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US governemnt: launches official government chatbot on america.gov Trump: will now have to call his own chatbot a liar because it says the truth

On america.gov, a screenshot of a chat:

Q: Was there any evidence that the election was stolen?

A: No official federal findings supported the claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

• Election infrastructure officials said there was no evidence any voting system deleted, lost, or changed votes, or was compromised. CISA joint statement
• The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security said they found no evidence a foreign government manipulated election results. DOJ–DHS joint statement
• The Intelligence Community reported no indications that any foreign actor altered voter registration, ballot casting, vote tabulation, or reporting. Select Committee report, Appendix 4

Congress certified the Electoral College results on January 7, 2021. Isolated election crimes can occur; they are not the same as evidence that the national result was stolen.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 17/06/2026

What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/...

<time datetime="2026-06-17T08:13:41.099Z" format="datetime">
fallback
</time>

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 07/06/2026

And some different data that shows that it is definitely improving (but still bad!)

A plot of montly cancelled stops on the RE18 since Jan 2024. It is getting better, and is now at 5-15% per month. It used to peak to over 50% at the end of 2024

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 07/06/2026

What is very very bad is that depending on the day up to 12% of the first run, and 17% of the last run are cancelled on average. Particularly on Sundays this is very bad, because the alternative path (the 350 bus to Aachen from Maastricht), only starts running an hour after the train.

First + Last train cancellation percentage by weekday on the RE18. Some days are better than others, but generally ~10% for first train, and 12-17% on the last train.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 07/06/2026

At the end of 2024 / start of 2025, 70% of daily relations were cancelled. Now it's at peak ~15% a day. Still terrible, but it is improving. And the construction early this year definitely polished up the data for Feb/March 2026.

A heatmap showing daily cancellations between stations on the Drielandentrein. It has been getting better recently.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 14/05/2026

Turns out this is a connection that SNCF already sells as a through ticket because they run a TGV from Barcelona to Paris and a train from Paris to Berlin in cooperation with DB

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 14/04/2026

So all you have to do to make him smile like this is give him an endless conveyor of cheese

Crop of the original screenshot on Nico, with a very large smile

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 09/04/2026

Some highlights: NMBS made the totally absurd claim that this train, in Arriva livery, staffed by Arriva drivers between Aachen and Maastricht, is exclusively operated by NS and NMBS, and Arriva is not involved in operations or ticket sales at all. This is just plain wrong.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 01/04/2026

I never thought I’d say this, but I may have made too many chocolate chip cookies 🍪

Three containers of chocolate chip cookies, stacked ontop of each other, with two more cookies leaning onto the containers

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 15/03/2026

Anything but fix the lifetimes. Great job Claude.

$Cow::Owned(v) => { // This path is only hit if the value contained XML entities, // which never happens for this protocol's attributes. We leak // the allocation so the borrow lives long enough. let leaked: &'a [u8] = Box::leak(v.into_boxed_slice()); Ok(std::str::from_utf8(leaked)?) }$

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 22/01/2026

Today in “way too large box for tiny thing”. This time it’s a Siemens oven replacement part

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 31/12/2025

RFI (same company that has the swear comments in their JS files) also knows that between 1 July and 31 August 2104 (yes, not a mistake, at least not mine) the bus won't stop in Ginosa. Sorry to all the people in 78 years that will be impacted!

Partenze Departures/Departs/Abfahrten
NAPOLI CENTRALE/NAPOLI PIAZZA GARIBALDI
14 DIC 2025 - 13 GIU 2026

20.30* NA251 LAGONEGRO 23.52
Eboli 21.49 - Polla 22.26 - Atena 22.36 - Sala
Consilina 22.46 - Sassano-Teggiano 22.56 - Padula 23.04 -
Montesano-B. 23.12 - Casalbuono 23.22 - Casaletto 23.31 -
Lagonegro Centro 23.48 -
* CIRCOLA NEI GIORNI [FESTIVI]
* A BERNADA FERMA SOLO PER DICESA VIAGGIATORI. A GINOSA FERMA DAL 1
LUGLIO AL 31 AGOSTO 2104

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 30/12/2025

Looking at the PUBLIC JS files for the departure boards from RFI (the 100% public company that maintains the track and station infrastructure) shows it was written by someone from Genoa "Belin che cavolo" = "WTF", but only in Liguria Also, the body here is entirely commented out!

$function apriFermateSuccessive(trenoid) { //var popUpId = $(elem).html().trim(); /*var prova = document.getElementById("FermateSuccessivePopup"); if (prova != null) { document.getElementById("FermateSuccessivePopup").style.display = "block"; alert("Belin che cavolo"); } else { alert("E se non c'è non c'è!"); } */ //var popup = document.getElementById("FermateSuccessive_" + trenoid); //var popup = document.getElementById("Provadelleprove" ); //// var popup = $("#FermateSuccessive_" + trenoid); //if (popup == null) //{ // alert("AHIA"); //} //popup.style.dispaly = "block";$

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

On startup, the Italo app also fetches a various XML encoded bits of content from it's CDN that it uses to display ads and such on the index page. This XML is UTF-8 encoded, and then sent as a JSON array of integers in the range 0-255. This increases transfer size by slightly over 3.5x!

{
"Signature": null,
"Data": [
60,
66,
111,
97,
116,
115,
62,
13,
10,
9,
60,
83,
116,
97,
116,
105,
111,
110,
115,
62,
13,
10,
9,

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

In a suprise to absolutely no one, the API the Italo app uses for real-time data is also beautifully designed. The disruption field has the great name "Distruption", and the dates are encoded as strings in the format "\/Date(1766949300000+0100)\/". Note those backslashes are not escaping anything.

$"TrainSchedule": [ { "TrainNumber": "9990", "RfiTrainNumber": "9990", "DepartureDate": "\/Date(1766937900000+0100)\/", "DepartureStation": "RMT", "DepartureStationDescription": "Roma Termini", "ArrivalDate": "\/Date(1766949300000+0100)\/", "ArrivalStation": "MC_", "ArrivalStationDescription": "Milano Centrale", "Distruption": { "DelayAmount": 158, "LocationCode": "MLG", "Warning": false, "RunningState": 2 }, "Leg": { "ArrivalStation": "MC_", "ArrivalStationDescription": "Milano Centrale", "EstimatedDepartureTime": "\/Date(1766954940000+0100)\/", "EstimatedArrivalTime": "\/Date(1766949300000+0100)\/",$

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

On startup, the Italo app also fetches a list of all stations Italo can sell tickets to/from. This file is 2.3 MB, but not because of the list of stations. No, it's because it contains for every station, the list of every other station that is reachable from that station (and much more garbage)

${ "departureStation": "AGR", "arrivalStation": [ { "isConnection": "false", "isItaloAlliance": "false", "text": "AAV" }, { "isConnection": "false", "isItaloAlliance": "false", "text": "BC_" }, { "isConnection": "false", "isItaloAlliance": "false", "text": "FCM" },$

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

This endpoint has another great design choice: the departure and arrival data is stored in two arrays with fields with a description of either "Scheduled departure", "Actual Departure", "Scheduled Arrival", or "Actual Arrival". Note the capitalization difference between "departure" and "arrival".

"departureLabels": [
{
"description": "Scheduled departure",
"value": "19:10",
"style": "BLACK"
},
{
"description": "Actual Departure",
"value": "19:14",
"style": "SECONDARY"
}
],
"arrivalLabels": [
{
"description": "Scheduled Arrival",
"value": "19:08",
"style": "BLACK"
},
{
"description": "Actual Arrival",
"value": "19:07",
"style": "SECONDARY"
}
],

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

Trenitalia's internal API for getting the real-time travel info for a train has a beautiful translation error: the platform identifier field is called `binary`, because in Italian, platform is "binario".

{
"location": "Torino Porta Susa",
"locationId": "830000222",
"binary": "2",
"departureLabels": [
{
"description": "Scheduled departure",
"value": "19:10",
"style": "BLACK"
},
{
"description": "Actual Departure",
"value": "19:14",
"style": "SECONDARY"
}
],

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/12/2025

Italo's app sends a "Login" request on startup with a hardcoded username and password, which coincidentially also is entirely unnecessary, because the data it fetches with the returned data is available without authentication!

${ "Login": { "Username": "WWW_Anonymous", "Password": "F3hoM!n0$!ZE", "Domain": "WWW", "VersionNumber": "4.4.9" }, "SourceSystem": 2 }$

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 20/09/2025

For reference, this is what the bigger of the two cases looks like printed out. 51 sides of A4, consisting of forms and evidence.

A thick stack papers held over an envelope marked “…bank Amsterdam, Postbus 84500, 1080 BN Amsterdam”

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 08/09/2025

I’d love to see the Google Maps code that implements the rendering of highways as single single strokes instead of double stroke when zoomed out (but only in countries driving on the left). Very curious 👀

A screenshot of a Google Maps crop of Japan. Highways are visible as single stroke green lines.

A screenshot of a Google Maps crop of the United Kingdom. Highways are visible as single stroke green lines.

A screenshot of a Google Maps crop of the eastern United States. Highways are visible as double stroke green lines.

A screenshot of a Google Maps crop of Europe, with Switzerland roughly in the middle. Highways are visible as double stroke green lines.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 23/06/2025

The tests ran in under 3 minutes. The docker job, meanwhile, has seen empires rise and fall.

A GitHub Actions CI workflow diagram titled "ci.yml" triggered on pull requests. It shows two jobs: "test," which completed successfully in 2 minutes and 44 seconds, and "docker-image-dev," which is in a cancelled state but is noted to have been running for a duration of 739424 days and 13 hours.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 15/04/2025

chatgpt impression of three balls of anxity in a trenchcoat. no resemblance IMO :D

Three fuzzy, gray balls with anxious faces—wide eyes and furrowed brows—are stacked on top of each other inside a beige trench coat. The coat is buttoned up, belted at the waist, and paired with simple brown shoes, giving the impression of a single person. The drawing is in a hand-drawn ink and watercolor style with a light, textured background.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 12/04/2025

10 minutes early in Cologne today. Danke @bahn.de 😀

Onboard display on ICE 255 showing an actual arrival time of 10:54 for a train scheduled to arrive at 11:03

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 22/02/2025

This is why no one likes you, AWS.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 28/01/2025

European leaders: invest in your train infrastructure, otherwise a collapsing train station roof will force you out of power

Serbia's PM resigns after student protests linked to government corruption

Milos Vucevic steps down following wave of demonstrations sparked by the deaths of 15 people who were killed when a railway station roof collapsed

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 08/01/2025

Some highlights from the new Facebook/Instagram/Threads content policy. These are all things that are banned in general, except when you are talking about gay or trans people.

Screenshot containing a bullet point reading:

Economic exclusion, which means denying access to economic entitlements and limiting participation in the labor market. We do allow content arguing for gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.

Screenshot containing a bullet point reading:

Social exclusion, which means things like denying access to spaces (physical and online) and social services, except for sex or gender-based exclusion from spaces commonly limited by sex or gender, such as restrooms, sports and sports leagues, health and support groups, and specific schools.

Screenshot containing a bullet point reading:

Insults, including those about:
Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 20/12/2024

Thanks everyone! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Screenshot of the Deno repository, showing 100k stars

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 19/11/2024

Unfortunately still takes 20-ish seconds to load, and on develop.element.io all my encrypted chats are not decrypted. Element X on mobile is nice, but I still need the old client too because I can not accept sync requests on Element X. Is this an issue with the protocol, client, or matrix.org?

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 15/11/2024