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Cake day: June 28th, 2025

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  • My very lay-person understanding is that generally there is a level of shit each country accepts, e.g. election meddling, hacking or taking of political prisoners as it is part of the “standard affairs” - and will respond to non-forcefully. (Please don’t see me as advocating or trying to downplay these activities, they are abhorrent).

    In order to respond with force or war, a lot of prep needs to go in to make sure that the action will be supported by enough allies to both achieve the goal/s and deal with any possible fallout from retaliation.

    I believe the EU and its allies sees that a war response to Russian meddling may bring in China more actively into the picture and the US may not come to back them up (unless China decide to re-take Taiwan). OR they see the long-term economic damage to Russia as significant enough to achieve long term regional impact.

    Therefore, the EU may not be confident of opening up conflict unless forced to.

    IMO Russia’s actions in the EU are a clear test of the EU’s boundaries and willingness to retaliate.







  • I’m running a home space with jellyfin and navidrome on a Pi5. Until now it’s been perfectly fine playing local and normally streaming to a single device at a time. The online support and off the shelf peripheries for troubleshooting the pi is also great!

    I went to plug a 5TB drive into the pi the other day and it unmounted the SSD that was already plugged in. To me this is a sign that it is not build to handle more rigorous tasks (e.g. streaming to multiple devices, whilat performing a back up).

    I probably won’t be swapping the system anytime soon, but I would go for a refurbed mini PC if I could go back in time.






  • Coal is dead, gas is not. It will be the resilient goddamn cockroach running along the floor because some clown with the keys to the European Parliament will always yell that we need base load coverage capacity in fossils.

    Then we’ll import it at a stupid price from one genocidal maniac or the other and be told to be happy we are paying 8x the cost of pretty much any other modern production method. Worst part is, it’s just as dirty as coal when it comes shipped in.


  • The “revolving door” concept will always happen in regulated environments unless explicitly banned.

    You need experts to draft the legislation and experts in fields generally go to work for industry.

    It should also be noted that self driving cars are coming and should (if they deliver on their promises) improve safety for all citizens and improve QoL for many road users. Smart regulation here can help make sure risks are correctly minimised.

    I don’t like cars or our dependance on them, but sticking our head in the sand and pretending they’ll be banned soon is also not an option.