I thought CoPilot was just a rebagged ChatGPT anyway?

It’s a silly experiment anyway, there are very good AI chess grandmasters but they were actually trained to play chess, not predict the next word in a text.

Seems fair enough, these things cost money and the #BBC is in a race to diversify it’s income in preparation for the license fee going away. The dynamic description sounds like they want to preserve the casual visitors experience of an open site.

I get ads on my BBC podcasts when I’m abroad. I assume that’s all part of it.

I think the first proper internet I had was downloading files from FTP servers at university. The first time I had it from home was over a modem to Demon ISP running some cobbled together TCP/IP stack for my Atari Falcon.

It was wild back then, I think even on windows you needed to install an IP stack before you could do anything because Windows didn’t have one but default because why would you?

Very expensive and still slower than an hard coded ASIC.

Sure if they needed to bypass ads I can introduce them to Free tube or whatever but for all it’s sins they need moderated exposure to the YouTube experience so they’re equipped enough not to go totally wild when they finally have unfettered access.

I thought my youngest was all about watching hour long Minecraft playthroughs but really they are quite interested in game mechanics and speed running. They are just a lot more tolerant of watching hours of videos around a particular game.

I don’t overly police their content consumption (although we do talk about limiting shorts). The main thing is at the weekend to kick them off the TV after the morning to go and do something more interactive.

When we first let the kids watch YouTube it was on the main TV with it’s own account. We have consistently monitored it and actively prune recommendations while slowly introducing them to the concept of “the algorithm”. From secondary school they pretty much need YouTube on their own PC’s for homework reasons and it’s harder to totally lock down - we use the family link controls to limit it a little but if they tried to get around them they could. The hope is we’ve at least prepared them a little before they have totally unfettered access to the internet.

We did try YouTube kids a little but it was such a garbage experience we just blocked the app everywhere.

The article says it only applied to apps requesting certain permissions. I agree I’m an ideal world it would be nice to get f-droid directly from the Play store but at least according to the article the ability to install it isn’t being blocked here.

From the article it sounds like the limitations come for some app types downloaded directly from a browser. I think this doesn’t affect alternate app stores like f-droid where you are effectively delegating approval to their process.

I have come across the other limitations mentioned with the Home Assistant companion app which I could only get matter registration to work with the version downloaded from the Play store.

I’m forever telling my children to pay attention in car parks because they are full of moving cars.

There were some AI pictures in the talks I saw last week. But they where put in to illustrates a point - I doubt otherwise the engineer would hire an artist for some bespoke art for their talk. It’s probably better than just copy and pasting off the internet without much attribution.

I used to when they first came out. There are some genuinely good talks in the archives. However there is definitely a trend and style to them.

PipePipe seems to work with my login to play age restricted stuff. I do generally have to trigger a login through settings and then research the video through.

Does anyone know what the underlying filesystem is on DSM? The ability to easily replace disks with a degree of redundancy across the 4 bays is the biggest plus point for Synology although I have no doubt all the bits underneath are the Linux storage stack.

It’s a shame because I really like the point and click nature of DSM. Although I’m a happy Linux hacker I don’t want another Linux box to suck up my limited admin time just to store files.

I migrated away from the mobile app to PipePipe just to avoid shorts and I pay for premium.

Bold of you to assume we’ll make it that far. I’m not convinced that our current networked CO2 phase isn’t another great filter event.

I played my youngest (11) the Pickle Rick episode but told them a lot of the other episodes had adult themes that night go over their head so maybe when they’re older.

So that’s how the family ended up running through all the seasons over about 3 weeks. Some stuff they didn’t pick up on but got raised eyebrows from the older sibling (13) but all in all they loved it. Rick’s even trying to improve as a person in the latter seasons so it’s not totally niahlistic.

Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don’t think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That’s taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it’s phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.

That’s not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.

RISC-V’s challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers “special sauce” custom instructions.

Gaining design wins over Arm’s microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.