Notices by Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social), page 2

So, what kinds of #Interrail pass(es) did *you* buy? Or are you still procrastinating? Eight hours left of the -25% sale.

There aren’t many areas with no drone flying restrictions in Eastern Berlin (according to https://maptool-dipul.dfs.de/?language=en ) but the massive Soviet military memorial in Treptower Park is one of them. The former Tempelhof aerodrome is also largely outside restrictions.

@vegos_f06 Also, if one compares to the former Malmi airport in Helsinki, which was what I hinted at, there it is a small fringe of aviation enthusiasts (with support from the far right, because they oppose anything) that want to keep it as an airport. Otherwise there is a consensus that it should be developed into housing (which in Helsinki in newly developed areas always includes social housing).

Harvoin tulee käveltyä rullaustietä pitkin.

Onkohan täällä Berliinissäkin ikuinen Pelasta Tempelhof -kansanliike, ja joka vaalit on Tempelhof-vaalit?

Quite a relaxed bar in #Kreutzberg, #Berlin.

Derkkunostalgiaa. Entisen Neues Deutschland -lehden eli puolueen pää-äänenkannattajan rakennus. Nykyään vissiin vuokrattu pienemmiksi toimistoiksi. Ihan hienoa modernismia. (Kovin länsimainen tyyli siis.) Alkuperäinen kyltti ja tekstit varmaan suojeltu muinaismuistoina.

My journey Stockholm–Copenhagen–Hamburg–Berlin yesterday made me think of an interesting problem concerning #Interrail .

(To recap: My train to Hamburg was scheduled to arrive at 20:03, and it did, with less than 10 minutes delay. My train to Berlin was scheduled to depart at 20:48. Now, there was another train to Berlin that was scheduled to depart at 19:53 but it was about 30 min delayed. So I took it instead, to arrive earlier in Berlin.)

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Of course, the #Interrail app knows nothing about trains being delayed, so in it I had to enter that I used the trains in my planned itinerary. Which in this case was not a problem; Berlin was my final destination, and DB staff just checks that the ticket is valid on the day in question anyway.

But what if I had planned to change in Berlin to some overnight train that left after midnight, accepting that I will then use one more travel day.

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But because of the earlier arrival in Berlin I would in fact have been able to take another overnight train with departure time before midnight. That would then still have been the same travel day. But I would not have been able to enter it into the app. Because the app doesn't accept overlapping journeys.

Interesting. I wonder if there are any rules for a situation like this.

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One trick would have been to, once I had arrived in Berlin, remove the previous leg from the travel day and instead add the next one. Does the app check that you aren't mysteriously teleporting from one city to another several hundreds of kilometres away? "Yeah, I used a helicopter between Hamburg and Berlin".

Sure, for this specific case there probably aren't any suitable overnight trains that could be involved, but still.

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I guess the correct way would be to enter the trains that run with a delay manually. Tedious but possible. That just means you won't get those trip legs drawn onto the nice map in the app.

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"South Korean military officials have said martial law will remain in effect until lifted by President Yoon Suk Yeol"

But what does the alleged Martial Law actually affect? Doesn't seem to have impacted media reporting live from what is happening, or internet access, etc.

I am probably weird when my main takeaway from this story is that WD-40 is indeed very useful. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:adnxckkh7ndo34sab7qajdd5/post/3lcasf3q6qk2e

Onpas ihanan näköiset kengät. Patinoitua nahkaa, ikäänkuin. Kävelyretkille Toscanaan?
Mutta onneksi ei ole nyt kyllä tarvetta tuollaisille, onhan aika kalliitkin.

The people who poke fun at Windows for being allegedly so vulnerable and lamenting that ordinary people don’t know of anything better (Linux).

And the people who whine that Apple is so evil when they make it so hard to run random unsigned software downloaded from the net.

They are the same people.

I will not be taking questions at this time. Do not respond ”well actually”.

@kaia I am certainly no fan of Elon Musk, and don't like cars in general, but still. This seems to be a misunderstanding or intentionally misleading, though. The picture is of a "wrap" for the Cybertruck, intentionally made to look like that. Not related to the magnet incident. See https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1gvzecu/tesla_cybertruck_becomes_extensively_corroded/

There is no algorithm here.

If you point out that the "Explore" thing says "Newer posts with more boosts and favorites are ranked higher" you are an evil person.

By the way, I dreamt about Donald Trump last night. In the dream I saw him on TV, I guess it was, and he was walking very oddly with extremely weird shoes that had some loosely attached bits flapping around in front of the toes. (Please don't try to analyse the dream, I don't believe in such.)

And now I remember that I dreamt of him some week ago, too. In that dream I met him and he was offering me dinner or something. Don't recall any details.

@nemobis Welcome back home. In December the train from/to Helsinki will reach Turku Harbour again, whew. (Or as I jokingly call it, Turku Western Docks, a reference to the classic Dover Western Docks, see picture.) Looking forward to it, using the bus between Kupittaa and the port has been annoying even if trivial.

@jensclasen Also see: "Stoff", which almost literally means "stuff".

As in
- Wasserstoff = water stuff, hydrogen
- Kohlenstoff = coal stuff, carbon
- Stickstoff = suffocating stuff, nitrogen
- Sauerstoff = sour stuff, oxygen
- Brennstoff = burning stuff, fuel
- Kampfstoff = fight stuff, weapons materiel
etc