troyunrau

troyunrau, 2 months ago

$41600 per drone? I mean, wow, these are not the cobbled together types.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

So – pure curiosity… Which countries could yet still potentially join NATO.

Switzerland doesn’t join anything ever, so it’s the dark horse. But since everything is done by referendum there, it could change on a dime if the public demanded it.

Austria literally has it in their constitution that they aren’t allowed – but in theory they could change their constitution (unlikely).

Moldova has the whole Transnistria incentive – but NATO would be shy about that one, because that could potentially immediately put them in hot conflict. However, suppose they backdoored their way in by creating a union with Romania (not impossible, but complicated).

Ireland has been neutral forever – but the public support for Ukraine is extremely high. So they might even be possible. Higher than Switzerland anyway ;)

Bosnia and Herzegovina is sort of a special case where they’re sort of partially engaged already.

Serbia is extremely unlikely while they continue to be extremely contemptuous of everyone. That’s fine. Although Kosovo is sort of under NATO protection.

In theory, Georgia or Armenia would be candidates, but Turkey would pooh-pooh Armenia right away, and Georgia has contested territory.

In order of odds, I wager: Ireland, Moldova (via Romania), Georgia+Ukraine (in that order chronologically).

troyunrau, 2 months ago

However, some UA crops (for example, tomatoes) and sites (for example, 25% of individually managed gardens) outperform conventional agriculture. These exceptions suggest that UA practitioners can reduce their climate impacts by cultivating crops that are typically greenhouse-grown or air-freighted, maintaining UA sites for many years, and leveraging circularity (waste as inputs).

Tomatos it is then ;)

It’s really hard to compete with the efficiency that economies of scale provide. So this result isn’t unexpected.

It doesn’t however negate the other positive impacts of urban gardening – in particular, the impacts on the people doing the gardening (everything from psychology, vitamin D, immune system benefits to playing in the dirt, etc.).

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Water usage is also problematic. But that’s another story. It’s a multi-parameter optimization problem, but different people weight parameters differently.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

It’s a prickly hug

troyunrau, 2 months ago

We (the western world) really needs to deal with Orban eventually. At least when other countries kept re-electing someone (like Merkel), you had the confidence that the system still allowed someone else to be elected and democracy was still working.

Turkey might be a lost cause.

Term limits should really be a default position if one is to defend their democracy: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_current_state_leaders_… – the two NATO members causing issues? Two longest serving heads of state within NATO (excluding ceremonial monarchs).

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Yeah, this is an interesting element. Historically, allowing all members a veto, while also having no way to expel a member, means that any such institution is liable to outside meddling. The classic example is the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto – in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, any noble could veto anything. So all it took was buying a few nobles and it shattered.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Please note that this picture is not a free picture. …

troyunrau, 2 months ago

High speed refers to the shutter speed in a camera – how quickly it can take frames. Slow motion footage is taken in a high speed camera. It’s just a weird quirk of language.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Did you end up playing baseball or something later? Or winning a lot at the circus arcades? ;)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

This could be an anthem for the sovcit nutjobs.

Give me “peace, order, and good governance” any day. Yes, there are things that could be better in western democracies, but largely it’s still pretty damned great!

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Just so I’m absolutely clear. This is shameless self promotion, right?

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Millions of store chickens suffer death from living in a food production environment.

Source: am currently eating chicken wings.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

KDE had a policy editor back in v2.0… honesty I never really followed whether those features stuck around. But the simple version is to lock down write access to folders in $HOME, such as .config or similar. Linux already prevents most users from installing programs over the system directories without root, but I’m not sure if you can restrict new programs with +x in $HOME unless you write-lock the whole folder… Someone with more network admin experience probably knows this :)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Congrats on taking the plunge. I suspect there are others like you.

I’m actually kind of envious. The joy and frustration and joy again of exploring something new was something I relished in my early Linux years. Back then you had to use a text editor to configure your video card before even getting started, so it was kind of insane haha. But totally worth it later, as all of those skills translated.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Your a wizard Harry

troyunrau, 2 months ago

So has anyone done a read through and has thoughts? Someone in my D&D ground sent me a Tiktok video about it, but (to quote Sinatra) “my generation is showing”.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

KDE for years had a clock option called “fuzzy clock” where you could set the granularity of time, either in 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 60 minute resolution. So it would just say “five to six” or whatever in words. It was designed to keep you from clock watching while working. Not sure if it exists anymore :)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

A lot of exploits exist to root a phone. Bad apps can abuse those exploits.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I often fantasize about what life would have been like as a pre-colonialist indigenous person. Living in a way that honoured nature instead of controlling it.

This is a huge myth. Anytime natives got access to new technology, they went on a rampage with it (just like everyone else). Horses and rifles being the best examples. Humans are humans and everyone does equally dumb human shit.

Your dream is a mostly standard pre-agrarian fantasy, only you’ve projected it onto a cultural group. But pre-agrarian lifestyles were harsher than you can possibly imagine. Having that kind of balance with nature mean nature is going to kill you more often than not.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

I always thought it was a Slashdot wannabe ;)

troyunrau, 2 months ago

The kindness of admins is a requirement of pretty much all internet infrastructure. Email servers are the same, no? And it gets even harder with proprietary networks – if the admins are being unkind, you can just switch discord servers or whatever. Anyway, I digress.

troyunrau, 2 months ago

OC? Very nice!

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Haven’t been keeping up with CK3. Was a huge fan of CK2 and did a few CK3 runs shortly after release. My consensus then was: very worthy replacement from a systems perspective, but way lighter on content. I suppose the accumulation of DLC is probably solving this over time… How does it feel now?