ambrosen

@ambrosen@hulvr.com

Will favourite your cat pictures. Likes numbers. Crohn's, cœliac, neurodivergent.

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Edent, to random
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It is getting harder and harder to use Facebook as a developer.

I use it for Single Sign On for https://OpenBenches.org - because I don't want to handle usernames & passwords.

Now it is demanding that I create a "business portfolio" to continue.

(Don't come at me with "delete Facebook" unless you can show me how to do OAuth with every Fediverse server in PHP.)

ambrosen,

@Edent I think my favourite is when the alphabetisation/collation is in English, but the country names are in their own language.

So Österreich is the 3rd(ish) in a list of European countries and Deutschland is after France, etc.

gzt, to random
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Just thinking about how I've been having minor annoyances with my back lately but how much worse would things be if I weren't able to work from home? Commuting, constrained to only sit in my office chair, etc...

ambrosen,

@gzt I was just embarrassingly hyperactive and always-out-of-my-chair in an office environment. Really just could not blend in like that.

jon, to random
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Engineering question

Denmark - when building the Storebæltsbroen - concluded you cannot easily put a railway on a suspension bridge (so tunnelled the railway instead)

The Øresundsbron is a cable stay bridge instead of suspension

And here comes a proposal for a suspension bridge at the Strait of Messina with a central span of 3.3km... how will they account for movement / flex when a train crosses? 🤔

https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/strait-of-messina-bridge-design-approved/65969.article

ambrosen,

@quixoticgeek @jon The render's a cable stay, unfortunately, so I suspect that's what they're proposing.

I guess that if Salvini is the main sponsor then it's quite possible that what's promised isn't what they're intending to deliver.

ambrosen,

@jon @quixoticgeek Oh man, I did double check that the render of the suspension bridge was actually the proposed render, and then actually said the entire opposite of what I meant.

Sorry for saying something so confidently wrong and making you dig out a proper correction.

jon, to random
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So apparently you now can get into Liberland https://total-croatia-news.com/news/travel/visiting-liberland/ Seems Youtuber Niko Omilana’s antics would not have been necessary a month later!

Still not sure I am going to go though 🙂

ambrosen,

@jon I guess you can wait until they build a railway, right?

kim_harding, to fuckcars
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A reminder that e-cars are about saving the motor industry, and not about saving the planet...

ambrosen,

@kim_harding Like, even if there were no viable alternative (which of course is bullshit), I've never understood how people can take “we can't fix the problem” to mean “it isn't a problem”.

But of course, we can fix the problem, so all that's moot.

jon, to random German
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The German Grüne have a commitment in their European Parliament election programme to increase night trains Europe wide. But how could you do it?

The starting point: find a way to finance the acquisition of a large fleet of new night train carriages.

I explain why this is the starting point, and how to do it here 👇
https://jonworth.eu/if-you-wanted-a-massive-increase-in-night-train-routes-in-europe-how-could-you-do-it/

ambrosen,

@jon Are these Astra Transcarpathic Corail/Eurofima cars (built and delivered in Arad in 2017) relevant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHTD5tFEBo
https://paliparan.com/2020/06/28/review-astra-trans-carpatic-arad-to-bucharest-in-a-lux-sleeper-compartment/

ambrosen,

@jon Sorry if you've mentioned them before, I'd have thought I'd have seen them if you had, but I came across them for the first time just this evening.

ambrosen,

@jon Ah, got you. I just wasn't really aware that there was the capacity to build much in the way of 200km/h carriages anywhere.

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 26, 26 Oct, Santiago de Compostela - Vigo-Urzaiz - Valença - Coimbra

Today I’m crossing these borders
Valenca do Minho 🇵🇹 - Tui 🇪🇸

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#8/41.560/-8.646

ambrosen,

@atbeaune @jon That's an appalling definition of good driving.

gzt, to random
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not to be a prescriptivist, but the development of the T-V distinction is one of the worst linguistic trends.

ambrosen,

@gzt Thou simply dost not understand it.

(Yes, obviously we're on familiar terms)

jon, to random
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Column in The Guardian about high speed rail in Spain https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/spains-high-speed-trains-arent-just-efficient-they-have-transformed-peoples-lives?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The penultimate paragraph is the crucial one - the network works if you’re going between cities. It doesn’t if you’re going to smaller places or don’t want to go via Madrid.

ambrosen,

@jon If only there was a long thin country in Europe with a dense pre-existing conventional network and that country had still made a huge success of high speed rail. Then GB could compare itself to it. 🇮🇹

davidallengreen, to random
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HS2 is not (really) about speed but about capacity - and, yes, there is a need for more rail capacity between south/midlands/north.

But there is also an equal and opposite need to be environmentally mindful, and there is also an absolute need for competent project management and critical political overview.

From any view, HS2 is a horrible mess.

ambrosen,

@davidallengreen It is absolutely minimising impact on existing ecosystems at the cost of concrete use and expense.

There doesn't seem to be any real evidence of poor project management from HS2 Ltd, as opposed to the continual descoping and pausing from the political side.

ambrosen,

@simon_brooke In terms of the earthmoving and bridges, the current line is pretty much committed to the current route to Birmingham. (Not to mention the tunnels).

Here's footage of the works around Birmingham, including where it splits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBZm7HVngig

It's hard to know yet how much would be possible by upgrading the 2 cross-border mainlines to handle a traffic increase, and how easy it would be to realign them for more speed, versus making a third railway.

jon, to random
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Channeling The Who's “Won't Get Fooled Again" and The Rolling Stones "You Can’t Always Get What You Want” to explain why I do not trust Bluesky

And it is not - contrary to @pluralistic's view - that I fear what Jack Dorsey might do, and it might go the way of Twitter / Musk

It is that I cannot (yet? ever?) trust how Bluesky and the AT Protocol are built and if it will be the network we need - in terms of design

https://euroblog.jonworth.eu/from-the-who-to-the-rolling-stones-or-why-i-will-not-trust-bluesky-just-yet/

ambrosen,

@jon One thing I noticed is how you got almost no response to the question you asked about this on Bluesky compared to masses of detail here, and that has to signify something.

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 07, 6 Sep, Wexford - Rosslare - Fishguard - Cardiff – London

Today I’m crossing these borders
Rosslare Europort 🇮🇪 - Fishguard 🇬🇧

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#7/51.880/-2.588

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-07/

ambrosen,

@jon Even on recently upgraded welded rail, I've had some truly deafening experiences on 156s.

ambrosen,

@jon I guess the advice for anyone travelling from the Severn basin to Dublin is to stick with the Holyhead crossing then, no matter how much they'd like to occasionally see non-Dublin Ireland.

Also, I did 2 hours in a 3+2 156 Bath to Weymouth recently, and it's amazing that's considered acceptable.

jon, to random
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A cemetery of TGVs. Mostly Sud Est (1980s) and Atlantique (early 1990s) trains

Could any other operator use these? In France or even Hungary or Serbia? We don’t know, as they’re not for sale and SNCF aims to scrap them

Link via @Lenny_du_Nord

https://youtu.be/CxzMQjyhQCo

ambrosen,

@jon @Lenny_du_Nord Would be very interesting to see what someone like Romanian locomotive (re)manufacturer Softronic would do with these.

That'd even keep it in the EU if that's a concern.

siderea, to random

I just learned that there's a popular flavor in Australia called "musk", which I, in the US, had never heard of. (This is not a Twitter joke.)

This reminded me of learning about elderflower, which is apparently a popular flavor for things in the UK but which is just about unheard of in the US, and of the gooseberry, still endemic to Northern Europe & very popular, which was deliberately nigh-entirely eradicated from the US about a century ago; and about discovering how China and other places in Asia were just discovering the American cranberry before the pandemic hit; and of how most Americans have never tasted anything that is rose flavored, despite the popularity of rose flavored things across the entirety of mainland Asia.

Is there some list somewhere of interesting flavors popular to certain cultures and unknown in others? Something you could consult for giving international gifts, so you could know what a recipient might find novel and interesting?

ambrosen,

@siderea Blackcurrant was banned from cultivation for a long time in the US, but is the default purple sweet flavour in Europe (for, e.g. Starburst).

Germany also has soft drinks flavoured with woodruff (known as Waldmeister), and similarly, Georgia has tarragon flavoured drinks. Both are bright green.

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