There's usually some kind of management company

They're classed as 'shared private drives' - means the council doesn't have to adopt them and the house builder gets away with just tarmac. Taylor Wimpey is doing the same to the houses being built next to me.

People were definitely extolling the virtues of the internet back then (I was one of them!) but I don't remember Martha Lane Fox saying 50% of white collar jobs will be gone in 6-12 months.

Nothing in post about Coventry - do you think that Labour will hold on? All the seats are up this time so despite them currently holding 39 out of 51 seats there's potential for a shock result.

I had to justify why an absolute discharge for failing to produce a driving licence within five days in the 90s couldn't be used to blackmail me for CTC vetting recently - the mind boggles at what must be in Mandelson's DV file.

1Password has something like this called "Sign in with"

support.1password.com/sign-in-with...

Back when my younger brother was born my dad took us to the Fish & Chip shop where it was 2p for a regular portion of chips - just waiting for a portion now that cost £3.60 🤯

One of the main differences though is that Web 2.0 could happen after the dot-com crash because it wasn't dependent on huge quantities of money and infrastructure. Not sure the same can be said for LLMs once the bubble bursts - we could see a plateau in model capabilities.

There's also the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum which is playing host to Dippy the Diplodocus from the Natural History Museum. It had a refurbishment for the City of Culture in 2021 so might be new things to see if you've been before

www.theherbert.org/whats-on/169...

There's also the Transport Museum, which people think is all about cars but they have a collection of over 350 cycles

www.transport-museum.com

Coventry Charterhouse Coventry Charterhouse

Coventry Charterhouse is something that's opened within the last few years you might not have seen before - now run by the National Trust

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/warwic...

One easy trick to prevent yourself having your social media account compromised - don't have friends who would DM you about voting them onto a podcast.

(Alternatively, if you really must have such friends make sure you have 2FA enabled)

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

4. The AWS account is owned by RC and other than needing to be secured correctly seems irrelevant because it's not being migrated to a different provider or account.

Whilst a migration to a different org is not a one-click operation it doesn't seem to be a so hard that it couldn't be considered.

1. The team name being hardcoded to "rubygems-org" isn't a problem - you can have the same team name in a different org.

2. The OAuth app is compromised so you're going to have to replace that anyway.

3. rubygems.team is either controlled by RC and is fine or isn't and needs changing anyway

BT's Web Protect feature has been known to cause DNS issues - you could try turning that off (which also probably why the setting is password protected as you could change it to bypass the protection)

Back in the late 80's when I was a product design student at Brunel, Dyson sponsored a weekend student competition to generate product ideas with the best getting a prize of £50. The catch was all the entries from students would belong to Dyson - he's always been a cunt.

Just got a GitHub Enterprise email about data residency changes to an archived organisation id that I was never a member of - spidey senses tingling (remembering the trauma from when a Rails update caused a mailshot failure for GHE)

Just going to take a sip of my coffee and check out how one of our projects that uses axios and is deployed to Railway is doing…

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National Cycle Route 41 changes at Fosse Way (Oct 25) YouTube video by leepd60

This video has a good summary of the changes round there

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPip...

You can just buy adapters to convert the Type 2 connector to 3-pin plug sockets - problem is having to lug around the charger but if you're bike packing you'll be doing that anyway

www.amazon.co.uk/GUWIEYG-Adap...

If you're wondering, yes this does mean they can drop one into the centre of London.

They're not boots on the ground if they're bouncing around on pogo sticks

I picked a good time to replace my gas hob with an induction one. 😅

Avanti West Coast have sent me an email about upcoming changes to the national refund policy because I bought a flexible ticket in the last six months. Only problem is they've sent an email for every ticket without de-duping email addresses, which with split ticketing is a lot of emails. 😭

D:Ream's "Things can only get better" - not for its use in the 1997 General Election but prior to that I was living in a flat in Southfields during the week and the person downstairs played on repeat every morning 🙉

(I'm convinced it must have been Peter Mandelson)

Are you aware of the issues regarding transforming between OS National Grid co-ordinates and WGS84 (GPS) co-ordinates? There's a mathematical formula to do it in real-time but it can be out by up to 3m in some places - to do it accurately requires placing a dense grid over the UK and distorting it.

Doing a rewatch of Stargate SG-1 and in an episode where the team travel back in time to 1969 a hippie make a reference about crossing the border into Canada to avoid the (Vietnam) war and Teal'c goes "What war? The war with Canada?" - which hits very different in 2026 than it did in 1999. 😅

If I ever produced a PR like that please take the computer away from me and put me in a home

Only while you're writing it