Got my first PCN!

DJMK4 said:
Anyways, it was a dark night, hammering down with rain, and you cant see signs properly

Not much i could have done and it was way too late.
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Apart from turn left by the look of it :p

Edit - the older signage circa 2019 was better though, i'll give you that

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DJMK4 said:
Not really


the one was more entrapment,


I was on a road in to cardiff, and there is a left hand lane which near the last part of it, has a turning left, there was no signs on the approach stating that if you turn left, you would end up on another small road, which then leads and ends up in to another piece of road which is for taxis's only


as soon as you take the first left (which has no signage) you end up on the second road, again no signs stating the approaching road is for taxis only, by the time your on the second piece of road, you cannot turn round, you cannot do anything and you are forced to then drive on the 3rd road, where only at this point there is signs and a camera, by this time its too late, they have got you. You are forced on to the 3rd road with no option to back out , entrapment
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That’s not a PCN
 
iamgigglz said:
Holy moly I didn't even know it was a thing. I've just been basking in Claude Code's wonderfulness
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I'm not a developer, I'm a Technical Marketing Engineer for a US tech firm. I've spent the past day and a half asking Claude CoWork to design and build an IDS for me from scratch. I haven't written a single line of code or designed any UI elements or anything like that, but I now have a virtual appliance up and running monitoring my network, using the Emerging Threats Open ruleset, abuse.ch's rules, the tor node database, etc as threat feeds. It has a full blown asset register of all discovered devices, an alerting system and pages for reporting on DNS, HTTP, TLS, TCP and UDP activity. In additional it's build an ML baselining system that is currently learning my network (will take a few days) and then will be able to look for anomalies.

In less than a day it built a fully functional IDS that the Zeek/Snort/Suricata developers took months/years to create.

The software industry is screwed.
 
DJMK4 said:
I live in cardiff and drive around cardiff all the time, however, i never really drop people off by there ,

its just one of many many opportunities for them to grab money from you. Makes me want to avoid driving around the place here tbh
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I've only ever really been around the Rhiwbina area - my dad's friends used to live there - tickled me as a kid due to the likeness to the drink.
 
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DJMK4 said:
Yes it is

I think your getting confused, a PCN is not just a parking fine,


When you get done by a camera for anything like driving in a bus lane, driving in a taxi lane with a camera, it comes through from the council as a PCN letter and you get a PCN number


PCN stands for penalty charge notice

What happens if I receive a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN)?

www.caerdydd.gov.uk www.caerdydd.gov.uk
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Yeah fair enough, I was thinking about parking charges.


Probably worth getting familiar with the road signs though in the city you live near ;-)


Don’t think it’s particularly difficult to read the signs in Cardiff, having lived outside it myself for a few years, when compared to other cities.


We need to take more accountability for just making a mistake, rather than playing a blame game of “oh it must be someone else’s fault”


It’s annoying, and sometimes costly, to get it wrong, but there are rules for a reason, and if you don’t like them, don’t drive.
 
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MrRockliffe said:
Yeah fair enough


Probably worth getting familiar with the road signs though in the city you live near ;-)


Don’t think it’s particularly difficult to read the signs in Cardiff, having lived outside it myself for a few years, when compared to other cities.
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I am familier with the roads as i drive on them daily, however i dont go down that side road by the hilton hotel much


Anyways, i do cycle around cardiff sometimes in the summer, so next time i ride by a camera on the bike ill poke my centre finger up at them


The majority of the PCN notices i have had are from bus lane rubbish ,

Stupid rules ,
 
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DJMK4 said:
I am familier with the roads as i drive on them daily, however i dont go down that side road by the hilton hotel much


Anyways, i do cycle around cardiff sometimes in the summer, so next time i ride by a camera on the bike ill poke my centre finger up at them


The majority of the PCN notices i have had are from bus lane rubbish ,

Stupid rules ,
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I was familiar with roads in Bedford when I lived/worked there, but I still managed to drive down a taxi lane and get a PCN.


First instinct was that signage wasn’t sufficient, but ultimately it was fine and I just wasn’t paying enough attention to my surroundings while operating a vehicle.


Annoying but it taught me a lesson.
 
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MrRockliffe said:
First instinct was that signage wasn’t sufficient, but ultimately it was fine and I just wasn’t paying enough attention to my surroundings while operating a vehicle.
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this is generally the case,

the other one is road markings are poor
 
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