With legislation on rail ticketing due from the European Commission this spring, how can policymakers - who never normally see the problem - be shown it in a fun way?

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon @q Easy: Make them use a Linux laptop without the ability to change the browser ID string.

(I don’t actually know if the fixed that one yet.)

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon Excellent idea. You’d have to hold it in Inari, though.

(Yes, that was a timetabling championship. I guess ticketing is the new timetabling.)

[maartje@blahaj.social]

@jon next level should be "here are a bunch of ticket machines you have 30 seconds to book a journey"

[jon@gruene.social]

@maartje Like that old TV show "supermarket sweep" - ticket machine sweep. Platinum level: Paris terminals

[moritzkraehe@zug.network]

@partim @jon @q What do you mean? I'm (often) on Linux and I've never had any issues with bahn.de?

[maartje@blahaj.social]

@jon you need a ticket from TER station to TGV over RER to TGV to TER in other region, you hold 1 local 1 national discount card you have 1 minute

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@moritzkraehe For a while, either searching or booking a ticket lead to an error claiming you are a bot, even if you were logged in and everything. Looks like at least right now this isn’t the case.

@jon @q

[andibarth@muenchen.social]

@moritzkraehe @partim @jon @q I said the same, and since then I regularly run into issues when searching for connections. As in "you clicked too fast, and now we're not showing you anything anymore".

[ysegrim@furry.engineer]

@partim @jon Had to think of Inari as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trains%27n%27Roses

[jon@gruene.social]

@pglux.bsky.social And that ticket machine is one with the click wheel, does not accept your card, and there is no mobile signal for an online ticket. And then Securité Ferroviare suddenly appears when you board the train!

[maartje@blahaj.social]

@pglux.bsky.social @jon staff is always out of scope in the contest