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As somebody who works in local government IT, consistent scraping of our data like this is the bane of our life. We get hit by thousands of these, many with no rate limiting, makin…

Waste disposal and planning for quarrying and mineral extraction are different functions, decided at a higher tier of local government, and are not directly comparable to developme…

Cools pics! They should show it behind a pencil for scale.

Websites usually link to their RSS feed using a attribute in the head of the page. Browsers used to detect this and show an RSS icon near the address bar if the website you were vi…

> On Linux, Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager. Holy cow! A huge change in a single sentence.

If you combine it with the 'tone/news' tag, it narrows the field quite a bit: https://www.theguardian.com/media/investigative-journalism+t...

I find this so sad. I would gladly pay/donate to support Firefox, far in excess of however much money they would make from data mining and advertising. I am sure that enough people…

I miss my N9 so badly! Without a doubt the best phone I've ever owned.

I bought an N9 in 2011 and it was an incredible phone. The design and UI were gorgeous and it was a joy to use. I still miss the swipe-driven UI - it was clever, intuitive and well…

It was loading a blank white page. Looks like it's back now though!

Try visiting their FlyGarmin services at - https://fg.garmin.com - certainly looks to be down.

>Had the EU passed a similar law a decade ago, they would be stuck on mini or micro USB today. They did and (surprise!) we aren't. https://www.slashgear.com/micro-usb-formally-chos…

The Mayor of London doesn't have any power over the City of London Corporation. They are completely separate authorities. The Corporation is essentially a unitary/borough-tier loca…

The Post Office is separate from Royal Mail. The two were separated when Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The Post Office is still in the public sector.

Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks

Oh wow, I completely forgot, yes! From Aberdeen it continues all the way to Penzance (but in the opposite direction it starts from Plymouth). So the longest journey is Aberdeen - P…

There's one direct train between Exeter St Davids - Aberdeen every day Mon-Sat, in each direction. It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of t…

I never knew this existed before and can't help thinking it's absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing!

Previous discussion (in 2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116

Is that really true? Section 51 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 (to which the article refers) doesn't seem to require that; it (among other things) forbids a taxi driver fe…

The Post Office hasn't been privatised. The company is still owned by the state. Individual subpostmasters run their branches as their own semi-independent businesses using the Pos…

I thought I was being so clever by filling up the password field with food, so I could buy lots of time to search YouTube. I didn't realise Paul could be overfed :'(

I couldn't get it to accept a move which involved the knight jumping over a hostile piece. It was definitely the best move (I fed it into stockfish and got the same response). I re…

OpenID does exactly that and has been a thing for something like 15 years now. Quite a few big sites like Yahoo, Google, AOL Verisign would provide a URL you could login with (they…