allywilson

allywilson , 3 months ago to United Kingdom in AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

Exactly. I keep hearing this "they're taking our jobs" argument, and it's been going on for a long time. The people saying this are not lookng at the stats of how many people are now employed compared to 10, 100 years ago. From the industrial revolution onwards, it's been generally an upward trend.

allywilson , 3 months ago to United Kingdom in UK network operators ask govt to fend off attacks on fiber

It's the best characteristic of English, I think. It's alive, it changes and we do very little to prevent that from happening (unlike French or German).

allywilson , 3 months ago to United Kingdom in Driver deliberately crashed into cars he thought were being badly driven

"a nudge?" on a fucking motorway? JFC peoples misunderstanding of physics is terrfiying.

allywilson , 3 months ago to Map Enthusiasts in Country calling codes

Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, who moved to Canada and then moved to the US.

allywilson , 3 months ago to Map Enthusiasts in Country calling codes

It's not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is...fine...but I've not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.

allywilson , 3 months ago to Technology in iOS 17.4 is now out with support for third party app stores in the EU

shakes head in Brexit

allywilson , 3 months ago to Technology in New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News

It's weird they mention the C2PA but don't link to it: https://c2pa.org/

allywilson , 4 months ago to United Kingdom in Shamima Begum loses bid to regain UK citizenship

I think it was a bit of a race to be honest. If Bangladesh revoked her citizenship first, the UK couldn't have.

As a Brit-born to Brit parents, if I have gained, say, Irish citizenship (or Spanish, or Kenyan, whatever) then the UK could revoke my citizenship under the same rules. It's the fact she had another citizenship that allowed them to do this at all.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some horrible racist pieces of shit who would see it as you've described, but I don't think this is one of them.

allywilson , 4 months ago to FoodPorn in My first attempt at beef Wellington

I felt the same way after making a Shooter's sandwich.

allywilson , 5 months ago to Technology in "Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet

I've actually thought for a while now that a big software company should come out and say they support ReactOS for whatever their product is and advertise it like "Full, Oracle 23c DB support on ReactOS - but without the Microsoft tax."

Yes, that's not realistic between Oracle and MS, but it would be such a boon to ReactOS.

allywilson , 5 months ago to Technology in AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached.

I can't access that (Reddit blocked in DNS), care to summarise?

allywilson , 5 months ago to Technology in AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached.

I had no idea! That's mental.

allywilson , 5 months ago to Technology in AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached.

Self host RustDesk if you need an alternative.

allywilson , 5 months ago to United Kingdom in Brianna Ghey's killers named

Exactly. These things should not have been named or their faces publicised. They should not get attention.

allywilson , 5 months ago to Linux in Top comment gets to choose my hostname

I wonder, what characters are allowed? $0 would be interesting, or even the fork-bomb classic.