Could Toronto-Montreal route be Canada's first high-speed rail?
dailyhive.com/montreal/toronto…
It lacks of ambition. I guess that the values.
Max 200kph? FFS this is not the 1960s.
When TGV opened in 1981, the cruise speed on the Paris Lyon was 260kph. Paris Lille was 300kph when I commuted on it 20 years ago.
I guess lots of gloss on the report.
American Water shuts down online services after #cyberattack
American Water is the largest water and wastewater treatment utility in the US…
OT systems not affected - so appears this only affects their IT systems. Suspected nation state activity (Russia).
(I encourage everyone sharing this with their friends because cyber attacks absolutely can have direct “real world” consequences.)
For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
every.to/p/the-disappearance-o…
(H/t @mwl )
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I don't think this is actually going to happen.
There's so much stuff relying on .io at this point that I won't be surprised if major DNS providers just sidestep ICAN and take matters into their own hands.
ICAN isn't omniscient and omnipotent, if the majority of the world decides that they shouldn't be in charge of DNS any more and that we'd rather use a different set of root servers, their power basically goes away.
#Mastodon 4.3 is out! 🎉 We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
You might have noticed already: since a few weeks, #MapComplete has a totally new search experience.
If you search something, the matching locations are shown on the map. If it matches the name of a layer or a filter, you can also opt to show only this layer or to enable this filter. For examplr, on mapcomplete.org/food, one could search for 'sushi' to only see sushi restaurants and then for 'open now'. Or search with an emoji, such as 🍕🍟🥙 or 🍙
Today's challenge -- working out why GObject Introspection bitfield objects return zero when the value is bigger than MAX_UINT32. The value is correct in the .gir file, just not in the fwupd python bindings.
@ebassi @pwithnall (or anyone else) does this ring any bells please? I've opened gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject… with some more data.
King 5: "Poulsbo woman calls authorities after finding over 100 raccoons outside her home demanding food
The woman told deputies she started feeding raccoons around her house about 35 years ago without any problems. Six weeks ago the population of raccoons "exploded.""
😂 😬
king5.com/article/life/animals…
Včerajší lov na polárnu žiaru bol úspešný. Dokonca sa mi pravdepodobne podarilo zachytiť meteor (na prvej foto) 😍
#PolárnaŽiara #meteor #auroraborealis #aurora #slovensko #slovakia
Wise words from Tuta's co-founder, Arne Möhle 👏
Will you join our privacy revolution?
Western observers often express cynicism towards China’s self-proclaimed “Whole-Process People’s Democracy” without fully grasping its distinct characteristics and underlying principles. While Western liberal democracies prioritize periodic elections, China argues this approach is inherently limited, susceptible to corruption, and ultimately fails to truly represent the people’s will.
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@tink will be attending #DevFestNantes to share her talk: “The Land That Time to Interactive Forgot.” 🌐
She’ll explore how Time to Interactive (TTI) impacts web performance, accessibility, and user experience, offering insights into how we can all make the web faster and more inclusive.
Read more about her talk and find the full schedule at: devfest.gdgnantes.com/en/sched…
#WebDevelopment #Accessibility #SustainableAccessibility #DevFest
Thunderbird for Android 8.0b2 has landed on the Google Play Store and on our Github Releases page. We've removed the existing folder class system, and would love feedback on this change from new and existing users. For more information on the release, see the release notes on GitHub:
🔊 We're finally getting a fully stylable <select> element!
Me and @surma dive into the details, including 10 web platform features we got along the way.
⬇️ Listen here ⬇️
offthemainthread.tech/episode/…
Welcome to the RB family, USB Serial Telnet Server 
Thanks to the help of Alexey, this was finally achieved:
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…
And it means that 275 of the apps at #IzzyOnDroid are now set up for #reproducibleBuilds – or in relative numbers, 22.9% Hoping for the "forth egg" (25%) though it's quite a way to go, still 😊
Quebec's language law may force music gear off store shelves
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-l…
Yup. Franco Fascist. I thought these goons were pro-business but apparently they are not either.
and then banning Anglo channels? Non-dubbed movies?
They are going for all of that. Like Fascist.
I am more sympathetic than most to the need to ensure products & services are equitably available in french
but
at some point the gov't has to realize that the entire rest of the world is not going to bend to their whims
NO ONE EVER ASKED FOR THIS #CAQASTROPHE.
Québec's language law may force music gear off store shelves...
And, how long before Québec cannot reach anglophone websites to purchase anything...
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-l… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #languagewars #cdnpoli #polcan
In which we read out three user-submitted stories about meeting their partners.
#StroongeCast E04: How You Met Your Other: youtu.be/kqgFs_TpyXU
@MoonCat
@andijah this with us, too. Audio annoys me 9 times out of 10 but you guys are rocking it.
first thing my wife's mother said to her about me was 'you're not going to get together with that idiot, are you?'.
Wow. To vypadá na hodně zajímavou změnu ve školství.
> „Půjdeš do první třídy a teď ti to začne.“
> A hned v září dítě dostane jedničku nebo třeba trojku. To je prostě vražda na dětské duši, tak jsem to bral i jako ředitel.
Proč jenom, když tohle čtu, tak už vidím, že to bude zase zase černá díra na prachy...
𝐀𝐝𝐚 & 𝐙𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞!
We are celebrating with our supporters #AdaLovelace Day on 8 October with the world premiere of the animated movie 'Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream! 💥
If you are planning to support the 
, do it today and do not miss this event!
#Ada #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.
When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.
I learned to do a pie chart with gnuplot so let me introduce "#curl CVE severity distribution" .
curl.se/dashboard1.html#cve-pi…
Seattle / PNW: Keep an eye out and call the contact numbers if you have any info
I can fit this into my day a lot better than the long ones. @
Hubert Figuière
Unknown parent • • •@samloonie "some". Most of the population is now born after it ended service.
A proper high speed train wouldn't have level crossing.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Hubert Figuière
Unknown parent • • •@samloonie th railroad were not interested in it. That's why VIA was created and remained a band-aid by still using the same badly maintained trackage on why the heavy freight has priority.
This is the root cause of the poor service. That and the lack of courage and ambition from politicians to do anything about it.