I wish there was a way to turn off that Klarna advert in Apple Pay.
Every time you pay there is a ‘Other cards and pay later options’ button. You use it to change to a different card, but when you do there’s an option to sign up for Klarna.
Apple should do better than be promoting shitty BNPL services.
I’m old enough to remember the days before the Apache web server and OpenSSH. If you wanted to run these services you were forking out for licenses. Obviously the open source alternatives won out, who would even think of paying for a web server these days?
I expect the same will happen again. Businesses who are capable of investing in their own inference compute will run the, already probably good enough, open weights.
This will become more and more likely as the big players finally run out of investor cash to subside their services and inevitably raise prices, making self hosting more and more appealing.
No surprise they’re running out of cash with the number of absurd mega projects they’re involved with. The EA purchase is pretty minor compared to those shambles.
pnpm has minimumReleaseAge https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage
Trump thinks Mamdani is using fascist in the same way as he uses ‘radial left socialist’ it’s just part of the game to him. That’s why he’s ok with it.
I picked it up in a sale recently, it’s not normally my type of game but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m only a couple of hours in and loving it so far.
The story is sucking me in and I’m starting to appreciate the combat, things seem to be unlocking at about the pace I can understand. I’m a little worried it’ll be repetitive but it looks like there’s plenty of opportunity to be creative to keep it interesting.
Definitely my solo game for the longer nights ahead.
To enable Saudi Arabia to host 2034 the 2030 World Cup was bizarrely spread across Europe (Spain and Portugal), Africa (Morocco) and 3 matches in South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay).
When hosts for a World Cup are selected the confederations for the previous 2 world cups are excluded, thus North America (from 2026), South America, Europe and Africa were all excluded from even applying. Conveniently leaving the door much wider open from Saudi Arabia than it normally would have been.
I love the rental bike scheme in my city, Leeds. It’s slowly rolling out and covering more and more areas. The convenience of zero maintenance and being able to just drop the bike off without worrying about security beats owning a bike for me.
That said they have some reliability issues to work though but I’m sure they’ll get there.
Remember when OpenAI launched Dall-E 2? You got a few tokens for free images and then had to pay for it. Presumably that was at least some reflection on the cost of producing the images.
Now you can create video for free and consumer expectations that generative AI should be super cheap have been set. That genie is not going to go easily back into the bottle.
I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.
Rise and shine Mr Freeman. Rise and shine
Sure, I mean more specifically not just a skin on Windows.
Laura Fryer, one of the Xbox founders, had an excellent video on this https://youtu.be/lFG7YxFFCnY?si=plVZmf0xpDj1wcvQ
Microsoft discovering why Xbox wasn’t built on Windows on the first place.
Needs ‘Rise of the Robots’ the super hyped fighting game. The graphics looked amazing for the time, the characters were meticulously rendered in 3d studio. On release it bombed spectacularly because the gameplay just sucked, due to the constraints imposed by trying to achieve the fancy graphics. It was held up as an example of an overhyped game for years.
The NIN sound track is worth a listen. Otherwise apparently, no.
Just picked this up in the Steam sale, looking forward to diving into it as the nights draw in.
One of the principal justifications for George Osborne’s 2010 austerity plans turned out to be erroneous thanks to an Excel error.
That was without any help from AI, things could be about to get much worse.
I remember David Cameron being interviewed by John Humphries on Today (the Radio 4 morning news show). Cameron basically lied about what was in the proposal to make it sound like it was some crackpot idea, Humphries did nothing to call him out on it.
Same went for most media coverage really.