Just getting started on the OU Contract Law module. It's talked about some software terms and conditions being contractual. I wonder how EULAs work as contracts for software you bought in a box from a shop. How is there consideration? Is it "reused" from the purchase contract with the retailer somehow?
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Sounds similar nuisance to that suffered by residents around Whalley's quarry waste site in Staffordshire. Turns out the monitoring equipment wasn't working properly so the amount of nuisance was under estimated too.
The revolving door between regulators and regulated needs to be addressed. It is too easy for corporations to parachute loyal lobbyists into 'regulators' and reward them with promotion when they return to the fold.
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I'm really really really not that upset if Iran tried to assassinate Bibi tbh. Given that preserving his political career and saving his ass from jail has been a not-insignificant part of the horrors unfolding across palestine. And Isreal's own assassinations have involved leveling city blocks...
Israel's longest running paper, Haaretz, just confirmed that Netanyahu actively blocked every hostage deal since 10/7, Netanyahu meanwhile is openly planning to annex Gaza—& the conversation is still "why won't Hamas agree to a deal?"😐
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@Ben Evans This then means I have unlawfully consumed alcohol and still have an open container of alcohol. Granted the gin may make me care less at this point whether an empty open container of alcohol is still an open container of alcohol.
@kittylyst I am not a lawyer, but I'd assume that the defining feature of a container of alcohol is that it's got alcohol in it. If it was the printing on the label then it would be legal to drink your gin so long as you put it in a milk bottle or whatever first.
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This is not surprising at all and I don't understand why anyone had to waste time and resources on demonstrating a self-evident fact that was known before the research even started.
@anderspuck As long as you can define "simple" as it applies to the LLM because some basic stuff it cannot do due to the lack of cognition. When I say that it cannot do these things I mean it needs to be able to do said tasks unaided (as in no further prompts or guiding prompts) with complete accuracy, if it can't do those things then it's not doing the task even if it's partially right.
@jwcph Let’s see how it develops. Ollama is working great for me, but it does require a fairly good computer. So yes, either taht processing power has to be local with the user or somewhere centralized.
@anderspuck Not to mention they are insanely expensive to operate. The cost-to-benefit ratio is not sustainable, even for most of the tasks they *can* do.
@anderspuck because they're expected to solve complex tasks, they're being sold as if they can solve complex tasks, and that they have a fail and error rate enough that they're not safe
They want these things to drive cars and make decisions that involve human lives.
@anderspuck No, it doesn't matter what kind of energy they're consuming, because energy always has a cost to produce, and again the cost-to-benefit ratio isn't there. LLMs are creating scarcity for relatively little actual positive benefit.
It's also not strictly about power; the same arguement applies to water consumption as well.
@anderspuck @dalias LLMs are NOT doing *speech to text* translation -- doing transcripts from audio (podcast). That's a different set of AI technologies.
The industry has been developing "AI" technologies since before I was born. Some are quite useful.
It's the "Generative AI" subset (which includes LLMs, chatbots) that is so misleading, mostly useless, and incredibly wasteful.
@JeffGrigg @dalias True. I kind of bundled ChatGTP and Whisper in that statement. I don’t find generative AI useless, though. There are many tasks for which it is very good, but probably not those flashy ones many people are thinking about. For example an LLM is much better at sentiment analysis than older methods.
The payroll calculation service I use for the pub company is closing down at the end of the tax year.
I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement. It needs to have a decent API that isn't gated behind "become a partner and put your app in our store" (so that rules out Xero).
Pricing that's transparent and would work for a company of ~50 people would also be nice! I'm currently paying about £55/month.
SO many companies in this space seem to be "call us for pricing"! Really puts me off...
I am using Freeagent, who are either free if you use Natwest or pretty decently priced with no fees for the API (which we don't use so I can't say if it works well).
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fwiw I am using the Xero API without publishing my application - I do have to pay a £5/month custom connection fee but other than it works ok. This is not an endorsement of Xero though :-)
What I really like about the Greater Anglia trains that do the run from Cambridge North to Liverpool Street? The seat back trays have little grooves in for your phone or tablet (or here, Kindle).
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“Non passibus aequis” was my mother’s favourite phrase from Virgil’s Aeneid. Literally “not with equal paces”, it describes Aeneas’ son Iulus as he escapes Troy with his father, and immediately brings the scene to life. Who hasn’t seen a parent hurrying with a small child, after all?
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With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see how ICANN has treated disappearing countries and ter…
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Handing the Chagos islands to Mauritius means the sun will set on the British Empire (on the 21st of March 2025, when British Antarctic Territory passes equinox, assuming the treaty is signed by then): reddit.com/r/geography/comment…
colonialism in scare quotes and calling protestors "tech bros" is an incredibly contemptuous way to describe a successful movement for independence. vanity TLDs associated with country codes are one of my least favorite fashion statements mendeddrum.org/@fanf/113244393…
The future of the .io ccTLD is up in the air today with the announcement that the UK is to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to Mauritius.
An interesting question arising from today’s deal to hand the Chagos islands back to Mauritius is: what happens to the .io ccTLD with the dissolution of the British Indian Ocean Territory? Presumably it passes to Mauritius, but do they keep it or scrap it, or change how the registry works?
@Ben Harris Their current procedure seems to be documented at iana.org/help/cctld-retirement and is pretty clear cut that if BIOT dies so does .io “Any preferences to retain the domain, or otherwise delay transition to the maximum extent possible, will not be considered a factor in any analysis”
Shout out to everyone on here who feels total dismay about the state of the world this morning. I can’t stand having to hear again and again that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and “has our full support”. I hope one day the havoc that this stance alone has wreaked will be fully recognised.
It's all a colossal DARVO on the part of Israel and the tame media are regurgitating the propaganda. PM Starmer says "We stand with Israel and we recognise her right to self-defence in the face of this aggression". No, no we don't. The aggression has been disproportionately that of Israel and could be curtailed by cutting Israel's supply of arms and military support, not least that of the UK.
"We've tried everything we can do to try to bring Peace to the Middle East, except stopping the supply of weapons....please dont be mean to us" -Western Governments
"Nasrallah was a combatant & a legitimate target. But the massive bombing of the densely populated Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut.. was a major war crime.
Those who argue otherwise must then explain why it would not be acceptable for Israel’s enemies to destroy IDF headquarters, which is situated in the middle of Tel Aviv near residences & popular attractions, and the surrounding area" @MitchellPlitnick on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah
Thoughts on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah
Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an important development in the mushrooming regional war.
Someone mentioned Ikea which reminded me of a strange dream I had the other day. Sweden had changed their flag and anthem for some reason and there were riots about it. (Inexplicably riots you had to queue at the post office to enter)
To be fair, the Netherlands actually does appear to have one (1) of those women, and she *is* being talked about. The term 'outlier' applies, as well as, in her case, quite possibly the term 'morally bankrupt charlatan'.
If you want to know more, look up the Centric/Sanderink case.
In general, though, such women generally do not get talked about due to it not actually happening.
how come I never seem to run into any of these women? all I can find are these chicks with masters degrees and/or fifteen years of demonstrable experience
as an infosec-adjacent woman, I would advise anyone looking to leverage sex to gain money and clout to choose a more rewarding field. you 150% can do better
(everyone knows this and security researchers only don’t realize it when they think they’re rock stars. the kind of dude who watched Hackers, thinks he’s the hero, and actually reminds everyone of the greasy sysadmin)
if you have a man in infosec who is giving out jobs for sexual favours, you don't have infosec. That individual would be so compromised on so many fronts.
Suzy Richards
in reply to d a t green • • •Sounds similar nuisance to that suffered by residents around Whalley's quarry waste site in Staffordshire. Turns out the monitoring equipment wasn't working properly so the amount of nuisance was under estimated too.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stok…
Emissions under-reported at Silverdale Walley's Quarry
Vanessa Pearce (BBC News)d a t green
in reply to Suzy Richards • • •@serichards
A wider problem definitely
Peter Brett
in reply to d a t green • • •Sensitive content
One of the issues I encountered, when I was in local government, is that local regulators have much shallower pockets than those being regulated.
This places regulators in a difficult position with a wealthy violator:
- If they take action, the subjects of enforcement will use the courts to make it process unaffordable
- If they do not take action, those affected by the violation will use the courts to force the regulator to take action
Fund enforcement.
LionelB
in reply to d a t green • • •Roger Lipscombe
in reply to d a t green • • •missing word? "She should not be able to go court against the regulator"
"go to court" surely?
d a t green
in reply to Roger Lipscombe • • •@rogerlipscombe
Thank you for pointing out a typo - no need for the two(!) rhetorical questions though! Plain that it was a typo.
Roger Lipscombe
in reply to d a t green • • •d a t green
in reply to Roger Lipscombe • • •@rogerlipscombe
Ok, fair enough!