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Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:54AM (#49584250)
> Two things fall straight out of that.

Hi Claude

Re:Creepy Crawlies on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:21AM (#49506643)
Here is an idea: instead of PoW do “proof of AI” each user who wants to access the page run AI/LLM prompts to undercut the corpos abusing the pages
Re:The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:15AM (#49255822)
What country have you been living in? The UK is most certainly at war with anonymity: one of the highest CCTV countries in the world, key disclosure, OSA, KYC means yes you do need to scan your passport/ID now for any financial institution, Apple stopping full device encryption, the only thing left is ID cards and we will have no anonymity at all.
The Hemel one is more “complicated” but honestly it’s easy, you just do one roundabout at a time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst...

Re:TDF ejects its core developers on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:09AM (#47626267)
Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.
Re:The Document Foundation ejects its core developers on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:55PM (#47604222)
Euro office looking very suspicious here
Re:Parametric CAD in Rust on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:52AM (#46794168)
Note that one of the co-authors of the source is "Claude"
This is a semi joke answer but I have worked at some of the big corps and see how they use OSS software. One way I have continuously thought about to prevent usage is to make all of the variables/function names/APIs contain profanity and PR incorrect jokes. I do know that every single corp has a profanity filter to prevent any bad word being added to code. It’s not bullet-proof but certainly makes it a lot more difficult to get that code on corpo servers and past legal.
That’s my issue with it: iot devices shouldn’t have access to the internet by default. With Matter it’s possible. No one is going to create outbound firewall rules for these things.
Same but I can’t access archive.is either because of the VPN
Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).

I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. > Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea.

Not really, AI easily automates traditional captchas now. At least this one does not need extensions to bypass.

Re:Funding Open Source like public infrastructure on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:44PM (#44906052)
If you are looking for OSS support for things like libre office, graphics, bluetooth, WSI, upstreaming, kernel and more, Collabora is a UK based company that can help~
I have the same Samsung sound bar and absolutely nothing works. We need to hard reset it every day because it refuses to work, switching between programmes in Netflix causes a horrible loud crack, the latest one is having speakers out of sync. Really bad. Unfortunately the rtings reviewers didn’t seem to test any of these things.
Re:DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:10AM (#42917073)
The government wants to introduce a law to make it illegal to possess AI tools that are capable of CSAM output. As we know this is impossible, any company starting in the UK with AI will likely fail compared to other countries if this law passes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d90qe4nylo

Re:NordVPN Says Its New Protocol Can Circumvent VPN Blockers on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:28PM (#42872740)
As a test: I am always on a vpn
But at least with Google captchas you can use AI to solve them. I use the buster captcha extension to solve them. It moves the mouse around like a human and solves automatically. I pay for captcha solvers for hcaptcha which is worse but cloudflare is just cancer. It’s made the web unusable
The last SiFive board I had died after about a year of use and is no longer supported so buyer beware
I use AI to solve my captchas now. Pay for the service from nopecha, the internet has been killed for VPNs without it
Re:Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:39PM (#41040089)
Has the btrfs sub volume quota bug been fixed yet? I always had issues when using it
Re:Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:31AM (#40739860)
I'm using Octopus mentioned in the article, I got paid £0.67 to use 12.62kWh over 4 hours due to spare energy in the UK on 8th June. So not really worth it financially, but the ability is there already to help even out the load.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to remove CO2 in a bedroom? on Sunday June 16, 2024 @08:22AM (#40696527)
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery is a common term (MVHR). Basically a fan but it tries to recover the heat lost in winter. Usually comes as a whole house system but there are some that do single rooms.
Re:ESASky on Saturday June 15, 2024 @03:01PM (#40691925)
Beautiful, but could do with using quaternions for rotation to avoid gimbal lock. At least I assume that’s the problem with getting stuck on the poles
Not sure why you are being downvoted, quote from the video "It's actually systemd's fault":

https://youtu.be/Q6ovtLdSbEA?feature=shared&t=1491

Very much, I think the Guardian could do well by including the graph with min/max/average
A way I have found is to install with two physical disks: two GPT tables and two UEFI boot loaders; then have the BIOS select which to boot from. Windows does not seem to mess across disks but certainly will do across the same disk still.
Re:Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:29AM (#38047410)
I’m close to putting all my money in crypto and using prepaid cards to avoid the utter hell I have to deal with to pay for something using a normal bank.
Inkscape is one of the best programs out there. I use it for everything now. Did you know it can do mesh gradients too now

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