Chris Stafford

Amazon and I have very different ideas about what constitutes good news.

Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do

Shocking news Grokipedia cites Stormfront 😐 indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

It's important to find time for hobbies I guess

It should really only take one of them if they are properly dedicated. Still you've got to admire their work/life balance, ensuring that they wear you out and still all get a solid 40 winks themselves

If only people would take off their rucksacks, the train service could be cut in half, and there would be plenty of money for free ferries.

it's a bus-mounted ANPR camera with a lot of shite about AI added in so they can charge 10x what it's worth. I can get on board with with ANPR cameras, but doesn't London already have a less-creepy-sounding version of them?

Death Star

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

https://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2025/10/read-our-supplement-scotlands-buses-2025/ pages 14-15

https://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2025/10/read-our-supplement-scotlands-buses-2025/ pages 14-15

Also; why pinning all your efforts on free bus travel doesn't have quite the equalities impact that's often assumed.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Ny sparkesykkel krever f**teglis

“Disappointment” as Edinburgh Royal Mail delivery office set to relocate with current office in “disrepair”, according to union - Deadline News THE Royal Mail Delivery Office in Morningside is set to relocate to near Murrayfield as the existing building is described as in "disrepair".

"The CWU has supported the move, saying that the current building is not fit for purpose and emphasised that the new office will only be a 12-minute drive away from the old one."

That's handy. I'll just buy a car will I then? Shit union.

www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/15/d...

It wouldn't greatly surprise me if it just didn't get through in Edinburgh - it was up for a vote last year but there was so much back-stabbing at the time that it was completely random what got through and what didn't. I just thought I saw it on the notices.

I thought they did that this year

It's such a pain keeping up with paperwork in this fast-paced world

I tend to agree. I'm not a fan of the growing number of floating stops stuck the wrong side of bike lanes, but even then at least it separates out the waiters from the walkers. I'm not sure I trust other councils though, and a pole genuinely is better than nothing.

Devon have bus stop standards (which for some reason include sticking turf on the rooves). The stop I used most often couldn't have been made to meet standards, and now it has been closed and I have to walk an extra mile to get the bus. Minimum standards are a hostage to malicious compliance

I have 40 apps that didn't come with the phone, and most of them work fine. I'm quite happy with a nice open app store - it can be open to any old crap as long as I don't have to install it

They're both variously horrible, but if you use mobile web for everything, and an ad-blocker, then you will probably only notice when the latest "great" new release of the OS breaks everything for zero benefit. Even that's consistent across the two.

Maybe the Norwegian government will subsidize it to go to Oslo instead. Vy seemed very taken with the service from Oslo to Malmo they ran over the summer to meet the sleeper.

Most of their budget is being being used to fight the ground though, which doesn't want there to be a train line to Bodø

No. It’s most definitely not. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

They rarely use the Swedish ones. Presumably ö and ä look a bit too German

An exciting new opportunity for enthusiastic people to waste another couple of years on this hopeless non-starter of an idea. Sometimes it's just useful to just have a non-passenger railway going between places commuters don't want to travel between. No need to turn it into a toy tram set.

I had to do that last time. It's *possible* to migrate password hashes off Firebase and into the new system, but it requires Java plugins to run, potentially forever.

How comfortable did you find the cloth-covered metal board they use as seating in cattle class?

Housekeeping will appreciate that. They've only just finished mopping down and repainting after the last guest

I've got so many pretty components for the website I plan to build, but I don't have the energy to piece it together. I could have had fun building the components myself, instead I spend days looking sadly and exhaustedly at the screen before giving up and watching endless NCIS. LLMs are unbalancing

As somebody who rarely buys coffee in high street coffee shops, I've always found this comparison a bit odd. I wonder what proportion of people generally, and what proportion of likely bus users, think that cups of high-street coffee are cheap enough to buy a couple of times a day.

If you disable the Google app it removes Google Now. Also removes bunch of other stuff like Google search popping up based on gestures I've accidentally made, or when somebody said something that sounded a bit like "hey google". I *think* I'm still on stock launcher, but it's a Moto phone so *shrug*

To be fair, I don't even have data from last year, I'm just going on my memory of it being a bit damp.

Does the theory about longer wet/dry spells go with the theory about the gulf stream diverting? I'm worried enough about Europe ending up with Canadian winters, without them being wet as well 😱

I'd like a selective mute mechanism where I could temporarily mute the Liverpool fans I follow during matches. It's like Man Utd in the 90s - otherwise-interesting people with no obvious full-time attachment to football spend 2 hours sharing dull talking points about the team they sort-of follow.