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Not watched yet, but I suspect AI edits are using hallucinated citations with ISBNs that don't even pass a checksum test. AI may improve on this if someone trains them about ISBNs better, but it's cool if this sort of test weeds some slop out for now.

Yeah, there were a few mistakes in the search that will amuse most English people, but basically Ben didn't get far enough away. Partly that was because service out of Scarborough sucks, I guess.

Why's Sam hating on his hiding city at the end so hard? It seems likely to render many photo questions useless in the end game, if he picks the hiding spot well, such as inside Queen Square or Lloyds Court or in one of the many underpass connectors, because photos will narrow it only to one of many similar places built around the same date in a similar style. One steel+glass block or polished granite wall looks much like another. The street grid will nullify the Strava traces. It's unlikely to be a winning run, because it's too easy to get to and the "tallest building from the station" photo will probably be a giveaway to anyone who's seen it - or Superman IV - so there won't be much long game, but the final half mile could be carnage.

We had a national government that accepted this and retitled the road-building budget as "pinch point funding" to say it should only be used to smooth junctions where jams accumulate, not on extra lanes to deliver more cars to those jams.

Local government still found creative ways to subvert it into building new roads and lanes, then that national government was sacrificed on the altar of Brexit and business as abnormal resumed. That's why we don't get nice things.

Out of the frying pan, into the Brave fire. You might want to look at the controversy around Brave, if you haven't.

Vivaldi's core reason can be summarised as

when it comes to large projects that have been around for ages or are household names, people might not even notice the fork. But with Vivaldi’s relatively smaller footprint, we could be easier to overshadow, making our brand more vulnerable.

They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical. Sorry but that's absurd. If imagined how it looks from outside their firm, they might wake up. Instead, they'll probably putter along for a while, then get bought or fail or change direction or something, and their browser will be lost like the Presto Opera before them.

None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.

Anthony is a she?

Now a non-apology: Brigitte Macron half-apologises after calling French feminists 'stupid b****es' http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/16/brigitte-macron-half-apologises-after-calling-french-feminists-stupid-bes

Care to explain how some of those wouldn't have been hit? Some businesses do indeed use NordVPN. We may have thoughts on that but they do.

Yes. Working from home, or home offices. Not the Home Office, which is what British often uses instead of Interior Ministry, but usually with "the" and capitals.

Same as it ever was. Once teenagers are old enough to look for nudity or sexualised content, they will get it. It's just not paper mags hidden in bedroom furniture any more. The real problem is antisocial media giants and some advertisers pushing porn at kids who never looked for it and the government are scared of fakebook, google and friends, so won't deal with that.

This sort of nonsense is a way to look like they're doing something, while also making it massively easier for the spies, all under cover of "won't somebody think of the children".

Home office is affected because customer private data can't be sent over unsecured public networks and it's rather difficult to work many jobs without that, so a VPN link between home office and HQ is needed and most businesses buy that in.