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I think a lot of people didn’t hear about this guy until about 2 days ago. Personally I didn’t even know about this petition.

I knew about the lawsuit against The Crew, but I didn’t know anything about any more general petition, so I think the greater problem was simply a lack of advertising.

He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that’s been implied.

I can’t tell if you’re serious or not.

If the internet is down then I don’t have access to the app store. Also if the internet’s down then the data is going to be out of date almost immediately anyway so any cached version would be useless.

How would a novice programmer even know if the code that they’re writing isn’t breaking something else?

I’ve tried getting AI to program really simple things, like converting street addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates, and the code it produces is just awful.

It’s not ready at all for primetime yet, I really wish people would stop pushing it. It’ll get there I’m sure but it needs more time.

Then don’t buy a steam deck. As I said in my comment any handheld PC will do it doesn’t have to be a steam deck.

I’m not surprised it got a bad answer though. The government was completely dysfunctional by that point (and had been well over a year), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just some random civil servant who was just told to weave a fig leaf at it.

They should have gone the other route and just had the woman from 2 point Museum/Campus so it, complete with sarcastic remarks.

“The train is delayed, but you know that already”

There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers.

Yeah, but it needs to be clear, and as much as I love Dave from the pub, he tends to mumble.

Is this the weird football but not really game? I saw it advertised a couple of days ago and it didn’t seem to have a really awful camera.

Just by literally any of the other handheld PCS and just stick an emulator on it if you’re that interested in playing the games. The only reason to buy a Switch 2 is for convenience.

Vibe coding is an utterly stupid idea that just results in you not knowing how the code works.

I’m sorry but that capitalisation is really off-putting.

You’re Not Writing A Headline You Know

Federation is an overly complicated solution it’s not required. It also wouldn’t actually help, they can still take it off the app store there’d be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There’s no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that’s a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that’s probably unnecessary

There was somebody else who works at the company I work at with the same name as me. I will often see my boss typing a message and it goes on for a very long time and then suddenly stops, that’s when I realise that right at the last minute she’s realised she’s messaging the wrong person.

I cannot say I find the experience overly distressing.

Yeah they won’t even discuss it, we’ll just get the same boilerplate response we got last time.

Surely the opposite should be true. It just shows that countries cannot leave the EU because it is far too damaging to their economy

The hostility from the EU about the UK rejoining (especially from France) tells me that’s not likely to happen.

The UK petition ends before the EU petition so my guess is that they’ll give us some canned response before the end of the month. In their heads that will end the discussion.

It was extremely clear what the previous petition was, it was just they weren’t interested in doing anything so they intentionally misunderstood.

Who? I seriously have no idea who you’re talking about.

I honestly think that the main reason this has kicked off is that up until about a week ago it wasn’t really advertised. I didn’t even know that it started the petition up again, I knew the original one failed because parliament closed and for some reason that meant the petition had to end.