I found cleverkeys to be terrible at swipe/gesture typing. It would fail at even simple, common, seemingly unambiguous words. Heliboard + gboard swipe lib was orders of magnitude better.

I still use cleverkeys for termux though as the key gestures are brilliant.

Getting rid of cars is always the answer.

One thing from my personal experience is that I can’t really cycle with my children. It’s plainly unsafe for them to cycle on the road, but it would be illegal for me to cycle on the pavement. There really isn’t anywhere we can go to cycle together near where I live.

still can’t believe Martinelli missed that. Or rather that Kelleher saved it. I would put money on him slotting that home every time.

He was redirected to Sainsbury’s, which apologised and offered him a £75 shopping voucher.

Get absolutely fucked Sainsbury’s, what a joke. “We’re sorry we called you a criminal and chucked you out of our shop, here’s some fake toy money you can only spend at the same place we humiliated you in.”

I know I’m a weirdo in this regard but I would voluntarily get a digital ID from the government. I can see how it would be beneficial in accessing public services but also private services too. I use the Government Gateway account for a wide range of things already including state benefits and self assessment, and it would be great if I could use the same account to prove my identity when signing up for bank accounts.

Right now, to prove my identity to my bank, I have to take a photo of my driving licence, and a video of my face. Then, in probably the most humiliating and degrading thing I have ever been asked to do by my phone, I have to SMILE AT THE CAMERA in order to trigger a selfie to be taken.

My driving licence, video and selfie-with-enforced-smile is then sent to a company that uses “AI” to determine my identity. Now, I know that they do not always use AI to do this, because my wife used to work for this company, and she spent all day looking at people’s photos and driving licences to see if they matched. They were able to provide 24/7 service by having large offices in 3 different time zones, so that an 8-10 hour work day would span the full 24 hour day.

That entire process for verifying my ID with my bank is way more dystopian, alienating and humiliating than signing up for a digital ID with the government. So while I don’t support mandatory ID, I do support a government issued ID that was widely recognised by banks, workplaces, estate agents, and other private institutions that are necessary for modern life.

The decision to ban away fans from this game is starting to look more and more incompetent. I have no idea if it was the correct decision, and I don’t trust the judgement of the people who made that decision. Clearly they did not do adequate investigation.

I said to myself about 20 minutes in that I’d take a point. I never really wavered from that, even after the red.

Why oh why can’t we just get a nice season without any injury setbacks?!

This is a good summary. At this point I am too deeply invested in to NextCloud to switch to a different thing, as I’ve switched my whole family off OneDrive now and I just cba to go through that again. I can handle it being dogshit and I’ve got used to it’s bugs - a form of stockholm syndrome. I suspect a lot of people are similar to me - we use NextCloud because it’s the biggest name and has been around forever, not because it’s what we want.

Anyway, performance is clearly a problem, and has been since I started on OwnCloud 10 years ago. I wish the devs would do something to improve it but again, having used it for 10 years, I know that they won’t. When it finally blows up I’ll move to something else I guess.

Until verification is complete, access to [social features] will be limited to friends only

don’t threaten me with a good time

Calling that shopping centre “iconic” and “legendary” is hilarious.

The proposals have received 784 responses from the public, comprising 105 objections, 637 responses in support and 42 neutral comments.

637 out of 784 in support is pretty overwhelming.

Octopus Energy are having a free hour of electricity today, so I turned the heat pump and electric heater on just now. It got down to 19.5 in the morning, which is far too cold for me…

The OSA should have been explicitly worded to exclude organisations like the Wikimedia Foundation from its scope. Clearly the intent of the law was not to clamp down on the Wikimedia Foundation, so the law should have been written such that the Wikimedia Foundation fell clearly outside of its scope. It’s just very poorly drafted.

I’ve read the act and it’s not clear at all. There is a legal risk if you run a small site about a legal subject with a comment section or forum now that didn’t exist before, which was not the stated intent of the law, and which results from the legislation being poorly drafted.

it’s cold in the morning though

I’m willing to bet that, since their sister got a smart meter, everyone’s bills have doubled.

This is so fucked up.

They added: “The building has been intensively occupied since it opened over seven years ago. It is a multi-million-pound refurbishment …”

wtf? You opened the building SEVEN YEARS AGO, and you need to completely refurbish it already?! How fucking shit must you be at owning and managing a building to need to spend millions of pounds to redo it SEVEN FUCKING YEARS after opening the building?!?!

This company shouldn’t be allowed to exist, let alone fuck up the course of 150 people’s lives. Absolute scum.

It doesn’t actually give any examples of removed posts or screenshots of the reasons why? Surely it can’t just be because a town name happens to contain “lsd” in the middle of it?

Autofill is total shit I agree, but I’ve been copying and pasting from my password manager for over a decade and it’s been fine. I get that autofill would be much less friction, but I really don’t mind copying and pasting.

It’s funny because this means that Aldi has better quality food than Tesco. That’s not something I would have thought before. Before, I would have just assumed Aldi was cheaper, but now I assume that Aldi is cheaper AND better.

I looked into spray foam insulation but not only were there lots of risks, but it was more expensive than traditional warm roof insulation with PIR boards or similar. I do think people should research what they put in their own homes as it wasn’t hard to find information that ruled out spray foam insulation fairly quickly.

Having said that, there is clearly some sort of regulatory gap here as not being able to mortgage your home is a very serious consequence of a relatively small and seemingly innocuous home improvement decision.