Amstrad had a real genius for taking outdated technology and turning it in to cheap products that were still easy to use and got the job done. But that fooled Sugar in to thinking old tech would alwa… (View Post)

It's infuriating. I get letters like that, and worse, regularly. If a private individual behaved like this they're rightly be open to a charge of demanding money with menaces. I suspect there are lot… (View Post)

That's because the current model of training an LLM, building a huge datacentre to host it and charging people a subscription to use it won't work in all but a very small number of cases. Filling a b… (View Post)

They won't. ID cards, like all the authoritarian moves this government has made, is not about fighting crime or protecting people. They're about the government knowing, and thus being able to control… (View Post)

I don't know why there's any debate about this, it's been demonstrated many times before. If you're bombing random civilians and the other side is bombing your fuel refineries, you lose the war. Citi… (View Post)