Spudger

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The problem with No. 10 is that there's no one in there old enough to remember walking to school through winter smog. Pollution kills and legislation saves lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just read what I said again. Mrs Spudger does this for a living. She knows what she's talking about. The phone doesn't have to be connected to the public internet. It can just be connected to a private wi-fi network for this purpose.

Phones like this are very tightly locked down. This is not the iPhone you may be used to. The management software even has its own private Apps Store. The user can't just add or remove random apps from the public App Store. The device manager can also prevent any deletion of content.

These things aren't left to chance, especially when we're talking about the highest office in the land.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here's a quote from the manual:

"Reset user passwords

If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID."

In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn't need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here's a quote from the manual:

"Reset user passwords

If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID."

In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn't need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't the Tories bring in some legislation that would enable the government to store all our private communications? I know this buffoon will argue that the law is only supposed to apply to the little people. It doesn't count for old Etonians.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It's exactly what authors do. This is about money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oh, it's not that simple. I could call, email or any number of other methods. It's just that I'd rather not communicate with a right wing, paranoid, fear-spreading, racist nut job. I just need to know they're still breathing. This individual is spewing bile every single day,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some gems there among the Des O'Connor stuff. Cheers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last weekend I was rummaging around in the clearance bin at the local entertainment shop. I picked up One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and A Clockwork Orange for $5.00 each and Quatermass and the Pit for $2.95. That's this weekend sorted for telly time. Mrs Spudger hasn't seen any of these.

Oh, and new speakers too, at long last.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to suggest Ralf Horris but his play date with karma didn't go as well as he'd hoped.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good news. I use it once a week to check if a relative is still alive.

 

The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.

 

There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission).

In our chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Lying, we look at hallucinations, omissions, and other aspects of “lying” in computer-generated texts. We conclude that these problems are probably inevitable.

 

We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021.

We are now delighted to let the world know that they are doubling down on sovereignty and sustainability: gematik is the first organisation of the public sector to join the Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member.

 

diseasement, n.

The fact or condition of being deprived of ease; uneasiness, disquiet, trouble; (as a count noun) a cause of uneasiness, discomfort, or trouble.

 

This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.

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