iglou
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- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
Haha. Ha.
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 1 week ago:
It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
Good luck having that shitty tech win over Europe, where fiber is proliferating particularly quickly. We all know sattelite internet cannot come close to the speed and reliability of fiber.
Plus we hate Musk.
It’s good for remote areas and at sea, it’s shit everywhere else
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 1 week ago:
Exactly. All that the stats do in this case is show what everyone knows: There is a racism problem in hiring.
It doesn’t help prove anything in a court of law, and the multitude of excuses to hide racism make it almost impossible to prove that the true reason is racism.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 1 week ago:
I’m not certain having data on people’s ethnicity is helping at all with discrimination on hiring.
There is laws in France against discrimination as well. The problem isn’t that there isn’t ethnic data, the problem is that it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 weeks ago:
For a small to medium company it’s not necessarily worth it.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 weeks ago:
I use my own gitea server
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 2 weeks ago:
At this point I am assuming that it is actually a docker issue.
Can you show your docker daemon configuration?
Hard to tell where it is on your machine. Try ~/.docker/daemon.json, or maybe /etc/docker/daemon.json… Else look for it haha
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 2 weeks ago:
Well this is getting weird.
Have you tried checking if your os has a resolution cashe active? If so, try to flush it.
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 2 weeks ago:
I have read the rest of the comments to see what you already tried. I was about yo tell you to use sysctl to disable ipv6 but it looks like that is already done.
As a matter of fact, it looks like you have no ipv6 address at all. Which makes me think that your DNS config is off.
Can you show me the content of /etc/resolv.conf ?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t understand ehy Github hasn’t been abandonned by users at this point. If I were a company, I’d either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I’m just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 2 weeks ago:
What version of Pi OS are you running?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 weeks ago:
… Was it ever since they got bought?
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 2 weeks ago:
Looks like your Pi thinks it can use IPv6. Find where, and disable it.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
As always, it’s not like both aren’t possible. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of railway projects ongoing at the same time.
A government can take care of more than one issue at a time, luckily.
It may be a small benefit for you (I assume you are german based on your server), but not every european country or citizen has the same access to internet. This is a good initiative, but obviously not primarily intended for the richer citizens/countries of the union.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
Just hecause you have the option and can afford it does not mean every european citizen can have it or afford it.
EU policies aren’t just for the privileged.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
Not charging roaming does not mean that your unlimited plan carries over abroad. It just means you can’t be charged more for using your plan abroad.
It is still legal and widely done to have different limits abroad vs domestic.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
I’m not anerican so I’m unsure how pertinent my experience is.
But yes, my representatives often hold public neetings in which anyone is invited, although I don’t go there myself.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
Oof, that’s a tough question to answer in here. There is no really good way to generalise who has what power, and there is probably many ways to split the powers in a meaningful way.
You can read the articles on both positions specifically for France, which I do think in this case is a great example, on wikipedia, although if you want a more precise and complete understanding you’d probably have to read the french article and translate it.
The main advantage of this system is that when the president doesn’t have the majority to support him in the parliament, most of the executive power de facto shifts to the prime minister, who is usually nominated (by the president) in accordance with the parliament’s majority coalition. When that’s not done, the parliament can move to “censor” the government and force the president to nominate a new prime minister, who then nominates the rest of the government.
That system is a good way to make sure the president doesn’t do whatever the fuck they want if the parliament disagrees.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
- Then we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.
- I’m not overthinking it. Doing stuff like this is my job. I receive a problem, I ask the questions to get precise requirements. What I am telling you is that depending on who answers these questions, the outcome of the elections can be completely different. In a very oversimplificated way, it’s a new, even sneakier way to gerrymander.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
It is better than FPTP, but not a great system either. The flaws are similar to FPTP: The final winner may not be the candidate that would be most approved by the pooulation.
The main arvantage of it is that you can go wilder during the first turn, and pick a small party that you truly support, in hope it passes to the second turn. That happens often enough. And if it doesn’t, then you vote for the least bad candidate in the second turn/the closest candidate to what you want.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
No! France has a head of state (the president) and a head of government (prime minister).
They are both powerful, none of these role is performative.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
- You are conflating complexity with difficulty. But I’ll argue it’s both more complex and more difficult. It’s more complex because rather than choosing your candidate, you have to express your opinions. You have a bunch of choices to make instead of one. That’s complexity. But jt js also more difficult, because it rewuires you to have a grasp of all the issues that are brought up. Not everyone is able to give their opinion on how to best fight a job crisis, for instance. And picking what “feels” best makes the choice pointless and dangerous. It also doesn’t prevent lies, marketing and false promises at all, as a candidate could still be lying about their intentions just to get more votes.
- It is very hard to find the closest match. I tell you that as a software engineer. Because what rules do you use to determine the “closest”? Do you consider every opinion as important? Do you minimise the average distance? Do you minimise the amount of extreme differences? Do you prioritise some “more important” issues? Who even decides what is important? There are so many ways to bias and twitch a system like this.
- Then you’re probably better off advocating for a direct democracy, which is another topic and can be done in a mich easier way than trying to adapt a representative democracy for it!
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
Except that the lack of a third candidate is partially because of the FPTP system. It’s a waste of time, money and energy to try to compete with the Dems and the Reps. In a ranked voting system, or even a two-round system like we have in France, I guarantee you you’d see more candidates, because people then wouldn’t just “vote useful”.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
Congrats, you have written the dumbest take I’ve read today
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
The arguably huge downside of this, is that it cuts the direct line from you to a representative. That undermines democracy, because it undermines your capacity to be heard.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
You can have a electoral division of your country without gerrymandering. Cf most european countries.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
This is a very cynical point of view that would make it even less possible for independants to be represented inthe House, remove town halls from the system, and therefore make the entire system even less democratic and remove the entire point of a representative democracy.
There is zero benefit to this.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
Area based voting is a necessity for electing a local representative. But it shouldn’t apply for national elections, on that I agree. The US is the only country I know of that applies area based voting in national elections.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
You don’t want that. France tried that, a couple of times, it didn’t work. Government ended up deadlocked and falling every 6 months. Our 5th republic granted more power to the presidency, and now it’s a little better.
What you do want, however, is the head of state and the head of government to be two distinct persons. Which is not the case in the USA.