Post Ak9RXhlFliu3DMvwMC by winterknell@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ak8TF4RVDlZUo9yfrM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-07-20T22:24:34Z
       
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       "From Sunday, a price cap means Auckland Transport users will be charged a maximum $50 a week, regardless of how often they use services... Public Transport Users' Association's national coordinator Jon Reeves applauded the move. He said it should be rolled out in other cities, including Wellington and Christchurch."https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522688/auckland-public-transport-fare-caps-rolled-out#PublicTransport #Auckland #AucklandTransport #PTUA
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak8Tunk3hiZ5ArYWRs by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-07-20T22:32:13Z
       
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       Then in not so good news..."Christchurch's buses and ferries are set to go cashless from the second half of next year in a bid to improve safety... "The move would double as a national pilot in cashless public transport."https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/501049/cards-and-phones-replace-cash-payments-on-christchurch-buses-and-ferries-from-next-yearUh, no. Auckland Transport did it at least a year and a 1/2 ago. It bothered me then and now. In the absence of a digital payment method that's an anonymous as cash, refusing to accept cash ought to be illegal.#PublicTransport Christchurch #cash
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak8Udc2Y3dzfufZVx2 by inlaing@mastodon.social
       2024-07-20T22:40:15Z
       
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       @strypey the only vague benefit of at going cashless is that now the bus drivers wave you on if you try to pay cash or don't have enough money in your hop to tag on
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak8peB2Y1iZtV7gLbs by christopherd@mastodon.nz
       2024-07-21T02:35:33Z
       
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       @strypey This will really benefit people in say South Auckland, West, and North. I think probably those people will do a lot more exploring by bus/train/ferry.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak9BwyN5YD3ahfeoqm by inlaing@mastodon.social
       2024-07-20T22:41:15Z
       
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       @strypey the only resistance to *tracking* I can have is refusing to register my card... Which is a pretty meaningless resistance
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak9BwzOXkHoZsTLUky by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-07-21T06:45:35Z
       
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       @inlaing > the only resistance to *tracking* I can have is refusing to register my card... Which is a pretty meaningless resistanceIndeed. Even unregistered cards create a dataset about a person making a series of trips, complete with dates, times, and the places they got on and off (thanks to the GPS on buses etc). DataFarmers have massive pools of such data, and spare compute, and devise all sorts of clever ways of finding enough correlations to add that dataset to someone's shadow profile.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak9RXhlFliu3DMvwMC by winterknell@mastodon.social
       2024-07-21T09:40:03Z
       
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       @danielbowen This looks to be up your alley, if you haven;t already seen it.