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Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

Is it in a data centre or someone's house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?

Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.

Sounds like they could improve their setup.

Too much of a single point of failure.

YIKES: Elon Musk Tells Laura Loomer Republicans Should Side With Him Because Trump Will Die First in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Whatever, the point was even Vance couldn't do that. Started questioning Biden's health before.

I was not defending Trump, I was criticising how Vance limbo'd under Trump's response...

YIKES: Elon Musk Tells Laura Loomer Republicans Should Side With Him Because Trump Will Die First in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works -3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

He is a vile PoS. Even when Biden announced cancer, Trump demonstrated more humanity than Vance did. Vance has no chill and no human decency.

Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Nope. Brit here. All those examples were wrong. Yours is valid though.

Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker, and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to 'end UK complicity' in Gaza in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

He always did the comedy news panels like Have I Got News For You. Built his profile in the media. Not exactly a celebrity, but one of the most known in terms of TV profile.

Volume [Mr Lovenstein] in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And please stabilise the camera. I'm not in this car chase, I'm trying to watch it without getting a migraine.

GB News will hurt Britain the same way Fox News hurt America in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think many see it as a joke here. Not many take it seriously. It seems to have less influence than I thought it would. Probably will go broke one day when viewership doesn't pick up.

‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series in c/Television@lemm.ee

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Agree with many of those things and I don't mind the occasional return to an old for, but Daleks were ridiculously overused and it wasn't fine.

As for Star Wars, switched off long ago. It's just Disney trying to milk it for a return on investment.

‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series in c/Television@lemm.ee

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Let me guess. The Daleks? Or maybe the cyber men?

I gave up when lazy writing constantly pushed to the same boring foe. A giant wheelie bin.

Really loved Blink with the Angels but I got so tired of it. Think I stopped watching around Matt Smith era and he was quite good.

Cyberpunk 2077's sequel will see you return to Night City, and head to a new city described as "Chicago gone wrong" in c/gaming@lemmy.zip

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully they don't release a buggy hot mess this time.

If history is anything to go by, I ain't buying. They have to release a strong functional game with positive reviews first.

Sir Keir Starmer faces rebellion from Labour MPs over 'impossible to support' welfare reforms in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Now? It's always been. More so now. Blair stacked the PLP and it's been right leaning since. Hence why the right lobby for rule changes that give the PLP higher weighted votes. Under Corbyn, he could barely get 36 nomination votes without some lending it for a diverse leadership competition. The right switched it back to 20% of PLP votes for leadership candidate to prevent a left candidate happening again.

Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

An upgrade is that you don't learn anything?

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UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by IcyToes@sh.itjust.works to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Looks like the UK is leading the world by shamelessly sacrificing AI safety at the altar of Trump. Appeasement never works and we have gone backwards towards again being spineless lapdogs in this special relationship.

I remember when we shamelessly followed them in supporting the Iraq war via a sexed up document.

AI can be very error prone and has the potential to be seriously dangerous. It has been said to be used for military purposes and when life and death is in the hands of a computer's decision, who is going to take responsibility for this? Dangerous. We need protections.

We may be on the wrong side of history here. Cowardly from Keir's Labour. I wonder if we traded this for zero tariffs.

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Gaza Strip in maps: How a year of war has drastically changed life in the territory (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by IcyToes@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world

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Analysis from the BBC (who are usually quite motivated and effective at justifying Israel actions).

The sheer devastation is incredible. 66% of buildings damaged. 90% of the population displaced. Water and sanitation systems non-functional. 53/500 needed lorries entering the territory per day (down from 142). They're not even trying to look they're helping now. The population have been squeezed into over-populated tent cities.

It feels like they think if they create the conditions for disease and it kills people, they don't get blamed.

To me, it's hard to think of a way this could get closer to genocide. Absolutely sick.

Israel seem to be galvanised by inaction of the world and probably looking to do the same in Lebanon. Is Yemen after? Where does this stop?