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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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This is the example they chose to show, and it tells you to make a 4"x4.5" panel out of sandpaper?
OpenAI
@OpenAI5 Dec 2024
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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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?”

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Cabinet Office written question – answered at 14 October 2024

theyworkforyou.com
James O'Malley@Psythor10 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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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 :)
David K 🎹
@DavidKPiano8 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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“requires tooling to be productive and competitive” – really? Odd, as I find so much awful JS development out there due to the tooling… xitter.cf/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…
NullVoxPopuli@nullvoxpopuli5 Oct 2024
Replying to @nullvoxpopuli
Build tooling required? RIP Vanilla JS
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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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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.
Pizza Express wordsearch completed, apart from ENNY circled and we’re missing ENVY.

ALT Pizza Express wordsearch completed, apart from ENNY circled and we’re missing ENVY.

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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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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…
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 an answer to the question "Is the article predominantly fur skin, or only trimmed with furskin?"

Screenshot of my flowchart, showing a Zero-rated result after answering a series of questions

ALT Screenshot of my flowchart, showing a Zero-rated result after answering a series of questions

Dan Neidle
@DanNeidle18 Aug 2024
Replying to @MWHoyle19
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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This reduces my DerekGuy-number to 2, as I know the person in this photo. Goes well with my Bacon number of 3 ;-)
derek guy
@dieworkwear13 Aug 2024
Replying to @dieworkwear
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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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.
Michael Bargury
@mbrg08 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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Pretty sure this is ITC Bradley Hand, designed in 1995 by Richard Bradley.
Joe Hill
@jo3hill23 Jul 2024
If you need something to cheer you up, it appears that @educationgovuk sign their FOI responses in Comic Sans ☺️
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Google Maps just off its head nowadays
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.

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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“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!
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.

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.

Killed by Google
@killedbygoogle18 Jul 2024
Breaking news: Google breaks the web.
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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 :)
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 working, showing a modern draggable slippy map with pan/zoom/aerial, etc

Screenshot of fixmystreet.com with JavaScript not working, showing a more basic looking map but all the functionality still works.

ALT Screenshot of fixmystreet.com with JavaScript not working, showing a more basic looking map but all the functionality still works.

Syntax
@syntaxfm17 Jul 2024
Turn JavaScript off in your browser and then come talk to us
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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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Trillion dollar company, yet this is still how they display information that clearly had the space to appear in the main window
Screenshot of TV.app, showing Sunny’s About text in a modal window over the main window which has plenty of space

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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Turns out it is quite easy to do! (ably assisted by @alexparsons)
Chat script showing an institute for which ID cards are always the answer

ALT Chat script showing an institute for which ID cards are always the answer

Matthew Somerville@dracos9 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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I think before looking at the DWP, perhaps we should wonder whether the Tony Blair Institute could be replaced by AI tools?
Matt Davies@halcyene9 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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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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