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by jayelbe 5mo ago
As somebody who works in local government IT, consistent scraping of our data like this is the bane of our life. We get hit by thousands of these, many with no rate limiting, making hugely intensive requests, that cause downtime and knock-o
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by jayelbe 5mo ago
Waste disposal and planning for quarrying and mineral extraction are different functions, decided at a higher tier of local government, and are not directly comparable to development management/planning.
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by jayelbe 1y ago
Cools pics! They should show it behind a pencil for scale.
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by jayelbe 1y ago
Websites usually link to their RSS feed using a <link> attribute in the head of the page. Browsers used to detect this and show an RSS icon near the address bar if the website you were viewing had a feed - and you could click the icon
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by jayelbe 1y ago
> On Linux, Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager. Holy cow! A huge change in a single sentence.
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Gov.uk Brand Guidelines(gov.uk)
2 points by jayelbe 1y ago|0 comments
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by jayelbe 1y ago
If you combine it with the 'tone/news' tag, it narrows the field quite a bit: https://www.theguardian.com/media/investigative-journalism+t...
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by jayelbe 2y ago
I find this so sad. I would gladly pay/donate to support Firefox, far in excess of however much money they would make from data mining and advertising. I am sure that enough people feel the same way to make it a viable model. Thunderbi
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by jayelbe 2y ago
I miss my N9 so badly! Without a doubt the best phone I've ever owned.
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by jayelbe 2y ago
I bought an N9 in 2011 and it was an incredible phone. The design and UI were gorgeous and it was a joy to use. I still miss the swipe-driven UI - it was clever, intuitive and well thought out. The phone itself had Facebook, Twitter, WhatsA
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by jayelbe 2y ago
It was loading a blank white page. Looks like it's back now though!
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by jayelbe 2y ago
Try visiting their FlyGarmin services at - https://fg.garmin.com - certainly looks to be down.
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by jayelbe 2y ago
>Had the EU passed a similar law a decade ago, they would be stuck on mini or micro USB today. They did and (surprise!) we aren't. https://www.slashgear.com/micro-usb-formally-chosen-as-cellp...
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by jayelbe 2y ago
The Mayor of London doesn't have any power over the City of London Corporation. They are completely separate authorities. The Corporation is essentially a unitary/borough-tier local authority, overseeing the "square mile&quot
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by jayelbe 2y ago
The Post Office is separate from Royal Mail. The two were separated when Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The Post Office is still in the public sector.
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by jayelbe 3y ago
Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks
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by jayelbe 3y ago
Oh wow, I completely forgot, yes! From Aberdeen it continues all the way to Penzance (but in the opposite direction it starts from Plymouth). So the longest journey is Aberdeen - Penzance; my mistake. Thank you! Another mistake: it doesn&#x
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by jayelbe 3y ago
There's one direct train between Exeter St Davids - Aberdeen every day Mon-Sat, in each direction. It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible
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by jayelbe 3y ago
I never knew this existed before and can't help thinking it's absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing!
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by jayelbe 3y ago
Previous discussion (in 2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116
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by jayelbe 3y ago
Is that really true? Section 51 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 (to which the article refers) doesn't seem to require that; it (among other things) forbids a taxi driver feeding another driver's horses with anything other
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by jayelbe 3y ago
The Post Office hasn't been privatised. The company is still owned by the state. Individual subpostmasters run their branches as their own semi-independent businesses using the Post Office brand - but it has always been this way in mos
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by jayelbe 3y ago
I thought I was being so clever by filling up the password field with food, so I could buy lots of time to search YouTube. I didn't realise Paul could be overfed :'(
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by jayelbe 3y ago
I couldn't get it to accept a move which involved the knight jumping over a hostile piece. It was definitely the best move (I fed it into stockfish and got the same response). I refreshed the page to get a new puzzle and got a new stre
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by jayelbe 3y ago
OpenID does exactly that and has been a thing for something like 15 years now. Quite a few big sites like Yahoo, Google, AOL Verisign would provide a URL you could login with (they were identity providers) and there were lots of independent
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by jayelbe 3y ago
Sshhh, they'll hear you
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TikTok fined £12.7M for misusing children's data(bbc.co.uk)
73 points by jayelbe 3y ago|29 comments
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by jayelbe 3y ago
I really dislike the use of "drop" in headlines like this, it's so ambiguous.
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by jayelbe 4y ago
This looks like a useful tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon. And it has a fantastic aesthetic.
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Welcome to the Mastodon Flock installation wizard(mastodon-flock.vercel.app)
1 points by jayelbe 4y ago|1 comments

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