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So now have to be worried that I'm going to killed by an AI designed nerve agent that someone has cooked up in their shed? FFS. I hate this world so much. I wish I could just flip …

Ironically probably one of my biggest reasons against buying one is it's obvious desirability. I've already once in my life been in a situation where I can say with certainty the o…

"the solid base of electricity generation disappeared and thus the trust in electricity for transport disappeared" I'm sorry, but WTF? This is the most unhinged drivel about German…

If you plough through the first pages so far as I can tell it seems like actually it won't be removed. Certainly not FPC, because the hard dependency on GTK2 was a misunderstanding…

For many years the Spanish state-owned company RENFE had a monopoly on Spain's huge high speed rail network. However their high prices, inconvenient schedules and poor customer ser…

The British rail system releases as open data(JSON over AMQP) all train movements down to indidvidual signal blocks You can view some of the the live maps here: https://www.opentra…

The determinant is the amount of money invested in infrastructure. No matter whether the train operators and the network operator are private or a state monopoly, all decisions abo…

Sometimes it's because you need to support ancient esoteric hardware that's not supported by any other tools, or because you've built so much of your own tooling around a particula…

There's the police and the criminal justice system for that. I suggest you post your e-mail login details and here and a dump of the contents of your phone, then all of HN can all …

This system works by launching an official Windows image in Docker and then making an RDP connection to it. There are a couple of others too now like WinBoat What all of them avoid…

There's plenty of semi-technical tinkerers out there, doing things like building flight sim cockpits, scraping by on copying ready made code, doing minimal changes and asking forum…

It was trains from Hamburg to Copenhagen used to run on the Fehmarn Ferry until the line was shut for reconstruction, they now run via Padborg. The Snalltaget sleeper train from Be…

The EU Commission is a group of permanent employees who sit in an office and write reports, administer projects and draft legislation. They have no voting rights. They are organise…

Every country in the world has a "Commission". It's no different to the UK Civil Service or the various US Federal Governments. If it didn't exist then the EU would be unable to im…

Would it really? France has the lowest retirement age of any EU country, the second highest expenditure on social benefits, and a large debt burden. Raising the retirement age by a…

I do wonder what the French population actually want as a solution to the unsustainable debt and huge proportion of tax revenue(second highest in the EU) spent on social benefits. …

Probably their situation is similar to mine. It's mandatory, on the orders of a senior manager who has no background in software development, for all developers in my department to…

It has. At one point HardKernel "found" some Broadcom chips and made a one-off unauthorized batch of the Pi-compatible Odroid-W. Rpi weren't amused :)

Nodejs itself is, but when you install a node project manually, you type npm install and wait while it downloads the 500 different packages it depends on. Debian follows the same p…

I use WetterOnline, it's German but I think it covers all of Europe.

Alternatives to Couchsurfing.com such as BeWelcome and WarmShowers have been around for many years, decades even and have users counts into 6 figures. They've remained non-corporat…

Analysed logically the aim of your post was a positive message that pushes back against "doomers", yet somehow it left me more depressed about the utter futility and meaningless of…

That's quite strange. Unlike in say France or Spain, all domestic trains in Germany should be reservation free for all Interrail ticket holders, including the fastest ICE trains.