Vincent

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Investeer in onderzoeksjournalistiek, vindt hoofdredacteur Thomas Muntz van Investico: ‘Iemand die vertelt wat we ergens van moeten vinden, voedt het publieke debat niet’ (www.volkskrant.nl) Dutch

Haagse journalisten? Financiële journalisten? Sportjournalisten? Thomas Muntz ziet ze nauwelijks als onderdeel van zijn eigen beroepsgroep. ‘Zij zijn veel meer aan elkaar verwant dan aan mij als onderzoeksjournalist.’

Vincent,

Meanwhile, Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to leave the EU, is currently polling as the number one in some forecasts.

In one forecast. Also the only one that has Timmermans' parties at #4.

Vincent,

If PvdA-GL comes out on top, there is a chance for them to form a coalition with all the left-wing parties and one centre party. According to survezs most leftist Dutch people are aware of this and consider a tactical vote for PvdA-GL to get a more left leaning government.

I don't think there's a big-enough centre party that would go for that, and I don't think that's what GL-PvdA is aiming for either. Rather, if they don't come out on top, what's likely to happen is that the right and centre-right parties would try (and probably succeed) to form a coalition together. If they do come out on top, GL-PvdA will instead replace one or two of those parties in that coalition, going for something like GL-PvdA/VVD/NSC.

And then, of course, the question is what will happen to them in the elections after that. But I'm sure the PvdA is very aware of what might happen.

Vincent,

They might be, but the signs so far have not been in that direction: here's Omtzigt saying he'd rather have a right-wing minority government over GL-PvdA, and here's him playing up how hard he thinks it would be to govern with them.

I'd be interested in knowing which coalition your colleague is thinking of, but when coalition negotiations don't work out, it's pretty much impossible to point fingers to a specific party - clearly none of the parties were prepared to give more concessions.

Vincent,

Not OP, but for me, the main benefit is how uneventful major distro upgrades are. Yesterday I updated to Fedora 39, and it was so anticlimactic to reboot and then be like: is it over? But that was really all there was to it.

Vincent, (edited )

I stuck with Toolbox for a long time because it was default, but then I wanted to be able to easily recreate my *boxes with the same set of packages when e.g. they broke for some reason, or because the distro they were built on released a new major version. Distrobox supports that with its assemble command, so I switched. Otherwise it's not too different really, for a casual user like me, and if I hadn't needed assemble, Toolbox would've been just fine.

(Except that I keep forgetting whether Toolbox or Toolbx is the correct spelling now.)

Vincent,
Vincent,

Signal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950

So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)

Vincent,

Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)

Vincent,

I don't drink coffee, but I still have it in case my guests want some. It's just nice.

Vincent,

You could make it a BMBH (Bring My Beer Home).

Vincent,

No I don't, though maybe if all my guests smoked I might? It's somewhat arbitrary anyway, you do some things to make their stay pleasant, and you don't do others if they're too much work for too little (of your guests') payoff.

Vincent,

As an ignorant non-Spaniard, can anyone give a quick ELI5 why people are so strongly against the separatism that they show up with 100k+? I can't imagine getting terribly annoyed at regions wanting to leave my country? Unless it would be my own region, I suppose.

Vincent,

I get the parliamentary kerfuffle, but I kinda mean opposition against secession in general. As I understand it, it wouldn't so much be like giving Native Americans random swaths of land, but giving the people living on specific swaths of land (which might be mostly Native Americans) that land, and no more influence over how the rest of the land is governed. Sorta like allowing California to become its own country, I suppose - why would other Americans have a problem with that, if the Californians wanted that?

Vincent,

Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe de auteur zelf zijn gedrag aan heeft gepast na het schrijven van dit stuk. Ik neem aan dat hij iets vergelijkbaars van ons allemaal verwacht?

Vincent,

I'm very excited about how the Linux community generally seems to be moving towards various approaches to immutable systems - all of them having in common that system updates are going to be a lot less likely to break. The future is looking good!

Vincent,

Great work by Sonny and Tobias. Really happy to hear that more effort will be invested into accessibility, as I feel it's really been lagging over the past couple of years.

Vincent,

Yes, but as soon as it is accessible via the GUI, more and more people will start getting blurred Google Docs (and similar weird issues) without knowing how that happened - because that's already happening even with people who know enough to make changes in about:config.

Vincent,

Ah yes, people are indeed known for always reading long readmes and fully grasping the consequences of their actions, especially if those occur long after said actions :P

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