There are also a few businesses e.g. Collabora that pay LibreOffice developers today.

> Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information?

If you're a citizen, and you're correctly registered to vote. Additionally, for various reasons, US voter register quality is relatively poor - one study estimates that there's 6.1 million voters who have their name registered in more than one state (https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/double-registration-and-strat...).

I quite like the kiosk system for ordering McDonald's. You can see the entire available menu, along with all possible options for adding or removing ingredients, sides, sizes, combo deals, etc. You can always see the current state of your order. A chat-based interface wouldn't be a major improvement on this UX imho.

This company isn't the only one running autonomous shuttle buses - what makes theirs different from their competitors?

I suppose it's bigger? It says it has a capacity of 30.

The thing that interests me, is does this thing go faster than 30kph? Because so far all the minibus pilots have basically been for parking lot shuttles.

30kph is more than enough for any urban setting.

maybe on tiny residential side roads.

even in Amsterdam, where most speed limits have reduced to 30kph, there are still main roads and public transport lanes signed for 50kph. https://etsc.eu/amsterdam-follows-paris-brussels-and-madrid-...

and bus operators put a lot of effort into fleet economies of scale, so having to hive their fleets in two with slower and faster buses is unlikely to go well. Especially since there are perfectly valid reasons for an out-of-service bus to use a faster road; 30kph as a maximum is slow enough that the vehicle would be banned from certain classes of road altogether.

> having to hive their fleets in two with slower and faster buses is unlikely to go well

They already do this though. I don't know about Amsterdam, but in Limburg the buses are electric for in-city routes and gas for the longer routes between cities and countries.

I believe the Rotterdam buses (RET) that run till Delft/The Hague, effectively intercity, are all electric.

N splits may be fine, but N+1 may not be, especially when you consider how rare 30kph only routes are.

30kph is a nuisance in any urban setting. Legitimately dangerous, when everyone else is going 50, which is the standard urban speed.

for cars - mostly yes, for public transport - debatable, depending on area

Here's a few more: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-assessments-and-deci...

Thank you for the correction there have been way more of these than I thought.

It seems they are referring to this as a "landmark" ruling because it's the first one with a "payout" condition.

If you're making a brochure to go out to the whole population of a country, keep it simple and straightforward even if that means oversimplifying the advice a bit.

is it so difficult to print custom brochures per area (distributed by the local city?).

I get fliers from my city 1-2x per year with locally focused recommendations to help our environment.

Using LLMs to write your essays and reports for school or uni, in a way that could get you punished if caught, is a reasonably big use case.

Agreed its probably a big use case in general, but like token per token I bet its relatively small! How many big papers do you have to write a semester? Even if its four, that's nothing compared to the everyday use you will make of it.

Sure, but institutions and regulators care about this issue, and at least making some attempt to address it will make them slightly happier.

I see no scenario where there won’t be an LLM that is deliberately tailored for that purpose, possibly even built by an “intel” agency for the very purpose of having blackmail over someone that may become useful later in their career.

An interesting aspect of ACWST is that it has no legal status - it's observed purely by local convention, though it's still managed to make it into tzdata.

indeed! and not only is it in tzdata, there are signs on the road telling you about it

> This one appears to have been published in the summer of 2024.

"Summer" in certain parts of the world, at least.

Sharp!

"I was under the naive assumption that it's individual developers who work together, and their employers do not really matter."

This assumption is not just naive but completely oblivious under normal circumstances, let alone in a discussion about sanctions regime compliance and risk management.

It looks like being oblivious from outsiders perspective, but people living in Russia have culture of being apolitical, because as long as you don't care about politics, politics (Russian Government) does not care about you.

That then leads to bizarre situations when Russia is waging full scale war and Russians are doing their best not to notice.

The author of this blog post is German.