I doubt it'd raise that much (the article states £1.72bn), as there seems to be an assumption increasing the tax wouldn't lead to a reduction in SUVs, and that everyone would just absorb the cost.
However, I still say go ahead! Even if it only raises a quarter of that, that's still money coming in, and it means fewer SUVs on our roads. That's a win-win.
The Adwaita team, and a bunch of devs that make Adwaita apps explicitly said that theming their apps is fine, they simply asked for users who theme their apps not to submit bug reports that are actually just theming issues.
There's nothing worse than spending hours and hours trying to replicate or resolve a bug, only to find out it's because the user installed an anime girl theme that's caused some issue.
Those devs were completely right to put out that request, and I think it's wrong that they received a lot of hate for it.
They are open source devs, donating their time to give you software for free. Is it really that bad they politely ask not to receive time-wasting bug reports for things that they never broke in the first place?
"most" lmao
So conceding there has been terrorist actions. You know, like attacking people with sledgehammers, calling for genocide, ram-raiding a factory, breaking onto an RAF base and destroying the engines of two jets.
Fuck PA and fuck anybody who agrees with them. Bigoted genocidal fucks.
The difference is that Google decided this was a task best suited for their LLM.
If someone seeked out an LLM specifically for this question, and Google didn't market their LLM as an assistant that you can ask questions, you'd have a point.
But that's not the case, so alas, you do not have a point.
Yes, it. It's not a person. Were you expecting me to call it anything else?
The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.
Ding ding ding.
It's so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.
"Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!", with no thought put into what user problems it actually solves.
It's the same as web results in the Windows start menu. "Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn't that great? Look at that engagement!", completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.
Line on chart must go up!
You aren't wrong about why it happens, but that's irrelevant to the end user.
The result is that it can give some hilariously incorrect responses at times, and therefore it's not a reliable means of information.
They talked of the refueling planes that Palestine Action destroyed the engines of as if they were used to refuel Israeli jets, which was never the case. It was debunked ages ago that the RAF refuel Israeli jets, but they're continuing to say it nonetheless, because they know there's no real repercussions to lying.
Same crap the daily mail, express, etc do.
I'm not certain if they mentioned it in regards to Israel's Iran strikes
I'm so tired of seeing the Canary push this conspiracy theory.
The UK and Israel use completely different (i.e. incompatible) fuelling systems.
This is likely a routine training flight with the Qatari air force, something we do frequently.
E: I was correct:
A British Royal Air Force (RAF) plane spotted over Doha on Monday, around the time of Israel’s surprise strike on the Qatari capital, was participating in an annual joint military exercise and not involved in the attack, according to flight tracker data.
The RAF Voyager KC3 tanker was conducting air-to-air refuelling drills as part of "Soaring Falcon", a regular UK-Qatar exercise, when Israeli fighter jets targeted a meeting of senior Hamas officials in Doha.
Can the UK ever do anything right in The Canary's eyes? The UK is helping the country that Israel carried out an attack on, and still gets accused of helping Israel.
He knew it would be removed, and wanted it to be.
That's why, instead of spraying it on a random wall like usual, where it would've likely been left alone, he purposely chose a grade 1 listed building, where it legally must be removed.
Grade 1 listed buildings are very protected, you even have to use period-correct ingredients in the paint when you're doing maintenance, that's how serious about preservation the laws are.
It's a quite dishonest, because the implication from headlines is of course going to be that it's a government attempt to silence him, but it's certainly an effective strategy for advertising your work and raising your profile.
Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.
Like...
It's actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they've still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.