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Newsroom nerd, now in Norway, previously in Germany. I get excited about transport, travel, languages, and design. Time Person of the Year 2006.

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jon, to random
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The “high speed” train Marseille - Bruxelles (that I’m taking as far as Lyon today)

Along its whole route it spends 67 minutes at stops! 🤦‍♂️

pb,
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@jon The 27 minutes in Lille are really convenient if you need to move from one end of the first train to the other end of the other one because you had to buy two separate tickets because the Carte Avantage only applies on domestic tickets. Or because there were no seats available all the way from the south to Bruxelles. Or both.

pb,
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@grlodi @jon Well no, isn’t this a flagrant violation of SNCF’s conditions of carriage? The intended solution seems to be “tant pis pour vous, prenez l’avion”.

aral, to javascript
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Just deployed a new Kitten¹ version 🎉

• Adds database backup and restore in your app’s Kitten settings page (/💕/settings)

• Upgrades version of JSDB from 4 to 5²

• You can emit and listen for events on the session object you get from request.session in your routes now.

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² For migration notes, please see: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#migrating-from-earlier-versions-of-jsdf

Screenshot of output of the kitten --version command in terminal: Illustration of minimalist grey kitten sitting on a green hill in front of a blue sky. Kitten by Aral Balkan, Small Technology Foundation Version 1-b8d459-20.12.2-20240504203731 Born 2024/05/04 at 20:37:31 UTC (Taurus) Fav. colour #b8d459 [colour swatch] API version 1 Runtime Node.js 20.12.2 Like this? Fund us! We’re a tiny, independent not-for-profit. https://small-tech.org/fund-us Need help? https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues

pb,
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@aral Ooh, I love how you’re displaying the first six digits of the commit hash as the “favourite colour”, that’s such a neat idea!

viticci, to random
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Apple has announced some SWEEPING changes coming to the App Store in the EU with iOS 17.4:

  • Alternative app marketplaces
  • 0% commission for apps sold outside the App Store, with 0% commission on alternative payment methods (!)
  • Third-party browser engines now allowed (!!)
  • Game streaming now allowed on the App Store

We have an extensive summary of all the changes on MacStories, with more to come shortly: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-details-how-it-plans-to-comply-with-the-eus-digital-markets-act/

pb,
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@viticci The two changes I’m not looking forward to are contactless payments and alternative browser engines. Apple Pay is so much nicer than the awful and non-interoperable apps that banks are going to come up with and the last thing Google Chrome needs is more market share.

forteller, to vegan Norwegian
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Så, er eid av en kult, eller bare liker de noen sekteriske greier godt nok til å reklamere for dem? Noen som vet?

pb,
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@forteller Har ikke noe svar men lurer på det samme. Fikk litt sekt-vibber den ene gangen jeg var der uten at jeg helt klarer å si hvorfor. Hva et det de reklamerer for?

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 29, 29 Oct, Hendaye - Paris - Mannheim - Berlin

Today I’m crossing these borders
Euskotren - Irun Ficoba 🇪🇸 - Hendaye 🇫🇷
Saarbrücken 🇩🇪 - Forbach 🇫🇷

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#6/48.115/5.801

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-29/

pb,
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@jon Amazing how opening an intra-Schengen border is the exception now.

timnitGebru, to random
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I haven't read this yet but seems to be about the TESCREAL bundle (mostly talking about transhumanism though).
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

pb,
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@timnitGebru And “experience death” sure sounds more palatable than “die”

xeophin, to random
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That moment when you're about to finish your script and then realise that the Shapefile-to-GeoJSON converter you use fucks up your data. 😬

pb,
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@jeremystucki @xeophin Second this. Mapshaper is a fantastic piece of software and the only GIS tool I know that doesn’t crash when I try to clip things to Norway’s crazy coastline

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 01, 30 Aug, Nuits-sous-Ravières - Condé-sur-l'Escaut - Peruwelz - Bruxelles

Today I’m crossing these borders
Vieux-Condé 🇫🇷 - Péruwelz 🇧🇪

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#9/50.5894/3.5934

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-01/

pb,
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@jon Well thanks, I’d happily forgotten about those TER machines with their tiny screens and weird wheel thingies.

jon, to random
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

This is what happens when doesn’t work

I’m speaking 25th Oct at an EU Interreg event in Santiago de Compostela, arriving from Lisboa 🇵🇹

The evening Porto-Vigo train arrives Vigo AFTER the last Vigo-Santiago has gone

So the agency is proposing to FLY me via Madrid instead!

(I’ll stay a night in Vigo instead to avoid this, and go early 25th to Santiago)

pb,
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@jon Oh wow, turns out my mental map was completely wrong. I had Santiago somewhere in eastern Spain, but it really isn’t. Your exasperation makes so much more sense now!

pb, to random
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So I’ve booked a non-refundable hotel room for once. It’s at short notice, so I‘m quite sure my plans won’t change. Still, I double- and triple-check the dates because I’m a Seasoned Traveller.

Guess who now has a non-refundable booking at the wrong hotel.

pb,
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In my defence, they are really confusingly named and of course I stopped reading when I saw the top one.

pb,
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@jaseg Yeah, it does feel deceptive. I’ll call them about it tomorrow. I can’t be the first to make this mistake and if they’d like me to stay again at one of their properties, they’ll rebook me.

jon, to random
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Also as for my comments about DB resisting data sharing… what’s the only rail planner app on my phone’s home screen?

DB Navigator

Because - even to some of Germany’s neighbours - it’s actually pretty good.

Imagine DB properly internationalised it. It’d be amazing. It’d win out over Trainline or Omio because it’d be better - at least at planning routes.

But DB can’t see that opportunity.

pb,
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@jon Right? DB Navigator is what I turn to whenever I need to plan an international trip, even if it doesn’t go through Germany. If DB could not only tell me how to get from Copenhagen to Bergen but also display a convenient “Purchase Ticket” button next to the itinerary, why wouldn’t I use it?

jon, to random
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Life's too short to argue with arrogant Danes trying to argue that border controls at the DE-DK are both legal and necessary, and that Denmark can at will decide to check whoever it likes, regardless of what the EU says

The “temporary” controls at that border are still absurd, but Denmark does have to ask the EU to keep extending the controls. Then, stupidly, the EU keeps on saying yes…

pb,
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@jon @DiegoBeghin Meanwhile I’ve flown in and out of Denmark more than I like to admit and haven’t had my documents checked a single time. Not at the border and not even a cursory glance before boarding the plane.

jon, to random German
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TGV timetables 🤬

3 hour gap with no trains in the middle of the day between Strasbourg and Paris. Damn why can France not do Takt / clock-face timetables?

This would not happen on ANY ICE LINE ANYWHERE IN GERMANY

pb,
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@partim @Alon @jon It’s also a right pain in case of a missed connection. Having to kill an hour while waiting for the next train is annoying enough. Having to kill three hours though …

claasgefroi, to random German
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So endet die Welt: Nicht mit einem Knall, sondern mit einem Lächeln.

pb,
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@levampyre @claasgefroi Die Uniformen und das Abzeichen sehen eher nach National Park Service als Polizei aus

pb,
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@levampyre @claasgefroi Hab eine Bildquelle gefunden. Laut Bildunterschrift beim Guardian sind es National Park Service Rangers. Das Foto ist am Besucher*innenzentrum Furnace Creek in Death Valley entstanden. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/17/death-valley-record-earth-temperature-california-extreme-weather

andy, (edited ) to random

I made this little viewport logger: https://viewport-logger.netlify.app/

I'd really appreciate it if you could visit it on your devices — especially small screens — because I want to use the data to illustrate just how much screen fragmentation there is.

Please share with your pals too!

🚨Edit: this is now closed. Thanks everyone: we got > 100k datapoints!

pb,
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@andy @vasilis Seems like that’s not even necessary

pb, to random German
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Ich wollte ja den Kompromiss vorschlagen, den ehemaligen Flughafen Tegel in einen großen Parkplatz zu verwandeln und dafür alle Straßenparkplätze in Berlin mit schöneren Dingen zu ersetzen. Aber dann habe ich nachgerechnet und festgestellt, dass die Fläche von Tegel nur für ein Fünftel aller Berliner Pkw reichen würde.

xeophin, to random
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Turns out that when you start to zoom in on the 3D model, you start to see where you fucked up the details of the model.

😬

pb,
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@xeophin This sounds familiar! I worked on a 3d project before I went on paternity leave and the hardest part may have been finding a balance between “who cares, no-one is going to see this anyway” and “let me just grab the calipers and measure the diameter of a door handle in the real world”.

pb,
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@xeophin Oh yeah! “I could just build model these stairs, shouldn’t take more than fifteen minutes. Or I could teach myself how to do it with Geometry Nodes and I’ll have them ready by next week 🤔”

pb,
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@xeophin So, how’s your Geometry Nodes implementation coming along?

pb,
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@xeophin Oh, that sounds neat! If I’ve learnt one thing about Blender, it’s that there’s always a way. Usually half a dozen ways, actually.

blinry, to random
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Does somone want to check out the ZKM exhibition together in a couple of minutes?

pb,
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@blinry If only I was at GPN! I used to live in Karlsruhe when I was a kid and ZKM was my favourite museum

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