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British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
  • Different countries have different insults, simple as. Calling someone a spook means radically different things on both ends of the Atlantic.

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    How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?
  • Use it every day. Yeah wireless earphones are great, but they're far from perfect; some pairs have delays and issues with audio quality, turning on bluetooth drains my phone battery quicker, and I have enough devices which I need to maintain and recharge all the time - I can't be doing with another one.

    The only hassle you get with wired earphones is them tangling up and limiting how far you can move your head, but I'd take those over connection issues any day.

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    America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland
  • I get where you're coming from, but to say that its akin to a civil war when there's a unilateral mechanism for unification and there's been lasting peace for decades... Feels a little reductionist.

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    Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone
  • The real Mildly Infuriating is that someone directly copied one of Stephen Merchant's tweets word for word.

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    Weekly Megathread 17/07/2023
  • It was around ~8:20. I don't know if I'd say it's worth listening to, but it's refreshing to hear someone working with AI/ML talk realistically about what they're presenting to the world - as opposed to bigging it up for investors or deriding it as a plague onto the world. Cleggers was simply talking about how LLAMA (their new ML system) is practically glorified auto-fill, and discussed the merits around open-sourcing ML stuff in the industry.

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    Weekly Megathread 17/07/2023
  • Was listening to Radio 4 on the way in, Nick Clegg being asked about Meta's ML Language Model and... I can't believe I agreed with Clegg throughout 🤮

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  • Well I did it, I registered a domain, got a host, and my website is technically live but all I have is a single test page and only now do I realise I'm pretty much in over my head because I've never done anything like this before. Oh well, sink or swim innit.

    My first port of call was bearblog which appealed to me with how excruciatingly lightweight and simple the pages it produced were. I don't want something with bells and whistles, just simple pages that load easily and can be collated in a list.

    Unfortunately you can't self-host with bearblog so that went out the window. A lot of other blogs seem to require Python which I have no idea how to use... And I'm overwhelmed and honestly a little bit anxious.

    I'm half-tempted to put my minor html + css skills to use, act like it's 1998 and simply write out my blog as static pages. I realise how foolish it is but that's the sort of simplicity I'd be looking for. I don't want any bloat, really.

    Any advice for someone in over their head would be appreciated, thank you.

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