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No. They kept trying to push it over here.

It was always grim, bitter, but "oh so pretty".

> Home Assistant won't read the state of them so they're lacking in integration, but the plus was that caused me to not set up Home Assistant. Not making a fragile computer a single point of failure and not tying my whole house to one shared-fate system with all the failure modes of a small scale full stack SaaS gave me a couple more nines of reliability.

My light switches integrate with Home Assistant, but I can just press the button or turn the knob to dim. Home Assistant Zigbee is there as a bonus, not the sole way of doing things and certainly not a single point of failure.

What are you talking about?

If they are driving then they are currently potentially spending a couple of hundred pounds a month on fuel for a subcompact car. We are breaching the monthly cost of a car loan to move to electric purely in the cost of petrol.

Its bizarre the hate your getting for this comment.

You can get a used Hyundai Kona EV from Hyundai for under £15k.

https://used.hyundai.co.uk/en/used-car-search/hyundai/kona/k...

Even going off your £18k price, a car loan search shows it would be under £200 per month. Not sure where they pulled £600 from.

But filling up my wife's compact Peugeot 208 (I think?) was £75 over the weekend. Filling up twice is almost the same monthly cost as buying a larger electric SUV.

It definitely seems like it would be worth investigating your options.

This is sadly so relateable.

I feel like half my job these days is deciding which of the high/critical "security bugs" identified by someone's LLM is worth pushing back on because:

A. It isn't a bug, and just because it found a property with a similar name, perhaps it is an older feature flag and shouldn't be used as a default for customer accounts.

B. If I push back on all of these non-issues, I'll never have any time to get real work done. Of course the logging filters aren't checking and masking SSNs the app doesn't work with SSNs.

They have many revenue streams from Android. The play store revenue is only a small part.

And we know they are not spending $30 billion on their SDKs.

Ah yes, Google historically lost money from Android.

> accelerate your learning

Thats a pretty bold position to take.

I find asking a question about whether an application should be doing what it is doing, and getting someone's braindead response of "Claude says it does this..." shows that people aren't learning. I know what it is doing, I can read an IF statement, I don't need someone to spit out 3 paragraphs of unrelated nonsense.

With Claude people aren't learning. They aren't even reading their copy/pasta response to see if it relates to the question.

Cooperatives have nothing to do with capitalism. It is a democratic process for workers to control the organisation. Which may or may not have to fit into a capitalist society, but it is very much a socialist institution by definition.

Are you sure you understand what you are arguing?

https://www.uk.coop/understanding-co-operatives

Nah, I generate dependency trees from gradle because of the crappy way current $job has aggressive transient dependency scanning and I can't stand just updating someone else's transient dependency without validating that there isn't at least a new version of whatever pulled it in.

I have dependency_tree globally excluded because it is my unique naming convention. Actually it might just be my unique approach because other people don't seem to mind having 1000 overrides for libraries they don't use.

Cooperatives are certainly an implementation of socialism.

What makes you think that they aren't?

They appear to think that cigarettes smell bad, yet their nicotine infusused fruit salad/cotton candy monstrosity is fine.

> I heard that Chinese phones are similar.

My Xiaomi has no adverts.

But then the Samsung S22 I had before didn't have adverts. Certainly didn't come with McAfee.

Unix certification requires things like case sensitive file systems, which MacOS can do, but doesn't so they had to supply a special configuration for certification.

So no. The MacOS you use is not Unix.

Ditto.

Lenovo contribute to Linux, and Apple is relatively hostile.

Look at how they break the GPU driver interfaces, and explain to me how that it isn't hostile.

"The solution imposed is to ban the child from going anywhere where a white van may also exist."

You are conflating cigarette damage with social media damage.

Social media doesn't have to be toxic, just toxic behaviour is rewarded. This is more like "sniper in park causes ban for under 18s". You are keeping the bad things but age gating it. It would be better to remove the sniper in the park.

Apple offer LLMs, so they are already on board with the LLM arguments.

I have many frustrations with LLMs, mainly around the type of user whos brain shuts down, but Apple would be walking a very fine line if they offer a service that they also will sue you for using.

Perhaps they should have used the Foundation Models to build their code. Really put Apple in a difficult position.

> For good reason

A reason. Not the same as a good reason.

The fact that you even point out that they committed illegal acts that would normally get prosecuted, and yet didn't, shows that IP enforcement is very loose depending on who did it.

This is one of the reasons I like rugby.

Probably being born from public schools, and teachers being the referees, they don't have to take any nonsense from players and can take the ball away from you, lose you ground you have gained, or card you if are abusive to the referee.

Abusive parents on the sidelines can result in sanctions on clubs.

Even if you think the referee made a bad call, it is never acceptable to be abusive to match officials.

It blows my mind the things I see in football they allow people to get away with.

> not go after whoever posted them?

What makes you think they aren't?

> See eg how here in Singapore we have no minimum wage

The US does as well if they can pretend you made it up with "tips".

The reality is that staff then just work for peanuts.

Being able to charge you for using git.

There will be a new replacement app to combine them, but it will only handle around 60% of the functionality of both.

All three will receive no further updates.

I don't see any information about adverts in your link.

It talks about having a business WhatsApp number so customers can contact you.

I use Bagal Radio.

That WhatsApp doesn't serve adverts?

I do ask that question.

And no, it's not obvious how a service is bad so if you use a different service then you are just as bad as unrelated people.

Yet they sold more minis than Google sells Pixels.

And somehow we ended up with more Pixels and not minis.

What part of "because it is part of Meta" implies that is not part of Meta?

> ...said it found 332 ads featuring CSAM on Instagram and Facebook running in the US, UK, EU, Australia and India.

What has WhatsApp got to do with this? Just because it is Meta?