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In the UK people prefer subtitles to dubbing, although that is different across parts of Europe. Foreign language programmes are quite popular.

One big problem is that US actors have a history of recording adverts, so they are not classically trained, unlike a lot of British actors who have backgrounds on the stage and so have learned to speak clearly.

I hate having to watch movies and TV with the subtitles on — the mumbling may be realistic, but I'm paying for escapism.

Pdfs are terrible for letter style docs on phones (reflowable text is better, say in emails), but they are great as slides. Certainly easier to distribute or display than proprietary PPT editors.

My XPS13 with pre-installed Ubuntu sleeps fine without any battery-running-down issue. Is this a Windows issue?

The Queen rubber stamps everything that comes from parliament - no screening happens, ever. Unfortunately.

Looks like the data protection regulator, ICO, disagrees with the government's stance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60072191

> "Having access to encrypted content is not the only way to catch abusers," Mr Bonner said.

> "Law enforcers have other methods such as listening to reports of those targeted, infiltrating the groups planning these offences, using evidence from convicted abusers and their systems to identify other offenders."

> The ICO says the government should continue to maximise law enforcement techniques instead of seeking to weaken encryption.

> "Until we look properly at the consequences, it is hard to see any case for reconsidering the use of E2EE"

The web experience is hostile due to its capture by megacorps that are too powerful to be regulated.

The internet is a different issue. I have a great experience with my new fiber connection, SSH and Wireguard VPNs are all good. The persistence of smaller, calmer and noncommercial networks like Signal Messenger, XMPP, Matrix Mastodon and Gemini show that positive interactions on the 'net are possible when commercial imperatives are dampened or removed.

The Web, though, is a corporate capitalist dumpster fire.

Nah.

Longer version: Proof or work wastes energy by design, and while proof of stake is less wasteful, it is still not remotely as efficient or performant as modern banking systems. Proof of (hard drive) Capacity is wasteful of device production and running energy, and proof of elapsed time seems to be a lottery system, which looks likely to be difficult to secure in practice.

This is the same type of problem as the popular 2011 problem [1] of evaluating 48/2(9+3). The answer, really, is that it is ambiguous, so 8/2(2+2)/16 cannot be evaluated without further clarification or assumption. Any rule that anyone comes up with will not be widely accepted enough to be a convincing result.

The lesson is that you shouldn't write ambiguous expressions. 8/2(2+2)/16 is clearly worked out using the left-to-right rule, giving an answer of 1, while 8/(2(2+2))/16 gives 1/16.

[1] https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.htm...

Pictures of text support the OP and really annoy me.

Kristall is good, but Lagrange is more finished, imho. But the great thing about Gemini is that it is possible to write a fully featured Gemini browser in a weekend, so there are plenty about. Just try writing your own Web browser with anything less than a couple-billion dollars handy. Even Microsoft gave up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29291392

Lagrange is the best of the Gemini clients right now, if you are looking for a GUI app. It launches in a fraction of a second, which is blissful compared to launching a full-fat web browser, and you get the lean, clean pages that Gemini offers, with no need for extensions and adblockers, javascript or fancy frame-based pages.. Although Lagrange does handle multimedia well, it is focussed on making plain unicode text look beautiful.

From the documentation:

Dependency free: it depends only on Python and its standard library. It interacts with other packages like numpy and uncertainties if they are installed

It's not 'mixing' so much as taking standard approaches to Markdown, which usually supports LaTeX markup for equations. Pandoc allows LaTeX maths in Markdown conversions, for example.

Spreadsheets are a hammer so if that's all you know then all problems look like the nail. Really, many power users of Excel ought to be looking at more capable, testable and readable solutions from professional data analysts and scientists. Python would be a good start, but there are many options better than Excel for critical systems.

Anything from Tim Harford is going to be good. His "More or Less" Radio 4 series is a must listen podcast.

Not convinced that using the service to distribute malware, on behalf of odious third party governments for antidemocratic purposes, is protected by free speech demands. It's not speech, is it?

More accurate to say "businesses don't do as told".

... only when paired with cookie browser settings switched to strict blocking.

CS and software development are different subjects, aren't they? Plenty of devs know little CS and CS academics often do no dev work. CS existed as a field before general purpose computers existed, when algorithms operated on room of women called computers.

If every house in my street got burgled over a month, I'd be knocking on the door of the police, not the burglars. Blame can apply to more than one party at a time, so blame individuals, sure, but also blame those responsible for enabling or encouraging them.

I don't see it much on my Mastodon feed, but then comments are moderated by humans there.

The title should be the self-answering "Why is so there much abuse on unmoderated social giant behemoth looking to save money by automating what should be done by people?"

This _is_ a FRAND case, which is why the decision will cover global licence payments.

This is not for patent disputes in general, only disputes involving standard essential patents (SEPs), which these are. The court took standards setting organisation powers to decide fair, reasonable, and non‑discriminatory (FRAND) terms for global application. FRAND licences are global by their nature, so we shouldn't be surprised that the Supreme Court asserted this in its decision.

This isn't UK over-reach, but an application of international standard approach, afaict.

I'm not sure that leaving the market will absolve Apple of paying the judgement, so staying in the UK market will help them recoup the cost. Leaving would be unlikely to improve their bottom line, so the judge was right - no evidence Apple will leave. This is just posturing, which won't go down well in front of a High Court judge.

The report seems to have placed the yellow emoji into a binary choice of black vs white, so having about half of the black people who were asked identify it as a white/non-black image doesn't make it seem like this is ground breaking research.

I've set that book as a reading task for my high school students - it goes down rather well.

Corporal punishment is banned in many countries, such as New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, Israel, Denmark, Brazil, Kenya and Congo, amongst many others. These nations don't seem to have a particular discipline problem amongst their children, so I don't see why more countries wouldn't legislate against a behaviour that is clearly not better than other discipline techniques, and is also known to have plenty of negative effects.

What is everyone else waiting for? This research reported has been consistent for over two decades — nothing is going to change through waiting, except that more children are harmed by their carers' behaviour towards them.

I wonder how much Facebook spends on running _its_ website?

The most important problem with keeping old computers running is their carbon footprint. Modern machines are much cheaper to run for the same performance, and even considering the construction of new devices an always on devices needs to be modern and lower power. I've replaced an old Asus nettop PC with a Raspberry Pi 4, and electricity usage has dropped from 30W to single digit power consumption.

Old devices need retiring, like old cars.