poor quality stuff at all levels. As an example the floor of the flat I lived in fell through into the (thankfully empty) flat below two years after I left it, the building was less than 15 years old.

    Partially its because of the real lack of regulatory oversight in China and partially because of a cultural sense of "ends justify the means" when it comes to business ethics.

  • www.bbc.com Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU

    The European Court of Justice upheld a 2016 decision that said Apple received unlawful aid from Ireland.

    Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU
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    www.theguardian.com Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

    Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson?

    Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

    > I considered leaving Twitter as soon as Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, just not wanting to be part of a community that could be bought, least of all by a man like him – the obnoxious “long hours at a high intensity” bullying of his staff began immediately. But I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on there, both randomly, ambling about, and solicited, for stories: “Anyone got catastrophically lonely during Covid?”; “Anyone hooked up with their secondary school boy/girlfriend?” We used to call it the place where you told the truth to strangers (Facebook was where you lied to your friends), and that wide-openness was reciprocal and gorgeous.

    > “Twitter has broken the mould,” Mulhall says. “It’s ostensibly a mainstream platform which now has bespoke moderation policies. Elon Musk is himself inculcated with radical right politics. So it’s behaving much more like a bespoke platform, created by the far right. This marks it out significantly from any other platform. And it’s extremely toxic, an order of magnitude worse, not least because, while it still has terms of service, they’re not necessarily implementing them.”

    > Global civil society, though, finds it incredibly difficult to reject the free speech argument out of hand, because the alternative is so dark: that a number of billionaires – not just Musk but also Thiel with Rumble, Parler’s original backer, Rebekah Mercer (daughter of Robert Mercer, funder of Breitbart), and, indirectly, billionaire sovereign actors such as Putin – are successfully changing society, destroying the trust we have in each other and in institutions. It’s much more comfortable to think they’re doing that by accident, because they just love “free speech”, than that they’re doing that on purpose. “Part of understanding the neo-reactionary and ‘dark enlightenment’ movements, is that these individuals don’t have any interest in the continuation of the status quo,”

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    www.bbc.com How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

    Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft's door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures often signal larger problems.

    How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

    Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft's door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer.

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    www.theguardian.com French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

    New Popular Front predicted to get 172-192 seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and allies down in third

    French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third
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    French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right?

    www.theguardian.com French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right? | Cole Stangler

    Only a whole-hearted endorsement of the New Popular Front coalition can stop the National Rally, says Cole Stangler, a journalist based in Marseille

    French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right? | Cole Stangler
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    www.newstatesman.com How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power

    The European Union was impotent in the face of crisis, while Britain remained agile.

    How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power
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    www.theguardian.com Solar panel waste to reach crisis levels in next two to three years, Australian experts warn

    A 12-year industry roadmap has been unveiled to address the rising amount of solar panel waste headed for the tip

    Solar panel waste to reach crisis levels in next two to three years, Australian experts warn
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    www.theguardian.com Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented

    ‘Hasan’, 24, argued he would face persecution in Israel on grounds of his race, faith and its ‘apartheid regime’

    Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented
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    www.technologyreview.com People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    Compton drew a sharp distinction between the consequences of technological progress on “industry as a whole” and the effects, often painful, on individuals.

    For “industry as a whole,” he concluded, “technological unemployment is a myth.” That’s because, he argued, technology "has created so many new industries” and has expanded the market for many items by “lowering the cost of production to make a price within reach of large masses of purchasers.” In short, technological advances had created more jobs overall. The argument—and the question of whether it is still true—remains pertinent in the age of AI.

    Then Compton abruptly switched perspectives, acknowledging that for some workers and communities, “technological unemployment may be a very serious social problem, as in a town whose mill has had to shut down, or in a craft which has been superseded by a new art.”

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    www.theguardian.com Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Delta Air Lines jet was due to depart Atlanta international airport and none of the crew or passengers were hurt

    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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    www.theguardian.com Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

    Chunk of fuselage also broke away, forcing emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon

    Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
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    www.vanityfair.com The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst

    Silicon Valley’s court of public opinion found the ousted OpenAI chief innocent until proven innocent, exposing the cult of personality that surrounds the tech world’s star CEOs.

    The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst
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    www.wired.com Everyone Is a Luddite Now

    A new history of the Luddites, "Blood in the Machine," argues that 19th century fears about technology are still relevant today. It's the latest in a long line of attempts to reclaim the label.

    Everyone Is a Luddite Now
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    www.theguardian.com Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police

    Fears that China’s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of liberties

    Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police
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