Notices by Daniel Durrans (dan@mastodon.durrans.com)

@neil This is why I have never dated an American.

@skye @slothrop I find this a very confusing toot.

@RufusJCooter @mattblaze I checked because usually the uk gov is not awful on digital accessibility. You can apply on a website but they prompt you to download the app three times before letting you do the web version. Here is the start for the web:

https://apply-for-an-eta.homeoffice.gov.uk/apply/electronic-travel-authorisation/how-to-apply

@slothrop One day they will learn to combine cuddles with farts. *squeeze, toot*

@dutchbarracuda @slothrop Antiques Roadshow but for tech!

"This is a wonderfully early example of an Apple iPhone produced in the Foxcon factories of Zhengzhou. If you look very carefully on the back you can see the conformity certifications. In later models this information moved from the hardware to the software. At auction today this would likely sell for…”

@dutchbarracuda @slothrop then we can describe tech based on the reigning British monarch.

Here we have a late Elizabethan Nokia 3210.

Well done Amazon for leaving a box of books outside our front door.

They are basically pulp.

@notroot I can disagree to our DPO, my director, and the InfoSec team since I am fairly sure that this bot has not been vetted against our InfoSec policies.

I was in a meeting yesterday where the usual “can we record this” was agreed.

Then I was told that an AI bot had been added to the meeting to summarise what was said.

With the audience I was with, it wasn’t the time or place to disagree. But I am not comfortable with this.

@slothrop It's not on ifixit is it? Might give you a hint?

@slothrop I see the problem, it isn't running Windows CE.

@slothrop Does the cable attach to something in the lid? an LED or switch or something?