Someone's just pointed out that brfares' new BUY button also makes buying tickets from your local station to London International (CIV) easier, for use in connection with Eurostar: I've just updated the advice and instructions at www.seat61.com/european-tra...

RE: https://aoir.social/@devinasarwatay/116755750804594487 Young people have clearer idea how this works than the (not young) politicians:- “The problem is the way platforms work, not young people using them,” one student explained. 'An analysis of the student responses found: ' Young people […]

Goodbye Google Translate/Lens. https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.translator/ Direct camera overlay image translation, and the rest. Offline,. Open Source. Firefox translation models, Wiktionary, PaddleOCR. Just share an image, or alink, or a document with it. Or open the camera or doc […]

If you made it up they'd say it was unbelieveable: The former director of Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth NL) who got a job at Tata Steel (yep, really) has been sacked after one day. For, nope, not that, for... not disclosing that he was the leader of an extreme right group in South Africa […]

Oh No. Please No. Some of those lyrics sites have started adding AI to describe the meanings. What utter banal twaddle I've just read. And you'd have thought with that training corpus that was something AI might do better than random average. Maybe review other lyrics and known information about […]

What if Interrail reservations were available in a single booking even when travelling across operators and with both regular reservations and Interrail supplements - that would be pretty neat, right? This is exactly what we have cooking in the Railfinder […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

great visualisation of UK taxes by Dan Neidle & co https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/05/28/85-uk-taxes/ makes me really want to see the French one because it feels like we have many more tiny taxes here

The excellent RTT (Real Time Trains) website now has an app! It shows how any British train performed up to 2 weeks ago, shows planned rolling stock for any given train, and shows the *planned* platform so you can be positioned ready, ahead of the scrum (includes Eurostar).

How things move a different paces. Some still try and "AI" all the things: "A lot of companies are trying to name every single product with ‘AI’ first, or trying to get ‘AI’ into an actual product name,.. People are littering marketing with how AI is making a difference. It’s an ‘AI-driven’ or […]

the approach #meta / #facebook has take is absolutely horrifying, with people surveilled with keyloggers and forced to train the AIs replacing them https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/05/15/meta-employee-gets-real-horror-working-right-now/ i've updated the blog post to reflect […]

Beware rebuy.nl rebuy.de 100% battery phone offers: Phone with 50€ extra paid for 100% battery purchased. Arrives: Not 100%. Phone was fine otherwise, happy to keep, but they wouldn't refund 50€. They sold a phone with a 100% battery so that was that. Phone had to go back to be replaced. On […]

Having seen the awful before/after Gaza 'postcard' drone image I thought I'd check it. Managing to get two identical shots. With buildings lining up so well. It's stark. Yes it's faked. THE REALITY'S WORSE if I understand the description here […] [Original post on todon.eu]

Reminder: this is just the Commission proposal for the #passengerpackage It has to go to the EP and the Council from here There is ZERO CHANCE it's going to not going to be amended!

Probably the even less used Danube crossing Hungary - Romania. Some up to date pictures if you want @jon cc-0 Just one train a day, it's not perfect for connections. Not that the Hungarian side is great either. The bus from Sofia was pretty good though […] [Original post on todon.eu]

"Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again. Some gain momentum, only to disappear within a matter of months. Others fail to latch on, and then, decades earlier, suddenly rise to the fore." […]

#cablesofresistance immediate thoughts: So many people came, from so far, and from such different groups. Highlighting that the excessive power of Big Tech has become locus. Issues about climate, environment, warfare, migration, repression, workers rights, sexism, racism, imperialism all […]

No, it is not a technical problem.

💭 Some of the most educated individuals go into finance. News: Trump mumbles something Stocks: Up Oil: Down ** next day ** News: Trump mumbles something not quite the same Stocks: Down Oil: Up ** and repeat ** 💭 It's the most efficient way of organising the economy. Narrator: Meanwhile […]

Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not […]

RE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116302955566128469 The film about CLODO mentioned in the thread (Machines in Flames) is worth watching for the insight into the group and the times they were operating in; but do so with the right mindset, it 's really slow and meditative.

Odido was dus iso 27001 certified....

De Telegraaf heeft het nieuws wel opgepakt, andere Nederlandse media hadden er geen zin an lijkt het. https://www.telegraaf.nl/lifestyle/tech/odido-routers-stuurden-stiekem-informatie-over-klanten-naar-amerikaans-ai-bedrijf/139305838.html

As I see it we need to move beyond through ticketing. We’re not going to get Berlin to Lisboa sold in one ticket, and nor should we even try. We need a way to bundle together multiple tickets and then guarantee passenger rights.

@stefanlindbohm Super interesting result out of Railfinder. Vidin - Budapest. Suggests to take the train in Craiova to Draganesti Olt, to catch the Night Train (which stops at Craiova). Actually a nice idea. You get on the Night Train at a more civilised time. Took […] [Original post on todon.eu]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jdelacueva/116103089304791787 #digitalsoverenigty 🤣 If you are allowed to install your EU identity will be decided by a US corporation. Obviously. Because why actually think about making it secure when you can rely on Big Tech to do it for you?

AI chatbots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it: In recent weeks, openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones […] [Original post on newsie.social]

[AI / LLM / England managing to cause a diplomatic incident with Amsterdam] You may have heard that, after England blocked certain Israeli tourists from attending a soccer match, it was found that the intelligence report used as the basis of this decision had LLM hallucinations in it […]

Yet another survey about shops in railways stations. What is it about the questionaires that the NS (Dutch train company) sends me as a member of NS Panel (customer survey) that gives me the impression they're actually a retail outfit not a transport service.

Talarico said Republicans “ran against cancel culture, and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top.”

Een onthutsend en onthullend stuk vandaag in @decorrespondent over hoe de geheime politie in Nederland (de TOOI geheten) vreedzame activisten bespioneert. In dat licht wijzen we graag op dit punt uit ons programma: 👉 Ontmantel de AIVD, MIVD en alle andere elementen van het geheime […]

This is the sort of thing that makes me feel 🤢 about European Cyclists Federation The Number 1 speaker they list for their #VC26 Rimini event is from Google Maps http://r.sendmail.ecf.com/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHW0pgipnqcu77qOG8/G9-b6x7x-lDN They ought to have […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Ik kan gewoon niet meer - net gehoord dat een van de allergrootste verwerkers van privégegevens binnen de Nederlandse overheid druk bezig is met zijn totale migratie naar Microsoft Azure. En de mensen die het tegen zouden kunnen houden worden buitengesloten & […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

> The investigation is still ongoing. For Eurail and Interrail customers, our early review suggests that the data involved may include customer order and reservation information, including basic identity and contact details and, where provided, passport information. great job everyone the […]

Might big tech have a dirty secret they are trying to hide? Despite the law in Europe they refuse to say how much energy they are using https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid-a4915848 Shocker: there's no […]

I have trying to create a list for #fosdem26 and realized that (ironically) most of the people in the socialweb track ... does not have a fediverse account listed there. I am also at fault, btw, so shame to me. If you know someone who is presenting at #fosdem26 please send them my way. I will […]

“If we accidentally make conscious or sentient #ai, we should be careful to avoid harms. But treating what's effectively a toaster as conscious when there are actual conscious beings out there which we harm on an epic scale, also seems like a big mistake.” “... prawns could be capable of […]

Cables of Resistance Movements Conference against Big Tech Berlin, Germany | April 10-12, 2026 This is a conference for anyone involved in organising against big tech - activists, students, researchers, hackers, artists, or if you are just generally interested. The programme will not require […]

Prices look good - but I see that anyone with more than a tiny weekend-away-max 55cm bag has to pay €15 extra, which on the April date I tested made it more expensive than DB!

He's right you know https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/uk-sue-foreign-oligarchs-corporations-litigation-offshore-courts That it's an MP representing the corporation in a tribunal suing the government is the icing on the cake. The whole system, as designed, was always […]

Well plenty of the kids who come to the shows still seem to seem to know all those words. Completely enjoyed it. And: no, not some many 'kids' this time round. And: yes, that is a lyric reference for the uninitiated (which is probably everyone reading this 😂) #milliondeadreunionfarewell

Het Actiefonds steunt directe actie, omdat wij geloven in een betere wereld die nooit alleen binnen de gevestigde politiek te behalen is. Hiervoor vragen wij jullie steun, denk buiten het (stem)hokje en doneer aan Het Actiefonds. hetactiefonds.nl/denk-buiten-het-stemhokje/

Has Patreon done a thing? I'm getting emails from things funded via Patreon explaining - in much the same words - costs going up, and offering to lock donation levels if subscriptions are taken out before the end of the year.

I do believe the NL State Prosecutor just confirmed that confrontational calls to political action are part of punk. 'oproepen tot activisme en politieke betrokkenheid, die passen binnen de expressieve en confronterende stijl van het punkgenre'. It's part of their statement why they are not […]

Apparently the Azure downtime yesterday almost forced :ns_nl_b: to cancel all train services because dispatching went down.

I've noticed I'm immediately more sceptical of articles/posts online with clearly AI generated images (even if only for decorative purposes). Perhaps no image might make your post look more reliable?

hm. i wonder what this may cause

@frameworkcomputer Even a big tent always stops somewhere. Who you actively choose to include under it reflects on the community you want in it, and the future you'll help build. Better therefore not to choose to be inclusive with some deeply problematic folks' organisations. I'm also a, till […]

@frameworkcomputer i have also posted a discussion on your community forum, as it seems multiple federated posts here have not been able to bring your attention to this problem yet https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986