No Linux version prevented me from trying it, didn't even get to the account wall, who knows if there's a pay wall. Perhaps the "moat" concept was misunderstood.
AT best it will be similar. SO far the main difference seems to be a willingness to be harsher to old people and those on moderate (not minimum wage, but lowish to average) incomes.
The old WFP was £300 in the pocket of every pensioner, regardless of means and that's a stupid thing for a government to be paying for when it's trying to balance the books.
I do accept the problem —as with many means-tested benefits— is catching and supporting the people who don't qualify, haven't filled in the paperwork, and still vitally need the support the WFP gave them. The DWP has to be given the support to help people who need it, and quickly, especially in Y1.
But I think they're getting way too much stick for this.
They are not getting anything as much stick as the Conservatives would have if they have done it. Every Labour supporting rag would have been going on about it, and my FB feed would have been flooded with people complaining about "uncaring Tories".
I suspect we are going to get a lot of austerity and privatisation in the next few years simply because Labour can get away with things. Some good things may happen (IMO the NHS badly needs reform) but so will a LOT of bad things.
Last time I contacted them I received a reply ostensibly from a human but which was so obviously LLM generated it was almost funny.
It was about an A4 page of text and spent most of it being empathetic to “how frustrating” my issue must be and how they were really keen to help. But it was extremely patronising, barely addressed my problem, and it felt like a really long winded and super polite way of saying “fuck you” to a paying customer.
At least that’s how I took it.
I’m sure LLM’s can be used really effectively in customer service but not by just blindly copy/pasting whatever it spews out.
Me too but I only ever do this unintentionally, and it usually corresponds with a delay in the reply from support coming back to me. (Ie I’m now focused on other things or have solved the problem a different way).
Whenever I’m conscious enough of it I do try to thank people - trying to remember how hard it must be on the other end!
> Turns out we now have research which shows that people get very attached to the little box they are put in by the DSM and that influences how their symptoms evolve.
After being diagnosed with something in the DSM - I experienced this myself, and have been very aware of the Heisenbergian side effects of labelling and observing something like this in a specific concrete way.
Common wisdom with some psychological diagnoses is that the symptoms often seem to get worse after diagnosis because you start to notice the problems more. But I think there is an "identity" element to this too as you elude to.
I think this is somewhat inevitable, but the question is, even though you may be subconsciously influenced by the diagnosis itself - is it still better to have such a diagnosis and to be able to work with that information - versus not?
From my own experience, I'm not quite sure - but I'd probably lean towards having the diagnosis still being the better option.
Completely agree with all this. It’s getting worse over time too.
This sort of thing is frustrating from a company that seems to launch a new product every week.
The Zero Trust portal is such a terrible experience to use and has felt very badly “bolted on” to the rest of the Cloudflare portal from the beginning and has only continued to diverge from there.
Cloudflare’s usability took a huge dive for me when tunnels moved out of the main UI.
The integration between critical security products is poor too (eg Access and Tunnels) leading to confusion and uncertainty - which is exactly what you don’t need when it comes to security.
I used to happily accept the MITM downsides for the benefits that CF brings but I’m getting quite close to writing my own simple managed reverse proxy system based on Nginx and just focusing on a few core features that I need.
By “impossible to bypass” are you meaning that it provides good security? Or that it makes pen testing harder because you need to be able to temporarily bypass it in order to do your test?
The first. AV evasion is a whole discipline in itself and it can be anything from trivial to borderline impossible. Crowdstrike definitely plays in the champions league.
