If you swap decentralized for personalized then the point about hyper-curated media bubbles do make sense. It feels backwards because it’s not how we use decentralized in the industry, it’s probably the same reason you correctly said web instead of internet.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Isn't AI supposed to work for us rather than the other way around? If AI can't learn to code, it's not AI, and it's not going to make it.

It’s certainly a reason not to use it in production though.

Due to all the reports of mangled English (which is indeed a problem), a lot of people seem to have the false impression that real Scots is wildly different to English. The Scots for "Italian cuisine" is in fact "Italian cuisine".

It's ridiculous incident but it's also overstated, I haven't seen any decent translators with Scots support but if they were based on that wiki they'd probably tell you that the Scots translation of "to know" is "tae ken" which is perfectly correct. It might also tell you that the Scots word for physics is "pheesics" instead of "physics" but how faith should you be putting in a public wiki as a data source in the first place?

No. Scots has borrowed from French, but it doesn't have the same spellings as English borrowings from French. Plus, various sources indicate that the better word is likely to be "kitchen".

Probably better than Sweden. Estonia did a great job and influenced the UK but GOV.UK is a much bigger project due to the relative population size.

GDS don’t actually take over many services. It’s HMRC’s responsibility to update their services to meet GOV.UK standards.

It's definitely illegal to discriminate on those grounds in the UK (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance).

There are exceptions like modelling or acting where roles where there could be reasonable reasons for being gender-specific but not for the tech and public sector jobs described in the article.

Given the way issues like this overlap with the European Convention on Human Rights I would expect it to be very similar across Europe (certainly within the EU).

Yes, if it happened today it'd be covered by the Data Protection Act 2018, which is the UK implementation of GDPR. The limit has increased to £17 million or 4% of annual global turnover (whichever is higher).

Without regulation like GDPR, Facebook aren't obliged to state what those stupid buttons actually do with regards to the information they store about you.

Being open and honest with people really doesn't slow down development all that much.