@schratze and arguably also evidence that it is possible for transdev to not entirely fuck up a route. the chemnitz-elsterwerde route is also used by basically nobody

@schratze last i checked they did not. i avoid the route now instead opting for the much less used Chemnitz-riesa-leipzig route which is dual track and fully electrified

@schratze the stock they want to use (some BEMU) is stuck in approval hell, so they replaced it with 60s DR stock, which has died, so they replaced it with some rental train that is also partially broken and every second one is now some other newer DMU stock that they have

@schratze before privatization the db ran 90s stock on them which is Perfectly Fine honestly.

The real issue is the track infrastructure which is a hot mess

built around the start of the 20th century as two tracks, one of which was dismantled by the soviets, the DB then rebuilt the remaining track for 160km/h which is a Bizarre choice given that it’s single track and also not electrified

they are working on electrification now but also since then they added additional train services on that track which actually made having just 1 track quite bad

@schratze :) i think we are at 3 layers of replacement stock on the leipzig-chemnitz line

If you're ever looking for an Italian restaurant and don't have a phone or map, but do have a gamma spectrometer, just look for 511 keV annihilation lines and follow them to their source. If you find them from multiple restaurants, the weaker line is the one to eat at.

No matter how well they try to clean cooking utensils between making pasta and antipasto, some mixing is unavoidable which creates a distinct gamma signature.

A smaller annihilation peak is a good sign of more thorough cleaning and better general food safety practices.

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🦊you can't just say that

@sodiboo it’s called poopos because the user is lactose intolerant

incels and excel both think everything is a date and both got copilot integration

@ben @joepie91 it’s also friction you encounter when you try to archive it or try to publish a pirated version, but like. only a single group has to figure out how to break it before the floodgates are open.

@ben @joepie91 and this is also true with games although they have transitioned away from physical media for the most part

arguably worse with games because game DRM has a history in being literal malware, moreso than that one CD DRM malware stint that sony had

@ben @joepie91 and like ultimately this is friction you encounter only if you are trying to do the right thing

pirated blurays do not require an old intel pc with intel txt support. pirate streams can be watched on most things that have a web browser. and you can swap flacs of these cds on soulseek with no issues

@joepie91 @ben another example

choosing to watch tv or paid streaming or purchased blurays legally requires an approved player chain from the receiver/disk reader all the way to the display. and what is considered approved here can be greatly limiting and extra expensive purchases to match.
meanwhile the pirated alternative can be done on anything that can receive, decode and display full hd video in real time.

my dad recently tried watching sportsball on his pc using a subscription he is legally paying for. but the video output was all black because his monitor isn’t approved to display the content (it doesn’t support HDCP)

my mom has CDs that you can’t listen to on specific CD drives due to copy protection on the disk. meaning that to listen to them you need to buy an approved player (most standalone cd players)

@joepie91 @ben nvm that DRM is more like a landlord controlled lock which you have no control over minus maybe having some of the keys to it. with all of the downsides to that (if the lock gets changed out you can no longer enter) while mainly legally deterring folks who force entry anyways. very forced analogy anyhow

like i would say that DRM mainly punishes legal buyers for choosing the paid option since the pirated option has the drm removed or deactivated. it does slow down piracy perhaps but that is it

@joepie91 @ben > (ignoring the legal aspect because we both know there’s a huge gap between legal definitions and reality there)

german courts tend to take a broad approach with what counts as as a “technical security measure” yeah. there is also precedent that hard-coded credentials count as effective password controls