I was macOS (desktop) and Linux (servers), but over time it just became cumbersome to cater to the - while Unix - different environment on the Macs all the time. I’ve now converted over the last Macbook Pro to Linux but what I really want is a Linux distribution really made specifically for the Macs and making full use of their somewhat special hardware.

If you’re more at home with macOS then this doesn’t apply to you of course :) A lot of the software I use is from the open source community where Mac gets supported because it’s possible to compile for it but it’s always an afterthought.

(Servers? Yeah that might surprise people - but the performance of Apple Silicon is really very interesting for a lot of tasks where you need “GPU-speedup” without installing a full GPU)

Bad for Linux. I see Asahi Linux on Apple hardware as being the “best Linux” for consumer use (and home servers) moving forwards.

Lots of western companies have divested from working with/in Russia even though it has cost them lots of money. Some because that’s a legal requirement (sanctions), some because it’s the right thing to do.

Not doing so is supporting Russia.

Vlad wrote it to me in their chat. Screenshot here: https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311981054448887

Ask your wife whether she thinks people should send money to Russia. Now, Yandex is politically twisting the truth in their search results, but I care less about that than the fact that I’ll happily send money to Ukraine but there’s no way in hell I’m sending money to Russia.

Being a Kagi subscriber means you are. Morally - I’m not ok with it. In some nations it might even be against the law. Sanctions, you know. I’m not even sure Kagi is legally in the clear here.

They specifically avoid sanctions by routing payments through Kazakhstan, and tried to claim Yandex wasn’t even a russian company when called out.

And no, the US is not the same. You might not have hosted Ukrainian refugees or be in full understanding of what’s happening there but any money going into Russia is right now used for torture, rape and killing of Ukrainians.

I had a Kagi family subscription and immediately cancelled when I learnt about Vlad’s “it’s just some geopolitical opinions” stance. I also know others have done the same.

FWIW - most mobile data plans roll over if you don’t use them fully during the month.

(at least where I live)

This must’ve been a lot more complicated to implement than to allow us to NOT SEND OUR SUBSCRIPTION MONEY TO RUSSIA.

sigh

That contradicts this experience:

https://sherwood.news/tech/a-free-powerful-chinese-ai-model-just-dropped-but-dont-ask-it-about/

… but even so the likelyhood of just reading it as “Nothing is possible. Everything is impossible.” is still there.

Office culture.

Should be split up into three separate parts. Top part containing the Everything/Nothing, second “is” and the third the impossible/possible.

… and no encryption of groups.

It’s a huge Russian psy-op where they pretended Durov had to go into exile while he in reality cooperated with the regime.

Matrix. Just use matrix.org unless you know of another server that would have you.

Telegram is Russian spyware and has no security whatsoever by default.

Signal is good. Matrix is good.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/01/08/meta-studying-eu-impact-of-end-to-fact-checking-says-french-minister_6736836_143.html

This was not in any way asked for or mandated by the party. Also, no, it wasn’t common practice amongst other parties either.

(I was on the board at the time)

FWIW, when Christian Engström was voted into the European Parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party he voluntarily used a lot of money he could’ve kept for himself to instead fund party activities (which he then had no control over) back in Sweden.

One of the outcomes from Russia’s war on Ukraine is the knowledge of how to build killer FPV drones.

The rest is covered in the short film “Slaughterbots”.

No, I don’t know how anyone will counter that future.

5-6 - same with my kids. Keeping it up for too long risks making them religious as well.

Some countries (like Sweden) don’t use gas at all for home heating or cooking. We went fully electric in the 70s when we built up our nuclear reactor fleet (sadly, some of now have been closed due to the “nukes are bad” crowd) and that helps a lot now when it comes to relying on renewables.

This is the answer.