thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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It doesn’t look good. Canva is a web based subscription service. It also targets a fairly different market from Affinity.

This could easily end badly for Affinity users. Sad times.

I’ve always been doubtful about these privacy “protection” services. Giving a bunch of personal data and money to a commercial entity making seemingly dubious claims it can compel other services to remove your data has never seemed like a great idea. Data is the new oil, it’s incredibly valuable, and there is too much incentive for companies like that to become just another data collector.

In the UK the BBC are running their own instance social.bbc on trial basis, and I think the trial was recently extended.

Hopefully other public bodies will follow suit.

Some people are suggesting there may be a malicious actor at work, after multiple business have been struck with this in such a short space of time.

It’s also possible the affected business all use a common payment handling software which is experiencing issues.

The Guardian has changed the article’s headline since I posted it here.

The “Youngsters” headline can still be seen via the Wayback Machine’s archive from earlier this morning.

Considering the state of our roads already, it wouldn’t be surprise me if the pothole robot gets stuck in a big pothole.

It’s also got to survive interactions with the general public, who don’t all seem that keen on autonomous vehicles so far.

Reminds me a bit of the short science fiction story There Will Come Soft Rains, about a very diligent smart home still attempting to care for its occupants after the bomb drops.

Horrifying how far our country has sunk. We are supposed to one of the 10 wealthiest countries in the world, yet this is how an increasing number of our people are living.

To say the country has been mismanaged would be the greatest of understatements. Change can not come soon enough, and it also must be sustained for as long as possible. One term of government will not be enough, the rot that taken hold could take a generation or more to truly fix.

There’s also the Spectrum Next project, an FPGA based modernised Spectrum. Only available via crowdfunding but they are possibly doing another round on Kickstarter sometime this year I think.

Kids have been watching plenty of brain melting videos before AI came along too.

If you want kid’s brains to stay nice and firm don’t let them be raised by a tablet.

You will struggle to find anything decent at that price new.

Plenty of good used options though, a used ThinkPad will have great Linux compatibility and be serviceable. They can be very cheap depending on how older hardware you can tolerate. There are other business grade laptops from Dell, HP etc that have good refurb deals too.

There’s been a noticeable shift on r/UnitedKingdom since around the time of the Reddit protests. I no longer participate there but I’ve seen quite a bit of extra unpleasantness the few times of taken a curious look at it.

Not that it was ever a great place to discuss trans issues, but the nastiness seems to be spreading to all manner of topics now.

That’s the problem with sitting on the fence. The fence sitter thinks they will avoid upsetting either side by taking a side, but ends up leaving them both disappointed by not doing so.

There isn’t always a safe play to make for every issue. It’s a lesson I thought Labour would have learned after failing with their deliberately muddled Brexit messaging.

There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t wish we had chaos with Ed Miliband.

The stable and strong government we’ve had with the 5 successive Tory PMs (so far) since that election has been far worse.

I know a few people in situations like this. Living with family and ticking over on occasional informal cash in hand labour or on previously accumulated savings.

I’m not sure this even can be explained…

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Reminds me a bit of the 90s series Street Sharks.

From the way things are going with Prevent, it may soon consider anyone forming somewhat strong opinions on anything to be an extremist.

"Marmite, you either love or you hate it are required by the state to be neutral about it."

There is still an enormous amount of C++ code still in use (and other unsafe languages for that matter). It is still an actively developed and used language, and likely will be for many years to come. Having at least a basic grounding in it is very valuable element of flexibility for any potential programmer, as well as an understanding of the underlying concepts.