johneth

Pedestrians can cross anywhere in the UK, except motorways. The barriers near crossings is likely to funnel nearby pedestrians to that one spot to cross, rather than spreading out, as it's usually at a traffic light or intersection.

Because not blocking these tools causes additional operational costs.

For example, higher return rate for online shopping (because the tools didn't buy the correct thing, or maybe they bought something that they shouldn't have).

Or, the tool ignores the adverts on an ad-supported website, intended for humans, basically just adding costs for no benefit to the site.

Or, the tool wastes customer services' time on something that ultimately the agent's operator didn't even want in the first place.

They're just off the top of my head.

> It's insane to me that people don't see that agents are going to be how you interact with your computer going forward, almost exclusively

You are in a bubble. Normal people (i.e. 99% of people) will not use these agentic tools:

* Some, probably most, won't use them because they don't trust them

* Agentic tool providers can't possibly supply everyone with their own free agentic tooling

* The vast majority of people will not pay providers what it will cost to run these agentic tools (or even anything)

* The vast majority of people cannot afford to buy their own hardware to run their own agentic tools in-house

* Agentic tooling is mostly useless for most people (who cares that it can check you into flights, most people don't have that kind of problem)

.public seems dangerous to me.

They need to keep you watching to a certain extent, otherwise you'd eventually question why you're subscribed in the first place.

And not all EU members have ratified CETA either, so I'm not sure why everyone's getting their hopes up about "associate membership", whatever that is (it's not defined in the EU treaties). They can't even fully ratify a trade deal after almost a decade.

> they don't want cheap gas

You don't strengthen an enemy (Russia) by buying their products. Defence is more important.

> as well as shutting down reactors

A German problem, not a wider European one.

The solution is to accelerate the transition into electric vehicles (including HGVs etc.), renewable energy, and nuclear. Oil is obviously still needed for materials production, air fuel, and so on, but extricating ourselves from situations where oil is becoming optional as fast as possible is the best course, not continuing to buy cheap gas from an aggressive neighbour that's fucking your elections and invading its neighbour.

There's also the JA4+ suite (https://github.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4), in addition to standard JA4.

> My point is that this term has been used so loosely, it has lost its meaning.

Have you taken a look at X/Twitter lately? There is a lot of out and out racism. Don't give the benefit of the doubt that it's just people who want "border control".

You've got to start somewhere with these things, where better than the UN?

There's JA4 fingerprinting (and the JA4+ suite), but still not a surefire way of detecting. Plus the metadata for the signatures has to be constantly maintained and updated.

Bright Data et al.

Just look at another tab while you're waiting if you're that bothered.

If there was a way of detecting the proxy SDKs, it would be a simple matter of banning the device. Or at least naming and shaming the apps that use them.

> She had to go to Berlin data authority periodically and report status.

That seems more of a German bureaucracy thing rather than GDPR specifically.

The UK, which does still implement GDPR from its time as a member state, does not require this level of officiousness.

I'd have to agree, given the past alerts (https://www.gov.uk/alerts/past-alerts) seem to be reasonable and localised.

Hopefully they take heed.

They "believe" that for the sake of their stock options and IPOs, not out of any actual belief.

The benefit of not being MITM'd by Cloudflare is probably worth it in many cases.

LLMs are not unbiased. Nothing is unbiased.

> Those who are attempting to mislead won't.

Sure, but this mandate means that if they're caught (which isn't unlikely), they can be fined up to 3% of revenue (not profit). Sure, many will be outside the EU's jurisdiction, but not all. Taken together, this will have a chilling effect, not stopping it entirely, but likely reducing it.

From their style guide:

"Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Maga, Sars, Aids, Nasa, Opec, Apec)."

(Under "acronym": https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/a )

Yes, they have no obligations to you, just as you have no obligations to them (beyond whatever licenses apply to their content).

What makes you think Paul Graham knows what he's talking about re: space, data centers, and the logistics of lifting data centers into space and the ongoing maintenance of them. I don't understand the deification his thoughts receive around here.

The other parties aren't standing in this particular byelection because they (correctly) realise that it's just a media stunt by Farage, who is attempting to paint himself as a victim of establishment harassment (while being the epitome of 'the establishment' himself). By not standing, and forcing Farage to run against joke candidates, they've made a fool of him (which generally harms populists more than anything else you can throw at them).

The other parties have all said that they will run candidates against Farage in the almost inevitable second byelection that will by triggered later when parliament finishes its investigation into his corruption and punishes him for it.

> If you go in with the assumption that democracy does not work, then there is also no point in protesting

You mean peaceful protesting. There are other kinds of protesting that may have better success.

> i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality

It's called being out-of-touch obscenely wealthy coupled with a massive ego.

It is extremely difficult for me to care about the fate of private schools. In my opinion, they shouldn't exist. If the rich are forced to send their children to the same schools as everyone else, maybe they'll pressure the government to improve said schools.

Out of pure curiosity, which UK bank was it?

I think "over-18" posts on X within the feed are hidden behind a "please verify your age" button if you've not verified your age (in UK and parts of EU, probably Australia too). They're intermixed with non-hidden posts.

X lets post authors mark their content as NSFW, and I'd assume they're doing some sort of algorithmic checking or making use of user reports of content to classify content too, to varying degrees of success. It's definitely subject to the whims of the platform owner, given the sheer amount of racism, sexism, and porn that isn't marked.

My account is >18 years old so it never showed up for me (it just used the account age to determine I'm old enough), so I'm going by what others have said.

Completely ignoring all the ways in which space data centers are fucking infeasible for a moment.

Just because there are no laws in space, you still need to launch your rockets from a place that has laws.