Shaun Murray
@shaunmurray.uk
Sometime cyclist, Linux dev. Previously @aegisdesign on Twitter.
We've all seen him "dance" too.
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We've all seen him "dance" too.
What about Heinz Big Soup?
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What about Heinz Big Soup?
Even on a bicycle GPS with 1 second updates and decent maps you often get ghost readings where you're mapped on the road when in fact you're in the bike lane 5m to the left. Phones are usually worse even in a specific app like Strava. This is why I have KOMs on the back alley behind B&M. 😀
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Even on a bicycle GPS with 1 second updates and decent maps you often get ghost readings where you're mapped on the road when in fact you're in the bike lane 5m to the left. Phones are usually worse even in a specific app like Strava. This is why I have KOMs on the back alley behind B&M. 😀
Even said it doesn't in the article you've posted. The granularity of mobile data is 150m in the article. GPS granularity is about 5m in fine mode on a smartphone. Most car GPS systems use fused data where they combine map data with GPS as it's a reasonable assumption your car is on a road.
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Even said it doesn't in the article you've posted. The granularity of mobile data is 150m in the article. GPS granularity is about 5m in fine mode on a smartphone. Most car GPS systems use fused data where they combine map data with GPS as it's a reasonable assumption your car is on a road.
Her follow up videos to this are special too. "The bank still hasn't apologised"
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Her follow up videos to this are special too. "The bank still hasn't apologised"
Nah. Not installing a tracking app on my phone for that.
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Nah. Not installing a tracking app on my phone for that.
How are you collecting GPS data from pedestrians and cyclists?
The danger in this is the light sequencing gets skewed to the vehicles that they have data for and pedestrians and cyclists end up waiting at reds even longer.
The danger in this is the light sequencing gets skewed to the vehicles that they have data for and pedestrians and cyclists end up waiting at reds even longer.
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
How are you collecting GPS data from pedestrians and cyclists?
The danger in this is the light sequencing gets skewed to the vehicles that they have data for and pedestrians and cyclists end up waiting at reds even longer.
The danger in this is the light sequencing gets skewed to the vehicles that they have data for and pedestrians and cyclists end up waiting at reds even longer.
And if you use the correspondence address from that in Google maps. You can see that the poor lad can only afford one Aston Martin. maps.app.goo.gl/GcFh1GcvWMcH...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
And if you use the correspondence address from that in Google maps. You can see that the poor lad can only afford one Aston Martin. maps.app.goo.gl/GcFh1GcvWMcH...
I read that as "great allotment plot", which is much less sinister.
It's been one of those days.
It's been one of those days.
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I read that as "great allotment plot", which is much less sinister.
It's been one of those days.
It's been one of those days.
Only hypothecated tax we have now is the TV licence.
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Only hypothecated tax we have now is the TV licence.
George Osborne hypothecated VED for spending on the strategic road network (motorways & trunk roads) but that was quietly dropped some years later. The last time roads were hypothecated was back in 1937 when Churchill abolished Road Tax. He realised then that tax raised was not enough.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
George Osborne hypothecated VED for spending on the strategic road network (motorways & trunk roads) but that was quietly dropped some years later. The last time roads were hypothecated was back in 1937 when Churchill abolished Road Tax. He realised then that tax raised was not enough.
If the cost of motoring was entirely paid for by taxes on motoring they'd need to tax 3 to 4 times that. Truth is your NI, income tax, vat, council tax is paying the rest.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If the cost of motoring was entirely paid for by taxes on motoring they'd need to tax 3 to 4 times that. Truth is your NI, income tax, vat, council tax is paying the rest.
And those aren't the only costs of motoring. Add health, pollution, noise, congestion, policing, injury, death.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
And those aren't the only costs of motoring. Add health, pollution, noise, congestion, policing, injury, death.
Ooh, I've not got that one yet.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ooh, I've not got that one yet.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
Fuel duty isn't hypothecated either. VED briefly was for a few years but not now. Motoring taxes don't raise enough to cover the costs of motoring and still won't with the new tax so it really won't go to paying debt. Motoring is heavily subsidised.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Fuel duty isn't hypothecated either. VED briefly was for a few years but not now. Motoring taxes don't raise enough to cover the costs of motoring and still won't with the new tax so it really won't go to paying debt. Motoring is heavily subsidised.
Ultimately, yes. I was more thinking of the individual effects. Having not been able to cycle for the last 2 years+, only drive, my health has never been worse.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Ultimately, yes. I was more thinking of the individual effects. Having not been able to cycle for the last 2 years+, only drive, my health has never been worse.
That was my experience too... at a Thomas Dolby gig last year. Thought I'd gone to the wrong gig.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
That was my experience too... at a Thomas Dolby gig last year. Thought I'd gone to the wrong gig.
How are they going to tax hiking? Oh ... IGMC
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How are they going to tax hiking? Oh ... IGMC
Bicycles and walking are way ahead there.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Bicycles and walking are way ahead there.
Pollution isn't the biggest health issue. A sedentary lifestyle and injuries to other road users aren't solved by EVs.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Pollution isn't the biggest health issue. A sedentary lifestyle and injuries to other road users aren't solved by EVs.
I suspect there's not much difference. Apart from pollution, most of the costs (road building, maintenance, policing, health, congestion etc) are the same. We shouldn't be here. If the Tories hadn't frozen fuel duty 15 years ago or so, nobody would want ICE cars and the gov would have £133bn more
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I suspect there's not much difference. Apart from pollution, most of the costs (road building, maintenance, policing, health, congestion etc) are the same. We shouldn't be here. If the Tories hadn't frozen fuel duty 15 years ago or so, nobody would want ICE cars and the gov would have £133bn more
The reason being society benefits from education and health but we don't from more motoring. As I said, totally agree with you on public transport.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The reason being society benefits from education and health but we don't from more motoring. As I said, totally agree with you on public transport.
I'm with you on public transport but you're way off the mark on motoring taxes. Motoring taxes don't cover the cost of motoring so should be much more than they are currently and target usage regardless of engine type.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm with you on public transport but you're way off the mark on motoring taxes. Motoring taxes don't cover the cost of motoring so should be much more than they are currently and target usage regardless of engine type.
But that'll mean I don't get to look at Bernard Manning's face rendered in ceramics for as long.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
But that'll mean I don't get to look at Bernard Manning's face rendered in ceramics for as long.