You mean by blocking the pedestrian or pedestrians (including bicyclists) from crossing?

No, I mean by reconfiguring (if an officer) or ordering the reconfiguring (if an elected politician) of the crossing to give a longer “WAIT” sign duration after the button is pressed, maximising the theoretical vehicle throughput, at the expense of the theoretical people throughput.

We do also have “crossing creeper” red-light-jumping drivers too, of course, but we also have some militant types who photograph, punch or slap any cars stopped blocking crossings. I keep hoping to see someone walk or slide over the hood of one, as I’ve heard about, but I haven’t yet seen!

Then obviously those drivers would be given tickets, problem solved. While I hate those Red Light Cameras, they do solve do automatic ticketing by license plates.

We don’t have Red Light Cameras. Well, not many. There used to be a few, but I only know of one in my borough that might still be working. The motoring supremacist in charge of the transport department puts a zero budget for red light camera maintenance every year and just waits for them to fail, then says there’s no money to fix them. We have a few bus lane and speed cameras working still and that’s about all.

I’ve been watching this stuff long enough to have realised these dirty tricks.

(though: Why TF are you still using that shithole of a site‽).

Maybe some places don’t have alternative suppliers than Walmart? Similarly, some places have governments that still only use the porno social network for some services.

See also: Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit – https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

Wait wait wait. Where does Vivaldi say that in any way?

In the bit I quoted from what was linked. Of course, they don’t phrase it like that, but it’s what they’re doing.

Their user security https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/

We strictly protect the security of any and all personal information you provide to us while using Vivaldi products and services. We do not share or sell information to any third party and we proactively protect all user data from disclosure, with the only exception being if requested by legitimate law agencies with a court order.

…which is immediately contradicted lower down the page by most paragraphs in “Type and purpose of data collected by third party vendors”. OK, it’s not personal information, but it is still information that they’re sharing with third parties.

It’s also not clear to me how much notice they give of changes to that policy, either.

That’s privacy not security, though. The basic problem is that we can’t look at all the code, audit it, modify it, test it, check it always behaves well.

No disagreement there, but Vivaldi isn’t repeating anything that’s been tried before. Vivaldi is an employee owned company that wants to succeed, wants to offer the best interface, security and features to the general public it can whilst simultaneously keeping itself uniquely true to its values and survival. Gee, so horrible of it to want to scrape a living for its employee owners. Ridiculousness indeed.

But this has been tried before. I’ve worked in employee-owned software companies for decades and seen many others come and go. Attempting to hold part of your code hostage seems doomed to fail eventually: most go bust, and some get bought out by so-called “carpet-baggers”. To succeed in an ethical way, they need to find a way to get paid to develop the software, not fall into the trap of creating it and then trying to get paid later by keeping part of it secret. I don’t want to be caught in the fallout yet again if another company learns this the hard way and then their software becomes obsolete and lost.

You’re the one talking about LineageOS, not me. I’m only saying the average user now in most countries isn’t walking into a store any more, but buying their phone online, having it shipped to them and following the pictorial setup instructions.

Stores here don’t directly charge for helping you, but they charge more for things: phones in store are often much more expensive than online (especially phone network shops - some of the broker shops sell closer to online prices), and they only sell a limited range of plans which usually don’t include the cheapest ones. The days of networks selling their locked phones much cheaper than unlocked ones seem to be over, when you add up all the charges over the minimum contract term.

Even the website of a phone company can be much cheaper than their own stores, and sometimes you can still get help from the stores if you have problems. The phone companies now all operate multiple brands and the brands without stores are even cheaper (Smarty and Voxi from VodafoneThree, Giffgaff from Virgin-O2, and so on).

It is done widely but it’s often illegal in at least some layouts and some places have police that will ticket it, often inconsistently.

And let’s not start with the “jaywalking” made up by the motor companies a century ago.

“Each stop is like another 100m travel.” That is a joke right?

No joke. It’s a fact of physics, explained in https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter46/article9/

I was agreeing with you that the Green-Amber-Red sequence should be triggered by approach sensors. This is called “anticipatory greens” in the UK.

The other problem with beg buttons is that once they’re installed, it only takes one motoring supremacist to lengthen the delay and keep active travellers waiting so long that the light basically becomes irrelevant because there will be a gap where you can cross before the lights ever stop motorists. Nearly all crossings near me are configured that way. Only two sets ever change quicker. Another one is meant to but never does for me.

Each stop is like another 100m travel. They soon add up. Approach sensors, anticipatory greens and green waves are worthwhile and done in the best countries.

Nah, it’s just that you can cycle through red when it doesn’t affect any motorists, such as a right turn, or straight ahead when there is no right. People cycling through red have to yield to other cycle traffic and all walkers, of course.

Not that voluminous today, but I have XL panniers on about half the time. Here they are on the ice bike:

While the driver-aimed lights don’t turn red for us often, at least the “wait” red crossing lights in the UK are only advisory and can be treated as a yield/give-way without penalty so we don’t wait if it’s clear.

The French signs clearly allowing bikes to pass red in some directions seem better, though.

Aren’t Texas sidewalks notorious for stopping randomly and switching sides not near crosswalks? So it’s far from certain it would be safer than just booking it down the shoulder for a short stretch.

It’s worse than that. It was one batch of rolls, specifically yesterday’s rolls.

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They’ve had several punches in the face from tariffs, but keep insisting they walked into doors and it’s all fine and still love him.

Just read “AI LLMs” as “alliums”, think about gardening and be happier!

Potatoes

Won’t drivers only need to collect VAT if they are VAT registered, which means taking more than some number of thousands of pounds? At which point, presumably they tick a box in the uber driver app and it makes them 20% more expensive.

If you’re producing 54% of your consumption using 70% of your land area, even disregarding what land area is actually suitable for agriculture and evicting all other users from the land, converting all land to agricultural use still probably isn’t going to get you to domestic production of 100% of domestic consumption.

If you evict everyone, then consumption falls to zero and you have a surplus = success, in their stupidly short-sighted terms.

Home bought 2021, according to reports. Not long enough for the normal 5 year residency requirement, plus he’s probably away lots. Looks fishy. Nice to be rich.

Much more likely to be the phone vendor not releasing this “absolutely basic functionality” to customisers. Some vendors hate their customers having freedoms.