Right then! Pending checks and proof reading, the #CrossChannelRail Final Report is ready 😀 17000 words, 82 pages, loads of maps, diagrams and photos, and all the TYPES OF TRAIN (8), STATIONS (at least 63), and OPERATORS (7) assessed Launch is Monday - in […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Interesting train timetable bug/anticompetitive feature (you decide...): if you ask SBB or DB there is no direct train between Valenciennes and Arras, because the train is a TGV to Paris with "boarding only" stops at intermediate stations. But if you ask […] [Original post on mastodon.delroth.net]

How dysfunctional and incompetent must SNCF be that they can't find a train for a short regional journey starting in 4h from one of their main hubs.

Nice end of season hike at the foot of the Aletsch Glacier: https://www.komoot.com/tour/2643638583 I didn't do much hiking this year so 600m d+ was a bit more tiring than it should be, but the scenery made it worth it. Plus, a really cool suspension […] [Original post on mastodon.delroth.net]

This is the Big Lie of #OpenSource. (It is also bizarre for DHH to be quoting an LLM in this matter, but I digress) Tech communities are *already* fractured. There is no "big tent". Instead, what happens is a slow brain drain. Troll-friendly spaces built on […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Oh hey who would have guessed the #nixos SC was just lying about their conflicts with the moderation team? And that they'd leave logs clearly outlining their intentions to deceive? Can't believe it! /s […]

Today in the #nixos community drama, a member of the NixOS Foundation's board liking a forum post by a rando with ~10 PRs merged in 2 years containing choice quotes like: > This is an open source software packaging solution, not a political arena. > please don’t try to keep one foot in the […]

Baking pun.

It's always fun to witness the implicit agreement between graffiti artists and train engineers - don't screw with the important markings and we won't screw with your graffiti (on cargo trains at least).

I find the latest instance of #nixos drama kinda interesting: I'm usually fairly aligned with one of the two sides, but here I feel like the mod team is very much misdiagnosing the problem. IMO it's desired that the SC should have oversight over the mod team and be able to keep them accountable […]

I admire the baiting efforts put in place to seed everyone's GitHub's block lists: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/issues/1913

Wait, people are still surprised that Cloudflare is pandering to fascists? https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html (I'm sure Drew isn't and knew about this, and I appreciate the evidence collecting in this post. But yeah, it's just Cloudflare doing what […]

Considering actually voting in the next #nixos SC elections - at first I was "whatever" because it's not like the SC can reasonably improve things, but actually having the shittiest possible SC elected might accelerate a well needed implosion so there might be a point in voting after all!

The latest easylist / youtube viewcount fiasco might be the biggest accidental advertisement for the benefits of MV3 I've seen in a while. It's a great reminder about how little care and quality control goes into easylist, and how batshit insane it was to give it the equivalent of arbitrary […]

Why Americans Don't Walk To School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lShDhGn5e5s this neighborhood he filmed looks so much like America-as-I-know-her that it hurts. When I was a child, I lived in a housing development, a separate loop from the main road, nothing but houses on both sides for the […]

Love when DB tells me early enough about train cancellations that I can end up getting home 2h earlier than planned (and with a more direct itinerary). Caught a direct 16:50 train from Frankfurt to Basel just before it left!

Tomorrow will be fun! (unless I go 0-8-0)

Found a raytracer test scene in the mountains today.

I just found this 3DS in one of my drawers that I had no idea I even owned. Probably not touched in 5+ years at least. Laughed a bit when I saw what was in the cartridge slot.

ONE HOUR AGO: my husband: do you think the Steam servers will survive the Silksong launch? me: of course, they've handled tons of very big launches for games that are much larger downloads, they'll be able to handle it ONE MINUTE AGO: my husband starts screaming #steam #silksong

With the interrail sale currently ongoing, it's cheaper for me to buy a 4 day/1 month pass than to buy a roundtrip TGV ticket from Basel to Lille (yes, including the stupid seat reservation fees, thanks SNCF). French trains pricing is such a joke. Of course not a single train ticket search […]

the translation on Wikipedia vs my New Living Internet Translation. 🐴 #chinese #classicalchinese #translation #localization #autism #actuallyautistic #horses

the big tech oligopoly doesn't want you to know this but the 100G-CWDM4 optics on ebay are [almost] free you can get them shipped to your home i have 50 100G-CWDM4 optics

Visiting Solothurn today, one of the few big cities in Switzerland I've never spent much time in. Beautiful old city center and churches, picked the right day weather wise too!

Mysterious tracking update from the Post today. Have checked, no box remains on me as far as I can tell.

Google: releases a cool paper in Nature about their state of the art earthquake detection system based on Android devices, allowing billions of people to get access to some alerting when their government is otherwise failing them. The media: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Monday through Friday: I get up at 6:30 and unplug my phone. Saturday and Sunday: I sleep in Monday at 6:30: “hello, battery optimizing algorithm here! recent data points indicated a trend of sleeping in. How could I possibly have anticipated you expected your phone to be charged by 6:30?”

https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/17144#issuecomment-3106680716 completely inexcusable behavior from @element, showing once again a complete lack of disrespect for the community. I wonder why they have a problem getting external contributions when that's how people who try are treated […]

for the record it definitely really does look like that, the map isn't wrong at all. so, just the Dutch again #netherlands

"geometry glitch in the map data, or just the Dutch again?"

Are the Americans OK?

Love the new RATP stamp rally:

It has been 90min since I arrived at Japan Expo.

This TGV is providing alternating current. Fun fact: when the whole train car does this and people have their phones plugged in with notification sounds on, everything starts beeping in a loop until they get unplugged.

It's time for updated rules on housing. Most places in temperate zones have rules about *minimum* temperatures in housing (so residents don't freeze). Now that needs to be augmented with a *maximum* temperature rule […]

It's now been a few hours since a coordinated vulnerability disclosure happened, impacting CppNix / Lix / Guix. 2 of the 3 projects have published extensive writeups about the vulnerabilities, mitigations, and how to update. 1 has published nothing, not even a GH security advisory. No points […]

Nothing says cleanup like nested ternaries. Average Nix code quality.

That was a Very Good concert.

Was not on the list of what I expected to see at the train station in Den Bosch tonight. (I think it's part of the night train?)

Oh elder, impart me your wisdom.

Every time I decide to give a shit about the climate and I book an 8h train journey instead of a 90min flight DB makes sure I'm adequately rewarded.

Google Translate is very high quality software.

MNT community member mojyack figured out what made Firefox perform slower than it should on RK3588/Mali-G610/panfrost and has a little patch for mesa that makes Firefox fly! https://community.mnt.re/t/poor-browser-performance/2042/30

I have found the stock market.

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

Came back home from London, opened the windows in my apartment, now fully enjoying the Canadian smoke.

Wow amazing that this Englishman just found all those antique Greek artifacts that had no owners whatsoever! #britishmuseum