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by lol768 2y ago
Completely agree with this, it's a case of "perfection is the enemy of good" and if you do go to these lengths and abstract so much of it away, it'll be a nightmare to maintain and support as well.
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by lol768 2y ago
> Earlier this month Andy Lord, the boss of Transport for London, sat down at a scheduled board meeting and praised his organisation’s response to a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which began with reports of “suspicious activity” on
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by lol768 2y ago
Yeah, the whole charset/collation design is a complete dumpster fire.
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by lol768 2y ago
In the example in the docs, they show someone marking an image that has slipped through the filter as one that's AI generated. But, it comes from Adobe Stock - and I think this really highlights the biggest weakness with how they'
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by lol768 2y ago
Quite happy paying £26.80 / £73.50 for all of that. It's in a country's interests to help maintain the public's health, and that includes subsidising their dental costs (otherwise, they end up taking up primary care tim
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by lol768 2y ago
They have definitely turned off comments. Attempting to post one refreshes the page but nothing happens, and the comment never appears.
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by lol768 2y ago
> How long til we're all on Ozempic? It's genuinely quite depressing that so many people in the United States have a weight problem that the overwhelming majority of the population would benefit from this and headlines includin
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by lol768 2y ago
An interesting read. I've been a Monzo customer ever since the sign-up process was "come to the office and we'll give you your card and help you get the Beta version of the app installed" and it's been interesting,
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by lol768 2y ago
You know what else uses power? Ads! Particularly the flashy animated ones that fingerprint the browser and hoover up data to prove you're a real human ad impression. I'd wager it doesn't take too many of those slipping throug
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by lol768 2y ago
It's hard to understate how much better the Kotlin IDE support is vs Scala. In terms of reliability the Scala IntelliJ plugin really seemed to go downhill for me with Scala 3, which was a real shame.
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by lol768 2y ago
Why does this extension even exist on AMO? The article says it's the "Lite/Manifest v3 version" - why would you ever install the inferior edition meant for legacy browsers, instead of the one that blocks ads properly t
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by lol768 2y ago
> where I live there's one a week You're lucky you have this! So many councils have moved to every-three-weeks for general refuse, now. Council tax hasn't gone down to compensate, mind you. Not even the recycling is weekly
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by lol768 2y ago
> Are you trying to suggest that TfL are using are a cyber attack as cover to permanently cancel Oval? I'm suggesting it likely would've been delayed anyway, based on how the project was going prior to the cyber attack, and the
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by lol768 2y ago
The link you've provided (August 2024) pre-dates TfL's announcement of an indefinite delay to Oval Phase 1 [1] which was originally scheduled to happen by the end of 2022. The switch on did not happen on September 22nd, 2024 - and
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by lol768 2y ago
> Yes they are. Right, so when you said "there’s no way of meaningfully marking a contactless card as being paired with a railcard", there was nothing of substance to actually support that assertion. What you've proven to
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by lol768 2y ago
> It’s substantially harder to support railcards, and perform correct enforcement of them, with contactless cards. There’s no way of meaningfully marking a contactless card as being paired with a railcard, which would allow ticket inspec
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by lol768 2y ago
I'd agree with this. At some point in the past, a final-salary defined benefit pension and the job security may have gone some way to levelling the playing field a bit.
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by lol768 2y ago
It's not an assumption. If you have a railcard, you cannot associate it with a contactless card. That's just not a supported task. Therefore if you travel off-peak, you will be charged more than you would if you had used an Oyst
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by lol768 2y ago
> The TfL contactless system doesn’t generally overcharge, as long as you properly tap-in and tap-out. > The contactless system is substantially more capable for handling these issues correctly, and generally better at charging less,
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by lol768 2y ago
For various reasons, the contactless system sadly still lags behind Oyster, with basic functionality like NR discount entitlements missing and showing no signs of emerging anytime soon. The physical infrastructure, like the gatelines, are a
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by lol768 2y ago
> What happened is that some kid phoned up helpdesk and said they were x and they had lost their phone, can you please help me to reset my password and 2fa (because the phone was nicked, its standard operating procedure right?) Then the
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by lol768 2y ago
This particular incident comes after another rail-related "cyber" incident, affecting TfL who run services in London. The previous incident was perpetrated by a 17-year old, and TfL have still yet to re-enable the systems they t
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by lol768 2y ago
This could work great if the assistants actually had the full knowledge you'd expect from a human answering the phone. Usually if I've resorted to calling though, it's because I can't find out the answer from public so
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by lol768 2y ago
I think that says more about the engineers you've been working with than anything else.
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by lol768 2y ago
Why does it have this update mechanism, and semi-regularly force me to download a new .deb file to install w/ dpkg?
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by lol768 2y ago
I normally look for text alternatives, to be honest. It's not necessarily a bias against YouTube , but more video-based content in general. If I can't find an alternative I'll skim it with subtitles on. I certainly wouldn&#x
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by lol768 2y ago
I simply cannot remember the last time I watched 90 minutes of YouTube in a 3 hour period. I don't think that activity is representative of typical usage at all! If I look online for stats relating to use of the YouTube app in the UK,
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by lol768 2y ago
Agree with this. As soon as it became apparent a large proportion of battery usage would be dominated by the YouTube activity, I became suspicious. It's not just Safari where we've seen Google playing dirty tricks either. Back in
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by lol768 2y ago
These complaints aren't invalid, but I do wonder how many users actually get tripped up on these things. If you want a list view, clicking on the icon that looks like a list isn't a crazy thing to do. I agree the dropdown behaviou
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by lol768 2y ago
I'm a bit sad to finally see the death of HTTP/2 Push. It was a neat idea, with poor framework uptake that never really got the attention I think it could've benefitted from. The .NET folks never bothered shipping it; there w

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