Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Many countries have digital public transport chip cards.

I'm really lacking a European standard for them as we have it with UIC 918 for railway Aztec tickets. Though also this is not perfectly established, it is at least a portable system.

Why can't I load a digital D-Ticket on my OV chip card ? Why no weekend vrij on a a MoBIB card ?

Why can't De Lijn deduct their a bus trip single ticket from the funds of an OV chip kaart ?

These cards could be such an easy and portable standard, but any country and any transport company aims to re-invite the wheel again and again.

#CrossBorderRail

Levi vanochtend op NPO1 over de 'coronaherdenking'.
Zit te zeiken over dat de scholen niet dicht hadden gemoeten en dat ze dat toch In Zweden beter hadden gedaan.
Niets over hoe de scholen *veilig* open hadden kunnen blijven/gaan.
Levi is uiteraard (lang) niet de enige die weinig van deze pandemie heeft geleerd. Toch teleurstellend.

I'm pretty fucking done paying for games before I can play them. Too many purchases of "oh this looks fun!" and it's way to fucking hard.

"fun platforming" my back-side! This is a precision platformer. I don't care what the author says. I'm out. I'm done. Somebody please make fun games again.

And be honest if you've made a difficult game. That's fine. You're allowed to make them. But be honest about it.

nearly 8% of Melvor Idle players have died in melee combat to a potato plant

there's nothing special going on in the encounter

it's a normal potato plant and you're the only other thing in the area

Semantic versioning ("semver") is for the boring. My next project will use "emdocver" (Emailed Document Versioning). The 1st major release will be FINAL. Next will be FINAL_FINAL. After 1 bug fix, it will be FINAL_FINAL_UPDATED, then FINAL_FINAL_UPDATED_UPDATED with 2 fixes, etc.

With news of #Bandcamp being sold, and advice that you should download your purchases now, I haven't published it yet, but I actually wrote a post recently about downloading from Bandcamp, and here were the three options that took my eye:

https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader

https://github.com/RyanBluth/Bandcamp-Greasy

https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

I used bandcamp-downloader, and here is an extract of my post using it:

"I easily managed to install it and configure to download to a chosen directory and in the FLAC format with the following command, replacing the terms `USERNAME` and `/path/to/directory/` accordingly:

`./bandcamp-downloader.py USERNAME -d /path/to/directory/ -f flac`

And then the downloads slowly started to trickle in, all zipped up underneath directories with the artists' name. As such, the music still needs unzipping, but that was the case when downloading manually as well, and then music can be organised however you like.

I like how I can run it the leave it to do all the work in the background with me needing to monitor it or it be too intrusive as I work on something else, but the other two options may be more suitable if you prefer to work with a graphical interface and aren't too comfortable with the command line."

figured this was worth crossposting to here original post

Reverse engineered how Thalys stores their tickets in Wallet links.

Bad thing : on literally the last evening Thalys app and website exist.

#ThalysOneLastTime

Door over "de coronaperiode" te praten wordt verder gesuggereerd dat het voorbij is. Ja, de maatregelen zijn voorbij. Totaal! Niemand heeft er blijvende schade van ondervonden.

Covid raast echter nog steeds rond, blijft muteren en maakt massa's slachtoffers. Nu vooral #LongCovid zieken, gehandicapten, arbeidsongeschikten + uitgestelde overlijdens door persistent virus.

Tenslotte vermijdt dit "Stilstaan" zorgvuldig de schuldvraag (overheid, RIVM, OMT!). Was dit te vermijden? (Ja!)
#ABCovid

@mynameistillian Poverty is expensive. Not being able to pay off debts or see a doctor or buy better food or see a dentist and so on all adds up to even bigger problems that will cost even more to fix down the road. Shits why the essentials of healthy life (shelter, heat, food, healthcare) should all be provided by our taxes. A healthy populace ensures a healthy society.

Guess there's no such thing as "four seasons" in "temperate" areas anymore 🙃

I fucking hate capitalism and what they've done to fucking everyone on this planet holy fuck

I don't want allies.

I want accomplices.

It's almost as if Mozilla had a point with their "codecs should really be written in a memory-safe language", and Google's claim that "you should just write your C++ more carefully" was always some hot garbage that people only accepted because they were blinded by Google's carefully cultivated propaganda about how all their developers are unmitigated geniuses

Related to the latest round of everyone finding out what happens when you write image decoders in C++ now known as CVE-2023-5129: you may want to update every electron app on your machine as much as possible. Electron is built on the foundation of Google Chrome and it turns out that the webp vulnerability is also present in Electron. Annoyingly, this is going to require you to figure out which vendors have patched their apps for the vulnerability. Good luck.

You probably should update Discord immediately.