Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

Es ist ganz einfach: Julia Klöckner (@cdu) setzt als Bundestagspräsidentin einfach auch mal ganz gern die Wünsche der rechtsextremen Oppositionspartei AfD um.

#Neutalitätsgebot #CSD

Q: What's the longest time you've spent following a CAD program tutorial before you got stuck because you were told to do something for which there seems to be no control?

I find I can go about 20 minutes and make it through 4 simple actions before I'm told to (for example) "set the working plane" with no accurate description of the control to use, no guidance on how the UI is organized, no accurate help information, etc.

This is not just FreeCAD, it's basically every CAD program ever. Impossible to learn, 90% undocumented, blithe tutorial statements that sound simple but are effectively impossible without careful detailed explanation of the UI _as it exists at this point in time_.

I will probably be doing a metric crapload of navigation and querying of a large Navisworks model soon and I am really not looking forward to it. I don't expect it will be any less painful than dealing with FreeCAD. And honestly, I got through 80% of this FreeCAD tutorial exercise which is actually a fairly decent percentage given what I've experienced with CAD trials in general. The tutorial is otherwise reasonably clear and better than I expected. Still, I'm still stuck 20 minutes in told to do something critical and fundamental but given no useful or accurate guidance. I can only conclude that CAD software as a class of program is simply cursed, all of it.

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.