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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Without wishing to give too much away, I know a group of people who work at a public transport agency in the UK. They recently had a meeting with Google about “opening up our data” which amounted to Google wanting the agency to sign a contract that would give Google exclusive rights to realtime and scheduling data in perpetuity, then Google would decide if/when/how it would be made public. The agency didn’t say “fuck off”, but something to that effect.

    Now, instead, they’re working with a group of students to create a public API with a permissable licence and a framework for other agencies to do the same.

    So… maybe do hold your breath? Transit is one of those areas that attracts nerds and nerds love open source.




  • £21/mo for a 100Mb/s VDSL connection split at 80/20: speeds as advertised, ~10ms latency. I’m living in the centre of a large market town in the North of England.

    Two doors down, my neighbour is paying £25/mo for symmetric gigabit FTTP with negligible latency, but the fibre network doesn’t extend to my property. Fuckers.

    Oh, I also have a backup/travel LTE service which provides about a 1150Mb/s down and 300Mb/s up with 20ms latency which costs me £18/mo.