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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and maybe one of them would like the depot or to run an extra service. That's what I'm saying. Eurostar hasn't been allowed to hog the Temple Mills train depot, so why should Eurotunnel hoard the Barking freight depot on the link to the state-owned LTS line? These depots are expensive to build and can only go in limited places, so they should use it, sell it, or lose it.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 4 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

it had scrapped plans to reopen a freight terminal in Barking and to run a new direct freight service from Lille.

Fine, let another freight operator have them, then.

Meanwhile, their biggest shareholder is still building part of HS2. 🤷

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

No, but could you feed the website with mismatched tags through something like tidy first? That error looks like maybe it's expecting xhtml and getting html. Maybe the site is declaring one, then using the other. Lots of software won't care because it's a pretty common error, but some panics.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

Thank for elaborating my comment, but I never said never, only that it's usually better to avoid it.

And yven if you think it's provably impossible to get an Error back now, someone or something may change an underlying function behaviour on you in the future and invalidate your proof. There are ways to limit that with version control and pinning and so on, but it's easy for an assumption to be overlooked when merging in new versions of things.

So yes, I agree, better to use ? at least here, but like all guidelines, there may be times where you break it, accepting the risks.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

They used .unwrap(...) in production, which can escape notice until there's an error, then it panics. It's better to always handle the potential error, or at least use ? to pass the error back to the caller.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 0 points 4 days ago

Sensible? They call it Danish-style, but the Danish Social Democrats reportedly just got their bottoms handed to them at the local elections ballot box, losing almost half their mayors and about a quarter of their councillors from the last local elections, with Copenhagen electing a non-Social-Democrat mayor for the first time since the post was created in 1938. Is that what Labour really wants to turn itself into?

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

Didn't stop the signs as late as the 1980s.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago

And now Farage has suspended a party councillor for letting the mask slip too far:

Tom Pickup, who was elected to Lancashire county council in May [...] posted: “Everyone in Reform is a lot more hardline on immigration than is typically stated publicly, to get a majority government we have to be tactical.”

[...] Pickup, who was the council’s lead member for resources and finance, admitted he was a member of the group but said his messages had been “twisted out of context”. He said he was not aware of the more extreme posts, which included one person allegedly calling for a “mass Islam genocide” and encouraging others to stockpile weapons to attack “lefties” and “migrants”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/reform-uk-councillor-suspended-over-whatsapp-group-featuring-extremist-posts>

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

And it would be even higher if they didn't require people's parent/grandparent to have registered an Irish 'foreign birth' before they died. Being Irish was stigmatised in the UK until a few decades ago so people often didn't.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

Countries like the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Italy reject automated transmission

The article tells us a lot of who's against what but not many that are pushing for more, except Czechia. I bet Hungary is one again, isn't it?

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can't afford cars and the elite who don't need to rush about in cars, so it's a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does it work for the politicians? Hidalgo re-elected, Kahn re-elected, to name two. I don't remember all the bike-bashers who lost because history soon forgets most losers.

 

Another floundering politician tries a bit of bike-bashing? When will they learn it doesn't work?

 

A story of Seattle. What can your town learn from this? Any of it not ring true for you? Do you know Seattle? Does it match your view?

Video also on youtube as well as the fediverse.

 

From December 13, cabins will begin carrying passengers across Limeil-Brévannes in Val-de-Marne, a suburb long served only by buses. The 4.5-kilometre route, with five stations, will take just 18 minutes end to end. Residents say they are eager to try the quiet, comfortable cabins.

 

There are lots of buses, but they’re just not organized in a very sensible way and don’t run very frequently or reliably. I’ve talked about this before, but I think the big reason cycling has taken off the way it has in Montreal is because the city also has such a weak bus system.

Same in many cycling towns in England, even though level take-up is limited by lack of new infrastructure.

 

Last day for this. If you have any link with King's Lynn and can spend ten minutes today to help cycling here, that would be great.

I'll answer any questions you have when I can. I'll also probably post more about it later on that site, introducing what's currently happening in a typical English country town.

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A 21st Century Underground Rolling Stock Update - London Reconnections - https://www.londonreconnections.com/2025/a-21st-century-underground-rolling-stock-update/

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44846811

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Norway: Chinese-made electric buses have major security flaw, can be remotely stopped and disabled by their manufacturer in China, Oslo operator says

The public transport operator in Norway's capital said Tuesday that some electric buses from China have a serious flaw -- software that could allow the manufacturer, or nefarious actors, to take control of the vehicle.

Oslo's transport operator Ruter said they had tested two electric buses this summer -- one built by China's Yutong and the other by Dutch firm VDL.

The Chinese model featured a SIM card that allowed the manufacturer to remotely install software updates that made it vulnerable, whereas the Dutch model did not.

"We've found that everything that is connected poses a risk -- and that includes buses," Ruter director Bernt Reitan Jenssen told public broadcaster NRK.

"There is a risk that for example suppliers could take control, but also that other players could break into this value chain and influence the buses."

Ruter said it was now developing a digital firewall to guard against the issue.

According to other reports, the Chinese manufacturer has access to each bus’s software updates, diagnostics, and battery control systems. “In theory, the bus could therefore be stopped or rendered unusable by the manufacturer,” the company said.

Ruter has reported its findings to Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Arild Tjomsland, a special advisor at the University of South-Eastern Norway who helped conduct the tests, said: “The Chinese bus can be stopped, turned off, or receive updates that can destroy the technology that the bus needs to operate normally.”

[...]

 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36851857

Geoff Marshall gives us a tour. I like his positivity, but I feel that surrounding a new rail station with so much surface car parking instead of transit-orientated development should get a little criticism. I guess at least a surface car park is easier to build on later than a multistorey obstruction.

He also gets a tiny thing wrong: the Alstom Aventras that serve the station don't have level boarding. The Stadler Flirts that also on that line do, but don't usually stop there at present.

What do you think of this? Better than the modular stations opened recently? Still not good enough?

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Geoff Marshall gives us a tour. I like his positivity, but I feel that surrounding a new rail station with so much surface car parking instead of transit-orientated development should get a little criticism. I guess at least a surface car park is easier to build on later than a multistorey obstruction.

He also gets a tiny thing wrong: the Alstom Aventras that serve the station don't have level boarding. The Stadler Flirts that also on that line do, but don't usually stop there at present.

What do you think of this? Better than the modular stations opened recently? Still not good enough?

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