MS is having DNS issues. So the Dutch railways are having issues. Critical national infrastructure should not be on cloud systems owned by foreign companies. This is resiliency 101.
Trains were running mostly okay. It was just the App that wasnt working. With NS that's not that big an issue, since most trains run regular schedules. (If that happens to DB and their bizarrely irregular schedules and delays, it would have been a lot more of an issue to still get somewhere...)
Hardly anybody needs ticket machines anymore these days. You can travel with any bankcard. And I'm pretty sure that if you couldnt buy a ticket for your bike they'd still let you on the train.. It's the Netherlands: if the ticketing system doesnt work everybody travels for free.
@SIT Even most Americans have that nowadays. And I assume 99% of tourists are on Google or Apple and could use that if they wanted to. I don't go to Amsterdam that much anymore, but even in The Hague or Utrecht I rarely see tourists at the ticket vending machines anymore... @quixoticgeek
Ray McCarthy
in reply to Quixoticgeek • • •A National railway can afford its own servers.
Jeroen
in reply to Quixoticgeek • • •Quixoticgeek
in reply to Jeroen • • •@j2 and ticket machines. And ticket purchases. And OV fiets.
At Amsterdam Zuid I saw someone unable to travel cos they were unable to buy a ticket for their bike. Real world tangible effects.
Jeroen
in reply to Quixoticgeek • • •Nick
in reply to Jeroen • • •Jeroen
in reply to Nick • • •Yes. And pretty much any bank card or creditcard will work.
@quixoticgeek
Nick
in reply to Jeroen • • •Jeroen
in reply to Nick • • •Even most Americans have that nowadays. And I assume 99% of tourists are on Google or Apple and could use that if they wanted to. I don't go to Amsterdam that much anymore, but even in The Hague or Utrecht I rarely see tourists at the ticket vending machines anymore...
@quixoticgeek
Quixoticgeek
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