Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org

@setebos Have you seen https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7168 ? ;-)

Argh... reviewing a colleague's python code, and he's used ChatGPT or Copilot or some other AI "helper" to write a bunch of the code. And it's just got a load of "Why the hell have you done this?" bits. Especially in the unit tests - it really doesn't know how to write pytest tests.

If you don't know what you're doing it looks halfway reasonable, and it kind-of-sort-of works, but... you'd never write that code if you were doing it yourself.

#ai #chatgpt #copilot #coding #botshit #python

@helenczerski The only local election I've got is for our PCC, annoyingly. We've had nothing at all to tell us about the candidates and they have almost no power, it really isn't a position that should be elected. Might go spoil my ballot later if I can be bothered.

I find this utterly baffling. You're a non-dom and you're complaining that removing that status will mean you have to pay so much tax that you'll leave. Right, well...

1. From what I've seen, the evidence that the super-rich actually do leave when taxes go up isn't there. So you might leave, but most of your fellows will pay more.

2. If you aren't paying your tax at the moment, then your argument that you have value to the country is essentially trickle-down economics. You have money, therefore you will spend it or give it to others. Trickle down has been shown to be bullshit.

So. You will leave and take your very small contribution with you. Fine. Most of your friends won't, they will compensate for the loss of your (to you) pittance. If you don't want to pay your share like everyone else, then *you are not a loss to this country when you leave*. Piss off and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

#uk #tax #nondom #guardian #rich #superrich

@GeePawHill I (mostly) got past the fear of presenting when I realised that almost by definition I know more about what I'm giving the talk about than anyone else in the room, and the people that's *not* true of are mostly on my side.

I guess there are presentations where that's not the case, but I haven't had to give any of those and I figure if I do I'll still know enough about the subject to argue about it. ;-)

@drandrewv2 Sorry Jenny. That sucks. I hope you've got something interesting planned that you're able to do.

@cstross Are they playing us for fools if the whole time we're shouting that it's a scam that was never meant to work? It's not like that hasn't been obvious from the beginning. That surely makes it less of a con and more of an armed robbery...

@theron29 Well, it's quite a long way away, maybe they'll change it if they realise they're forcing a lot of customers to try the competition. I'd be on Linux anyway if it was better for gaming, so it could well be time to try it again.

My PC has just told me that it can't run Windows 11, but that Windows 10 will be out of support from October 2025. I have news for you Microsoft, I don't have a spare £1k (or even half that) for a new gaming rig just because you don't like mine. It'll be Linux for me if you force me.

#Windows #Windows10 #Windows11 #Microsoft #Linux #pc

@GeePawHill Absolutely. So many of our public policy positions fly in the face of data on what works just because politicians (and sometimes people at large) have some ideological problem with it.