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  • barsoap@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzNot the same
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    The top right one is definitely not drawn by a human, it’s right out hexagons. Noone cross-hatches like that because you can’t cross-hatch like that there’s no lines going straight through.

    The rest could be artistic choice, compression artifacts, or other stuff though. Well, some minor stuff, the topmost book on the left pile on the desk on the right is sus, and there’s way too many sponges at the base of the chalkboard. But none of them are dead tells like the hexagons.





  • Something something Emmanuel Todd and endogamous communal family structures, the tight internal clan bonds competing with and thus preventing the creation of a strong overarching identities vs. almost exclusively non-communal structures in Europe (and where there’s communalism it’s not as strong as in the Arab world, and definitely not endogamous), leading to strong overarching civil societies and identities. Very different assumptions about how society should be organised on a very fundamental, structural, level.

    In those terms Europe is culturally way closer to e.g. Japan (just as much stem family structures as e.g. Ireland and lots of Scandinavian and German regions, some in France) than we are to the Arab world. Arabs actually integrating here means, for them, to flip an internal switch, saying something like “oh now my clan is my region, and my profession a secondary one”, and that is hard to do because a) you don’t actually know most of those people, while you know at least about everyone in your original clan, and b) you’re in a foreign land, not understanding what binds people together even though they might not know each other directly, also c) your family clan is still expecting you to be part of it, and not just in the “come to your cousin’s marriage” way. Lots of non-prejudicial cultural friction that especially people from absurdly individualist societies like the US don’t understand because they don’t have an overarching society in the first place. Both sides think the other is weird AF.



  • There’s already EU territory with 110V systems, even 60Hz, or more precisely said Guyana is a clusterfuck of different systems. Standardisation would be nice but it does have limited market impact so the EU is comfortable to just not. Also the main reason European stoves won’t work as intended in Canada isn’t 220V, you do have 220V, but because they’re expecting three 220V phases to be fully powered, they can pull up to 13kW with everything at full tilt. Most can be configured to draw less and be hooked up to a single phase, though, you could use those. Modern DC converters don’t mind the differing voltages and frequencies in the first place and with DC motors being quite popular making e.g. a blender dual-voltage is actually quite simple, which leaves us with things like hair dryers and I mean who cares.





  • CSDP is specifically a EU thing and result of the French drive for a EU army… which it arguably is: Political and strategic command, check, even if it has to outsource much military matters to the national armies. It’s been boosted quite a bit since the first Trump term and by now even the most atlanticist Atlanticist isn’t working against it any more. Also, the US isn’t working against it any more, they were worried about a EU army sidelining the likes of Turkey. This gets often overlooked, especially by Trumpists, how much the US invested into not having to compete in security matters with a big European blob.

    That’s different from a potential European defence treaty, though: Not all of Europe is in the EU and there’s definitely a couple of NATO allies we’d like to keep, and others to add.

    An example of coordinated European defence is the fact that the Netherland’s armed forces are now under command of the German military.

    That’s actually a separate thing, that’s bilateral cooperation, not EU level. Long story short the Dutch land forces were so tiny it just didn’t make sense to have an independent strategic command. Also Dutch is a dialect anyway so it doesn’t make sense for them to have an army. They’ll probably definitely want to keep their fleet, even when there’s a EU army.


  • That’s not going to work radarr is a daemon. Well at least it’s not going to work as intended, you might be able to start the thing as a user, but it’s likely not what you want to do, you want the thing registered with systemd and start up and shut down with the system. We don’t nix-shell -p sshd either.


  • The trouble with the *rr stuff isn’t libraries, it’s as far as I know all written in .NET, but system integration. Setting up users and permissions, starting the daemon, if necessary punch a hole in the firewall.

    I, too, watched Linus’ rant about diving software and that neither distros should be required to package random-ass applications, and app developers shouldn’t be forced to package for random-ass distros. That’s why we have flatpak. There may or may not come a time where such a thing also exists for daemons but it’s not the top priority, also, if you’re running radarr you’re not just a random user, you’re at the very least a power user. Random users direct their browsers to a website, click a link, which then opens qbittorrent. Which btw also has a rss feature. You don’t need a daemon process to do all this stuff, I doubt radarr sets up a system process or whatever it’s called in windows, either, you can do it as a user. The whole design of the thing assumes that you run it on a server, and, therefore, know how to run a server.

    As such, two observations: First, that radarr is not a good example subsurface is (and precisely what Linus was talking about), secondly, power users know even less what users actually want than devs.



  • The bottom line is that Linux is harder to use in a lot of scenarios.

    And who’s at fault? The devs. To wit, the radarr devs. Really, the minimum there should be calling what they describe “manual installation” and saying “we don’t package our software for distributions, consult your distro’s package manager radarr might be available”. It’s a daemon so it’s not like they can ship a flatpak, deamons need system integration.

    The whole sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/whatever-rr dev folks don’t seem to be particularly Linux-affine in general. I consider it windows software that happens to run under linux, developed by presumably windows users running linux on their seedbox because if there’s one thing that’s worse, even for windows-heads, than learning a bit of linux then it’s using windows in a server role.




  • According to Moscow, Russia is a great power. And, I mean, sure, it’s an empire, has been since Ivan the Terrible, it peaked with the Soviet Union and is now trying to re-establish its rightful place in the world.

    According to the rest of Russia, where the fuck is our indoor plumbing. It would be right-out trivial to break Russia apart, with its various people and identities scattered over vast areas of territory, given how brittle it is politically and economically. It might still collapse on its own, but a proper invasion would right-out force the issue, also, something something nukes. So even if the US doesn’t intend to, an actual face-off with Russia would mean the end of Russia as we know it.