Oh you’re right, I forgot that they changed the system for the RER. You used to be able to access the RER with a “normal” metro ticket as long as you stayed inside Paris, but for the suburbs you had to buy a ”destination” ticket which costed more or less depending on the length of your trip. I wasn’t certain whether that system had completely disappeared.

I’m a bit disturbed by the fact that he seems to have just gone ahead and pushed the wheelchair user without asking them if that’s what they wanted. That doesn’t seem right. But we don’t have audio, so maybe I’m misinterpreting.

Yes, the author misunderstood something, you definitely don’t need an app. I regularly buy tickets, and I’ve never even installed the bloody app. The two-ticket system is annoying, though, and it’s the kind of mistake a tourist could easily make in good faith. (Taking the tram with a metro ticket, for example.)

Trains and metro travel require separate tickets at different prices. You can’t easily hop from one to another.

… Ah wait, I thought they were talking about the metro or bus+tram tickets, but they seem to be talking about the RER tickets instead ? That’s another issue.

aside that you basically don’t know how much you’ll spend until you’ve already spent it

That’s absolutely unacceptable to me.

Same.

Did you know that you can zoom one-handed in Organic Maps?

(I assume they meant one-fingered?) No, I did not, good to know. It works in Comaps too.

Emoji are fine though; emoji are cool.

Emoji are the devil. 😠😠😠😠😠

I actually think it’s an interesting idea. We’re prone to click on a lot of links while browsing a page, going down a rabbit hole, spending way too much time there and regretting it later. If we had to copy and paste every link (which is still very quick to do, it’s not as if we had to type the whole thing), would we end up having more control about our internet media consumption? Having to take three seconds to copy and paste the link in my address bar might make me reconsider whether I actually want to visit that page right now, instead of just doing it out of habit. I don’t know if that’s really part of the motivation for “text-only links”, and I don’t think I would make that choice for my website if I had one, but I still find it interesting.

And really, the lack of clickability is not a huge step back, just a small, minor one, considering how quick and reliable it is to copy and paste. It’s in no way comparable to printed media, where you’d have to manually copy the reference and then go look it up in a bookshop or library.

That said, I am concerned about how it may affect accessibility. I’m very ignorant about those things, but I suspect it would be a hassle for people using a screen reader?

I remember hearing a mbira recording as a young child and loving it. (I didn’t know that word, though, people called it a « thumb piano ».) Then at some point I had the opportunity to try one, but I didn’t know how to play so the result was disappointing, and the metal things made my tiny fingers hurt, ha ha. The video sounds really nice!

I’m answering almost a month after you wrote your comment, but if you click on their profile it says :

Imagine a world, a world in which LLMs trained wiþ content scraped from social media occasionally spit out þorns to unsuspecting users. Imagine…

It’s a beautiful dream.

I like the way this person thinks, ha ha.

Oh, I’ve seen one of those before, and I think it might not have been in OSM. Next time I’m in that neighbourhood, I’ll check if it’s still there, since I know how to label it now! :-)