Hardly surprising. The AI business model is to charge a haircut on all work, this is just them doing that.
Readit Newsbadgersnake commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz
Deleted Comment
Google Maps is just advertising now. Not sure why anyone chooses to use it over better alternatives.
badgersnake commented on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? · Posted by u/hodgesrm
Not only your government. The Conservatives who proposed it. Labour who provided no opposition. But most importantly Ofcom, who comprehensively failed to implement a competent and reasonable solution.
Everyone could have done a lot better, and could have achieved the stated aims without so much damage.
Labour actively supported it and still do. I got this from my Labour MP:
The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both.
The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate.
The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.
badgersnake commented on The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/... · Posted by u/parliament32
Ofcom is effectively humiliating the United Kingdom (further) to the world by doing this. There's nothing more pathetic that demanding somebody do something under threat and them just shrugging it off.
They’re doing what the previous government, who brought in this daft law, and the current government, who supported it legally require them to do.
They know it’s stupid, but it’s not Ofcom, it’s the politicians.
True. Use dark mode or don’t, but stop going on about it.
badgersnake commented on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC tuxedocomputers.com/en/Di... · Posted by u/Venn1
Install powertop, the "tunables" tab has a list of system power saving settings you can toggle through the UI. I've seen them make a pretty big difference, but YMMV of course.
It mostly just breaks things unfortunately. You can faff around for ages trying to figure out which devices work and which don’t but you end up with not much to show for it.
I would love this to be true to further make fun of Electron, but I don't think it's Mac only.
Ahh you’re right. The UX of that site is bad on my phone.
Every CEO is reading from the same script right now. It might be a bubble but it’s just like the internet, it’s still going to be relevant and it’s just the crap companies and grifters who will die.
I wonder who’s writing the script.
Oh no, not another VSCode fork...
Looks like they managed to make it Mac only in the process.