azimir

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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri in c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 hours ago

Ladies and Gentlemen: this is what matters to this administration and its supporters, but I guess not releasing a list of pedophiles for law enforcement to handle isn't really something they feel they should be doing.

Trump loves protecting pedophiles and hates modern fonts.

It'd be nice if we could have some reasonable, efficient Keis in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

Given how ICE is starting to drive around US cities, that's a real concern that people are going to start having.

61 Portland businesses sign open letter opposing bus lane in c/portland@lemmy.ml
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

I'm fairly certain it's what toppled The Roman Empire: not enough lanes, bro.

After New York City installed speed cameras, crashes fell 30% in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago

Planting trees and posts by the roads also helps.

Pedestrian first timing on the crossings.

Even better: roundabouts. They fucking work, even if people have to learn how to use them for a bit.

Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Oh! You mean being somewhere with neighborhood scale markets, not just "fuck WalMart". (Which deserves it).

Yeah, Europe is mostly still rolling relatively small grocery stores of various makes and models. Go to a major Germany city on a mapping app and search for lebensmittel (groceries). You'll get them everywhere.

I just got back from walking the 80 yards to our local grocery store for a few things to cover tomorrow while I work from home. Total time 20 minutes for shopping because I wandered a bit. It's wonderfully easy and relaxing compared to when I would do a multi hour Costco->WinCo weekly trip in the US that included dealing with all the driving and stress of huge stores.

I miss Costco's polish dogs, but that's about it. The move to Europe was well worth it.

Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

The Kaufland I've been in have nothing on a mid sized US WalMart when it comes to chaos, stupid shit, and nutty humans. I haven't been to a hypercenter thing outside of town (no car to drive, so why bother?), but the in-city grocery stores in Germany are great.

Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That'd make a great switch to Linux billboard.

Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I snagged a Chromebook back in 2016 and used it for 9 years. It wasn't speedy, but for small time browsing, terminal use (I rooted it and put a real Linux distro in there), and media watching it was just fine.

Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Again? It used to be called something else even further back.

It must be part of the "security through making it hard to search for online" strategy.

Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There's dozens of users! Dozens!

That's interesting in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

To quote Alex:

Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

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Animation showing impact of the urban freeway on Rochester NY's neighborhoods 1951 to 2002. (youtu.be)
 

It's abundantly clear the urban freeways are a total an abject failure for cities and should be removed.

Enjoy Nature! in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

I moved to a city with 37% of the land being greenspaces or rivers. The city has 1900 playgrounds for children and one park nearly the size of Central Park in NYC. So much nicer than my old city that's rapidly becoming yet another Stroadville USA.

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Driving Lesson (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53805791

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Train operator GWR to be renationalised in about a year - boss (www.bbc.com)
 

The countries with the devolved private rail systems continue to heal.

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Public bus ridership hits record high despite capacity strains (Macau) (macaudailytimes.com.mo)
 

It looks like Macau's public transit system is seeing incredible increases in ridership. A 71% increase over 2020 is huge and that's wonderful, but the busses are hitting physical limits on how many people they can carry.

The city's been building out a LRT system that opened last year. Hopefully that will take some of the strain, but given the bus limitations, they'll need to keep adding rail as fast as possible.

Macau LRT Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_Light_Rapid_Transit

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"Every bike could be another car making congestion worse": Cyclists fight to save cycle lanes facing removal due to looming deadline to make temporary bollards permanent (road.cc)
 

Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy. That's a few seconds they might be saving on their drive. Every bit of research shows adding lanes doesn't seriously make commutes faster, but removing competing traffic surely does.

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[article] Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge (www.theguardian.com)
 

London has managed to stabilize the routes and scheduling around the new Elizabeth Line metro in the city. This means they're comfortable with the infrastructure and have the staff to man it properly and they're going from 16 trains an hour to 20 per hour during peak times! That's a train every 3 minutes!

The Elizabeth Line was built to serve east London which had a lack of serious rail services, despite lots of growth over 50 years. It's been wildly successful since it opened in May 2022. It's served over 600,000,000 total trips, with peak days of 800k people per day. The line basically caps out based on how many trains can physically run, so going to 20 per hour could get the line up to a million people per day. That's a huge achievement in the transit world.

Nice work, London!

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Sound Transit’s 2 Line Is Even More Popular Than We Thought » The Urbanist (www.theurbanist.org)
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Seattle has opened a subsection of their new Light Rail Line (Line 2). It doesn't connect to downtown yet (still working out engineering issues with the floating bridges), but they were smart enough to start running the section already complete.

Massive (by US standards) ridership has ensured. People needed the transit!

Seattle's geography is really tough for transit systems. The quantity of bottlenecks from riders and mountains is quite high. Trains are a necessity going forward to tie together the region.

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Germany and UK sign declaration for direct rail link (www.iamexpat.de)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34793815

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Germany and UK sign declaration for direct rail link (www.iamexpat.de)
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Seeking suggestions to replace my C.H.I.P. Computer (lemmy.ml)
 

I was one of the lucky ones to receive their C.H.I.P. computer hardware back in the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer)

It's just another SBC ala the Pi world of machines, but it had a few features I really liked:

  • was physically small
  • was powered entirely by a USB port that worked off of my laptop
  • ran Debian/Armbian style Linux distros
  • had a fully functional USB OTG console (this is especially important)
  • had enough RAM for general hacking, but nothing hugely special

Too bad Next Thing Co got over ambitious and ran themselves out of business because their design was great, though it did run really hot at times.

So, I need a replacement. My major use case is while traveling. I like to do small SBC-based projects on the go. This means on trains and airplanes, coding and working with electronics/sensors. My new job starting in a month will have me commuting on a train for an hour twice per week, so I'd like to find a new board I can work with.

What boards can people suggest? I've done some searching and I have a few in mind, but I'd like to hear your ideas.

I do know about the RPi Zero 2 W, but I've never liked the RPi Zero boards and their form factor makes me sad for some reason. Mostly, they're unweildy given the off balance design. What else is out there? What's worked for you?

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France shows strong interest in Vietnam’s metro and high-speed railway projects (vietnamnet.vn)
 

Vietnam has build working towards some serious transit upgrades lately. The HSR line between the major cities, and starting to ban gas powered vehicles on a very accelerated time scale both show a nation wanting to modernize and build needed resources for their people.

France and Vietnam relations have come a long way since the 1960's... building relationships and resources is good work.

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Paris Metro: From Orly Airport to the City Center in 25 Minutes - We Build Value (www.webuildvalue.com)
 

Paris continues to rock it on transit construction. It takes decades to modernize and refurbish a tier 1 city's infrastructure and they're well ahead of schedule on supporting the city's needs with new metros, trams, biking, and pedestrianized infrastructure.

Viva la France!

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webuildvalue.com%2Fen%2Finfrastructure%2Fmetro-paris-subway.html

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