In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

Labour chose to take this particular stance today. There are many other approaches they could have taken, they could have also tried to dodge the matter and kick they can down the road, but instead “trans women are not women” is what they have chosen to actively embrace.

(Further) pandering to the transphobic lobby is not necessary, and what’s been said today is far beyond pandering.

They could have announced they would look to introduce new legislation to address this. They could have said just about anything instead of what’s been said today.

But they didn’t, they are instead parroting the court ruling as if it’s a final settlement on the issue as whole.

There is no weaselling around these words, the only debate is whether it exposes cowardice or bigotry.

Even by the low standards I had for Labour’s approach, this is depressing.

Already happening sadly, and not by accident either. It’s not just about rolling back trans rights, it’s about dragging us back to narrow and restrictive ideas of sex and gender in general.

The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

I think AbiWord is still around, which used to be the FOSS simple, WordPad-like word processor of choice.

Some of the buildings constructed using RAAC were only intended to be temporary structures, regardless of the knowledge of the material’s true lifespan.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn for example, was opened in 1980 and was intended to last only 25 years. But it is still being used today, 43 years later. It is finally being replaced, but only after it’s RAAC roof started to fail and had to be held up by hundreds of temporary supports.

Buildings like this would have been replaced long ago if consecutive governments had not failed to properly invest in our public infrastructure.

This was a meme before we even called them memes.

Astronomical names of stars and planets have started to be used. I don’t know if it’s an official thing or just a media thing.

There was another variant a few days ago called Eris, which seemed to be tempting fate a bit considering Eris is also the Greek goddess of strife!

That’s what I thought, it seems easier to regain control of the domain than trying to recall all products with it printed on.

Perhaps they were worried it would become a bigger scandal and thought a recall and refund would look better to the public.

Always surprises me how often domain renewals seem to get forgotten about too. Even big tech companies have been caught out by this.

For now it’s schools with crumbling concrete, soon we will all have to move online due to a crumbling country.

No doubt the iPhone 15 will be the main focus of the event, but I wonder what if anything new will be said about the Vision Pro too.

These aren’t new or changed system settings though, apart from maybe Windows Hello (which isn’t new anyway). Nearly everything on this screen is an attempt to upsell users on Microsoft’s subscription products.

If a user doesn’t want to buy those subscription products, and is given no way to properly decline, that it is a user hostile experience.

The pioneers of computing have a lot history of (mis)using their systems in fun ways.

A favourite story of mine is the developers at Sun Microsystems creating the PizzaTool software to order pizza from a Unix workstation.

The first commercially manufactured webcam was released by SGI in 1993, the Indycam for the Indy workstation, the same year the coffee pot went public on the web.

There were small scale video calling systems around even before that, although they weren’t based on web/IP technologies.

You may get better results by using both indoor and outdoor lux sensors. Depending on the sun position, room layouts and window locations there can be a quite a difference in outdoor and indoor lux levels, which might interfere with your automations.

I use a combination of Aqara Zigbee motion sensors, which also have a lux sensor, a couple of dedicated lux sensors, and my outdoor security cameras which have a day and night sensor.

You can always try it with one and add more if you need more granularity. Every smart home is different.

Relying on sun positions and weather data can be a bit hit and miss for lighting automations. I originally used to limit some of my light automations to only turn on between sunset and sunrise - when it should be dark.

But often when there was heavy cloud during daylight it would be dark enough to want lights, but the available weather data I had was never accurate enough to tell heavy gloomy clouds from lighter clouds.

I added some light sensors to the mix and my automations have been a light more accident and flexible.

Yes, I don’t really understand the plastic hate for a monitor. The only time I manually handle my monitor is when I set it up in the first place.

Metal chassis are great on portable devices, but I don’t get the necessity for something that rarely if ever moves.

Yes, I am always disappointed 5K didn’t properly supplant 1440p in the monitor market. 4K at 27" is workable but the scaling can never be as good as 5K would be.