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Britain’s staycation boom may be over as bookings dry up (www.theguardian.com)

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The cost of living, cold weather and a surplus of holiday lets have hit rental property owners in both cities and the seaside

Hi, I'm just trying out Lemmy in c/[email protected]

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Welcome, one tip, if you are a reddit refuge, use the Voyager app. It has a migrate sub functionality that will aid with discovery of communities

What's a bit of good advice that's really bad advice? in c/[email protected]

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Early Adopters of Microsoft’s AI Bot Wonder if It’s Worth the Money (www.wsj.com)

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Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical

Microsoft’s new artificial-intelligence assistant for its bestselling software has been in the hands of testers for more than six months and their reviews are in: useful, but often doesn’t live up to its price.

The company is hoping for one of its biggest hits in decades with Copilot for Microsoft 365, an AI upgrade that plugs into Word, Outlook and Teams. It uses the same technology as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and can summarize emails, generate text and create documents based on natural language prompts.

Companies involved in testing say their employees have been clamoring to test the tool—at least initially. So far, the shortcomings with software including Excel and PowerPoint and its tendency to make mistakes have given some testers pause about whether, at $30 a head per month, it is worth the price

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Would a lemmy insurance stand up to such a request?

Or is this a case where from a privacy perspective, Lemmy is worse

Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It's all good mate. I knew what I was getting myself into. Saying anything pro-Microsoft is a heresy here, and not bowing to Firefox is a penal offense!!