Matthew Somerville
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Stirchley, Birmingham, UK
Joined April 2007
And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.
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@OldStationSt The Theatre Royal (also demolished in 1956) production in that photo I think could be this one: :)
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@CLondoner92 @GarethDennis @diamondgeezer @TheMurkyDepths It could, sure, but that’s not how I received either of those emails, I know the first did come from TfL, and as I say, have no reason to doubt the second given that.
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@GarethDennis @CLondoner92 @diamondgeezer @TheMurkyDepths The person from TfL in email 1 confirmed in a further email that they have outsourced their trademark protection department to a third party provider. I didn’t see any reason to doubt it, given that, even though it was very badly written as you say.
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The AI nonsense now being pushed more on here can’t tell the difference between the two Tom Hollands, trebles all round.
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This is the example they chose to show, and it tells you to make a 4"x4.5" panel out of sandpaper?
OpenAI o1 is now out of preview in ChatGPT. What’s changed since the preview? A faster, more powerful reasoning model that’s better at coding, math & writing. o1 now also supports image uploads, allowing it to apply reasoning to visuals for more detailed & useful responses.
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@willviles @robkewley77 He’s just a bot/stirring, Stirchley literally has someone currently building an apartment block above shops within metres of this proposal.
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Reader, it was not well answered: “The National Security and Investment (NSI) Act 2021 does not define "critical national infrastructure".” — I guess the question would be “Would the government issue a call-in notice under the NSI Act 2021?”
A very interesting question for the Cabinet Office, raised by @Jim4Dartford. 👀 (Particularly notable in light of the potential sale of Royal Mail to a foreign company.) Will be curious to see the response!
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Yes! @NWSNHC can join my map club - another option is to use input type=image with map tiles, and some server side trigonometry, to get the latitude and longitude of a non-JS map click :)
Fun discovery: the National Hurricane Center (NHC) website still uses <map> and <area> elements for these clickable graphics. It works without JS and can be easily made accessible (area & img elements need alt text).
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“requires tooling to be productive and competitive” – really? Odd, as I find so much awful JS development out there due to the tooling… or And even good packages don’t realise what the tooling is doing eg
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@jaffathecake Yeah, their algorithm has got worse. Bus journeys to central Birmingham are just full of nonsense, e.g. this one – what you actually do is get off at the corner of Pershore Street (bottom right) and walk through New Street and out the other side.
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@philwalton Thanks for this, a much better/expanded version of my own thoughts. I’ve been trying to get a library to drop `useBuiltins`, thereby pulling in loads of core-js (which as you say, regardless of `usage` includes IE8- support) e.g.
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Microsoft Photos decided it couldn’t open some JPEGs synced with iCloud from mum’s account and deleted them even though they opened on her phone and then synced and they’re just gone and that’s photos of her grandchildren and why is tech so bad and they just push more crap on top
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The current @pizzaexpress kids’ wordsearch is missing one of the words (we assume there’s a typo, as there’s an ENNY). My emotion is… sadness.
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There’s nothing I like more than a new feature that makes the page take visibly longer to load, in order to load something that’s the same as what it has already loaded further down. You may find useful.
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@miss_mcinerney @JonnElledge In case they didn’t have engineering works, and one did want to make the train journey, it’s useful to know that an off-peak single from Finsbury Park to Edinburgh is £91.20, valid via Kings Cross on any off-peak train.
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@DanNeidle @willperrin @aIisoooon It’s for the Bus Service Operators’ Grant: (stops must not be more than 15 miles apart). “a mechanism whereby Stagecoach could charge short-distance fares and thereby register the service as a Local Bus Service, enabling Stagecoach to claim Fuel Duty”
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Saw this, saw that the official website was a list of questions (, and knocked up this equivalent web form version :)
@MWHoyle19 Anyone thinking this is even possible should be locked in a room with the furskin flowchart - HMRC's handy guide to whether clothing with fur has 20% VAT or 0% VAT.
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This reduces my DerekGuy-number to 2, as I know the person in this photo. Goes well with my Bacon number of 3 ;-)
Still, this issue of padding and extension is something everyone has to figure out for themselves when buying tailored jackets. Pay attention to the silhouette. Here is the same man in two different coats. Right has extension; left does not. IMO, he looks better on the right.
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Not only is this dreadful, taking us back years in security terms, I remain of the belief that this is unsolvable; this isn’t incremental improvement, this is just how they work. But no, they’ll just add instructions, piling bad on top of bad like the UK’s rail ticketing system.
we got an ~RCE on M365 Copilot by sending an email by ~RCE I mean full remote control over its actions - search for sensitive content (sharepoint, email, calendar, teams), execute plugins and outputs - bypass DLP controls, manipulate references, social engineer its users on our behalf #BHUSA #DEFCON @tamirishaysh
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