smeenz @ smeenz @lemmy.nz

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What instance are you connected to ? I've been browsing "all" since a week before reddit died and I've seen maybe one porn post in there the whole time ? I'm viewing via lemmy.nz if it helps ?

Why do you think he needs a hug ?

I spent half an hour on the phone with nzpost just today, over a package that I had received a (legitimate) txt message to say my package was with the courier and expected to be delivered within (the next hour). I was home and waiting the entire time, including standing 10m from my letterbox at the moment the status was updated to "Delivery attempted, nobody home". When I finally got through to a human, they said that on their system, it showed as having been given to the wrong courier route, and explained that the drivers have very limited options to select from as to why they were unable to deliver it.

They weren't able to tell me where it actually was, but said it's probably coming back to the depot, where it will be given to the correct courier tomorrow and they'll try again.

I've heard it said that bad spelling and grammar is actually included in these scams intentionally, because it acts as a sort of filter to weed out the type of people who would casually notice it, and who are more likely to be skeptical of these sorts of things.

The automation methods are around recovery from the SPAD, for example by automatically applying the brakes, alerting the train operator, stopping other trains in the section, etc (specifics vary around the world, and I don't know what specific actions apply here in NZ)

But those mitigations don't negate the fact that a SPAD occurred, and the driver doesn't get a free pass just because automation stopped their train.

Even if the train is slowing to a stop, but proceeds a few metres into a red section of track, that's still a SPAD, and is treated as just as serious an incident, as if the train had carried on at speed.