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@SimonCalder In Switzerland they have an app which tracks your train usage and charges you accordingly. No gates. We’re so behind.

Rail ticket fraud. At last, a gaping loophole in the system will close, from Wednesday 1 April. Currently unscrupulous passengers buy an Anytime or Off-peak ticket, make the journey, and if the ticket isn't clipped or scanned they claim a refund, less £5. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

@Tim_Hugh_Smith @msloobylou It’s not just the money, it’s the reliability. So many water shortages nowadays.

@msloobylou You would have to be using an awful lot of metered water to justify a £30k investment based on avoiding the utility bill. Are they running their own data centre?

Which was nice

@Appyidap17 @elonmusk It’s a trade off similar to not allowing your kid to leave the house. They’ll be safe but they won’t advance.

@elonmusk maybe true to an extent but calling it just “stifling” feels oversimplified those rules are also why safety standards are so high there so it’s a trade-off not just a drawback

Europe will love Tesla self-driving! Due to the extreme regulatory burden of the EU, which in general stifles innovation in Europe, Tesla owners there have been stuck with basic lane-following.

@Sam_Dumitriu @ChrisHowellFCA This is what @HistoricEngland should be doing. There are so many listed houses with similar style of windows. They should publish specs for windows which can be changed without permission in g2 houses. It wouldn’t be like them to make things easier though.

This is a good move. (And to be honest, it should probably be a national policy to require all councils to do this.) I recently wrote up the case of one Maida Vale resident (@ChrisHowellFCA) who was looking at £15,000 bill for replacing two rotting ground floor windows. This would cut the need to fill out an application, pay a fee, and potentially hire a planning consultant. Still need to fix the broken Building Safety Regulator though. samdumitriu.com/p/how-much-doe…

@ClydeCompute @bswud Build estates with car parks?

@bswud So for the people that have moved to the middle of nowhere and need cars, where should they move to?!😅

Now that we have AI imagination, it is impossible that we will lose. harrysanders.substack.com/p/fixing-even-…

@kfirgollan @johnloeber @grok A smart virus isn’t going to move $1, it’ll wait until you add more

@johnloeber That's a very cool concept. @grok why $100? What is the minimum number that can work for a movement like this? Say a wallet with $1 will work? $0.1? Was something similar tested before?

Given the PyPI supply chain attack, I recommend keeping a canary in the coalmine: I have a bitcoin private key containing $100 of BTC in my .bashrc. It's clearly labelled. If my system is ever compromised by some bad package, the BTC will get stolen, and I'll see the move on-chain. And that'll tell me that I need to rotate every single other secret. There are even services that will send you an alert (text, email, whatsapp...) if a given bitcoin address moves funds. It's good to have a burglar alarm, especially when time is of the essence.

@UnderSneege UK doesn’t need a child seat in the middle seat for over 3s if there’s a child seat on each side. So many non isofix options anyway.

Isofix killed the 3 child family

@redditchrache The chief exec has a right to be pissed at working on the weekend when the site could have been opened on a Monday. Who launches anything on a Friday?

Very good piece and chimes with many of us who have been ministers. A little story. One Friday night as we were emerging from the pandemic I got a call from my private secretary. I was a junior transport minister. He said that the driving test site which had just re-opened had crashed. If you remember, driving tests couldn't happen during Covid, meaning that people couldn't drive at all - including those who had to get re-tested (older people, HGV drivers etc). There was a huge backlog of people desparate to get tests. Well obviously once it opened, so many people logged on it couldn't cope. The transport secretary had been dealing with it all day but by 10pm he had enough and as the most junior minister I was asked to take over. MPs were shouting at us because their constituents couldn't get tests, couldn't take up jobs, were losing income, etc. I said to my private secretary, get me the Chief Exec of the Driving Test agency on the phone to brief me and tell me what he's doing to fix the problem. "Minister, I can't do that" "Why not?" "Its 10pm on a Friday night". Silence. More silence. "Can you ask him to get on a call with me?" "Minister, we have asked, and he's not minded to" Gentle expostulation on my part. "But I'm working at 10pm on a Friday night. I am certainly not minded to, but it is his agency that is causing us the problem?" "I know minister. But I still can't get him on the call". Cut to the end, I pushed through. He came on the call an hour later. I got him to brief me with regular updates starting at 7am Saturday. We got the thing open and working by lunch time. But really! Without being rude to many of my former colleagues, I know many of them wouldn't have bothered. But more to the point, as a minister, why should you have to! If people were doing their jobs as they should, they should take ownership of precisely these problems. Small story, but repeated time and again. Side note - its not just the core civil service that are the problem but the myriad of ALBs (arms length bodies) and NGAs (non governmental agencies) that are even harder. Civil servants themselves have no control over what those guys are doing let alone ministers.

@cm0use @BarMexicoSSX @flex_nihilo Only in vegas and 3* hotels

@BarMexicoSSX @flex_nihilo Also been more than "several years" since mini-bars got sensors that detect you putting anything in or taking anything out

incredible

@LUDENClassics These big redundant grills are going to look so stupid one day. What’s it for? It’s not an air intake.

Couldn't tempt me off of a bike with those looks

@Emma_h_mua At least an improvement from an actual appointment booking letter arriving after the appointment, which has repeatedly happened to us

What is wrong with the NHS?! I got a warning letter saying I had 5days to book my colonoscopy on Fri, never had an original letter. I rang & rang Fri, no answer, left a message. Today(Mon)I get a letter saying I've been removed from the list coz I haven't contacted them. Wtf!! 😡

@DanielJHannan I largely pro hereditary peers, but using one who has never previously asked a question might not be the best example. What has he been doing?

One of the hereditary peers being kicked out by Labour, in flagrant defiance of the bargain it made in 1998, is the Earl of Leicester. He just raised a question about the proposed ban on trail hunting, which will waste parliamentary time and police resources to no purpose whatever. His question was thoughtful, measured and informed, and Labour peers began to interrupt him, claiming that he was talking for too long. He politely responded that, as this was his first and last oral question in the chamber, he intended to ask it properly. He is one of the 92 diligent and service-driven peers being thanklessly and gracelessly removed to make room for more placemen. It is perhaps especially poignant in his case as an earlier Earl of Leicester was Simon de Montfort, who called the first English Parliament, and whose image adorns the US Congress; and also because he is descended from Sir Edward Coke, the Elizabethan and Jacobean jurist who, as much as anyone, encoded our modern understanding of parliamentary supremacy and freedom under the law. This is what snapping the thread of history looks like.

@ntbrown01 @Merocle Am I missing something. That device connects to 4 laptops, using the usbc cables each user has kicking around, instead of Ethernet cables/sockets they don’t. One Ethernet jack connects to a normal switch and the other for daisy chaining?

@Merocle So, it’s a router with integrated switch but instead of Ethernet ports, it’s got internal Ethernet to USB dongles for laptops to use? Instead of a cheap 150 foot Ethernet cable, now you are limited to a short, expensive USB-C cable that you can’t easily make from a spool?

This is a bit serious. I really need your feedback. Long story short, I think Ethernet is a relic of the past and should be confined to walls and floors. Modern laptops and many devices are moving away from it in favor of Wi-Fi, which isn’t always convenient and ends up requiring adapters and dongles on desks. So I thought, what if we made a router with USB ports that essentially act as USB-to-Ethernet adapters inside the router? In my personal experience, this would be super cool for certain use cases. For example, at a conference booth, WiFi or Ethernet could be used as an uplink to the router. And the router could have a VPN set up to the company network. For a HomeLab, this is a pretty neat setup as a demo stand. And it would work just fine as a travel router, too. Would you like to see a device like this come to life? This could very well be the first hardware product from developers, made for developers. I mean, from JetBrains. On the technical side, I have some rough ideas for features and unique capabilities. For example, automatic detection of the WAN port regardless of where you plug in the network (the device has 2 Ethernet ports). I’d be happy to dive into the details in the near future. I’d appreciate it if you shared this post - if only because it adds a bit of variety to your feed, which I’m sure is full of AI content and news about AI, offering something tangible and practical.

@MartinWard_Cars @SuzukiCarsUK @NGMWcars @graeme_cobb Hopefully clear glass is an option!

This weeks Press Car from @SuzukiCarsUK a Suzuki eVitara Ultra Allgrip-e 61kWh. 0-62mph 7.4secs, 181bhp. Infotainment system a bit frustrating to use. But, well built, solid, and plenty of room in the cabin. @NGMWcars @graeme_cobb

@MartinWard_Cars @graeme_cobb @SuzukiCarsUK @NGMWcars All wheel drive? A small awd electric car would be so nice. A modern 4x4 panda

@EarthDetect @blaiklockBP @CompaniesHouse Red diesel is the most obvious one

@blaiklockBP @CompaniesHouse That's really strange. Are there tax breaks to be had from being a forestry business?

Multiple companies selling vapes are registered with Companies House as forestry businesses. Do you ever check anything @CompaniesHouse ?

@Angcel31 @Feargal_Sharkey There’s zero need for monthly treatment. If you find fleas, treat them.

@Feargal_Sharkey My dog has monthly flea and tick treatment via oral tablets. Does that have the same effect as sprays or drops which I imagine do affect the water. My dog is a Lab designed for water and makes straight for it.

As we head into the spring please do remember this, flea treatment is highly toxic, keeps your pets away from rivers. Yes, that does mean you. 👇👇👇

@hiddecollee7 @mweinbach @sreesub If you think more updates = better, there’s a job at Microsoft for you

@mweinbach @sreesub App hasn’t been updated in 3 years.. Apple should do more

So what's interesting about the MacBook Neo is for educational institutions buying, it can be as affordable as a Chromebook $494 per unit for a 5 pack, 2.99% financing, AppleCare available, and $100 guaranteed residual after 4 years

@Timoldland A random one but my friends import didn’t have a tow plate so they had trouble getting a tow bar fitted. Popular now for bike mounting

ADVICE NEEDED - Jap imports Looking at Polos for my niece to buy. Have to be DSG, under £8k and Euro 6. The majority for sale are Japanese imports. My question is - what are the downsides to buying/running one? 🤔

@Timoldland Compare insurance quotes like for like. Might not be good value after all.