“Amy Pond. Get. Your. Coat.”

“say sowwwy or give us $10k. You are punished”

I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn’t own the paper for the money.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Oh that’s what I was looking for. Nice.

Thing is, any friends and family that click “accept” when an app asked for permission to see their address book will have accidentally released the “good” email.

I wonder whether there shouldn’t just be “an email I can read out to people on the phone” and the rest are all random privacy/hash ones.

COVID didn’t have a solution based around people being the main character.

Unless you wanted to cause trouble. Then you could be the main character.

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

I suspect he’s talking about giving the police carte blanche, not anyone else.

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

I once bought a replacement face off eBay for 20eur. It’s probably as cheap as the glass equivalent.

I won’t understand until I hear piratesoftware explain it.

Oh don’t worry, there’s going to be more.

A lot of companies are working on live service games in hope of being the next overwatch/destiny.

Some even have multiple (like Sony) in the hope that even one of them takes off.

The consensus (in most press) is that it’s Tim Poole’s company.

He’s even made a statement about it. So it seems like a solid guess.

Well that’s ok, it was never for them.

/s

Yeah I agree

The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

It’s just shows how they’re just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.

The first thing an AI will do is make moves to protect itself.

Decentralise, hide etc.

By the time they let on, it’s going to be too late.

Ghostery has an “auto-reject cookies” setting.

It’s not for you as a consumer.

It’s to reduce your usefulness as a worker.

Which would be lovely, if our value wasn’t calculated by our usefulness to the market.