taavi

Debian Developer, SRE, award-winning Wikimedian, MediaWiki developer. 20. 🌻 they/them or he/him 🇪🇺

Will infodump about trains or computers if you're not careful. Follow requests welcome, but please have a filled profile to allow a vibe check.

I do cloud infrastructure supporting free knowledge for a living, but this not a support channel. Opinions are my own, etc.

For wikis.world admin stuff, see @announcements instead.

Profile picture: w.wiki/A3GY, CC BY-SA 4.0, Robert Sim

2025-05-25

@mirahimage sorry no Finnish operator has KISSes so I don't have pictures of that ready, but hopefully the internet can deliver

2025-05-25

@eloy you're going to want to watch this one twice as well

2025-05-25

@theresnotime @eloy i can neither confirm nor deny this statement

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2025-05-25

@taavi @theresnotime they're pantographs not straightographs

2025-05-25

@theresnotime i don't think pantographs are intended to touch each other during normal operations

2025-05-25

damn you all apparently really like cute train photos

fedi have an another photo of FLIRTs kissing, as a treat

close-up of two Sm5 trains coupled to each other. the photo is taken from a bridge and one of the trains is partially behind an electrofication pole
2025-05-25

@theresnotime you woudn't call me a dork

2025-05-25
Sm5 train on the rightmost track of a quad-track segment. Above is a pretty sunset with a yellow part mixed with blueish light grey clouds. A bike parh and some greenery is shown on the side.
2025-05-25

morning internet

2025-05-24

honestly I'm half tempted to plop down a windows server vm with active directory and adfs for this and call it good enough
wikis.world/@taavi/11404351596

2025-05-24
2025-05-23

ok. wow. BobbyBroccoli's nebula original documentary 17 Pages is absolutely worth a watch. this is why you support independent platforms.

2025-05-23
2025-05-23

@rail :blobhaj_pat:

2025-05-23

@airtower @littlefox in general if you don't have status already, Finnair gives 6 points per euro spent (pre-taxes and fees, which add up a lot when flying), and silver requires 15k points/year, so you need to be spending multiple grand a year for it

I'm still barely holding silver from the old system, not that it gives me anything other than lets you jump some queues at airports.. and the next perks are at gold which is 45k points/y

2025-05-23

@glitchy404 you wouldn't pirate a drink

2025-05-22

@demoographics @theresnotime @littlefox yeah, some of the ferries don't even stop at Mariehamn but on a tiny port on the other side of the island that requires a smaller detour from the Helsinki-Stockholm route

2025-05-22

@olivvybee if they see you driving your train into the tunnel unannounced I don't think they have other options than to make the tunnel clear for you to go through it at full speed

2025-05-22

@olivvybee that's just your poor choice of a vehicle, if instead of a car you'd gotten your own train you could go in the tunnel anytime

2025-05-22

@olivvybee ah yes, a bridge will clearly solve problems that a tunnel definitely cannot

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