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The article is about people NOT installing it but getting it installed anyway :)

As to why people do install such software? It sometimes provides additional features, controls and settings. For example with touchpad you could set the sensitivity, hot corners, set the scroll behaviour the way you like it, etc.

With monitors you might get a better colour profile (P3 instead of just sRGB), I don't know. I don't use monitors like this.

At some workplaces?

I don't know, probably? That always was an offence[1] anyway.

New scheme, mandatory digital ID, would simply stop Britons from being able to use their physical passport to prove they can work. For everyone else that would swap existing electronic-only scheme with another electronic-only scheme.

I don't think anyone half awake would mistake a refugee with a Brit. At least it's not a problem that would explain introducing a whole huge PITA -- like with mandatory IDs for voting: if I'm not mistaken TWO people total were sentenced for voting-related offences, yet we spend double digits of millions of pounds only to (knowingly) disenfranchise voters traditionally voting against the Conservative government.

Look, I'm a citizen of the EU country and my country's physical ID holds electronic layer containing private keys I can use to remotely sign stuff or authenticate myself. It also allows me to using a digital only ID, and the app ecosystem around that is truly amazing. And I'm a picky one.

Basically it's everything, along with basically every single one European physical ID with electronic layer built-in.

British digital ID was *nothing' of that. If it was a physical smartcard first, optional and not mandatory, I'd probably support it, but the government messaging about that was full of lies and handwaving, especially when people were bringing up the failures of digital only systems like Settled Status for Europeans. Nothing mattered, steamrolling over arguments with soundbites.

No, long story short: no, digital IDs are NOT mandatory and no, employment fraud is not that widespread, and the new system won't fix the employers skirting the law.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illegal-working-p...

> The UK has a digital ID requirement which is required for you to be employed in the UK.

That's untrue.

There was a strong push towards the digital ID from the current administration, but it was abandoned 6 months ago.

What you likely mixed up with digital ID is the old digital visa scheme, mandatory for all non-UK citizens to prove right to work.

Re: your app list: looks a little bit eclectic, so it's worth mentioning most of the apps don't ban GoS specifically, but enforce Google play strong or device integrity pass, which GoS doesn't pass.

Some trip on some exploit protections, like secure app spawning, but these can be turned off per app in the latest releases based on Android 17.

Since it seems to be missed, in GOS you can disable these alerts completely.

uwu, this is amazing ;3

If your ally is stealing trade secrets from your companies and spying on your politicians and journalists, is it really a good guy?

Sure there are _worse_ guys, but the supposed good ones aren't.

Not my experience.

I use Claude to build me a small web app I needed for ages, I'm using its superpowers to discuss/talk about architecture /brainstorm/build plans, and always a fresh context with the built plans.

A few times the plan implementer (subagent writing a code assigned to the task) found something lacking (more often it was test issue related to the code, not the actual flaw of the implementation plan), fixed it on the fly, or found something in the review (last step of each task). Also there's always a technical review for each "slice" (set of tasks), consisting of code review and e2e tests.

Only when it passes I do the fresh code review of the changes with the Opus or Fable again. Happens rarely rarely, but it did found a few issues.

Code works every time, I have yet to find the fault myself.

Of course there are issues and I need to read the output especially in the planning phase very carefully and yes, Opus disappointed me many times trying to weasel out from something it "agreed with me" (and entered into architecture + todos)...

Of course right after agreeing to use devcontainers it proceeded to attempt installing a handful of node modules in my os, so intended up running it in the bwrap (pain in the ass in itself).

But it works, it's fascinating, and I have the app I actually needed.

Not magical but useful.

If I'm not mistaken you can still use all of Gemini features, without saving history, without training?

This is coercion and change of contract post-factum.

I don't think they have any chance of surviving regulator looking at it. Of course regulators never do it unprompted.

Well, as per GDPR they must provide data export ("takeout").

Every TV might do this, not every single one does. Buy TVs which allow you to opt out (at least in one case it was several opt-ins, no opt out per SE).

Thanks a lot!

Don't let the facts to discourage you from yawning.

> [1] Of the reported 22,289 bathing waters across Europe (EU-27, Albania and Switzerland) in 2025, 84% were rated excellent quality. This share reached 85% at the EU level.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/european-...

> [2] In 2025, 297 bathing waters in England (66.1 per cent) met the Excellent standard

Note the sharply increasing amount of "Poor" waters.

And that's despite the methodology allowing to presence of untreated sewage and human faeces in the "excellent" waters: https://www.theferret.scot/scottish-beaches-excellent-pollut...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/bathing-water-quali...

With treatment waiting times, dental treatment availability and deaths while waiting for the ambulance I don't think I need to get into gory details.

I wanted to pay the full price, but pharmacies (Boots, Lloyds, couple of small ones) refused citing NICE guidance, GP and private GP refused to "prescribe" it.

Looks like the GP is in the UK.

I tried to go private (also not 50), but everyone just refused. Pharmacy, GP, private GP.

Currently I'm arranging it in the third country because WTAF.

(UK becoming the dirtiest and sickest country of Europe one more time)

I said, quote "MiFID 2 alone forces sub-μs precision", and not that it "requires nanoseconds accuracy". Put the strawman away.

It's not "something like 100μs", it's 100 times less: 1μs.

From a convenient QA:

> Algorithmic and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms must timestamp to 1 microsecond (μs) accuracy, synchronized to UTC. For venues and systematic internalisers executing algorithmic strategies, this microsecond-level precision is non-negotiable. Other investment firms trading on venues must achieve 1 millisecond (ms) accuracy.

No, precision means actually precision, not a length of a number.

I don't control your thinking nor do I care, you're free to project your fobias and traumas on everyone else.

Why do you expect me to spend even more time to laboriously show you examples of the slop? The other comment already did, I only engage with the actual work, I wasted too much time on it already.

Better luck next time. Oh, and a free advice, when someone rejects something you posted, a thing, immaterial, and you recoil with personal attacks at anyone who didn't like it, this is one of the ways you show it's not worth investing more effort into discussing with you or your agents.

I read people's work, I stop reading AI slop that people say it's their work.

I didn't say I skimmed your comments, no need to lie if you don't have a good response.

You're too enraged people expect some baseline quality from whatever you post. Why is that so much?

I used CF Wrkers because I wanted to try serverless(1) - I just needed a tiny https proxy for one of my personal scripts and.... It turned out to be super fun.

And no surprise bills.

(1) after my earlier experience with AWS lambda - almost no traffic (few requests per day), on free trier and YET I had to pay for the add-on they automatically added (and it took me almost 2 hours to find all the rhizomes that were proudly anticipating another few £ for pretty much zero traffic).

Its enough to skim far enough to see it's just slop.

I don't need to eat entire bowl of the burnt soup with flys floating in it to know its a burnt soup with insects in it.

LOL, you could at least write your comments yourself.

I said I didn't read (so much for the big gitcha) because if its not designed for human consumption that means it's not worth human time.

I bet someone actually respecting their audience will present findings in a way that's.... palatable, for the lack of the better word.

(I spent some time commenting to add a voice of disagreement for enshittification of the publishing part of the internet. I'm entitled to it as much as you feel entitled to posting your comments)

If you can't take a constructive critique of something you posted..... maybe don't post so you'll remain happy?

I hope you can take your own advice?

Take care!

Absolutely not.

If someone vomits the slop that must be fed to a robot to make sense of it, even if there's something of value.

It's just so rude, like a professor entering the class, emptying a carton box full of papers on the floor, flipping a bird and leaving without a word.

It's possible there's something good in it.

As a sysadmin and a former enemy of systemd it's actually pretty good overall, simplifies a lot of things.

If the privacy reasons are driving you, see if you can find fixes to these issues without getting rid of systemd.

People choose to commit atrocities in the name of the famous holy books - you either support banning them as well or concede there's something more to it.

LOL. This is not what I was commenting on. Unless their process starts with "never disclose the existence of this program, force the qualifying candidates to stumble upon it by accident"

I hope it's even clearer now.

I don't think having to rely on the anonymous person's advice on a random forum would make me even less keen to trust Anthropic is right to me.

They raised it with Anthropic and were met with silence (as usual), not advice to join the programme.

Yesno.

Sure they have their own time servers fed from the GPS, but they need to be _accurate_ in relation to the world.

But timestamps used by companies forced to use very accurate timing must be synchronised to UTC.

Yeah, but we're thinking of systems where nanoseconds matter.

MiFID 2 alone forces sub-μs precision. Million times less than the leap 1 second.

NTP minute away is good for displaying date on the workstation, not for many of the devices that are critical to the modern world.

I'd love to love it but this AI generated post made me gag, sorry. I'll pass, takeaway from that is different than expected.

If it's not worth writing, it's not worth reading.

Fruit of love and passion for the hobby, I guess.