Notices by Tor Lillqvist (tml@mementomori.social)

@jon Are there any big urban conglomerates that do *not* have integrated ticketing?

@jon @nafmo @sebwilken @Jonas_Bostrom @stefanlindbohm Well, I guess if Trafikverket says they need the whole line Boden–Murjek for urgent maintenance, Norrtåg can not say "but we only need to use it for a couple of kilometres a couple of times per day pretty please!?" Ordnung muss sein! Safety First!

Norway and Sweden. Two of the richest countries in Europe. Connected by four railway lines, one of which is basically freight only in the very north. Each single track and rather curvy. Even the one between Oslo and Göteborg (and further to Malmö and København). In a sane world, there could be a high-speed line here with a travel time of 1.5 h or so. #CrossBorderRail

Our morning train to Stockholm is not cancelled, yay. Will see whether we arrive according to schedule and catch our ship home. Rolling stock is fairly old but very comfy. Interestingly, some cars have the owner identified as S-SJ, others as SE-SJ. Pulled by an Rc6. All in black livery. #Interrail

@evan Thanks! I had no idea Mastodon works like that, then your service indeed is very useful.

What’s the point with the bots on the tags.pub instance? There apparently is one for each hashtag in the Fediverse that has had even some low degree of use? In what way does it work better to follow some foobar@tags.pub account instead of just following the #foobar tag directly? Is there even some malicious intent?

The bots all have the same boilerplate profile: ”Follow me if you're interested in the #foobar hashtag. I'm a global hashtag sharing bot from tags.pub. When content with the #foobar hashtag appears on the Social Web, this account will re-share the content to its followers.”

Oh my goddess, this is hilarious: The Metaverse: A Eulogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaSBjxNg-M

SJ tells me that my 1st class sleeping-car will be missing tomorrow and I have been downgraded to a (single occupancy) 2nd class compartment instead. Will receive 50% of the price back. (As a code that can be used in future purchases.) Wonder if I can still use the breakfast included in the 1st class reservation, hee hee? #Interrail

The #SJ 2nd class sleeping-car is even more old school than the 1st class ones. Polished hardwood almost everywhere. Elegant mechanical locking lever in the toilet door. Me likes.

The difference compared to the sleeping cars in neighbouring Finland is about 30 years.

@annika long-planned cleanups? Yay, are they finally getting rid of that arrogant use of $ to mean jQuery?

"We are so bloody important that we need to make use of us in your code look like it was some Perl-like built-in syntax or whatever."

@senficon @hennavirkkunen It is still unclear whether this actually is her (or her staff), or just some impersonator, isn't it?

@mrundkvist På österbottniska dialekter (tänk KAJ), och antagligen många rikssvenska dialekter också, säger man väl helt enkelt "huleis" som ju är mycket närmare det nynorska ordet.

https://www.loffe.net/krier-mainmenu-28/2800-huleiss-tjjin-ba-karin-senn-fypasi

@mrundkvist "Huleiss tjärnjin båota karin senn fö syypasi" = "Hur[uledes] käringen botade karln sin för supandet".

Och nej, jag orkar nog inte läsa kåseriet. Väldigt ansträngsamt att läsa skriven dialekt. Trots att många väl tycker om sådant. Eller i alla fall låtsas tycka om... mest roligt är det kanske för den som skriver?

This is brilliant. https://youtu.be/cSAp9sBzPbc

Turin finally did things right. Wish more cities elsewhere in Italy would follow the example.

(Yes, I am sure there are parts of Turin left with way too much space provided for cars.)

@kjhealy I don't get this bit: "In order to control the temperature of the germanium, I attached the crystal to a copper rod, the upper end of which was attached to a heating coil and the lower end of which was dipped in a thermos of liquid nitrogen."

Does he leave out that the current applied to the heating coil was precisely variable, and assuming he let the system reach a steady state after each adjustment of the current, the temperature of the piece of germanium could thus be altered?

Also, how was the temperature measured?

Ahaha. This is great. Somebody brought some new merch to the Trump Tower gift store

#EliitinJuoma? Vanhoissa huussitynnyreissä muhinutta rommia?