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About the famous double agent "Garbo":
Because he had never actually visited the UK, he made several mistakes, such as claiming that his alleged contact in Glasgow "would do anything for a litre of wine", unaware of Scottish drinking habits or that the UK did not use the metric system.
@libreoffice
Marketing kumbayah BS: "LibreOffice 26.2 shows what happens when software is built around users, not business models"
But: Please check the actual release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2 for affiliations of developers. Glad that TDF still mentions that.
What is the cutest name of a former French railway station and why is it Boulogne-Aéroglisseurs?
In other words, new The Tim Traveller video!
@saruwine But why not East Asian New Year then?
Stop this ridiculous ”Lunar New Year” nonsense. If you mean Chinese, say it. There is no yearly thing about the Moon’s orbit.
Come to think of it, we should start calling Easter the Lunar Feast of the Undead. After all the date of Easter Sunday is based on the lunar orbit.
(Please correct me if I am wrong.)
And now we just wait to hear what FLOSS projects Vincenzo Iozzo was involved with.
In an Irish pub. (In Düsseldorf.) I usually avoid such but decided to make an exception for once. Decent music. This is an old favourite of mine.
Teenage Kicks by The Undertones https://www.shazam.com/track/40588992?referrer=share
@vitaut The French Revolutionary Calendar has entered the chat.
@aslakr Good!
(But do the enthusiastic clueless end-users that advocate for instance Mastodon because it "does not depend on American Big Tech" etc know that for now it is hosted on GitHub? Probably not. And for us open source people, it is the source code that *is* the product.)
Yay for managing without American Big Tech! Yay for Mastodon. The source code of which is hosted on, eh, GitHub.
Added our one-country #Interrail trip in July 2006 to @viaduct_world . This one was with the whole family (me, wife, 5y daughter, and 15y son).
(We flew Helsinki–Paris and back, sadly.)
Despite being a family vacation it was a bit chaotic back-and-forth with no longer stays than two nights in any location except in Paris. But we did visit some less obvious corners of France. Highlights were Paris, Lyon, Millau with the viaduct, Chenonceau Castle, Quiberon, Reims, and Ronchamp with Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame du Haut.
One night train, very hot couchette compartment: Lyon–Auray (we were going to Quimper but decided to visit Quiberon, too, and got off a bit earlier).
I wonder if these transfer bogies then count as separate carriages, from a legislation and registration point of view? No UIC/TSI wagon number visible on them at least in the picture in the article, though. Or maybe every such transport is treated as a special case and normal rules don't apply.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@RailwayGazette/115940549584450872
Nice innovation. I guess the generous Finnish loading gauge helps, you can apparently transport even double-decker standard gauge carriages and multiple-unit sets as such on top of these transfer bogies, without having to remove their bogies.
Apparently CI means Constantly Inoperative.
If you work on some large complicated software (multi-platform, tons of legacy code) and your CI works perfectly, I envy you.
I wonder for how many days we will have to see toots from people disliking the wsocial thing.
Hint: It was news a day ago. Dozens of people already (rightly) ridiculed it. You don't need to repeat the same arguments in new toots. Or boost such new toots. You can be relatively sure that your followers already have seen toots criticising it.
@Richard_Littler I am sure he could take a chopper.
Nitpick: Denmark sold a whole group of islands to the US in 1916. Now known as the US Virgin Islands. One of them is the one now commonly known as "Epstein Island". But it is misleading to say that Denmark sold "an island".
OK, so now we just wait for Trump to go to war against the UK over Chagos Islands. What a year, huh?
Those weird noises you hear from the East are Putin and Xi pissing themselves from laughter.
@annika long-planned cleanups? Yay, are they finally getting rid of that arrogant use of $ to mean jQuery?
"We are so bloody important that we need to make use of us in your code look like it was some Perl-like built-in syntax or whatever."
Confession: I have never used std::string_view in my C++ code and don't intend to, unless forced to. I just can't be arsed to learn about it. Have doubts whether it brings any measurable performance benefits to code I am writing. Or whatever the supposed benefits over std::string are supposed to be. So sue me.