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New comment by jayelbe in "iPhone Air"

jayelbe — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:43:39 +0000

Cools pics! They should show it behind a pencil for scale.

New comment by jayelbe in "How RSS beat Microsoft"

jayelbe — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:43:45 +0000

Websites usually link to their RSS feed using a attribute in the head of the page.

Browsers used to detect this and show an RSS icon near the address bar if the website you were viewing had a feed - and you could click the icon to see more details and subscribe.

I use this Firefox addon which replicates that functionality: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feed-preview/

FreshRSS is a good self-hosted RSS feed reader, and you can configure it to scrape non-RSS webpages for updates too: https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/

New comment by jayelbe in "Firefox 141 Released"

jayelbe — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:17:24 +0000

> On Linux, Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager.

Holy cow! A huge change in a single sentence.

Gov.uk Brand Guidelines

jayelbe — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/govuk-brand-guidelines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378038

Points: 2

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New comment by jayelbe in "The Guardian flourishes without a paywall"

jayelbe — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:12:37 +0000

If you combine it with the 'tone/news' tag, it narrows the field quite a bit:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/investigative-journalism+t...

New comment by jayelbe in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

jayelbe — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:54:10 +0000

I find this so sad. I would gladly pay/donate to support Firefox, far in excess of however much money they would make from data mining and advertising. I am sure that enough people feel the same way to make it a viable model.

Thunderbird raises more than $8mn a year in donations to support their development. Thunderbird's success has proven that this model would work.

New comment by jayelbe in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

jayelbe — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:12:07 +0000

I miss my N9 so badly! Without a doubt the best phone I've ever owned.

New comment by jayelbe in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

jayelbe — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:17:14 +0000

I bought an N9 in 2011 and it was an incredible phone. The design and UI were gorgeous and it was a joy to use. I still miss the swipe-driven UI - it was clever, intuitive and well thought out. The phone itself had Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Spotify clients, and MS Exchange support for calendaring and email (I believe Nokia developed or ported many of these in-house) and was completely usable day-to-day.

Compared to Nokia's symbian phones and earlier Maemo efforts, it felt revolutionary and I'd agree Nokia had a device which could have paved the way for a post-symbian future. It definitely felt like, with continued investment, it would have been a real iPhone competitor, and in just the nick of time.

Elop's strategy was a disaster.

New comment by jayelbe in "Garmin Connect services were down"

jayelbe — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:34:20 +0000

It was loading a blank white page. Looks like it's back now though!

New comment by jayelbe in "Garmin Connect services were down"

jayelbe — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:40:08 +0000

Try visiting their FlyGarmin services at - https://fg.garmin.com - certainly looks to be down.

New comment by jayelbe in "EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force"

jayelbe — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:38:05 +0000

>Had the EU passed a similar law a decade ago, they would be stuck on mini or micro USB today.

They did and (surprise!) we aren't.

https://www.slashgear.com/micro-usb-formally-chosen-as-cellp...

New comment by jayelbe in "London's 850-year-old food markets to close"

jayelbe — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:55:41 +0000

The Mayor of London doesn't have any power over the City of London Corporation. They are completely separate authorities.

The Corporation is essentially a unitary/borough-tier local authority, overseeing the "square mile" centre of the city, and has a council of elected councilmen. It provides housing, education, social services, street cleaning, markets etc for a small area of central London, and has existed since time immemorial.

The Mayor's remit, which has only existed since the year 2000, covers the whole 600-square mile area of Greater London, and provides strategic services like transport, strategic planning, fire and rescue, and the metropolitan police.

The Mayor of London wouldn't have had any involvement in this at all.

New comment by jayelbe in "Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach"

jayelbe — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:54:00 +0000

The Post Office is separate from Royal Mail. The two were separated when Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The Post Office is still in the public sector.

New comment by jayelbe in "OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator"

jayelbe — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:41:07 +0000

Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks

New comment by jayelbe in "UK 2022 rail station flow images"

jayelbe — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:55:37 +0000

Oh wow, I completely forgot, yes! From Aberdeen it continues all the way to Penzance (but in the opposite direction it starts from Plymouth). So the longest journey is Aberdeen - Penzance; my mistake. Thank you!

Another mistake: it doesn't run on Saturdays.

New comment by jayelbe in "UK 2022 rail station flow images"

jayelbe — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:09:36 +0000

There's one direct train between Exeter St Davids - Aberdeen every day Mon-Sat, in each direction.

It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing.

New comment by jayelbe in "The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains"

jayelbe — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:34:49 +0000

I never knew this existed before and can't help thinking it's absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by jayelbe in "Can't you just right click? (2020)"

jayelbe — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:27:06 +0000

Previous discussion (in 2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116

New comment by jayelbe in "Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered"

jayelbe — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:31:58 +0000

Is that really true? Section 51 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 (to which the article refers) doesn't seem to require that; it (among other things) forbids a taxi driver feeding another driver's horses with anything other than corn or hay - but doesn't say anything about requiring them to carry hay for this purpose. There is no other reference to "hay" in the act.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1831/22/pdfs/ukpga_1831...

New comment by jayelbe in "UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each"

jayelbe — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:09:25 +0000

The Post Office hasn't been privatised. The company is still owned by the state. Individual subpostmasters run their branches as their own semi-independent businesses using the Post Office brand - but it has always been this way in most of the country.

It's Royal Mail (the letters and parcel delivery side of things) that was privatised.