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Sadly inevitable eh? Hope he didn’t suffer for too long 😐

I have it on good authority that he is known and has previous ….

What does that even mean?

Machete attack?
or the bagman/ serving up/ helping himself and getting ended, is pure Reddit (not saying it isn't true, but i fell down the rabbithole when he first went missing and read loads of conspiracy jazz so take everything with a punch of salt)

Its means he has a criminal background thats true.

Does that mean that he couldn't just get lost and fall down a hill?

He could and that would be one option if the police want to solve the crime quickly 👌

Not wanting to speculate, but if it turns out his end was sticky then he probably wasn't a random victim of violence.

Hey it is ok as the guy that was attacked, by a group, was interviewed by media and was ok about it all.

Solar panels are a fire risk, who knew. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ngx01m611o.amp

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-strava-jockey-trend-viral-running-4472421

JAKARTA/ SINGAPORE: Newly graduated from high school and waiting for
an entrance test to join the police in September, Jakarta teenager
Wahyu Wicaksono found a way to make some money from his love of
running.

He became a “Strava jockey”, clocking up running achievements for
others on the popular exercise tracking app for a fee.

“I am active on (the social media platform) X and it (the Strava
jockey trend) is booming there,” said Wahyu, 17, who started
advertising his Strava jockey services almost two weeks ago.

“My hobby is to run so I thought I should take advantage of the
situation and make it a business.”

His fledgling venture bagged eight clients in the first six days.

Wahyu charges 10,000 rupiah (US$0.62) per km to run at “Pace 4” (1km
in four minutes). For every km run at “Pace 8” (1km in eight minutes),
he charges 5,000 rupiah.

Clients pay up before he starts running and he runs using either his
own Strava account, or login details they have given him.

His most lucrative job so far, he said, has earned him 100,000 rupiah.

He earnd $6.20 for running 10km in 40 mins. Did I do the maths right?

Depends how much 10,000 rupiah is worth to a 17 year old in Jakarta. I bet it's a lot more than $6.20 to a 17 year old in the US.

Given he probably wanted to run anyway it's nice to get paid by someone else to do it.

(If I was going to cheat by not running something it'd be easier to just fake a GPX file to upload to Strava rather than paying someone to run it.)

I think those kind of people would have to pay somebody to fake their GPX.

I always find it so depressing when workers vote against union recognition, especially working for a company like Amazon.

I get that there are loads of reasons why and it sounds like Amazon threatened workers with no pay rise and loss of benefits.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/17/amazon-workers-union-recognition-gmb-vote

Min wage is 29,000IDR per hour. Spoofing GPX files only works if you are doing it to track areas visited.

My evil plan is to make a website that creates spoofed GPX files for you. Just plot a route and I'll make something that looks realistic with appropriate amounts of random jitter/missed-turns/etc.

There will be levels of payment with more "features" available as you pay more, e.g.

• More realistic speeds taking into account gradients and surfaces (especially for running and cycling)
  
• Pay to add realistic HR plots (based on your previous rides/runs so the HR min/max/etc will roughly match).
  
• Pay more to add realistic cadence (based on gear ratios)
  
• Pay even more to add realistic power for rides (again, based on previous rides, weight, gradient, etc)
  
  

All the while I'll watermark the lower order bits of the lat/lon/hr/cadence/etc points it generates so, after 6 months or so, I can tell people like Strava how to detect it and flag them as faked. Then I can charge even more to people (on another site that looks like it is run by someone else) to come up with new fake uploads that aren't detectable. Lather, rinse and repeat for as long as it can go on.

All hosted somewhere dodgy/untraceable with payment in BTC/ETH/XMR.

I'm a union member.

They're funny things though.

This year, we had a new performance pay award take effect in April. Additionally, every year, we get an inflation based* pay rise.

This year, the Union fought so that those who got a lesser performance pay award (or none) - so those who didn't perform - will get a larger inflation based* pay rise... in the interests of fairness. To make up the difference.

And they won. Which really grips my shit, to be honest.

*it's more complicated than that and depends what band you're in, and where exactly in that band you are

Classy name, classy lady:

https://x.com/CotswoldLadyB/status/1813339726209835155

Countess Bathurst @CotswoldLadyB @PaulWhitewick regarding the sign
you alerted me to Paul. Thank you for letting me know about it. To be
fair, it was about as old as the hills and was from my late
father-in-laws era. (The info on it was incorrect and out of date
too.) Buried off the beaten track, it had been forgotten, should not
be there, & to the best of my knowledge is headed for the bonfire.
You’re quite right, bridleways should not be restricted, and exist
mainly outside the main parkland. We do try our best, and sometimes
things get lost. This was one of them. I hope you enjoy it, and please
stay safe on that bike!

You've clearly put some thought into it.

Go on then...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c729xweplrxo

A much-loved lollipop man who is retiring after more than two decades says he is planning a "mad week in Benidorm" to celebrate the milestone.

Arthur Parker, 86, has helped pupils at Leyland Methodist Junior School in Lancashire cross the road safely for 22 years.

look out benidorm

Run over looking wrong way crossing a road?

https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1813800868531323087

I'm not keen on Maitlis but she's so good at this it's almost Dennis Pennis level.

He missed a trick not mentioning her surname when speculating as to whether she has friends

Hahaha he is so embarrassingly full of shit.