alternative to big tech, not really as a tool against state censorship

I’m not sure these 2 are separate. They seem to work in tandem on restricting people’s freedom. Government sets direction, big tech implements. In return government makes it so that alternatives to big tech have a harder and harder time.

That’s the good thing about the fediverse: you can set up an instance that does just that, and federate with the others!

Lesly

I’ve worked with bookstack. Found it easy and intuitive. It’s wiki software not specific to family history.

Same :)

enough of the local language to buy stuff and ask for directions

You convinced me on that one. Perhaps they should learn enough of the language for day-to-day niceties. The particular problem with Belgium is that this means they should learn both basic French and Dutch :-p Most french speaking Belgians don’t even do that.

I find it a bit strange that people choose to move to Norway and work in Norway, but don’t learn the language

Depends on whether they intend to move permanently, no? Most of my non‑Belgian colleagues don’t intend to stay in Belgium long term. I can’t fault them for that. :)

When they do intend to move permanently, I share your point of view.

They didn’t extort, but they did ask to essentially look the other way and in turn they will handle any hostilities of other groups.

Maybe not clear as daylight extortion. But I imagine it’s a precarious position nonetheless? Had your father not been as “easy going”, he could be the problem they’d take out?

Thanks, I corrected it :)

I think it depends on the rate of change, rather than the amount of containers.

At home I do things manually as things change maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

Professionally I usually do setup automated devops because updates and deployments happen almost daily.

I scored a perfect 10/10 on my anhedonia test!

Other people’s behaviour does make more sense now that I learned that.

Still struggling to understand the difference between egoism/hedonism and following instinct.

I work at a place where half of the people speak dutch, the other half come from all over the world.

It helps when everyone speaks the same language, English in this case, and can jump in and out of conversation whenever.

It’s illegal for them to actually ban the use of Dutch, as this is in Belgium. But it’s also just a dick move to exclude people from conversation, just because it’s convenient to some.

Divine intervention

At one of my clients, who wants everything on-prem, I use gitlab CI with ansible. It took 3 days to setup, and requires thinkering. But all in all, I like the versitility, consistency and transparency of this approach.

If I’d start over again, I’d use pyinfra instead of ansible, but that’s a minor difference.

I think it’s quite scary to have housing owned by the government. Because it creates the possibility of “vote for us or we’ll take your home away”.

So perhaps a middle ground is some kind of rent-to-own? Government owned and built housing, with affordable rent, and eventually the renters can buy the place with their already paid rent subtracted from the purchase price?

There’s some info on this from Belgium. The Antwerp harbour is known to be one of the major drug ports of EU. A couple of gangs operating through it used a breached “secure” messaging service called Sky-ECC.

The messages show that there were severe punishments whenever a shipment got caught in the harbor. Like kidnapping and torture of those “responsible”. With the henchmen providing video proof to the gang leaders, often hiding in Dubai and other countries with lesser diplomatic ties.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Light at the flick of a switch.

It’s was a glacially cold moonlit night. Our hero turned on the LED ceiling lights.

Do I think anyone should be killed for their beliefs? No.

Then why celebrate it? It’s about realizing that celebrating violence over discource creates an inhumane escalating cycle that hurts all.

Yes please tomorrow morning would be fine thanks