Alastair Wilcox

Just run it against the planning application you're about to submit and it will tell you which holes you need to plug. Could be used by both sides and the end result could be faster planning decisions if there are no valid grounds for objection.

I suppose they think it's better to have him inside the tent at the moment and that promising him rewards that he can never achieve does that. The risk is that he takes ever more insane gambles to hit those targets. They must be confident they can jettison him when it all starts to blow up though.

And also if they are valued enough by their employer. I've seen a lot of redundancy amongst former colleagues in their mid to late 50s. Some voluntary, some not. Also radicalising...

Of course this is less relevant at the younger end if GenX which highlights why such a broad age range may not be a good unit of analysis.

It's those whose sense of self was wholly embodied in their jobs who seem lost. They appear prone to radicalisation in either direction whether by Telegraph Comment writers, Facebook groups or X (OK those 3 definitely lean right, not left).

I'm an older GenXer (59). I think part of the turn to the right is about loss of status as people confront the brutal truth that they were entirely expendable to their employer. Those with post-work projects, volunteering roles, strong family and friendship groups etc are fine.

There will never be a second winner because no one would accept such a tainted prize. Well maybe Infantino would...

Hmm...and how much did VPN use in the UK rise at the same time?

Setting the trigger to 'airplane mode' on and the action to locking the screen also works. So these useful iPhone tips from @stuallen.bsky.social can also work on Android.

My curiosity got the better of me and I tried it just now. Setting the trigger event to a key phrase in an SMS and setting the action to 'Screen Off' does the trick.

Just in case it's not well known. MacroDroid does some really useful automation on Android. Tomorrow's project for me is going to be seeing if it can automate these iPhone security measures. I'd also be happy to hear about other Android automation tools or ways of achieving this.

Yay!

It may well do - I use Unifi Wi-Fi (not switches). Whenever it reports an issue but there's no apparent loss of service, leaving it to sort itself out seems to work fine. I've only had to factory reset anything once or twice in something like the last 6 years. Switches may of course be different...

If something's not working now, however, I'd move faster.

My experience with Unifi is that it often pays to be patient. If everything appears to be working, I'd leave it a couple of hours and only then (and when I could afford some time to do diagnostics), click the "click to resolve" buttons (and then I'd do one at a time with some patience in between).

Tony Adams Park.

Weirdly, my children's phones appear to be able to use either, mine can only use Vodafone masts. We're all on Vodafone.

Magdalen(e)

This has reminded me of a glorious headline and terrible closing line in this story: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6642246...

I'm only partly joking when I say my ideal use case for AI is to extract the script from a podcast so that I can just read the text.

Former governor and MAT Trustee here. Funding is probably the most significant element. The other main one is schools that are hyper-focussed on results. They don't want the SEN students on their roll because they can bring the scores down. I think, at best, this deals with that issue incompletely.

The 2 episodes of Ted Lasso season 2 that were late additions also show writers having to flex at short notice.

#2: Hopeful Actions What's next for the Society for Hopeful Technologists: events, principles, and opportunities to get involved.

Morning! Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is arriving in inboxes now. A little bit on Musk and X, much more about future plans + organising buttondown.com/society-of-h... and great to have a group of fellow organisers coming together 💪

Also there's only one way to respond to hearing the word 'inconceivable' even if it's used correctly.

Slight misquote, but "let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over"

Thanks for the reminder. I've now voted.

Oh, and the booking resulted in 4 separate emails. 🤷‍♂️

I had to 'verify my identity' for an Airbnb booking. I'd just paid a deposit. Couldn't they just trust that my bank had already done that?

They run leisure where we are in South Oxfordshire. The app is comically bad, the staff are great and the facilities are fine, but never waste time with trying to phone or email about lost property - just go back even if the pool is an hour away (as my son learned from bitter experience).

That is a major victory! I have 3 pear trees and am checking daily, but they seem to be a little way off yet. Fingers crossed I can get some at the perfectly ripe point too.