Posts by tiggity

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Re: Shhhh!

In English quarry is odd as can be a noun or a verb (noun describes the big ole in the ground, to quarry is to extract material)

.. quarrying can be seen as present participle (verb) e.g. you can say people are quarrying or gerund (noun) - referring to the indiustry

English can be horribly perverse & I'm glad I acquired knowledge of it as a UK native - I would hate to learn its weird quirks as a 2nd, 3rd or whatever language as I'm sure if that had been the case my English skills would be even more dire than they are.

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

Re: Can't take the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero seriously

Coal mining costs in UK were uncompetitive - as deep mining obviously cannot compete with cheap open cast extraction (ignoring wage costs in different countries as a factor)

However, a cautionary energy security approach would have meant retaining some coal production would be a sensible option (in similar way UK should have actually been in control of some N Sea oil production - instead all done by private companies so we consumers get shafted on recent gas price increases due to Middle East issues).

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

Re: Amazing how the Trump administration

@Eric 9001

For a variety of reasons individuals / companies may not want to be seen to be associated with / endorsing Trump.

The use of a persons / companies IP by the Trump administration in their propaganda videos may make a casual viewer think they are endorsing Trump, which, depending on their fan / supporter base political views could be detrimental

And (I know, total fantasy as only the scummiest scum seem to get to teh top in politics in most countries) - but leaders of countries should ideally set a good example (& using peoples IP without permission is not a good example, though typical of Trump "steal all the things" mentality)

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

"In a statement to The Register, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology condemned the latest offensive posts, slamming them as "sickening and irresponsible" and saying they "go against British values and decency.""

So can we retrospectively go after the Sun for all its vile BS about Hillsborough?

Or actually prosecute the S Yorks police (those who are still alive) who lied and lied and lied in their cover up / blame deflection.

Or how about looking at the sorry history of the many enquiries into Hillsborough (generally accompanied by no criminal prosecutions) and made worse by the supporters of the Hillsborough victims having to fund themselves for decades vs publicly funded bodies with (essentially unlimited legal funding).

The events at Hillsborough and the long drawn out aftermath "go against British values and decency." & IMHO institutionalized corruption is worse than an "AI" with less than usual guard rails so it takes less prompt engineering skill* to get "nasty" output.

* not a spoiler. It is quite easy to jailbreak / bypass guardrails on "AI" systems (I have not yet found one where I could not bypass its restrictions - sadly some AI work is a mandatory part of the day job, so breaking them is near compulsory for me, just so I have lots of evidence to support my lack of enthusiasm when I get the regular "you are not embracing AI enough" bollockings) - grok is just really easy as far less effort made to have any guard rails (fair enough - at the end of the day LLM produces content based on a prompt - so its really user generated content (just that the user is using 3rd party software to aid in creating that content instead of 100% creating it themselves, but the user is the controlling mind)

Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000

Re: Seven Million Citizens....................

Sort of thing that makes me happy that when I go down South to London & buy tube tickets I use that quaint old thing called cash & so no PII in TfL databases.

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

@AC

Its the boiling frog gradual temperature increase scenario, a right ward drift in what is regarded as "centrist"

Supposedly "left" parties like Labour* are definitely right wing.

The Conservative government of MacMillan in late 50's / early 60's would be regarded as dangerously left wing by the media & "big 2 party" politicians these days

* as many ex Labour members will tell you, it wasn't so much that they left Labour but Labour** left them

** the brief chance of left politics under Corbyn destroyed by media and establishment anti Semitism smear campaign & establishment boy "Sir" Starmer did his duty to purge lefties & plunge Labour rightwards.

Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes

@Korev

UK bases are a legit target as we are helping the US / Israel war on Iran.

.. and I say that as a UK citizen who has to endure various flavours of government, all of which spinelessly roll over & do whatever the US or Israel want in the Middle East, even if it violates international law.

A particularly unpleasant bunch of UK "ex-pats"* in Dubai. If any of them have been conned I have to admit it would be Angstrom size violin time. I bet they will soon be begging to come back to the UK they keep describing as "broken / unfit to live in anymore (etc.) if the UAE keeps getting attacked.

* Selfish UK folk who mainly care about avoiding UK tax, ironically a large amount of them are rabid right wingers with lots of racist / Islamophobic filled podcasts, "journalist" articles etc (but does not stop them living in a majority Islamic & non white state)

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Re: Seems reasonable.

@Tron

Does ROI become return on intimacy in that scenario?

Re: Now I can't even buy it.

Have you a banking hub in a nearby town? - they are useful for stuff like that.

Do you not also have a PIN for chip and sign card?

We care for a disabled relative (who has chip & sign card - but her card also supports a pin number) - I know it works in *some* UK ATMs as I have done the button punching (including PIN) at an ATM while she sits in her wheelchair beside me.

Re: Now I can't even buy it.

I am in the UK and most of the big supermarket branches have a (no charge) cash machine on site.

Our rural area suffers very badly from lack of banks.

There are however some banking "hubs" in a couple of the towns where you can go and get cash / do a bit of pay in etc (different day for each "banking" group if you need anything very specific to your bank that cannot be handled in a generic way)

I mainly use cash & it's no real hassle getting hold of it via ATMs (& I live in a a rural area where only small towns nearby)

AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

Maybe a reason why

Claims used by Israel military

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

Looking at the revenue & profit numbers, big profit margin.

If I was someone using their products I would be looking at competitors to see if a better deal could be had elsewhere.

Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app

Re: IR LED flare hat

My phone has night vision mode - that can be useful for checking remotes are behaving.

Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

I do have all my important username / password combos (and sites they relate to) on a piece of paper *.

Though that is kept, securely, at my solicitors (as it's for scenario of my death so next of kin can avoid all the PITA delays of not having logins to various things so would greatly speed up getting my affairs in order.

Yes, I could be in a load of grief if that was stolen from the solicitors, but in the overall scheme of things it's a very low risk.

*It also has other needed for dealing with death details such as financials - e.g. my bank account names, numbers & sort codes (as I do not do online banking so no credentials for online banking).

Biggest pain is occasionally having to update details at solicitors when some site does an enforced password change due to a screwup on their side (stares hard at a water utilities company)

Re: Passkeys? Yeah, sure....

I got hassle on my most recent US visit over my fingerprints being different to existing records.

Last visit was quite a while ago, when i was younger and I did all house & garden maintenance jobs with hand tools - now I'm older with various joint issues I use a lot more power tools and so far less abrasive wear and tear on hands / fingers.

So, "new" prints were notably different to "old" prints (new ones had a lot more detail as nothing has been abraded off by manual work).

A lot of grief from immigration over that "discrepancy" - though I think they loved any excuse to be a PITA as, in my experience, US immigration / passport control is by far the most aggressively unpleasant I have experienced in any country. *

.. and I'm from a country (UK) that is supposedly on friendly terms with the US (I'm also Caucasian so no racial prejudice triggers for the border staff).

* I should add, the least aggressive of all my visits was when I flew in from Dublin - maybe coming from an Irish location made them treat me marginally better? Or maybe I was just lucky & got one of the tiny % of employees who only scored 9 on the aggression scale instead of the usual 11.

UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

Money

"At the same time, domestic talent is expensive"

A nice summary that overseas workers all about undercutting UK workers / suppressing pay.

Compared to nearby EU countries UK IT pay is dire, so I call BS.

It is purely about companies not wanting to pay IT staff a reasonable wage. (yet happy to fritter huge amounts of cash on vanity projects, C level pay & perks etc.). "AI" is many companies big hope as, to them, it means reducing headcount & getting rid of some pesky staff (especially those experienced staff with institutional knowledge who are not "yes men / women" but say what the issues are; once they can be ditched it can all be a nice echo chamber, forever retrying "solutions" that failed in the past and will fail again)

Re: UK is Missing a Huge Opportunity

My partner left academia (UK university) a few years ago as it was no longer about research and providing a proper education* to students, all about ensuring cash flow & high student numbers.

* Downhill since large fees came in, uni course management would not dare to see students receive bad grades (even though those bad grades wee fully "deserved" as student would not be very good e.g. lack skill / application / understanding etc.).

So huge grade inflation (good luck finding someone leaving with a third or an ordinary these days).

Partner also acted as PhD supervisor and assessor, quality of doctorate work (& students themselves) also went into a nosedive the last few years before she left.

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

@AC

"calling trans men 'men pretending to be women’

Is there a typo in that line as it makes no sense?

A trans woman is a biological* man pretending to be a woman.

A trans man is biological woman pretending to be a man.

Neither of those match what was quoted.

* By biological interpret that as based on chromosome 23 genotype

@AC

"She went on to suggest that with the information she was handed by the council, she could have seen which complainants were council officers and which were elected councillors, without confirming either were involved."

I think, based on that wording , that at least some of the complainants were council officers or councillors.

Hence referring to FSU - as of the belief that council people were trying to suppress legitimate questions

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

One of our cats managed the rotate screen trick when doing the usual cat routine of walking across keyboard to get your attention when you are trying to work

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: It's not a she.

@Bebu sa Ware

"TPE preferred at entry level "

Credit for avoiding lots of salicious entry based puns, I certainly wouldn't have avoided them had I posted that.

Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best

Stop praising passkeys

The big tech companies love them as its more chance for them to get customer lock in.

When the likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon etc. are pushing paskeys vociferously you can bet it's not out of love and concern for the average user, but because it benefits them.

I'll stick to marginally less secure old style passwords thanks with essentially zero reliance on a big tech company* for me be able to log on.

* I do actually have a MS login - but that is for work** (using email address provided by my employer), I do not have a personal one. Also some "junk" Gmail accounts (useful for sites that demand an email address to access, you can use one of those "junk" emails for a Gmail account you never use (bar a login to that Gmail account every few months just so it stays "live"))

** .. need to keep working to pay the bills

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

Performative BS

Meanwhile in the UK, plenty of people with huge amounts of CSA get a slap on the wrist & no jail time.

Conviction rates for rape are abysmally low.

Many rape gangs have avoided proper investigation / actions due to worry about inflaming religious / racial tensions / people not investigating properly for fear of being labelled racist.

So how about fixing some of that?

.. and for these currently discussed images, how about going after the people posting the images.

Meanwhile a role for "AI"...

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(Shamelessly nicked from Lukas)

DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

Re: Finally

Though arrest not for noncery but for revealing secrets to Epstein.

UK legal process in a nutshell, seemingly minimal concern about VAWG, but soemthing that might have financial considerations changes things

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

No effect on employment

.. Though that is what many companies are hoping for - a reduction in head count as a way to drive down costs.

I have already experienced "AI" customer service - it was worse than the usual scenario of dealing with a human following a script & outsourced to a cheap labour country (and why the F... do they insist on giving such customer service bods anglicised names - just use their proper names - I'm more happy to chat with Sahana*, than I am to "Sarah"* (when "Sarah" has an obvious Indian accent))

* Other names are available.

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

Re: Think of the..

Towards end of my time at school (Sixth Form), video recorders were starting to become popular & less exorbitantly priced, early 80s, there were some kids who had dodgy vids (be they "video nasties" or porn) so if kids wanted to watch them, they could.

Quite common at parties held at someone's house (where they owned a VCR) that porn vids would be playing throughout the event.

This was very working class area & comprehensive - I would imagine it was the same in more "posh" areas (except more families could afford VCRs & a chance some kids even had their own, not relying on the family player)

Re: Age check...

A bit of a problem for Duncan Goodhew *

* showing my age here!

Re: A tiny mind juggling too many thoughts?

And, as any decent socialist will tell you, a Sir is not an appropriate person to lead a socialist party.

.. Though Labour is nothing like a socialist party

Re: distraction

.. and daily you read of UK perverts with child porn (& not just the odd image, but a metric fuck tonne of the stuff) getting a wrist slap e.g. a bit f community service or a suspended sentence instead of off to jail.

I would be quite keen on more action taken against those individuals but UK seems to treat paedo images with bizarre leniency - e.g. judge letting off a teacher with lots of CP because they were of good character & it was a first offence (FFS - why do you think he went into teaching, & first offence only ever means first time caught)

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

Depends on how trustworthy / reliable you regard the police as.

Maybe it's different in Holland, but in the UK they are neck & neck with used car sales people & estate agents.

If user said they had info of interest & were sent a link that gave them lots of files maybe they assumed

a) They were meant to read the files and see if the material they had was already covered.

b) They could have assumed it was also for upload - assumed that after checking they could then add their material.

.. and it also assumes police would have worded their email clearly and it was full of warnings to ask if you should do x, y, z if unsure. But I doubt it was well worded as if it was then unlikely to have sent a totally inappropriate link.

.. and why was that material readily downloadable? Surely there should have been a whole lot of security measures in place to prevent any old person accessing it.

Given person was initially trying to help the police, the moral of the story is do not try and help the police, it could turn out badly for you. A bad move from the cops, even if the mail recipient was a bit of a knobhead.

Though the person should have just got in touch with the "press", could likely have got a bit of a payday that way, & less likely police would have done anything.

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

Dream inspiration was a big thing in the Surrealist art movement.

Andre Breton (not well known compared to Dali etc. , but was founder of Surrealism) recommended a notepad by the bedside to record dreams as soon as you woke

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

Re: Ban it

Though article also said 3 staff members were involved,* checking phones - so human error in triplicate!

I could be cynical & guess the complexion of the aggrieved party based on their surname & wager that the staff were a different ethnicity & it was a "they all look alike" not giving a toss about due diligence scenario.

* whereas the wording of Sainsbury PR bod implies a single human error

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

Re: Experience includes institutional knowledge

The first casualty of (usually imposed from above by the clueless) ludicrous deadlines is always documentation.

Even when there may be a small window to deal with some "technical debt", its generally code refactor, rather than documenting the undocumented.

Not helped by policies such as "no comments in code as they get out of date" ... yes, there is that risk (not of code review includes validating comment accuracy), but at least it gives a noob a lot more clue than zero comments!

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

JIRA

I used to think JIRA was the worst - but now I have to use MS Azure devops - which is so bad it almost makes JIRA look good.

Open-source AI is a global security nightmare waiting to happen, say researchers

South Korea vulnerable

Given their none too friendly relations with the Norks, & the Norks having just a bit of a reputation for dubious cyber actions, you would have thought South Korea might have long focused on making critical systems secure.

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11

"The specifications start to go overboard for us, though, when it comes to the hardware privacy switches: the device is planned to have no fewer than six which will fully disconnect, at the hardware level, multiple functions: camera, microphone, Bluetooth, GPS, mobile network, and Wi-Fi. That frankly seems like overkill, but we're sure that it will make some extremely privacy-conscious buyers salivate."

Given the number of apps that periodically try & "phone home", want to access GPS, bluetooth etc. then its a good way to keep your internet use down (useful if on a limited data tariff).

Blocking GPS, bluetooth can again be useful - both can be battery hogs, if you are not using an app that needs them then a hardware switch guarantees nothing can use it.

So neither of the above are privacy reasons they are reducing network use & battery use reasons.

Microphone & camera, are obviously mainly for privacy purposes, but can be useful for other reasons (we are all aware of "butt dials" - can be easy to accidentally trigger camera function too - another thing that can be battery expensive & so off at hardware level is a benefit again)

Claude Code's prying AIs read off-limits secret files

Fully agree, projects I work on have all the config entries e.g. xyzApiKey, but no actual data value for each entry in the source code

Deployment pipeline adds them appropriately*, depending on environment deployed to.

So that way, even if you make a mistake with .gitignore (or source code tool of choice) no "secrets" end up in source control (CI pipeline runs analysis on any branch changes committed to ensure nothing in there that looks like a key or other secret, and it has to be deleted out if someone did mistakenly add it (proper delete so no git history - a secret that can be obtained by going thorough version history is not a secret!)).

* pipeline outside of the source code repos obviously

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Cynicism about my previous employer would not have helped me

Indeed.

I also read a lot of things online about various AWS issues, bad Amazon customer service etc..

So maybe, instead of layoffs, some of those people could have been moved to deal with some of the issues* that afflict the Bezos empire

* Though will not deal with the main issue of treating people as having no intrinsic worth and quality of life / work-life balance** is only for the lucky few

** we care for a relative (MIL) with various health & mobility issues, we do grocery shopping for her, but she does order some other stuff on Amazon (including stuff like chocolate which I assume she feels guilty about asking us to get when we do grocery shopping - but as part of our care duties we do all the bin emptying / recycling etc. then we are aware of those purchases as the packaging is not exactly invisible! - though we humour her & so don't let her know that we know).

..Which, by chatting to delivery drivers, is how I discovered the Amazon delivery drivers pissing in bottles was not an urban myth & drivers now know they only need to ask and they can use our bathroom when dropping off a delivery for MIL

Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl

Not got any digital signage in the nearest Lidl - will have to keep a look out just in case.

.. Though its always been really busy whatever day / time I have visited, so doubt they need to make much effort to keep the cash rolling in at that particular store so could be a long wait.

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

Re: "we never loaned any of our tools to any of the non-IT staff ever again"

@The Oncoming Scorn

Most IT techs these days at least do carry a barcode scanner - their phone!

Re: "we never loaned any of our tools to any of the non-IT staff ever again"

@Pickle Rick

I have my own chainsaw for garden jobs, as we have a fair number of trees that sometimes need work & am getting older and manually sawing trunks / massive branches has lost any allure it may have once had - my chainsaw is electric (mains powered, not battery).

So could envisage a scenario where I may need to hire a "petrol" chainsaw as rain made use of my electric chainsaw unsafe* (e.g. emergency scenario where tree had come down due to wind & needed slicing and dicing ASAP as was blocking access road)

* not going to risk it in the rain ! My major pruning / felling** jobs are planned ahead and so no hassle waiting for a dry day.

** One felling job provisionally pencilled in, tree was wind damaged and now at a bit of an angle, so reduced crown a lot (height and density), if tree remains as it is then a reprieve, but if leans over any further then it gets felled (though everyone is aware to give it a wide berth just to be safe) - if it did blow over it would fall in garden & not damage house or anything so not a priority & like to give the more mature trees (great for wildlife) as much of a chance as possible as not replaceable to that size in my lifetime.

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

A long time ago I used to work in C / C++ a lot.

We were aware of limitations on memory handling.

In addition to "eyes on" from other devs, we made heavy use of tools such as Purify & BoundsChecker, these did manage to spot issues, especially when using it in the dev stage, before review by your peers.

I am hopeful that capabilities of code checking tools have moved on, so although a memory safe C is a nice thing, you can probably manage memory safe C code by using appropriate tools & coding techniques*.

* though some good techniques about avoiding logic issues rather than anything else e.g. use of (more expensive) calloc instead of alloc, as, with alloc, memory not cleared and so a chance that could end up with what looked to be valid data (as with memory freed and grabbed a lot over time a fair chance of grabbing memory your code had recently populated and so could appear to be valid data)

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

@Peter Gathercole

Given there are known issues with facial recog systems e.g. even less accurate on some skin "tones" than others, then it is innately discriminatory*.

* No prizes for guessing that accuracy less if you are "black" (a demographic already disproportionately targeted in non automated stop & search) . So gives a nice hi-tech excuse for biased policing.

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

Strange, as even if personal internet usage allowed* then porn should be a no no as always the potential for something illegal in UK to be downloaded .

.. and most companies have caveats about inappropriate behaviour, bringing company into disrepute etc. - and having porn on a company PC would fit into that.

As a union rep (I'm guessing straaight male and it was hetero M&F porn or lesbian porn) shoudl have been aware that could definitely be regarded as misogynistic (especially if found by a female employee)

(at least the user was made to stop torrenting "pirate" content as that was 100% illegal))

Should ahve just blocked porn sites (a bit of whack a mole if dodgy employee kept finding new sites)

* personal internet usage is generally taken to be appropriate content. Since internet policies have been in employment contracts (decades now) - all contracts I have had detailed porn download as a disciplinary / sackable offence (would depend on circumstances, e.g. back in the day dodgy popups going to nasty content was relatively easy to accidentally click through by non IT savvy staff - did work at a place where an IT savvy guy was sacked for downloading porn (didn't affect his productivity - he had written code to run overnight & download it - this was in the 90s when home internet was expensive & slow - he forgot to bear in mind that commercial internet was expensive then and out of hours expensive downloads of relatively large amounts of data (not from expected sites e.g. not software updates, drivers etc.) would get investigated). It did make thst company add blocks to a lot of things as a consequence (various porn web sites, IRC & usenet**)

** that was a pain as they did a blanket usenet ban - those were the days when a lot of tech chat / help on problems was via usenet, irc blanket ban was also a pain as that lost a few useful tech irc groups devs used. So made our lives harder (not in the way he made his life harder)

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Don't forget the genocide

It is not all about USA hatred of China.

TikTok was one of the few social media platforms where the pro Palestine accounts were not shadowbanned / throttled & the pro Israel genocide posts not massively amplified. Now TikTok can be tweaked to be heavily pro genocide by default, like the other main social media platforms

a bit of politics

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start

Exactly what my partner did (post office) for Companies House requirement (not an exciting company, we live in a cul de sac out in the sticks that is an un-adopted road & have septic tank as no "waste" link to main sewage system, so 1 member of each household registered in a "management" company that each household pays into to cover shared costs of road repairs,, tank emptying & any other "shared facility" costs )

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities

Re: Fine Shield for Drivers

@Yorick Hunt

Yeah.. that is how it works in the UK

Hopefully it has improved a bit over the years (but I doubt it*)

Years ago we had car TWOC*ed (& also discovered various items stolen from it when it was recovered, e.g. bolted in child seat)

Despite it all being reported we received speeding fine notice (relating to night it was stolen) & had to jump through a few hoops to get it rescinded (giving our crime number for the car theft, describing what happened). Ideally system would have some sensible cross referencing against theft of that vehicle, but I would not be surprised if victims of car theft even now still have to fight invalid speeding fines generated by the TWOCers.

*TWOC - taken without consent, used to be a common term used in UK for vehicle "theft" (as often it was not "theft" as, if not stolen for parts etc by for a "joyride" then usually recovered (albeit often damaged**) so not permanently deprived of it (so not technically theft))

** In our case, ended up getting insurance to write it off as it was ****ed & as it was a low value old car not worth insurers getting it repaired (I'm guessing driven at speed over some of the many roadbumps in the area - the parts & labour costs for the Mcpherson strut replacements alone about the same as resale value of the car)

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire

Re: How about less smut instead?

" either given by an older acquaintance or purloined from the local newsagent*"

See Ian Dury - "Razzle in my pocket"

BTW - you forget "hedge porn" as a source (finding discarded magazines in the wild)

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry

Re: This would allow telcos to extract unjustified revenues

Used to play Ingress a lot a few years ago - but never chartering things! (did have amazing walking stats though as I mainly played on foot!), it certainly wasn't the lightest game on internet usage on a busy session - also needed a hefty powerbank (or >1 if you were doing a First Saturday or similar event) as the constant GPS usage hammered phone battery.