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- Comment on Australian high-speed rail has barely left the station – some experts say a new US project shows a better way 3 weeks ago:
Australia should take example from countries having high-speed railways. Being Japan, China, or any Europaen countries. (gues, I’m in Europe ;) ) The US is a bad example. Sure you have large distance as in the US, but expertise is not there. There is only one highspeed line between Boston and New York city, if I’m correct).
High speed train need its own track, it’s too fast at 300+ kmh, it needs protections from and for wild life around it, an onboard signaling system. All you don’t need below 200kmh.
Contrary to the article, when a highspeed train uses normal tracks, it has to go slow (200kmh max), and use visual signals. It becomes a classic train. So there are expenses to be made building tracks for highspeed trains. It’s not cheap.
Privatizing rails, taking examples from the UK and Paris - Bordeaux in France is a baaaaaaaad move. I think the UK rebought its first rail company. Paris - Bordeaux highspeed track is private and the french national operator SNCF must run its trains, even empty, to use it per contract. And seat prices are quite high compared to other (public) lines in France.
However as I see here in Switzerland, privatizaton can happen if well done. Switzerland has about 100 private rail, boat and coaches companies across the country… for 8 millions people, and one ticket and one timetable for everything. This is very centralized around the main train operator (which is a private company, 80% owned by the confederation).
- Comment on will i fit in more with china/japan or russia or their communities in terms of acceptance/blending in? 5 weeks ago:
Hi,
I’m hald-european, half-asian. from y expeiebce, blending in is an obvious choice. But I reallized, I’m not really asian, because I have european traits and references, and I’m not really european because I’ve asean traits and references. You will not be really part of any and both at the same time. You want to belong to a group, that’s understandable. But you are in between, or better said you are the bridge between these groups. This is what’s defining you. You can be part of each of them, using what you know about one group, and add spice or knowledge from the other. you are more that one group.
My experience, and I had a former superior who also was between 2 cultures : we don’t really fit in to one pot. we are our own pot :)
My german side love a nice german beer, but my vietnamese side loves viet coffee. I love Frankfurter, Nürnberger, Müncher sausages in a bread, but I can’t help my self with Cha Gio.
Go to group that are accepting you. And if they don’t, too bad for them, there are plenty other groups, until you find your balance. And may be it means being in ultiple groups at the same time, and that’s really really fine.
- Comment on Energy labelling and ecodesign requirements will apply to smartphones and tablets from June 2025 1 month ago:
I’m curious how many european countries outside the Union will follow. Swiss cooperative Migros stopped labelling their food product, because it cost too much and was barely used.
- Comment on Can l post on Mastodon social, floss social right from here ? If yes, then how ? 1 month ago:
From my understanding, you can’t post to an instance, until someone from that instance either subscribes to your lemmy account or the community or search for it. This will force the intance to pull your post to that instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The SILL About page translated explains the list :
Why this catalog?
The socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL) is the reference catalog of open-source software recommended by the French government for use throughout the administration.
This catalog helps administrations find their way around the open-source software they are encouraged to use, in line with Article 16 of the French Law for a Digital Republic
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If I follow your concept “not being fediverse”, then Matrix or XMPP are not good because thy aren’t fediverse neither. I would disagree. Fediverse is only a part of the internet. Pinksky is linked to ATproto, which in deed is developped by the company Bluesky. If the company Bluesky is sold, then nothing forbid to build a new relay, however, the cost of building a full blown one is quite high. But smaller dedicated relay can be build. True that isn’t yet happening. PDS can be hosted privately already, and there are thousands non-bluesky-tied servers. Apps like Pinksky exsist and are not tied with the company Bluesky. The only part that is currently worrying me is the PLC server. Remember the very beginning of fediverse when it was under StatusNet Inc. It’s only years later that it became decentralised as we know it today. StatusNet Inc. could have it enshitiffied multiple times. I may be an optimist, the company Bluesky can go wrong, but can do right too.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
« They » is « a full-stack developer whose work has largely focused on working with web technologies ». You show you dislike lone developers building their own apps.
- Comment on Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon 6 months ago:
There is less of defederation in the email network, because mail has been build to reach its destination no matter the path or the time, message must arrives even partially. (this was a premise of the US military, at ARPAnet). Even if a mailadmin blocks one server, mail could go another route. This is also the base of the internet, path is not the most straight forward direct link between source and destination (companies are usually against this structure)
AT or Mastodon don’t have this freedom or constraint (depend of one point of view).