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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Fun fact: mein Gerät ist eigentlich nicht gerootet. Thank you, TK.

Photo of holding another phone, with the following displayed:

General terms of service

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Our security program deems your device to be unsafe. Unfortunately you cannot use the TK-App on this device.

This can have the following causes, among others:

* Ihr Gerät ist gerootet. Das Sicherheitsniveau Ihres Gerätes ist dadurch für uns nicht mehr einschätzbar.

Note: Some manufacturers make these changes at the factory.

Data protection has priority

We are required by law to protect your health data. We must also protect the health data of all other customers, for example against attacks via a manipulated app. This danger can exist with rooted devices. For this reason, we can only approve mobile devices if they meet our security standards. You may be able to unlock your device by resetting it to factory defaults or by performing a system update.

If you have any questions, please send us an email to tk.app@tk.de - we are happy to help. Further information about our security concept can be found at: www.tk.de/tk/942778 (German).

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I didn't know the ICE to Antwerpen runs so early. But hey, new destination spotted on the departure board! #cccacleaks

Photo of a departure board at 06:45:43, showing the following departures:

RE18 to Maastricht in 2 minutes
RE1 to Hamm in 6 minutes
RE4 to Düsseldorf in 6 minutes
RB20 to Rothe Erde (and onward) in 17 minutes
ICE312 to Antwerpen in 23 minutes
RB20 via Schanz to STO in 24 minutes
RE1 to "Mel" (Köln Messe/Deutz mid-animation) in 25 minutes

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@maartje@blahaj.social Typical Aachen Hbf moment. At least for the RE 18 one can now check in with OVpas / bank card (when that works lol, see photo), but for the Belgian one it kinda sucks if you wanna get a Train+ discount too or such.

Photo of an OV-chipkaart reader from Arriva, showing the UI in German: "Ein-/Auschecken", "Aachen Hbf". It then shows a green checkmark for OV-chipkaart, and a red X for Betaalpas/Creditcard

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The European Sleeper to Milano is now showing up on the CCCAC departure board! :D #cccacleaks

Photo of a departure board at 20:34:57, with the following departures:

S41 to Liège-Saint-L in 3 minutes
RB 33 to Heinsberg / in 3 minutes
ICE313 to Köln in 14 minutes
EUR9471 to Dortmund in 22 minutes
RB20 to Rothe Erde (continuing further) in 28 minutes
RB20 to STO via Schanz in 29 minutes
ES401 to Milano in 39 minutes

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Ah yes, a German specialty: waiting at a traffic light in the middle of nowhere for no-one.

Photo out of the window of a bus, showing a red traffic light with no traffic around

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Vielen thank, DB Navigator, very nett.

Cropped screenshot of an information updated 11 h ago, with an exclamation mark symbol:

Elevator in Uelzen Gleis 303/304 wegen Umbau bis vsl. 30.10.2026 out of order.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Wow, the Go devs are something... (/neg) I don't agree with mandatory compilation errors for unused values with the argument "we don't want warnings", but at least I could have put that under different points of view. But to then not have a compilation […] [Original post on procial.tchncs.de]

$Go code with two functions (NoError and YesError), first one returning the string "meow" and no error, the second one returning the string "bad" and an error. Then the main function calls NoError, checks for error (there is none) and prints the string "meow". It then calls YesError, does NOT check for error (even if there is one), and prints the string "bad". The actual Go code follows: package main import ( "fmt" "log" ) func NoError() (string, error) { return "meow", nil } func YesError() (string, error) { return "bad", fmt.Errorf("oof") } func main() { data, err := NoError() if err != nil { log.Panicf("%s", err.Error()) } fmt.Printf("%s\n", data) newData, err := YesError() fmt.Printf("%s\n", newData) }$

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Small follow-up: Mova is definitely whitelabel. Here are screenshots of Mova and Redy (from Rheinbahn).

Screenshot of an app showing the next 3 departures at Rothe Erde Bf. The accent colour is a very grey greenish blue.

Screenshot of an app showing the next 3 departures at Rothe Erde Bf. The accent colour is red.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Least vague macOS error (the popup appeared out of nowhere while I was doing something else)

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

this is informative and unfortunate. (from Weird little guys of FOSS)

Screenshot of the following text:

On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video about openly transgender Colorado state representative Brianna Titone, and in the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position on transgender issues, which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”.[source]

The source points to a YouTube video

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Is Alpine a GNU/Linux distribution? I feel like it isn't.

Some GNU/Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Alpine and NixOS provide Guix through their own package managers. The version of Guix may be older than 1.5.0 but you can update it afterwards by running guix pull.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Someone made me smile today and I made her smile in return Translation: Your pins reminded me of a video from Oslo Pride youtu.be/UVepoXddTW4

The following text written by hand on the back of an envelope:

Deine Pins haben mich an ein Video von Oslo Pride erinnert :D

youtu.be/UVepoXddTW4

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Want to nicely align and evenly spread out elements in your presentation application but it can't do that automatically? Use your spreadsheet application to do the math for manual positioning! :D

Screenshot of LibreOffice Calc showing the following data:

Initial X: 5.08
Total width: 53.35
SqlAlchemy Width: 9.95
SqlAlchemy X: 47.82
SqlAlchemy Margin: 0.66
Total width for icons: 42.74

Width of "Load from API": 10.18
Width of "Split Objects": 9.1
Width of "Cleanup": 6.12
Width of "Store in DB": 8.14

Total width of text: 33.54
Item count: 4
Remaining for margin: 9.2
Margin: 1.84

Text X: 6.92; 18.94; 29.88; 37.84

Widths of images: 4.04; 4.04; 4.04; 4.04
Image X: 9.99; 21.47; 30.92; 39.89

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

[Nationale Maatschapij van de Belgische Slop] @maartje@blahaj.social The sky has a headlight too

A cropped version of the image being replied to, showing part of a train having a headlight turned on, as the light is white and shining a beam of light, and then, in the sky that's dotted with white points to make it seem sparkly, one white dot is bigger and also has a beam of light coming from it

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

#FrOSCon's photo policy is genius and should be copied

A sign showing in German, English and images that people wearing blue lanyards are okay to be photographed, but people wearing red lanyards should not be photographed

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

One of my more controversial opinions that I still stand by is that advertising regulation should be put in place so that devices are advertised with the user-usable storage only (and with a guarantee that future software updates won't lower that) […] [Original post on procial.tchncs.de]

Screenshot of iPad Storage screen, showing a bar graph with about ⅔ of it used by the operating system and system data, and showing that 31,72 GB out of 32 GB are used

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

#OH: "This road is getting repaved, better bump the minor version"

Photo of a yellow road sign at a T junction, pointing to left and right.

The cities towards the left are Pančevo via road 1.9 and Vršac via roads 7.1 and 126.

The places towards the right are Državna granica (translation: state border) and Kaluđerovo via road 7.1

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Hi @derf@social.skyshaper.org, found something funky in DBs data :D

Screenshot of DB Fake Display showing "Bus RE1X" with trip number 8000 going from Aachen Hbf to Betriebsstelle nicht bekannt 300752, leaving at 13:10. When looking at the trip details, the first stop is Aachen Hbf, but the rest are stops in the UK, and the operator is listed as Merseyrail Service

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

It somehow feels very unethical for me to turn a "429 Too Many Requests" coming from Cloudflare into "currently down for maintenance".

Screenshot of the SNCB/NMBS (Belgian Train) website, showing the following text:

Welcome,

The website is currently down for maintenance.
Our technical teams make every effort to put it online as soon as possible.
To check your train schedule, to purchase a ticket or to get information about the disturbances, download the free SNCB app (available for iOS and Android).
Thanks :-)

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Top 10 things to do when one can't fall asleep but also can't really think productively: Number 3: copy-paste hex colours from PDFs github.com/public-transport/transit…

Screenshot of a PDF showing "S-treinen" lines S1 through S4, coloured in green, orange, blue and red. In the bottom right corner of the screenshot, the macOS Color Picker application is open, with the blue colour for S3 having been picked.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Bonjour, SNCB! Ce n'est pas parce que j'ai décidé d'acheter mon Train+ à la gare de Liège que je parle français. Je ne le parle pas. Merci!

Email from SNCB/NMBS in French, asking me for feedback in regards to Train+. The contents of the email are copy-pasted below:

Votre avis est important

Cher.ère voyageur,

Pouvons-nous vous demander 10 minutes de votre temps pour répondre à quelques questions sur Train+ ?

Vos réponses seront traitées de manière anonyme et nous aideront à mieux vous servir à l'avenir.

Button: Appuyez ici pour commencer

Merci d'avance pour votre participation !

L’équipe SNCB Client-Central

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

[rant about Apple software decision-makers being incompetents] Apple is so incompetent at delivering a proper user experience. Newly reset iOS, only logged in to iCloud, didn't download anything. Two days later, boom, storage filled by fucking iMessages […] [Original post on procial.tchncs.de]

A screenshot of the iPhone Storage settings page, showing 31,8 GB out of 32 GB used.
The first 4 apps occupying the storage are also visible: Messages with 17,49 GB, Health with 3,14 GB, Maps with 54,2 MB, Watch with 51,8 MB.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Seat reservation in a regional train, let's goooooo

Photo of me holding a ticket for a seat reservation. In the background there are the blue sky with clouds, cranes and the Stuttgart Main Station tower.
The seat reservation is for train RE 4480 leaving at 18:06 and arriving at 19:47. It cost 1€.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

The Rhine valley is so wonderful

Photo taken from a train platform. Right next to the train station there is the tower of a former city wall. In the background, a small mountain can be seen. The information display shows the next train to be the 08:44 RB 26 to Bacharach.

Photo taken from an overpass over railway tracks. In the background, a small mountain can be seen, with a castle on top of it. If zooming in, the sign for the station identifies it as Bacharach.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

And the Rheinland-Pfalz triangle pattern looks very good imo

Photo of the side of the SÜWEX-branded FLIRT 3 train, showing the red front with triangles on it

Photo of the interior of the train, taken in such a way that no people are visible, which means mostly the headrest and the ceiling are visible. The characteristic FLIRT 3 rectangular gangway between units can be visible in the background, in this train coloured blue. The seats have a triangular pattern on them.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

I also used this occasion to go through the apps that have the contact permission in my phone. Absolutely fuck you, Google. Gmail is now a "basic feature"? Fuck off.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

Uhhhh. So this question is now a thing.

A screenshot of the YouTube mobile app, showing, among other things, a question on a blue background. The question is "Does this feel like AI slop?", then it shows a video - Enterprise Reviewed! (by a pedant) S1E07: THE ANDORIAN INCIDENT - and two buttons (Yes and No).

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

> foster an atmosphere of mutual trust Nothing makes me feel as trusted as having restrictions imposed on me in a one-sided manner.

Screenshot of the latest Telegram changelog, containing the following text: "With today's update, users can now disable
sharing in any 1-on-1 chat to foster an
atmosphere of mutual trust. This restricts
message forwarding and prevents
screenshots or saving media from the chat."

There is also an image showing app user interface, with the title "Disable Sharing", a button with the same text, and the following bullet points: "No Screenshots - Disable screenshots and screen recording in this chat", "No Forwarding - Disable message forwarding to other chats", "No Saving - Disable copying text and saving photos and videos to Photos"

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Adopting card-only payment not to improve convenience but as an anti-homeless measure is so Germany core. Public toilets should be free and plenty.

A photo of a card payment terminal on an automated public toilet, with a card payment terminal, and a sign saying "Die Nutzung der Toilette ist nur mit Kartenzahlung möglich. 0,50 €"

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

This stained glass window in Luxembourg's train station is so pretty and depicts the city so nicely

Photo of a wall, with a big stained glass window depicting the city of Luxembourg on the hill, with a notable bridge crossing a deep valley. The city is and hill are depicted in a darker colours, deep blue and purple, while the sky is depicted in warm orange, providing a stark but pretty contrast. Under the stained glass window there is the main departure board of the train station.

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Kenny @kbruen.procial.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Dear whoever invented the HAProxy configuration format, wtf. Why. No. What.

$Screenshot of HAProxy documentation: and this one: .if streq("$ENABLE_SSL", 1) will compare the environment variable "ENABLE_SSL" to the value " 1" (with a single leading space). The reason is the line is first split into words like this: .if streq("$ENABLE_SSL", 1) |---|--------------------| |--| 1 2 3 then the weak quoting is applied and environment variable "$ENABLE_SSL" is resolved (let's say for example that ENABLE_SSL=0), and finally the words are reassembled into a single string by placing a single space between the words: .if streq(0, 1) |---|-------|--| 1 2 3 and only then it is parsed as a single expression. The space that was inserted between the comma and "1" is still part of the argument value, making this argument " 1": .if streq(0, 1) |---|-----|-|--| \ \ \ \_ argument2: " 1" \ \ \___ argument1: "0" \ \_______ function: "streq" \___________ directive: ".if" It's visible here that even if ENABLE_SSL had been equal to "1", it wouldn't have matched " 1" since the string would differ by one space. Note: as explained in section "2.2. Quoting and escaping", a good rule of thumb is to never insert unneeded spaces inside expressions.$

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