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New comment by tobylane in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

tobylane — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:53:50 +0000

Also not a lawyer, but some of that applies to anyone within 100 miles of a border, a coastline.

This isn't the case, but if that rule also applied to airports, then I wonder what portion of the population is safe.

New comment by tobylane in "US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized"

tobylane — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:05:10 +0000

> The US list also favors a newer wave of ancient biblical names that only gained real traction in recent decades, giving them a more modern feel despite their centuries of history. Levi, Asher, Ezra, Josiah, Ezekiel, Silas, Adriel and Micah all rank in the American top 100 for boys. Some of these revivals are shared favorites, including Noah, Elijah, Isaac, Caleb and Ezra, and Delilah and Eden for girls.

From the article, plus the two UK biblical names Jude and Reuben. For the UK, I think most of these are second-order, if that is the right way to describe appreciating a name without using it for the same reason as the parents being copied.

New comment by tobylane in "US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized"

tobylane — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:51:45 +0000

I'd like to know whether names are popular because of their theme, eg biblical, or a famous namesake. Parents aren't asked, so there's no real data.

New comment by tobylane in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

tobylane — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:17:01 +0000

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/david-hockney-a...

Currently on in the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park until the 23rd August.

I recently read his book Secret Knowledge on how many of the Old Masters may have used optics, and it's affected my thoughts every day I've looked at old paintings since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Secret_Knowledge.html...

New comment by tobylane in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

tobylane — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:37:23 +0000

Those two (and more) exist in chrome://flags in Chrome 147. I'm disabling them now, with the expectation that will prevent the new default.

One option I'm leaving as default is "Use LiteRT-LM runtime for on-device model service inference." Any comment on that?

New comment by tobylane in "We need a federation of forges"

tobylane — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:34:25 +0000

As a project member, I want users to already be logged in to the bug tracker. The lack of friction, likely from being the network effect winner, is key. I know fossil has this, but people don't have their private keys in fossil, they (I) don't even have fossil installed.

New comment by tobylane in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

tobylane — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:02:13 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/19970211041004/http://www.tummy.... 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20030407080813/http://www.tummy.... 2003, a consultancy who still lists their software https://web.archive.org/web/20211130023259/https://www.tummy... 2021 company closed

New comment by tobylane in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

tobylane — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:29:06 +0000

I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh

New comment by tobylane in "Information Is Beautiful"

tobylane — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:39:59 +0000

I was given that book as a teenager, and only read it yesterday. It was an interesting look at an unintentional frozen point in history.

New comment by tobylane in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"

tobylane — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:54:37 +0000

The lines with platform edge doors (Elizabeth, half of Jubilee) do need to be in the right place with 10-20cm accuracy.

New comment by tobylane in "Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall"

tobylane — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:23:14 +0000

In a locked room off that car park is a bit more of that fortification. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/visiting-roman-ruins-hi...

New comment by tobylane in "Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall"

tobylane — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:18:46 +0000

I went on that Open House tour, and they said the window view is a secret until opening day. They've told contractors not to take personal photos.

For context, this line is Thameslink, just south of Farringdon, on the east (heading south) side.

New comment by tobylane in "You already have a Git server"

tobylane — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:53:17 +0000

If I clone my fork, I always add the upstream remote straight away. Origin and Upstream could each be github, ambiguous.

New comment by tobylane in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

tobylane — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:41:47 +0000

They offered a rather indifferent Rausan-Segla.

New comment by tobylane in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

tobylane — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:18:00 +0000

In reading the quote from Vance I was starting to think that American's data is only safe in the hands of European companies.

The quantity of propaganda is going up with the new owners, and this royal family will likely have minimal impact or input.

New comment by tobylane in "UK Electricity Generation Map"

tobylane — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:34:13 +0000

It's an input to the grid. They will also be an output.

New comment by tobylane in "UK Electricity Generation Map"

tobylane — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:31:29 +0000

I see 16% now, and my own panels have jumped up to 400w since your comment, with a peak of 1500 earlier today. https://imgur.com/a/HOX6YJu

While domestic installations are counted, they aren't in OP's link. https://www.projectsolaruk.com/blog/latest-uk-solar-photovol...

New comment by tobylane in "UK Electricity Generation Map"

tobylane — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:21:25 +0000

It depends on what you're thinking of. No, the solar panels on my roof have no battery on the property. The wind turbines will have inertia, but no other store. I doubt the majority of the solar panel farms have batteries.

New comment by tobylane in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"

tobylane — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:43:13 +0000

The other realms the British King has are the Crown dependencies, eg Isle of Man. Australia is the odd one out in naming the UK as one of the other realms. Your head canon was true, before the independence of the Commonwealth countries.

New comment by tobylane in "I Don't Like "AI""

tobylane — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:44:26 +0000

> Those users are happy

AI affects non-users in a substantially different way to phones or social media. When I phone someone, it doesn't matter if it's a landline or mobile phone (though, in the UK we can tell by the leading digit). But when I read someone's pull request or press release, it does matter whether it's vibe coded, or made by the person. Looking at the person using the tool does not show the whole picture. You're welcome to have different values, but don't hide from me what I apply my values to.