looking at the fire house used in the Ghostbusters movie.

Chicago is making a historic move. Leveraging Illinois's recent $1.5 billion investment in Chicago transit, they're working to turn Metra from commuter rail into a true regional rail network.

For 40 years, Metra has been the definition of commuter rail: a system designed solely to move 9-to-5 workers from the suburbs to the Loop. But with remote work changing the landscape and a "fiscal cliff" looming, that model collapsed.

In late 2025, Illinois passed a landmark transit bill creating the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) and funding a massive pivot. Today, we breakdown exactly what regional rail means, how it differs from the system Chicago has, and whether Chicago can avoid the mistakes made in similar transition in Toronto.

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Amel Charleux moderates a roundtable hosting Lucian Balea (LF Energy, RTE France), Fatima Zohra El Ouerkhaoui (ONCF), Pierre Tane (UIC), Daniel Woithe (DB Systel), Peter Franken (Infrabel), and Loïc Hamelin (SNCF). They discuss the role of Open Source in the railway sector and beyond, coming from the different perspectives and roles.

IN 2020 hab ich mit Youtube Videos zu Office 365, SharePoint und MS Office angefangen. Jetzt am 19.01.26 hab ich zuerst dem Youtube-Gmail-Account gekündigt, dann alle Videos mit einem LInux-Ubuntu-PC heruntergeladen. Und ich habe auf Clip.place hier eine neue Heimat für meine Tutorials und Anleitungen gefunden. Statt evotrain.de ist meine Website https://evotexte.de, ist bin aber die Gleiche geblieben.

Sie wollen auch demächst sagen können, dass Sie das mit dem Kündigen von #BigTech #dutgemacht haben? Schreiben Sie mir auf Mastodon oder auf [email protected], ich bin gerne behilflich bei Ihrem Umstieg.

Freundliche Grüße,

Frédéric Novello (EONA-X), Jochen Decker (SBB) and the moderators of the afternoon, Keira Correll Rodriguez Gomez (SBB) and Max Mehl (DB), welcome the audience on site and online to the first OpenRail Day in Paris. They introduce to OpenRail Association, its vision, and present the program of the day.

In this "Linux Audio Soliloquy" episode, I am introducing you to my Go-To Open Source Audio Plugins. 😎

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These are the links to my Go-To Open Source audio plugins:

BYOD by Chowdhury DSP

JC-303 by midilab

KO by Sinuslabs

OB-Xf by The Surge Synth Team

PiMax by Arboreal Audio

Prisma by unplug.red

QDelay by TiagoLr

Rack by VCV

REACH by Sinuslabs

SurgeXT by The Surge Synth Team

Vital by Vital Audio

WSTD DL3Y by Wasted Audio

WSTD FL3NGR by Wasted Audio

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Find more Open Source Linux Audio gems:

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Make sure to check out my interviews with Linux Audio developers and artists on the "Linux Audio Development" website:

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And then, our ice cream, sauna and solar/electric business in Thailand:

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These are my favorite plugins on Linux:

And these the ones I miss most on Linux:

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If you're interested, you can have a look at my gear here:

My music can be found here and downloaded "for free" (or what it's worth) on my Bandcamp:

And, please, make sure to check out my initiative, "Linux Audio Plugin Development":

Feel free to reach out here:

And finally, if you would like to support my work, you can have a look at the donation page on my website:

January 19th 2026 - Seeing how bright the first clip was, I edited the exposure down to a (slightly) more realistic tone, we were standing outside seeing all the colours!

January 19th 2026 - The night of the big Aurora. I glanced at the Glendale app and saw lots of green ticks so I ran out to. .............. heavy cloud. Took a test shot or two and could see red beyond the clouds so, I set the camera up anyway. This clip is the full length and no edits as such hence the Aurora, when it appears is so bright 😃

Onlineprobe zum Weihnachtsoratorium von Johann Sebastian Bach. Das Ziel ist es, im Mittelteil des Eingangschores einen großen Bogen zu erreichen. Dazu arbeiten wir an der Struktur, um immer Viertaktbögen zu singen.