[-] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 6 hours ago

Merlin run lots of stuff, including Sealife and Warwick Castle. I'll avoid the lot.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 9 points 17 hours ago

So Merlin Entertainment basically thinks it knows better than doctors, some disabilities aren't real and it's fine to make people with severe anxiety stand in line until they suffer an attack. Lovely(!) Somewhere mistreating people with mental health issues is not a place I'll go for fun.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 9 points 17 hours ago

And the dataset is prbably racist, although in the reported case, it sounds like good old unreliable cross-race recognition by humans, with the evil eye pinging because it spotted someone and the store staff then telling the wrong person to naff off. It seems like a process or training failure if they don't ask the evil eye to confirm they've got the person it flagged before upsetting them.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

In the stable repo, but there are backports, testing and unstable repos too, if you want later versions and accept more risk of bugs.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Because that's a freshwater lake on the inland side with interesting wildlife. Letting the sea in is a big call.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

"there was no justification, knowing what he knew, for appointing him as ambassador" (03:22)

I disgree with Ian Hislop there. The justification was pretty obvious: appoint a friend of Jeffrey to work with the friend of Jeffrey that is US president and maybe spare us some of Trump's strange attacks. It's not a great justification and probably shouldn't have been enough, though. The way his appointment insults Epstein's victims should have been enough to stop it, and the risk of it failing like it has was just a cherry on the cake.

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submitted 1 week ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/urbanism@slrpnk.net

Liveable Streets gets a 2.0 — the book has been updated by the son of the original author. Sarah Goodyear interviews him.

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submitted 1 week ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/nebula@lemmy.world

"The Hill of Hysteria" is one to re-use. He also hints at doing a "safety in numbers" videe in future. Great stuff.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 86 points 1 week ago

Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?

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Caroline Seton is the co-founder of the London bike share firm Forest.

They’re in unambiguous second place to Lime, the great global bicycle behemoth - but, famously, being second makes a firm try harder.

In today’s episode, we talk about the challenges of being a shared mobility firm in a municipal environment, the realities of whether cities actually want sustainable transport and the changes she would make to transport policy.

Above all - more bike parking and less car parking please!

Episode webpage: https://www.freewheeling.info/the-freewheeling-podcast/caroline-seton

Media file: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fac09d64d06190a013023c0/t/69308a741979b036c2695c86/1764788864684/riverside_untitled_the_freewheeling+po.mp3

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 61 points 2 months ago

[Users] who believe they have been wrongly categorised as under 16 can ask for a review and submit a "video selfie" to verify their age. They can also provide a driver's licence or a government-issued identification.

Because uploading your image and ID to Meta isn't a security risk at all, oh no.

Why are governments helping Meta and friends harvest their citizens' data? Evil or clueness?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by mjr@infosec.pub to c/ukpublictransport@feddit.uk

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/29286202

Not quite transport but I suspect some of us use car hire to fill in the gaps.

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submitted 2 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Another floundering politician tries a bit of bike-bashing? When will they learn it doesn't work?

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submitted 2 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

A story of Seattle. What can your town learn from this? Any of it not ring true for you? Do you know Seattle? Does it match your view?

Video also on youtube as well as the fediverse.

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submitted 2 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/publictransport@slrpnk.net

From December 13, cabins will begin carrying passengers across Limeil-Brévannes in Val-de-Marne, a suburb long served only by buses. The 4.5-kilometre route, with five stations, will take just 18 minutes end to end. Residents say they are eager to try the quiet, comfortable cabins.

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 64 points 2 months ago

Contact your local MEP. Ask your local MP or Deputy or whatever you call them to push the relevant minister to oppose it. It's not great, but you do have a say.

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submitted 3 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/publictransport@slrpnk.net

There are lots of buses, but they’re just not organized in a very sensible way and don’t run very frequently or reliably. I’ve talked about this before, but I think the big reason cycling has taken off the way it has in Montreal is because the city also has such a weak bus system.

Same in many cycling towns in England, even though level take-up is limited by lack of new infrastructure.

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submitted 3 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/utilitycycling@slrpnk.net

Last day for this. If you have any link with King's Lynn and can spend ten minutes today to help cycling here, that would be great.

I'll answer any questions you have when I can. I'll also probably post more about it later on that site, introducing what's currently happening in a typical English country town.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by mjr@infosec.pub to c/publictransport@slrpnk.net

A 21st Century Underground Rolling Stock Update - London Reconnections - https://www.londonreconnections.com/2025/a-21st-century-underground-rolling-stock-update/

[-] mjr@infosec.pub 109 points 3 months ago

De-googled phones exist, but they’re rooted or using a custom firmware. Usually, these phones spoof Google Play Services, replacing that layer with something called MicroG.

So root and flash your phone today!

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[-] mjr@infosec.pub 57 points 3 months ago

Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It's usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.

I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn't on auto-upgrade.

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submitted 3 months ago by mjr@infosec.pub to c/publictransport@slrpnk.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44846811

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Norway: Chinese-made electric buses have major security flaw, can be remotely stopped and disabled by their manufacturer in China, Oslo operator says

The public transport operator in Norway's capital said Tuesday that some electric buses from China have a serious flaw -- software that could allow the manufacturer, or nefarious actors, to take control of the vehicle.

Oslo's transport operator Ruter said they had tested two electric buses this summer -- one built by China's Yutong and the other by Dutch firm VDL.

The Chinese model featured a SIM card that allowed the manufacturer to remotely install software updates that made it vulnerable, whereas the Dutch model did not.

"We've found that everything that is connected poses a risk -- and that includes buses," Ruter director Bernt Reitan Jenssen told public broadcaster NRK.

"There is a risk that for example suppliers could take control, but also that other players could break into this value chain and influence the buses."

Ruter said it was now developing a digital firewall to guard against the issue.

According to other reports, the Chinese manufacturer has access to each bus’s software updates, diagnostics, and battery control systems. “In theory, the bus could therefore be stopped or rendered unusable by the manufacturer,” the company said.

Ruter has reported its findings to Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Arild Tjomsland, a special advisor at the University of South-Eastern Norway who helped conduct the tests, said: “The Chinese bus can be stopped, turned off, or receive updates that can destroy the technology that the bus needs to operate normally.”

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