mildly

Vorta is an awesome front end to Borg for machines with a gui.

When you’re working on a file that was last updated six years ago

MechaHitler, take the wheel

why not

why

Open source software and hardware are the only technology future.

nice

I ❤️ IPv4

Almost anything with managing kids’ behavior.

If you want them not to do something, tell them a bunch of things to do instead. (It may be appropriate to discuss the undesired behavior later).

Want them to talk to you? Listen to them.

Want them to learn a lot and be successful in school? Praise their effort, and not their intelligence or knowledge.

The solution to too many unnecessarily-connected devices is more connected devices?

They didn’t brick it, but the Nest thermostats that customers bought before Google acquired the company will be offline only now. No opening of the firmware, so they’ll become useless at some point, and already have lost major functionality.

yes

Check

if the letter is for dad, it’s relative

not quite sure it’s not starting out enshittified

…

Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use of copyright material when training AI tools.

Without it, they argued, tech firms would be given free rein to help themselves to UK content without paying for it, and then train their AI products to mimic it, putting human artists out of work.

That would be “committing theft, thievery on a high scale”, Sir Elton John told the BBC.

He was one of a number of household names from the UK creative industries, including Sir Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa to oppose the government.

The government refused the amendment. It says it is already carrying out a separate consultation around copyright and it wants to wait for the outcome of that.

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Teslas