thehatfox
@thehatfox@lemmy.world
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- Comment on England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking 1 week ago:
Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.
I would laugh if I didn’t live here.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 week ago:
The figures are the averages for the full trial period.
So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.
- Comment on mkdocs for recipe catalogue 2 weeks ago:
So far I just keep recipes in whatever I’m using for notes.
Some of these dedicated programs look interesting though. Thinking about it, it would be handy to have some dedicated cooking features, like being able to search for recipes by ingredients.
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- Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trialwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 34 comments
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- Comment on Two-hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government 1 month ago:
I think some parents feel a bit disempowered about how to actually make their kids healthier online.
All of the time restrictions (and more) being proposed can already be done with parental controls that are built into devices now, and have been for years.
The state setting digital curfews is a ridiculous level of overreach. The OSA and now this, we are heading in a dangerous direction.
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- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 1 month ago:
This feels like a big shift for it actually to happen, but I think it’s the right decision overall.
The idea that 16 legally a person can (with some caveats) live independently in their own home and raise a family, and pay all the relevant tax along the way, but not have their say in elections has always seemed incongruous to me. It’s the young who feel the political outcomes the longest after all.
How many young people will actually turn out is another question politically though.
- Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climatewww.metoffice.gov.uk ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission findswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows 2 months ago:
I thought the size of carry on luggage was checked at check in before boarding. It was the last time I flew.
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- Comment on 3D Printing A Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You Want 3 months ago:
The owner’s phone: Image
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.
- Comment on Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs 4 months ago:
However, it is important to note that these digital IDs are not a replacement for the original physical ones. Furthermore, U.K. residents cannot use digital IDs at airports for travel.
Additionally, Google states that it is also exploring certification with the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, which could enable residents to use their digital IDs for alcohol purchases and other purposes.
So you can add your passport to Android but effectively not use it for anything? Does anywhere in the UK accept this Google system as ID?
The article also mentions a partnership to add Railcards to it, but there is already a Railcard app for that, so I’m not sure what this actually for.
- Comment on Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs 4 months ago:
We already have a semi privatised identity system with the PASS card scheme for proof of age, its government backed but the actual physical and digital IDs are provided by various public and private groups.
