mjr

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[–] mjr 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How can you tell? It looks like a bad edit. This is not like the 2007 incident of editing things out of order to fake someone leaving an appointment angrily, then making an indiscreet comment on the faked event.

[–] mjr 4 points 5 hours ago

But also, the faster you ride, the more tiring it is, the more stressful it is, and the more severe the consequences when anybody - especially nearby drivers - makes a serious error.

Cycling doesn't have to be that way. No matter what Forester and other ableists say. If you remove most of the motorists, it can be fun! And proper fun, not the 'I jousted with drivers and survived' type.

[–] mjr 6 points 5 hours ago

'We fight like hell' isn't much of a code!

[–] mjr 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Diana's Drove is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It's in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham.

Edit: this is the first one I found. I'm pretty sure there are more.

[–] mjr 4 points 5 hours ago

"alarming analysis by consultancy Barnett Waddingham" is saying this, not Labour. It's basically think-tank fantasy.

[–] mjr 20 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Naughty CNN! Trump did indeed say to 'we fight like hell' as you can see in the full transcript on news sites that haven't surrendered yet, such as AP: Transcript of Trump's speech at rally before US Capitol riot | AP News

Any one hour documentary pretty much has to edit that rambling dumpster fire of a speech. The BBC's main mistake was not to make the edit clearer.

This was probably worth an apology. Was it worth the leader resigning? Probably not. The right-wing media succeeds in hunting another witch. I hope it backfires and Labour appoint someone further left.

[–] mjr 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Blimey. I was expecting it to be stolen but they say the bars had unique numbers, so it seems its owner buried it and then someone sold the property without realising what it contained.

[–] mjr 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I might have upvoted that except how do you define "run by"? Who is the fediverse "run by"?

[–] mjr 5 points 2 days ago

How can you call this good? While I agree there are problems needing tackling, this proposal does nothing to help young adults and the parental consent option seems very likely to create a have/have-not split in child groups which will also have negative impacts.

It looks rather like the "we must do something, and this is something, so we must do this" fallacy being used to exploit child protection to start compulsory ID checks.

[–] mjr 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, this does smell a bit like fixing the wrong problem mixed with a possible trojan horse for compulsory ID-verification (and the dodgy businesses often claiming to provide it). Surely if social media is too corrosive for young people, there are a lot of adults who also won't be able to cope, so the corrosive bits need to be tackled?

[–] mjr 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which lines do these run on? I might have ridden one in daytime without realising!

[–] mjr 7 points 2 days ago

Great, aren't they? They have "hopper" transfer fares, so you pay only once for tram or bus connections made within about an hour. And like Paris, TfL trams are charged at the lower bus price.

 

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.”

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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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