Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.
OWA?
Something like that would be awesome. See, I don’t have the solutions, but just mentioning stuff, smarter people have ideas. Thank you!
Off-topic: Are you the huginn developer? 🤩
I was talking about the server costs. For less than 300 users, the cost isn’t exorbitant.
Less than €100 a month
Different CEOs will have different visions. The old CEO believed more in the value of social and the new one is more pragmatic and wants to focus on deliverable things with tangible returns like Firefox. It’s sad though as I think killing Mozilla.social is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.
Should we be worried about the future of IPTV or is it fine?
I’m a carer for my disabled mother, but I’m always a huge believer of fuck cars. I’m super excited about all initiatives that reduce the number of cars on our roads as long as they put alternatives in place. That said, my mum does most of her shopping online, but occasionally she has days when she feels well enough to get outside and see things. So when I see things like this, I instantly think about ways she would be impacted. Under no circumstances am I advocating for a reversal of this decision in any way. But if they added some form of short transportation, I think it would increase accessibility for people like my mum. The decision isn’t mine to make or flesh out for feasibility, but I would be a shit son if I didn’t speak up about things I’m cognizant of and maybe one day, someone far smarter than I will provide a solution.
The whole world isn’t even allowed to drive up there now, so why would anyone, let alone me, argue for that? Don’t be ridiculous.
The whole sub-thread was me saying that this affects some people in negative ways and everyone acting like what I said is the worst thing ever.
Not surprising given that my initial comment was me effectively commenting that the time of big shopping streets is at an end due to the fact that it’s cheaper online but that it would be good for tourism.
I didn’t even use big words, I don’t know what there is to be confused about. 😵💫
Can’t wait for all the people that are moaning about Firefox integrating AI to provide parity with every other major browser to have that same energy and lambast Google for trying to fuck over poor people with their market dominance.
Also for the record, Sundar Pichai is an idiot, how does this ever end well?
I think there are disabled people that aren’t able to travel autonomously/independently and that the public transportation available is a godsend to them.
Have you ever actually walked down oxford street?
Sorry, I weren’t looking through my ableist lens properly.
online shopping is hilariously much more expensive and inconvenient than just popping down to the shops
On what planet?
It’s been closed to cars for about 15 years
They’ll never compete against online shopping prices or convenience. Making it harder to traverse isn’t going to fix that. But it will make it a nicer day out for tourists.
That’s clearly not what I’m talking about. I’m referring to the ability to leave them parked on any road. You’re once again conflating that with bad actors.
When you get off of a Lime Bike the app requires you to take a picture of how you parked it. The ability to find bikes local to people even where there are no docks/bays increases public health and transport links.
If bikes are found flat on the pavement or blocking the pavement, that’s a public disorder problem, not a Lime Bike problem and should be tackled as such.
But most people aren’t littering the bikes. What you get is a bunch of people attempting to hack the bikes and they leave them anywhere, along with drunk and disorderly people that kick them over. Why are you punishing all the people that leave them properly parked?
It reminds me of how taxi drivers kept objecting to Uber.
Yes, we need more parking bays and that’s on local councils to provide, but leaving them anywhere helps everyone. I’ve never seen a Santander bay South of the river for example.
Punish the bad actors. London has more CCTV than any other city in the world. Put it to good use.
They keep conflating public disorder issues with Lime Biker issues and all for what? To further empower cars?
Thank you