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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 20h

[llms] very funny that anthropic is using the number of FIXMEs in code as a measure of LLM code quality writing FIXME next to some code is a very human thing to do and not something i have ever seen any AI code do (and seems to be one of their flaws - an inability […] [Original post on masto.ai]

claimed productivity and quality metrics at anthropic when employees start using AI

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

dpartu.re now sends you to the official adif.es departure board for most Spanish stations, rather than the fan made ones. it's much uglier than the cool fan-made ones we were using before, and it insists on showing long distance and short distance trains separately, but it has data for […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

the adif android app uses a different endpoint to the infostation API that all the fan sites use to show departures. it covers many more stations. it also is authenticated so only the android app can make the requests. this is, if you'll forgive my use of some technical jargon, "very stupid"

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

days since i fixed a bug that didn't exist: 0 (i was running On Voie Tous as an extension and as a userscript at the same time and being surprised that i was getting two sets of platform predictions)

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Updated graph with the findings we will publish this week. Maybe - maybe - that is the beginning of a drop ? I've long theorized that we should see (a more distinct) plot drop when we start to reach the end of "the wave" of reports.

Accumulated vulnerability age when reported, showing a slight drop at the end of 2026

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Number of published #curl vulnerabilities on October 14 and the 2026 projection.

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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 12/10/2026

On the rails again... #Interrail #CrossBorderRail Today, @bovine3dom, @wendy and I felt like lunch at an Italian restaurant, so we are going from Luzern to Luzern via Tirano. We’re doing the same route as the Bernina Express. Today’s Itinerary […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@kaat0 i got round to running germany at a slightly higher resolution if you want to play compute.olie.science/expo/?data=ger… shift-click to draw lines on the pixel grid. adding more than one line and being able […]

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210561 ✨ [Q] @q.glauca.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

does anyone know anyone at SPRIN-D / d-you Wallet who’d be interested in talking to me about D-Tickets in the EUDI Wallet?

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Just updated On Voie Tous to add platform predictions to the old (and best) RFI departure boards for Italy. Existing users will have to accept new permissions to run on RFI (and Adif, which is currently down) over the next few days to update […] [Original post on masto.ai]

A screenshot of an RFI departure board open in two windows: on the left, platform predictions are shown in the platform column. On the right, most platforms are missing

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

this is such a weird consultation. the first part basically boils down to - LLMs are illegal to train in Europe. how can we make them more illegal to train? (copyright law is great. all money to rentiers) then there's a later part which is - how can we make science exempt from copyright? […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

just once i would like to cross a border into germany and not be hit with a delay that causes me to miss my next connection (i was expecting this to happen and planned for it. and i have had to arrange my entire day around "France does not run any trains around lunchtime". but still)

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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 03/10/2026

Thanks to @bovine3dom I have become aware of the TGV InOui Pro app, which appears to be aimed at business travellers who don't book their own travel. It can read and process interrail reservations, for InOui, Intercités, and Intercités de Nuit. It can […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Screenshot of TGV InOui Pro showing details of my delayed train, including the actual arrival at 18:12 rather than 16:12.

It also shows coach and seat numbers, and on-board services, including the platform it arrived at

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: masto.ai/@bovine3dom/11736073878133… i have only had a mastodon account for three years so i don't know how it works. but i think you usually can't see replies deep in threads on your main feed? anyway i made a userscript github.com/bovine3dom/railfinder_ha… for the […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

really inconsiderate of interrail to have such a deep discount on continuous passes three months of first class infinite trains for ~€600 is outrageously good value for money but i don't need three months of infinite trains and i am not particularly sure i want three months of infinite trains

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Hooded vs carrion crow distribution www.reddit.com/r/crows/comments/1ws…

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[LLMs] what is the point of PRs like this the account seems to have no human involvement at all the code at first glance seems mediocre, so they're probably using a cheap model and what's more it has picked an issue to work on where i last said "i need to think […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Closes #5535

New reader articles are stored in Firefox's session-only storage through the background script, so article text is not written to persistent extension config or synchronized. The reader consumes and removes the session entry after loading, while caching it in sessionStorage for same-session theme reloads. Existing UUIDs in legacy reader_articles config still load with awaited cleanup, and Sync strips that legacy key from both outgoing and incoming data.

Validation:

yarn run build --quick passed after a temporary local workaround for this Windows environment's bundling of an unused Node-only source-map helper; the original helper was restored afterward.
yarn run tsc --project tsconfig.json --noEmit passed.
ESLint passed on the five changed TypeScript files.
src/lib/config.test.ts: 259 tests passed.
Firefox 156 WebDriver verification passed: session write, absence from persistent config, article rendering, and removal after rendering.
src/excmds.test.ts could not run in this Windows environment because ts-jest rejects the generated file under the repository's outDir configuration.

I could not obtain a separate human tester. Manual verification: run :reader on an article, confirm it renders, check that its pending UUID is in extension storage.session and absent from userconfig, then verify the UUID is removed after rendering. Closing Firefox before opening the reader should discard the pending article.

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I’m going through exactly what is proposed to change in the Passenger Package and wanted a way to easier see things word by word, so I did what any programmer would do and put it in source control to view it as a code diff 🤷🏻‍♂️ If you’re used to reading code diffs and are interested in […]

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Cycling on Rails @cycling-on-rails.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: eupolicy.social/@erpu/1173434526184… My new "favorite" challenge: trying to buy a Prague-Munich ticket on the direct EuroCity. 👉 With SBB: 106€ 👉 With DB: 55€ 👉 With CD: 24€ Details below 👇

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

i love it when companies rate limit access to their data. why would anyone want all the data. just a small view of it is fine. luckily the company in question runs a balkans-inspired level of rail service to most stations, so i can be more strategic about which stations to ask for at which […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[subtoot] when translating French to English i always have to dial down the dickishness a notch or two to get something accurate like « penser à » which directly would translate as "think to" or "remember to" in English comes across as incredibly patronising or rude, but in French it isn't. So […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[muddling through a world changed by LLMs] i missed this last month - rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 - cantrill has written up some guidelines on LLM usage when working with humans it is the first thing i have read in a while that feels measured and sensible especially the bit […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

messing with animations for my maps and have a fun factoid for you all: for much of the day, people in Bern (urban population approx 130k) can access more people within one hour of travel by public transport - they can get to 19 million people - than people in Paris […] [Original post on masto.ai]

a uniform-population and cartogram and map of europe showing the accessible population for one hour travelling by public transport with the clock starting at 12:30 local time.

koln/brussels/liege are extremely well connected, london reasonably so. the extremities of europe - madrid, rome, do poorly

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

[us propaganda] RE: mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/11730653… sorry but some of you are far too quick to believe uncritically "US government blames third party contractor with whom they have fallen out for the deaths of hundreds of innocents" maybe the apparatchiks who gutted the […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

[depol] i find myself idly wondering how much of germany's current malaise comes from their pivot from nuclear to russian gas over the last ~20 years

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Here's @giorgiogilestro on how AI can destroy the meritocracy of text and leave us with an academia based on reputational rent-seeking "in an age of technofeudalism, open source hardware development is an act of armed resistance." giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-of-kno…

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

[slightly uncharitable subtoot] i swear there is a positive correlation between people being very loudly against LLMs and shoving, sorry, boomerslop into my feeds

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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LonM @lonm.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I've written a short blog post doing a bit of analysis based on the FOI request I sent to ScotRail about their new app. Some things stand out, the short time allocated for the whole project in particular. lemcgregor.scot/posts/2026/09/17/sc…

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Thinking about ScotRails New App | Léon McGregor's Site

Digging around freedom of information responses trying to figure out why the new ScotRail app is so bad

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Which of England's roads carries the most buses? by me, with #OpenStreetMap and related tools cultivate-transport.uk/blog.html

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All of England's buses for an hour | cultivate transport

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

1/x Renewing an existing visa in France---renewal form asks for 10+ documents, none of them are a birth certificate. Response from administration after weeks of delay: "we need your birth certificate, dated from less than 6 months ago." Process of a French person getting a birth certificate […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20vpx8… TWENTY FOUR YEARS MANCHESTER WANTS TO SPEND TWENTY FOUR YEARS BUILDING A TINY METRO are they going to dig it with teaspoons what the hell the BBC really should have an obligation to put these timelines into perspective with what other cities […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/11726822… wow. this was more or less already the rule but badly followed by some operators, including ones run by the government. first actually good thing i have seen the government do on rail

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

messing more with my large-scale accessibility maps to try to get a feel for the right parameters. one fun thing is that once you go over twelve hours travel time, the countries that run night trains (and to some extent, where they run them to) start to crop up […] [Original post on masto.ai]

an accessibility map of europe by train. each hexagon is coloured by the total population living in the area you can visit within 15 hours, given that you leave from that hex at the most optimal time and travel by train or other train-like modes of transport. which includes ferries in my definition because i felt sorry for ireland

most of europe in a large radius around germany is well connected. spain and portugal are notably badly connected. portugal worse than ireland, which is kind of impressive

an accessibility map of europe by train. each hexagon is coloured by the total population living in the area you can visit within 3 hours, given that you leave from that hex at the most optimal time and travel by train or other train-like modes of transport. which includes ferries in my definition because i felt sorry for ireland

london, paris, brussels and the corridor to frankfurt are extremely well connected. lots of the rest of europe is not

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

[ai bubble] innocently looked up gitbook and it's now "the knowledge layer for AI" why can't cool projects just be cool projects without needing to become venture capital backed subscription services :(

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

tiny-geocoder 0.0.2 released www.npmjs.com/package/tiny-geocoder i think no-one uses it except me but you should all use it. it's great new in 0.0.2: - queries now ignore accents, for my definition of accents, so you can search for "Łódź" without doing keyboard gymnastics - switched […]

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Braid in trains :lesbian_uz: - solidarity with :streik: @lewd.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

The first open access passenger train in Switzerland : Rolling :komfortcheckin: ! 1.5 h delay because of :renfe: : Grund: Ereignis Italien :komfortcheckin: ! #TeamNightTrain #ESMilano #CrossBorderRail

A red Vectron in front of our train on Swiss tracks.

Press posing of suits with a "Milano *es* Bruxelles" plate in front of an RDC ES carriage.

People carrying a "Switzerland *es* Brussels" sign next to the train.

Milano Porta Garibaldi with the ES standing at the platform.

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 09/09/2026

Celebrating the return of the Brussels-Milano night train! Here advertised in 1962 departure Brussels 18:25 and Arrival 09:45! About euh twice as fast as today!

BRUSSEL - MILAAN
1000 KM IN EEN NACHT
IN SLAAP- OF LIGWAGEN

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Some individuals are biased by having good taste. That poses a challenge for schemes of aggregating opinions. More in my latest newsletter: tomstafford.substack.com/p/good-tas…

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Good taste is a bias

Methods for aggregating collective judgement may not recognise that

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tops @tops.im-in.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Half a minute of nostalgia from Cluj-Napoca station.

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

so i hacked on it some more and now i have an isochrone router that can take the average across 24 hours in a few milliseconds and it's fun to play with... but i have forgotten why i started doing it (no public link for now. mostly posting this in the hope of remembering what it was for)

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: post.lurk.org/@crickxson/1172257433… good article. i think equal earth has three main advantages 1) it is close enough to Mercator that people who are used to Mercator can navigate it without feeling too lost 2) it is different enough to Mercator that it makes you stop and […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

eugh i'm optimising a thing and i am stuck in the doldrums between longer than five seconds: cool the computer is working really hard to solve this complicated problem. i can add a loading bar with stages and it feels good and rewarding for the user less than a hundred milliseconds: awesome […]

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dusoft @dusoft.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I have updated my Arrogance of Space tool to use data from OpenStreetMap, so you don't have to do the work! It now works on its own to prefill squares with colors. Welcome to 2026! Website: cyklokoalicia.sk/arrogance Code: github.com/nekromoff/arrogance-of-s… […]

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

www.nicematin.com/societe/transport… lol the person writing this survey definitely owns a car "what problems do you have because you don't have a car?" like, have you ever spoken to someone who has a […]

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Why friends in common reveal network stars www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2…

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