Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it’s Microsoft, so they’ll be sending data home either way.

Most people don’t realize how slow Windows is. When you try something else, you realize how much time you have been spending just waiting for Windows to do things. Our computers can be a lot faster than Windows lets them be.

Some senior exec at Microsoft asked for this.

Yes, that’s why I’d like to run something as clean as NixOS. For now my compromise is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed’s btrfs snapshots.

Sorry, I didn’t notice. I’ve fixed it.

I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years and I recently noped out of NixOS. It’s a great concept, but I’m old and I don’t want to spend the rest of my days configuring stuff just to get to where I would be in 30 minutes on a less rigorously designed distro.

This fantasy of “I’m one of the good ones and all the people worse than me need to be killed” seems common to religious fanatics and authoritarians. Maybe it’s why nationalism and religious fanaticism often go together. Their followers share an inability to accept how complex and messy the world is, and how they’re not special.

How is that relevant to this article?

On Android, Firefox Focus can be useful for this. It doesn’t keep cookies, so sites that allow you only a few free articles think each visit is your first.

That sounds good, but when you start thinking about how to implement this practically, it seems like it would either be unfeasible or would fail to really address the problem.

Maybe the rule would be: Unicode is allowed only in resource files. It would make code comments awkward for many non-English-speaking programmers. But suppose you did it, then since URLs can include Unicode, it would become normal to put URLs in resource files. If the VCS flagged up Unicode commits in source code, it would have to give resource files a pass. So in any case where you’re not hardcoding a URL it wouldn’t flag up Unicode URL abuses like the one illustrated here. You wouldn’t really have fixed the problem, just hidden it in a different way. You’d still need to flag up ambiguous Unicode characters in resource files.

Can’t take off either, so Poland is really doing them a favour.

https://archive.is/1VTjj

They sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent. Apparently there’s a lot of it going around.

Here’s one report that mentions some of his statements:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/palm-springs-explosion-motive-revealed-guy-edward-bartkuss-manifesto-chilling-audio-recording-emerge-101747539865219.html

You are arguing that most people enjoy life, and those who predict that others’ lives will be full of suffering tend to projecting their own feelings onto those as yet unborn. The antinatalist might argue that, though historically this may have been the case, the circumstances are now different: climate change or the likelihood of nuclear war (for example) is sure to bring suffering hitherto unknown to us, for everyone in the coming generations. The debate would then be about (1) how certain this future suffering is, (2) whether there’s a type of suffering that makes any life not worth living (or whether the value of life even relates to what suffering it contains), and (3) how much suffering, or what kind of suffering, we can best predict for these future people. We can have these debates, but I don’t think it’s obvious that the reasoning of someone who disagrees with you must be “pants-on-head level”. These are serious questions that intelligent people can consider, and the antinatalist position is a serious position that you don’t have to be an idiot to arrive at.

Stories of young women being taken to Al Fayed’s office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire’s death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.

The UK is good at this. Somehow it’s impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.

Now now, there’s no need to be extreme. Keep the letter polite, and show a little good will by agreeing to everything the fascists propose.

That wasn’t the bomber’s objection to it. He didn’t like people being born “without consent”, and the IVF clinic was a cause of people being born (of course without consent, since you must be born before you can consent to anything). There are legitimate philosophical debates about the morality of having children, but blowing things up is not usually part of the debate.

There were people all the way up the masts and all over the rigging, which made this accident worse.

The masts were too tall for the bridge so it seems they didn’t intend to go towards the bridge, but the ship apparently lost power and drifted backwards under it.