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  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide + Seek UK - Ep 5: Searching Highlands & Lowlands

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  • Northern Ireland is not reachable with 4 hours to hide. Even if someone hid literally in Ayr station and was found at the optimal time, it's about 5 hours to Belfast on the rail replacement bus and the ferry. The Liverpool ferries take longer.

    Even the old High-speed Sea Service from Stranraer would have been difficult, taking 2h10 plus check-in at the end of a branch line, plus time getting away from the port in Belfast.

    I don't think this is much of a spoiler when it's known to anyone who's done it, or just looked at the timetable.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • Westminster can overrule the very existence of Scotland and Wales as anything other than an idea in people’s heads. Canberra cannot do that. It’s not even remotely similar.

    I think Westminster can't stop Scotland and Wales existing as physical realities any more than Canberra can. Trying to snuff either of them out as political entities would now probably provoke a constitutional crisis. It's not the 1700s any more.

    As it is today, the UK operates under the idea that the “British” are a single unified nation

    Yeah, no. Most of the people who pretend that British means any unified thing are in a few right-wing parties.

    In a London or Sydney–based game, I would probably use the city councils as the 3nd administrative division and suburbs for 4th, but maybe someone with more knowledge could address it better.

    I wouldn't in London. The only city council is Westminster, so it would leave big gaps in the map. The City of London has a Corporation rather than a city council as such. You'd probably want cities/boroughs (1st-level) that contain parliamentary constituencies (2nd-level) that contain districts/liberties/communities/parishes (3rd-level) that contain wards (4th-level) but even that is imperfect and probably subject to variation in some area or other.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • The Commonwealth cannot decide to take away their ability to govern independently on the issues that are not explicitly handed to the Commonwealth in the Constitution, nor can it overrule their policies in these areas.

    But it can overrule states in other areas, so in practice similar to the UK lording it over Wales or Scotland.

    On the other factors, you seem to be confusing countries with nation-states.

    I also wonder what guidance the home game gives. Maybe someone here has a copy and can tell us. But the basic problem may be the UK's messy and inconsistent government structures, missing English Parliament(s) or Assembly/ies and some mayoral regions and some levels of councils in some areas.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • Well, Australia and its states had to rely on the goodwill of Westminster to get that constitutional right to exist in the Statutes of Westminster and the Australia Acts!

    The "home nations" just exist and always will. All levels below the whole UK rely on the will of Westminster to structure its government, which is a consequence of our revolutions not fixing that and not ideal but usually works.

    The administrative regions are much smaller and rather messed-up at the moment but Starmer's government is regularising them, slowly. The "Yorkshire and the Humber" used in the game ceased to be an administrative region about 15 years ago, but the replacement mayoral regions like West Yorkshire don't yet cover the whole map.

    So I'm not surprised they used nations and that it didn't work as well as hoped.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • Yes, and I know someone who did a similar reaction to the giant one outside the station (barely seen edge of shot as Sam and Adam return after the ½ mile radar).

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • He may not have noticed the rain, but it’s not really clear that he could have done anything different even if he had.

    They have a time window in which to send the photo back and he was right by the station (revealing to the audience where he was, by showing a name sign). The rain clouds on the radar didn't look that big, and the UK is very often a changeable "don't like the weather? Wait five minutes" country, so waiting a few minutes may have made it less obvious.

    Maybe there was no hiding spot good enough, but now we'll probably never know.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • didn't have the best of luck

    Really? He gave them extra info (the reflection, the current and the rain) in the cheap photos, just after finding Sam from extra info left in a photo answer. That's not simply luck. Only the photo pop-up was luck. And maybe the fog dice roll.

    Also being overconfident and visiting the museum instead of looking for a hiding place early was another costly error. Good video but failing to get the game basics done first.

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 4: Rainy Day

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  • They say in the layover that this is due to the mistake of making countries the top level for "are you in the same ...?" questions. This discouraged going outside England, as it would eliminate most stations. If they return, it'd be regions.

    I would also point out that Scarborough, Hebden Bridge and MK Central were all a bit inconvenient for the hider leaving England, and starting by St Pancras added 30 minutes onto the fastest route to Wales (from Paddington).

  • Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

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  • (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.

  • Back-end programmer for gig economy company describes how the sausage is made.

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  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • 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.

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • 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).

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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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.

  • Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026

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  • Just read "AI LLMs" as "alliums", think about gardening and be happier!

  • The Trump phone just missed another release date

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  • Potatoes

  • Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek UK - Ep 2: Time Trapped!

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  • Actually, half a mile radius around the station would put both named locations out of range. How difficult it is also depends where in the station they measure from, as it's about 100m from the platforms to the main entrance. He could probably only hide in 16 or so of the connectors, not the full 40+ in the city centre. Still annoying, but probably not winning.

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • That's not so informative without any idea of your age and thereby the ages of your examples.

    Many of them could still follow the assembly/card insertion instruction sheet with pictures that comes in the mail from the phone company, even without knowing which part is called a SIM.

    And maybe your area's phone stores aren't as notorious for overcharging as the UK's.