PMSL AI powered electric toothbrush.

Thereâ(TM)s a huge difference in quality between Duolingo language courses. The flagship Spanish and French courses have by far the most material, human made material at that including native speaker voice actors. In about two years of studying both languages I have got to the point where I can follow along TV shows and read simple materials which I consider reasonable payback for effort I donâ(TM)t feel I got much out of the German course which I took at the same time, however German is a distant third in course quantity and quality. The AI features in the flagship courses are hit or miss, but generally good enough to be useful.

Reportedly the company is using AI generated content to pad out or even completely create less popular courses, but I literally havenâ(TM)t heard anyone who has good things to say about that stuff.

Judicious use of AI makes sense in an otherwise human deigned course (eg trying to respond to ad hoc user input conversationally). But betting the company on mostly AI generated courses does seem like a recipe for getting crushed by players like Google or OpenAI with vast and advanced models.

I wonder if they realize that the money they get through deals like his are still subject to Congressional budgetary controls. The Reagan administration didnâ(TM)t either ( or chose to ignore the constitutional limits on presidential power) when they tried to use money from clandestine sales of arms to the Iranians to set up a fund they could use to spend without Congressional control.

Labour in 2023 said it didn't go far enough. Labour also had 12 months in power to repeal the act. They repealed the Rwanda act within days of getting into power so it's not like they couldn't have done it by now. Remember that it was a Labour Home Secretary, David Blunkett, who 26 years ago tried to pass the Snoopers Charter to give the government access to all your emails and everything you did online.

Those of us who are old enough to have experienced previous Labour governments already knew this would happen. We warned you, you chose to ignore and insult us.

You assume too much. You assume that the government will care that a website has blocked UK users, they didn't care when Apple stomped it's feet threatening to exit the UK market last year over ADP because ultimately they know that as a G7 economy the UK is too valuable a market to cut out.

It never has with any previous version of Windows including NT4, 2000, XP and Windows 7.

Yeah you're quite new to Linux aren't you? There's been several very critical security flaws with major packages used in almost all Linux distros that have turned out to have been around for well over a half a decade, a few even over a decade.

I'm surprised many others mentioned Newsblur, that's what I use as well. But I don't use the Newsblur app or website, but rather the Reeder Classic app (the newer Reeder version is subscription-based, which I avoid at his point).

Reeder Classic is nothing really special, except maybe for its 'bionic reading' support. Despite the pompous name, I actually love 'bionic reading', which essentially is method to add bolding to some letters in words, which greatly helps and speeds reading (especially those long Slashdot summaries). See what it looks like here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbionic-reading.com%2F . Hope this is useful to some of you :-)

It might show my age, but RSS still works for me. (A) Easy to get only the summary or details from the original source if I want to, and (B) managing which RSS items are dismissed or kept for a later deeper dive is very efficient. Works great in my case.

The $7500 tax credit implies a discount in the ballpark of 15% on a vehicle but expires at the end of the month. I'd expect that this is bringing forward a lot of sales that would happen for the rest of the year to take advantage before it goes away.

To be a real sense of the trend of sales, you'd have to average the before-tax-expiration and after-tax-expiration months to see what's up. Otherwise you're just measuring noise.

In case you never took that course, the classical economist David Ricardo figured out that if you were a tenant farmer choosing between two lots of land, the difference in the productivity of the lands makes no difference to you. Thatâ(TM)s because if a piece of land yielded, say, ten thousand dollars more revenue per year, the landlord would simply be able to charge ten thousand more in rent. In essence landlords can demand all these economic advantages their land offers to the tenant.

All these tech companies are fighting to create platforms which you, in essence, rent from them. Why do you want to use these platforms? Because they promise convenience, to save you time. Why do the tech companies want to be in the business of renting platforms deeply embedded in peopleâ(TM)s lives? Because they see the time theyâ(TM)re supposedly saving you as theirs, not yours.

Sure, the technology *could* save you time, thatâ(TM)s what youâ(TM)d want it for, but the technology companies will inevitably enshittify their service to point itâ(TM)s barely worth using, or even beyond that if they can make it hard enough for customers to extract themselves.

The same Palestine Action that broke into a defence contractor, attacking security staff and police with hammers and baseball bats, the same Palestine Action who broke into a RAF base and damaged aircraft, the same Palestine Action who had plans to attack military bases throughtout the UK? I wonder why the government would ever deem a "peaceful protest group" like that a terrorist organisation.

I've never understood why utter bullshit like you've posted manages to get so many votes. But then I remember that /. is full of kidults who never grew up and still find stupid shit like Micro$haft and Winblows actually funny.

As someone who used to have a business repairing, refurbishing laptops for a Windows laptop with comparable build quality they're about on par with each other.

De-googled Chromium would do the job.