Posts by danielmeyer

The Register gets its claws on Huawei’s bonkers tri-fold phone

Re: I thought about this

You've just designed the LG Wing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Wing#

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: The least worst option?

Not just data... they sell access to their users to their customers: the advertisers; arguably also selling their users bandwidth to provide the adverts... which isn't even theirs.

Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit

Just wow

The main thrust of this article seems to be proposing that the future of computing is to remove the ability to turn it of and on again to get a known good system status. I can't believe that any of the IT crowd are seriously entertaining it.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Not holding my breath

15 minute cities is not about having all your needed services within 15 minutes walk or cycle. Most people in most cities already have this.

15 minute cities is about forcing people to use those services within 15 minutes walk or cycle, by restricting/charging people for travelling across area boundaries in their vehicles.

For people who live in one area and work, shop, study or anything else on a regular basis in another area this leads to either an increase in their cost of living (paying the fines) or a decrease in their quality of life (using different transport, longer journeys, or different services). The proposal in Oxford effectively (https://www.oxford.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/8144/bgp_14_15_minute_cities.pdf) effectively creates ghettos around the city.

I look at it from my personal perspective and I think, if I drive my kids to school and their school is on my way to work, I'm saving time and effort, if I have to walk them there and back before I can set off; I probably need to leave the house earlier, and get to work later, which means leaving work later, which means more childcare and less time for me to enjoy with my kids/family. With shopping, sure I could walk/cycle to the grocery store and walk/cycle back and I used to do that when I was young and single; but now I have a family of 5, we do a weekly shop in a car, there is way too much stuff to carry on a bike or one of those trundle trolleys.