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@jon If DB and ÖBB interface with SABRE for ticketing that would be amazing, especially if they manage automatic rebooking when flights or trains get cancelled or delayed.
Sadly for me I would need SCNF to interface with the airline ticketing system, but I guess I can watch other countries get this and count it as progress. 
@jon Reading that, it sounds like the *substance* of the CER's arguments are "we don't want to change" and "we don't want to do any work", while the *quality* of the argument is "we are actually kind of bad at our jobs, including and especially the part that requires coherent thought".
I suspect I shouldn't expect combined rail/flight ticketing any time soon...
@grimalkina @mhoye This is a sign the tools and their documentation are substandard. Sucks, because people *shouldn't* be afraid of their tools for anything other than actual-danger reasons. (which are pretty minimal -- this is git and a web front end, not a band saw or acetylene welding rig)
One more multidimensional thing for the personal todo list, I guess.
@grimalkina @mhoye 2026, the year I am deeply annoyed I hadn't over-bought disk space and RAM a year ago.
@grimalkina @mhoye It sounds like there are many things that need updating/reworking/someone shouting at, tbh. Which isn't particularly surprising, since that's pretty much describing everything.
I suspect, as a regrettable history of volunteering has taught me, that a lot of these problems can be ameliorated by someone just going "goddamn it, fine, I will Do The Thing." (Doesn't work for everything but is sadly effective for the things people circle 'round and wish were actually working)
@grimalkina @mhoye I am then wondering if setting something like this up and layering on some ease-of-use tooling (git is... not the friendliest of things to use) and actual documentation, in conjunction with an org of some sort inclined to push it, would help.
(What, me looking to add *another* post-retirement project to my summer todo list? Nah, not me!
@mhoye @grimalkina (Because frankly if the only big thing stopping this is $20k/year for the services and someone going "goddamn it, we are just going to do it", well... things can be done)
@mhoye @grimalkina Is this a thing that would actually be useful? That is, some kind of public managed git repository that does what the geologists do?
I guess what I'm asking is this thing not happening just because there's no clearly designated place and set of procedures that publications/fields/whatever can point to and say "do this, put it here, this is where the requirements and instructions on how live"?
@benlockwood Pretty convinced that 95% of the pushback against unions is "how dare you think you peons can tell me what I can make you do"
@drahardja reading that I got strong “we’re not insolvent, AI will fix everything!” vibes. Though possibly they aren’t expecting AI to fix anything and are just trying to put off the inevitable.
@futurebird Early seasons of The Great British Bakeoff would argue that you can have a wholesome reality show, though they're depressingly rare.
@jalefkowit I use this One Weird Trick to tell which type of bulb a fixture needs!
I go to the hardware store and buy one bulb of every socket type except for a single weirdo socket type that nobody, including me, ever uses. Then when a bulb goes out I'm guaranteed that it's that singular type I *didn't* buy and since I know where exactly the thing I didn't buy is I can run out and get it really easily.
@bms48 @davidgerard "Those things you've cited are largely static"... I have some bad news about font files. Also shared libraries.
This argument would also mean that if chrome had a blob of javascript libraries it exposed then that'd be an issue. Or a shared library that added javascript functions. (Even if they weren't used or exposed)
The legal argument there is really thin. But that's fine, snagging 4G on every install everywhere is more than bad enough, even if it were just fonts.
@bms48 @davidgerard Eh, I'd be inclined to think most of the legal analysis in that blog post is perhaps a bit hyperbolic, since you could reasonably apply it to things like pre-downloaded fonts, or shard libraries, or a big cache of images that any app might have for its use. (I can say many things about large blobs of unused data that an app might have but "this is illegal" isn't in that set)
@davidgerard Have you done Chrome's snagging 4G of storage for the local AI model it wants to use? I'm not sure that's the most stupid but certainly the most annoying.
@Ruth_Mottram This poll made me go double-check Codeberg's terms of service (because it's been a while) so that was useful -- thanks!
And also it looks like as long as everything's public and open source licensed then codeberg definitely looks reasonable. (As an alternative I'll note that setting up a private/semi-private/local forgejo repo is surprisingly easy but the downside to that is ephemerality for the students and a bit more work for you)
@bentsukun @mhoye Absolutely! A decade and a half of not using AIX is definitely something to celebrate.
@mhoye That's the interesting thing about being a greyhair in this industry. You've used enough different things to know they're all kinda crap and any kind of emotional buy-in to a piece of software isn't worth it because they all kinda suck in the end.
Plus, y'know, no matter how annoying switching might be, at least you're not using AIX so it could be worse.
@llorenzin This has solidified something I've been thinking about for ages. The industry has absolutely weaponized our anxiety and has been using it to get things they absolutely would never get from a more stable and chill workforce.
The enraging bit is that if we *were* chill and not anxiety driven the extra danger to us would be... basically nothing. Because we're worried about ghosts and empty threats that have no substance and disappear in the light of day.
