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5 Sep 2013
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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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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5 Dec 2024
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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18 Oct 2024
Reader, it was not well answered: “The National Security and Investment (NSI) Act 2021 does not define "critical national infrastructure".” — theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id…
I guess the question would be “Would the government issue a call-in notice under the NSI Act 2021?”
10 Oct 2024
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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8 Oct 2024
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 :)
8 Oct 2024
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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6 Oct 2024
“requires tooling to be productive and competitive” – really? Odd, as I find so much awful JS development out there due to the tooling… x.com/dracos/status/17403282… or infrequently.org/2024/08/obj…
And even good packages don’t realise what the tooling is doing eg github.com/alphagov/accessib…
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24 Aug 2024
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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24 Aug 2024
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.
ALT Pizza Express wordsearch completed, apart from ENNY circled and we’re missing ENVY.
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22 Aug 2024
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 tenbluelinks.org/ useful.
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19 Aug 2024
Saw this, saw that the official website was a list of questions (gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals…), and knocked up this equivalent web form version :)
dracos.co.uk/made/hmrc-fur-s…
ALT Screenshot of my flowchart, showing an answer to the question "Is the article predominantly fur skin, or only trimmed with furskin?"
ALT Screenshot of my flowchart, showing a Zero-rated result after answering a series of questions
18 Aug 2024
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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13 Aug 2024
This reduces my DerekGuy-number to 2, as I know the person in this photo. Goes well with my Bacon number of 3 ;-)
13 Aug 2024
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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9 Aug 2024
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.
8 Aug 2024
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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23 Jul 2024
Pretty sure this is ITC Bradley Hand, designed in 1995 by Richard Bradley.
If you need something to cheer you up, it appears that @educationgovuk sign their FOI responses in Comic Sans ☺️
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23 Jul 2024
Google Maps just off its head nowadays
ALT Screenshot of Google Maps, saying I should stay on a bus all the way round the city centre rather than get off at the Arcadian and walk.
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19 Jul 2024
“we hope you join us in moving forward into new and innovative ways for navigating web and app experiences” – no! Be old and boring! Don’t break the web! It’s a list of redirects! It’s the least you could possibly do! If I can keep 20 year old URIs still working, so can you!
ALT Screenshot from the linked blog post, where they’re sorry for the inconvenience of breaking who knows how many links and that they want to be new and innovative. Just wrong.
18 Jul 2024
Breaking news: Google breaks the web.
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18 Jul 2024
Here is fixmystreet.com – firstly with JavaScript that loaded (slippy map, we like JS!), and then when it didn’t load (as I went into a tunnel). The pan, zoom, aerial toggle, etc all still work. The map tiles are server-side image maps for reporting. It is possible :)
ALT Screenshot of fixmystreet.com with JavaScript working, showing a modern draggable slippy map with pan/zoom/aerial, etc
ALT Screenshot of fixmystreet.com with JavaScript not working, showing a more basic looking map but all the functionality still works.
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17 Jul 2024
split.traintimes.org.uk/ now has current prices!
Birmingham, for the day, same ticket flexibilities, to:
• Bristol for £64.90, not £147.80: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/…
• Oxford for £36.40, not £99.40: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/…
• London for £83, not £188.80: split.traintimes.org.uk/BHM/…
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14 Jul 2024
Trillion dollar company, yet this is still how they display information that clearly had the space to appear in the main window
ALT Screenshot of TV.app, showing Sunny’s About text in a modal window over the main window which has plenty of space
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9 Jul 2024
Turns out it is quite easy to do!
(ably assisted by @alexparsons)
ALT Chat script showing an institute for which ID cards are always the answer
9 Jul 2024
I think before looking at the DWP, perhaps we should wonder whether the Tony Blair Institute could be replaced by AI tools?
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9 Jul 2024
I think before looking at the DWP, perhaps we should wonder whether the Tony Blair Institute could be replaced by AI tools?
9 Jul 2024
The new Tony Blair Institute report finds huge time savings for the public sector from the use of AI tools... by asking GPT-4 what tasks can or cannot be automated 😵💫
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9 Jul 2024
Tony Blair Institute: “the DWP workforce could free up as much as 40 per cent of its time using AI tools”
Goldman Sachs: “AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.”
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