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Surprised this hasn't blown up more!

They probably meant 1 employee part time for 5 years on a project that was never a priority.


Nobody gets fired largely copying eachother. Releasing something new and risky often isn't worth it, sadly.


An increasing proportion of UK citizens are deciding not to pay for a TV licence that funds the BBC as consumption patterns have changed.

The BBC will be a zombie in 10 years unless they stop being emotionally driven and sort out their funding.


Good. The BBC is no longer the shining beacon of objective reporting it once was. Let it die and be replaced by something better.


Presumably you get your news content from Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Mail and UK News?


Here's the BBC wanting you to feel that autistic people are scary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934982


Don't spout shite. The BBC report is objectively what the defence stated in court: namely that their defendant was autistic.

If you've a problem with that, take it up with the lawyers.


For what it's worth, I stopped paying the license fee because of how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE. From Newsnight displaying images of Corbyn that made him look like a Soviet stooge, to Laura Kuenssberg leaking postal vote ballot information, to Alex Forsyth saying that Boris Johnson "deserves" the election.

People say that it's subject to complaints of bias from both sides of the spectrum, but I've yet to see comparable concrete pro-left examples.


> how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE

> Laura Kuenssberg

ughh yes so glad that era is behind us. Good riddance.


I don't know whether this is a joke or not, because she's still there.


She is not Political Editor of BBC anymore. She's just a talk show host as I understand it (though still on a HEFTY salary - £410k, fourth highest in the BBC).

Presumably a very difference sphere of influence.


If everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.


Look at how the BBC reports on the Middle East and tell me you agree with it.


That doesn't address anything unless you stake out and back up your position. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocates both accuse the BBC of bias towards the other side.


Objectively, the BBC downplays what the USA and Israel do over there and doesn't downplay what Hamas and Iran do over there.


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For now but you know they’re coming for that ass.


It used to be widely thought they were keeping it around because the most important users who actually posted the content preferred it. But they drove all those people away in 2023 by blocking apps except for their spyware one, and everything is posted by LLMs now anyway.


This will cause some major headaches.


Apple only does things to progress their own business model. Apple failed at becoming an ad business so they pivoted to subscriptions and app revenue. Now they are building an ad business. Just look at their ad revenue.


Apple doesn't care about privacy, its a convenient USP.


They have behaved in a consistent matter to emphasize user privacy.

What makes you say they don‘t care?


Good fun, my highest was 30, it took a while!


I'm a semi-retarded product manager that was interested in what it was like building linux desktop apps. With a hand from Claude, I was surprised to get a simple Gnome/gtk widget that was functional and understandable. I was also able to iterate on it without any headaches.


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