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  • Trump doubles down on annexation threat, says Canada would be ‘cherished state’

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  • When the leader of the world's largest superpower dreams of Anschluss of their otherwise allied neighbour, that's not clickbait, it's the state of international policy and diplomacy with the leader the US elected.

  • Trump doubles down on annexation threat, says Canada would be ‘cherished state’

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  • not the "I have no mouth and I must scream" future, just the "I have a mouth and I must groan" present

  • THAT'S DIFFERENT!

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  • It's one of many things out of the bible that have pretty much just become a saying (the splinter/beam one)

  • THAT'S DIFFERENT!

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  • Yeah, this is just pot calling the kettle black, or seeing the splinter in his neighbor's eye but not the beam in his own (or whatever it is in English).

  • Germany got 60% of its electricity from renewables in 2024, and two thirds are planning to get home solar, meaning it is on track for its goal to be a 100% renewables nation within 10 years.

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  • The Energiewende seems to be progressing okay as far as I can tell: Solar rollout is exceeding expectations; wind is lagging but still proceeding.

    They seem to be struggling more in a couple of other Wende: The Wärmewende hasn't even gotten to the point where they ban fossil heating in new construction (we banned oil furnaces in existing buildings back in 2020 here in Norway).

    And as for the Verkehrswende, the rule seems to be don't mention the Verbrenner. They seem to be pretty good at pulling out any excuse not to drive less, or at the very least drive electric. Meanwhile with some tax breaks on EVs and high taxes on fossil cars Norway almost has no new fossil car sales; even the buses here in Oslo are almost all electric now.

    I guess at least they're paying us well for the fossil fuels we sell them. It's starting to feel a bit like being a sober drug dealer.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • How do you know a post was written by a systemd hater? Easy, they'll spell it with a big D for some reason. It reminds me of how Norwegian rabid anti-cyclists are unable to spell "cyclist" for some reason.

    Claiming you don't want to restart an old debate and then trying to restart it anyway is pretty funny.

    You might also want to keep in mind that you can't really force an init system on Linux distros. Systemd became the norm through being preferred, as in, the people using and maintaining it think it's good. At this point you might as well be ranting about how "LinuX is evil somehow" and we should all be using GNU HURD or Minix or something.

    Also: Haven't thought about suckless in well over a decade, maybe closer to two? I guess way back in the day I was kinda intrigued by their ideas and used some of their products; these days I'd rather see them as something between an art shop and people who are playing a somewhat unusual game with themselves, but not particularly relevant to mainstream software engineering.

  • Orange Menace

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  • Feel Good Stories

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  • Where's the Orphan Crushing Machine community here anyway

  • Garmin users say their watches are bricked with a ‘blue triangle of death’

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  • I had to figure out how to do the factory reset at the gym after I got the blue triangle of death when leaving work. Oddly enough it synced the gym plan I wanted and leaving it connected to the phone didn't seem to produce any other ill effects, but I stayed away from anything using GPS.

    But yeah, the general advice for Garmins just now seems to be "just don't" and hope it doesn't triangle itself until the fix is out

  • Garmin users say their watches are bricked with a ‘blue triangle of death’

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  • They're stuck in a reboot loop, but not bricked. A factory reset works (but the problem may reappear on update).

  • Biking in the rain: How do i protect my eye?

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  • Oh and as for raingear goes, I'll wear it in colder seasons, but my favorite is summer rain. Just put on some wicking material and treat it as free sweat.

  • Biking in the rain: How do i protect my eye?

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  • It varies. IME you can't combine them with something like a respro mask in winter, you have to choose whether to expose your lungs or your eyes. In some weather you might feel like you need wipers, at that point you kinda just gotta use your fingers.

    (I used to wear a respro in winter here in Oslo, but between replacing diesels with EVs, some route changes and generally mild auto traffic here, I haven't bothered this winter. Used to develop this kind of mild, sporadic but chronic cough, but now I think I'm free, apart from when I actually get close to a diesel with their rancid winter fumes.)

  • Biking in the rain: How do i protect my eye?

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  • Seconding the use of protective glasses as a sort of windshield. I use clear ones in the winter and tinted ones in the summer.

    Here in the sub-arctic we get some heavy showers but likely nothing like what you get if you have monsoon seasons or the like. But snow and sleet and the like can be surprisingly unpleasant to get on the eyes anyway.

  • xkcd #3042: T. Rex Evolution

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  • Idunno, might just have ended up as an even more terrifying variant of cassowary.

  • Extreme weather failing to encourage political climate action, says activist Luisa Neubauer

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  • Lots of food has been getting more expensive. The response seems to be largely electing climate deniers.

  • Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’

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  • Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’

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  • Translating a comment by a Norwegian author:

    as someone who once put in a lot of effort to excuse the far right etc when they maybe cross the line a little bit but probably don't really mean it so let's all calm down a bit, I've learned one thing:

    the only reward you get for doing this is that they the next day bombastically step over that same line to show that they don't feel bound by your wimpy sense of decency

    because the fight is against what they perceive as a wimpy, castrated centrist decency is one of the central driving forces in such groups

    More people who have tried to explain away the nazi salute could probably stand to learn the same lesson ASAP. The only thing they're really communicating is that the rich & powerful can do what they want and the excusers will stay their loyal lapdogs.

  • Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid

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  • I imagine the German response here is to be annoyed that they've worked very hard to be able to do this without telefax, indeed without paper at all, and it's still not considered good enough by the peanut gallery.

  • I've never been more jealous of a watch

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