"Today passengers enjoy at least 200 Mbit/s on 99 per cent of the 7 800 kilometres of main lines and even 300 Mbit/s or more on 95 per cent. Secondary lines also saw a transformation. Coverage of 100 Mbit/s rose from under 83 per cent to over 96 per cent in just three years."
However:
"Yet coverage is only half the story. Mobile signals must penetrate each carriage’s interior if passengers are to make calls or stream without interruption. Many modern trains are fitted with factory-installed windows engineered for signal permeability."
And of course many train's aren't fitted with windows like that (and operators are trying to retrofit them with microcells or in other ways).
I could have fiber, but I see no point in upgrading from DSL. Why? It works. In fact, I could have upgraded to 250 Mbit DSL years and years ago, but 100 Mbit is fine. Why bother spending money or time making changes to my home's critical infrastructure. I doubt I'm the only one.
And then there's the millions of boomers around whose only device is a smartphone and they never exceed the 10 or 20 or 30 GB they get on a mobile contract that's less than any DSL or fiber contract. Good luck selling them 900 Mbit symmetric links.
In fact I'm sure there must be hundreds of thousands who still pay for DSL that's essentially unused because their phone lost the Wifi credentials and there's no grandkid around to notice it. Their house will be upgraded to fiber when it gets resold because it ticks a box for the real estate agent.
> I could have fiber, but I see no point in upgrading from DSL. Why? It works. In fact, I could have upgraded to 250 Mbit DSL years and years ago, but 100 Mbit is fine. Why bother spending money or time making changes to my home's critical infrastructure. I doubt I'm the only one.
We get 250 Mbit into our house and our house has Ethernet cables going through the walls to different floors but the cables are all limited 100 Mbit and it is tilting me of the face of the planet... :(
Replacing them isn't much of an option, just maybe running other cables around the walls, which isn't the nicest option when the existing cables are all nicely not visible.
>I could have fiber, but I see no point in upgrading from DSL. Why? It works.
How do you explain to a caveman that a living in a house is nicer than living in a cave?
>Why bother spending money or time making changes to my home's critical infrastructure. I doubt I'm the only one.
You don't have to pay, In Eastern Europe telcos pay themselves to wire fiber to your door in hopes you'll sign up with them. It's something you don't have in Germany, it's called free market competition. The German mind just can't comprehend having competitive companies that serve the consumers and not sclerotic state supported monopolies that only support the shareholders by robbing the consumers. Why are you guys like this?
>And then there's the millions of boomers
Of course, the way to move forward technologically is to cater tech to boomers habits. That's why Germany is a SW innovation powerhouse.
> You don't have to pay, In Eastern Europe telcos pay themselves to wire fiber to your door in hopes you'll sign up with them.
It's wired, I just have to sign up. But 1000 Mbit is more expensive than the 100 Mbit I have now. I just don't see the point. If that makes me caveman, so be it. Work on your manners.
Supporting instant payments is now mandatory in the EU on the receiving side, and in a couple of weeks on the sending side. No surcharge allowed either, which usually means it's free.
Not really? You just select brouter in osmand. Make sure you select the correct profile for brouter. Server mode engages and it just works. Sure, you also need to download the tiles for brouter.
It's not so much about the permissions (which is a browser issue) but about the config.prejoinConfig.enabled flag: usually when joining a meeting, you get an interstitial page which let's you check your webcam image and sound settings before hitting join to enter the call. This setting (passed as a request param) skips that screen.
I'm not a fan, either. I'm used to the interstitial page from other services, and in fact would not expect to join a call and stream data before hitting "join".
Jitsi is used in many custom solutions (which may have their own UI for getting user opt-in, like a customer hitting "Next step" in a registration wizard), I expect that's why they added it.
Even without that enabled. You now have to keep the domain registered forever else an attacker can register the domain start recording people from it since permissions do not reset when site ownership changes.
oh yes, that is such a dump design of web permissions
alongside of the abysmal UX for listing/removing them (from a "normal" user POV it's somehwhat usable for someone who understands tech a bit more)
like in general IMHO origin separation over time (e.g. permissions, cache, local storage) should be bound to some public key cryptography schema where the public key is shipped alongside DNS and every time it changes (or disappears) it's treated as a new origin.
So basically HPKP but 1. one key per origin, 2. separate from the TLS key, 3. way less harmful if messed up so actually just fine to use without worry to permanently lock yourself out.
Also maybe 4. crypto likeable to a group of person/company identity public keys detached from TLS and not spoofable by government DNS/TLS takeover attacks. But in a way where this system is added on top instead of being a building block to make it hard for regulators to effectively shut it down. Like I which police all luck to find all the criminals but history non stop shows we can't rely on governments not going crazy and start prosecuting people for just being different without different meaning "actively" hurting other people or entrapping and then persecuting people for having different political (or religious) opinions or other similar nonsense.
One reason is that it's already so expensive to operate a regular train, that the expense of having one employee (or even two) isn't as significant compared to a individual transportation. Paying the taxi driver is a significant part of the cost of a taxi trip. Paying the train operator isn't a significant part of the cost a train ride.
Edit: The article claims the opposite, and maybe that's true in NYC? I did find a breakdown of costs in Germany, for a municipal light rail service: operating the train is 1860 EUR per journey overall, paying the people operating the train (one operator, possibly one conductor) is 350 EUR of that. That ratio is smaller than I would've guessed, but it's not a majority.
It depends on whether you calculate it as including the amortized fixed costs (e.g. the cost of building the tunnels) or the incremental cost (what does it cost to have one additional passenger). If it's the first one then the cost is way higher, but then you'd have to do the same thing in the other case and include the cost of building roads etc.
However, fixed costs are better funded by general taxes than by usage fees because otherwise you pay a huge fixed cost to build something with a low incremental usage cost and then under-utilize it because recovering the sunk cost through fares causes high fares which deters uses whose value exceeds the incremental cost.
Meanwhile human labor is a significant proportion of the incremental cost, when you have humans doing things per-trip that could reasonably be automated.
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