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Cool. What's the purchase protection gonna be on this fancy new payment system? If you're modelling it on iDeal, then it's zero, and you've failed to understand the fucking point of online payment systems. Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, yes they are all fucking evil. Yes they are all American. But the thing they offer is, the end user, is protection in the purchases. So when the playstation 5 you order never turns up. You get your money back. Not just a shrug from the bank.https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115803106567133469

So anyway, about that digital ID system the current Tory government wants us to have... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620e43z2q5o

Awesome. I wonder how they are going to solve the problem of SNCF... https://nltimes.nl/2025/11/06/eu-push-high-speed-train-travel-mean-10-hour-train-amsterdam-madrid

May have massively nerd sniped a friend yesterday. I suggested that when the timetable change happens and the new ICE-L goes into operation they should see if they could use every operational type of ICE (1,2,3,3T,3Neo,4,L), in a single day. I woke to a message telling me they've already spent 4 hours trying to plot a route that achieves this. I'm not sure if I should feel bad or not.

MS is having DNS issues. So the Dutch railways are having issues. Critical national infrastructure should not be on cloud systems owned by foreign companies. This is resiliency 101.

Private schools (public schools in UK English) prove this very wrong. https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115428065685878244

As anyone who heard my public transport rant at crumpet camp at WHY2025 will know, as will long term followers. The purpose of public transport is to transport the public. Nothing more. If it makes a profit, great. But the primary aim. Above all others. Is to transport the public. And to do that safely, and effectively, the system needs resilience. Resilience comes from spare capacity. If the trains are more than half full. You need to run more trains.Yes this is a dig at SNCF, and Renfe.

Nvidia and openAI are talking about building a 10GW data centre. So. We gots a big number. Let's look at it.How much is 10GW? Well the UK has a typical day time electricity consumption of ~40GW. Meaning that this one single data centre is looking to use the same amount of electricity as a quarter of the UK. In a single installation. A quarter of the electricity of the 6th largest economy in the world. A single data centre.Or put another way. It needs power from 3x sizewell C nuclear plant.