The Culture is the absolute best case scenario for humanity. It is my comfort reading for this reason.

Thanks! I wasn’t expecting to actually get an answer, that was a fascinating read.

So someone had claude write a C compiler in rust, which doesn’t work, because it can’t find the C standard libraries.

Would be interesting to read how claude was prompted to do this.

I know this might not be an option for you, but I have used Home Assistant for this purpose. Simply install a HA instance and enroll both of your handsets with the companion app.

The challenge with apps like this is, that they need some kind of server by definition.

Let me know what you find.

Rutte is an artist at that, but to be fair that is his job. “The Germans down and Americans in” I believe was the expression.

That looks like a fun build and I already have a lava lamp! Anyone got an RPG-7 they can spare?

Starship troopers. The movie has a story, unlike the book.

Those are vintage memes.

I wish it did go on.

Poetry nearly on par with ‘an ode to spot’

I thought the girl was soooo cute when I was young. She’s probably half my age now…

Android emulator on your computer?

Public costs and private profits eh?

I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.

Oh. I don’t doubt that, I was taking the shadow fleet as a commercial fleet like the Russian one is. I have zero doubt about all non landlocked countries using civilian registered vessels for at least signal intelligence and special operations forces.

I want to post a picture of Seymour Skinner concluding it is the children who are wrong.

I don’t think calling the western fleets shadow fleets is really accurate, but you are right about the issue: in lawlessness everyone is an outlaw.

There is a reason why western countries care about maintaining maritime law and it is to maintain freedom of navigation for themselves.

This is an interesting but very long read.

It’s also very relevant to right-to-repair, but approaches it from an anti-circumvention angle.

Where I come from we don’t have addresses on IDs - you’d have to replace them any time you move.

Then I got in (mild) trouble with German police because i didn’t. I had honestly never seen one that had it.

I have used hetzner, they are not perfect but at least they are European and have been correcting errors in judgement they have made regarding service suspensions.

From what I can gather, this tends to be the sitch when a war is sort of remote - not worth getting in trouble opposing, not worth supporting.