Darwin awards are won by removing yourself from the gene pool. These traitors to their own species may end doing that not by killing themselves, but by wiping out the entirety of the human kind.
23% of that debt is owned by the Bank of England ("Gilt and Treasury Bill Holding"), which in turn is owned by... the British government.
Some more background information: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk...
In short, it is a choice to be beholden to the bond markets in this way. It is a political choice to outsource the fiscal margins of government spending to the financial sector, and paying them lavishly for that privilege. And no, I'm not saying this means you can spend endlessly on anything without very bad consequences. It's just that it's a very expensive way to provide the money supply and private savings, while giving enormous budgetary power to a sector that has proven time and again that it's unable to properly manage the economy's funding (if it's even interested in that at all, rather than just in enriching itself).
Eventually, I'll have my AI read the summary for me.
Yup, that's basically what the 'next step' means. "The goal is to eventually expand beyond summaries to agent-like tasks". The agent will read the summary an make actions on your behalf.
The end game is not needing to have you around at all.
Overall, a better approach than the doctor saying "Fentanyl isn't really that bad. You can keep shooting up as long as you have Narcan."
To make the metaphor accurate, instead of Narcan the doctor would be recommending a new novelty drug whose results are untested in the human body, and for which no antidote is known.
You can turn on a setting in about:config that will add an option to connect to a locally hosted LLM model, typically running in your GPU with something like Ollama, LM Studio or Anything LLM.
I would like that such option was displayed as prominent as those connecting to commercial services, but at least it's there for those in the know.
Anubis has the side effect that it stops the internet archive crawler.
Even though it whitelists the IA crawlers by default?
Wouldn't it be nice if companies treated people well and we didn't need unions?
Companies treated workers well, and Western governments provided a welfare state, because of the menace of the Soviet Union looking as a more attractive option to workers.
Once the Soviet Union imploded ending the Cold War, there were no menace anymore and the ruling class returned to their previous mode of operation, dialling the clock back to the XIX century with it's Dickensian Laissez-faire.
It's only logical that when we go back to the conditions that motivated Socialism, workers bring back the same old techniques of class warfare. Welcome to the New World Order, same as the Old.
Anubis has worked well for us to get rid of most of the scrapers from our wiki, including the ones faking regular user agents.
It's not just data centres, many of the requests from regular broadband IP addresses. I think they're using "services" of bottom feeders like Scraper API, or buying from the authors of malicious web browser extensions.
It doesn't matter where the wealth comes from; in other countries it comes from the entrepreneurship and hard labor from its workers.
The trick is then to distribute the products of that wealth among all the people, instead of concentrating more than half of it on the hands of a very small privileged class that then gets to decide how it's spent.
This is an interesting perspective. Maybe the "problem" with Norway is more a problem with how the rest of us pick and choose which metrics represent our values. Productivity, work hours, student test scores. Why are these the goals? Why not happiness or contentment, however that might be measured? Or physical or mental health? Crime? It seems to me that productivity, work hours, and test scores are merely means to the real ends of happiness and well-being.
Be careful, you may be up to discover the European way of thinking where "productivity" and "net worth" and "concentrating all the political power in a few lobbies that control the government"* are not synonyms with economic health but rather "safety net" and "well-being" do.
*We tried the last one in the times of the Roman Empire and decided that it's not a good model to live with.
can we name it 'Actual Pluto'?
I suspect most here on slashdot would have sided with those "experts" had they lived at the time
And they'd do well, because the Ptolemaic guys were better than anyone else in predicting the movements of planets.
And by keeping with the good work, their successors were able to keep compiling and refining good observations, and ultimately be able to overcome the previous model that have served them well.
The point is not to have "The Absolute Truth" at any one particular point (only religious nutjobs do that), the point is to have a reasonable corpus of observations that get cross-checked with reality so that you do not get blinded by dogma.
Not to mention the fanaticism effect of being born and raised all your life with a "purpose larger than you".
There would be a few sceptics that curse their ancestors for condemning them to a life enclosed in a tin can, but my guess is for most of them to live like a small community of religious pilgrim settlers.
Is 2025 the Year of Linux on the Desktop then?
More likely 2026, when Valve releases Steam OS for desktop PCs.
Please go away.
