BigTwerp
@BigTwerp@feddit.uk
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 6 hours ago:
For those of you wondering if you might have been affected but can’t find out because the article is paywalled: Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax are the ones affected.
- Comment on Royal Mail criticised as first-class stamp price rises to £1.80 despite ‘failing service’ 3 days ago:
Things you never knew existed: priceofastamp.co.uk
It looks like stamp prices have increased slightly above inflation but when you consider how few letters are actually sent since a stamp was a few pence it kind of makes sense. You can send a letter from one end of the country to another for £1.65 and I don’t think that’s too bad!
- Comment on This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? 6 days ago:
Maybe because no-one knows about it because whatever it is is locked behind a privacy wall.
- Comment on Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me? 3 weeks ago:
This is something that CoPilot or ChatGPT is actually good at. Depending how messy your data is you might need to several iterations to get what you want and you will need to cross check the results. If you can, use a pdf editor to delete all the information you don’t want. I use foxit for this. Foxit can also save a pdf as excel but if the tables are an image or are complex it will not format very well at all.
- Comment on NHS waiting list at lowest level in three years 3 weeks ago:
Interesting to see what happens when people vaguely competent are running the show, isn’t it?
- Comment on Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? 4 weeks ago:
A good article as ever by the Secret Barrister.
I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.
Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.
- Comment on Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo? 4 weeks ago:
This is completely at odds with my experience living in India! Does it vary between regions?