Sebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️

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I'm disappointed to see that National Rail Inquiries - that is, the 'official' railway ticket retailer in the UK, operated by the Rail Delivery Group - has started adding automatic redirects to Booking.com when you search for a itinerary. My complaint isn't so much about their use of this hotel reservations intermediary in particular; I'm a customer myself and they're actually somewhat reasonable to customers (their anti-competitive business practices notwithstanding). This is why I'm not happy:

  • silently redirecting users to other sites and opening extra tabs is confusing to all but the most tech-savvy users
  • there's no option for users to turn this off for good
  • it's already a slow and resource-heavy website, and yet is exactly the thing which many users may be using in a hurry and on patchy mobile connections - now, it wants to open up another tab containing loads of images on every query
  • this change further entrenches an existing near-monopoly, when this could have been a way of supporting independent hotels and keeping public money in the UK economy

My suggestion is to use TrainSplit instead, who actually know how to make a user-friendly website (I am not affiliated with them nor am I paid for saying this).

#ukrail #railticketing

Booking.com - Wikipedia

I started a Hackerspace in Ankara and we just had our first meetup! 🎉

Join us: https://mercimek.space

#hackerspace #ankara #meetup

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control

Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.

Canadian Space

I understand ambivalence about TDoV. No one should _have_ to be visible, especially when that visibility is so dangerous.

On the other hand, representation will always matter.

Everyone contributes in different ways, you don't have to put yourselves out there.

But enough of us do need to do that to change the shape of the conversation, to bend the arc of governance and policy making, and to ensure young trans folks can see that they have elders and a future.

#TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #LGBTQ

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study/

"A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.

Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first times a medication has been shown to effectively treat the condition. "

https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03959

Common antidepressant can treat long COVID fatigue symptoms: study

A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.

CTVNews

Well, turns out I don’t get my salary for March. And it was an expensive month.

Thanks to the unemployment system here, I will *eventually* get paid something, but I don’t know when or how much; and very probably I will be out of a job entirely.

I would really appreciate help for me and my family asap; the options I have now are:

• libera pay: https://liberapay.com/dpk
• on Wise: my Wisetag is just ‘daphne’

Thanks for anything you can offer <3

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest 

dpk's profile - Liberapay

My employer went insolvent this week and I have no income at the moment. I am supporting another, homeless trans woman financially.

Liberapay

I'm 19 months into unemployment due to illness, and I just got a letter that my earlier payment for storage didn't go through, and I have until the 1st to pay 2000$ or they're auctioning off my storage, which has 12 years of games & retrotech.

Any help you can spare would be amazing.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing/goal?g=0

#mutualaid

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Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

Historical moment for myself and railways, arrival in France of the first European Sleeper, my first time chef du bord in France 🇫🇷 💕
 Karlsruhe's Nuclear Research Center is a secluded facility in the middle of a forest north of the city. To facilitate commuting, this extensive research complex is served by a dedicated branch of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn system. Usually, this line is served by just two morning trains and two afternoon trains, all closed to the public, like the facility itself - but every couple of years, there is a chance to ride this line (and take photos of it) for the general public on Open Day events.
(17 June 2023)