Fish is a surprisingly good shell.

It’s not POSIX compatible, but I don’t really care, it only executes its own scripts / functions. It’s not as innovative as elvish or nu, but it kind of does everything very conveniently and shell-y for lack of a better word – and it always seems so simple. It seems conservative in design, but the old concepts have been evolved in a very usable way. Something I can’t say for all the other shells I’ve tried – at some point, it always gets awkward where fish is just elegant.

It’s really dumb if you know the two games (poker and Balatro).

Poker is a game of incomplete information where you need one single higher ranked hand than your opponent per round. The stakes are money you bet that your hand is better. Bluffing is an important part of the game.

Balatro is mostly a game with complete information (apart from the order of remaining cards in your deck and certain bosses that flip your cards). You bet no money. There is no bluffing. Money does not correlate to chips. It is about the rating of your hand (poker has no rating, only relative ranking). You play multiple hands. You can’t fold. Bluffing doesn’t exist. Cards can be improved, ratings can be improved, the decks can look nothing like poker decks, etc.

I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal

The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it’s been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I’ll see

Using Linux here

Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not

I like how the headline’s structure makes it sound as if “in France” was part of the punishment. Reminds me of “Fistful of Yen”.

Take him to Detroit France!

It’s kind of in line with their plan to get rid of OCSP: short certificate lifetimes keep CRLs short, so I get where they’re coming from (I think).

90 days of validity, which was once a short lifetime. Currently, Google is planning to enforce this as the maximum validity duration in their browser, and I’m sure Mozilla will follow, but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t because no provider can afford to not support chromium based browsers.

I was expecting that they reduce the maximum situation to e.g. 30 days, but I guess they want to make the stricter rules optional first to make sure there are no issues.

This makes me so angry, Russia is deploying huge amounts of foreign troops in Europe and leaders are just like “we must not escalate” bruh are you paying attention right now

How’s the non-chain scene in Germany?

Generally pretty good, at least for Kebab, burgers, fries, sausage and grilled chicken. Sandwiches are a total niche though. Basically only smaller ones premade at bakeries and shops (premade still referring to made in store, but not upon request).

Well, this was my perspective from Germany. We don’t have and never had a real competing chain. We have McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC as big fast food chains. So this is what they compete against here

I also actually do like Subway.

It’s it the best thing ever? No. But when I have the choice between McDonald’s, some bread bun with maybe a single slice of salad and subway, the choice is very clear. All their options come with good amounts of veggies, they had decent vegetarian options quite early, their cookies rock and they were one of the few offering free refills.

I dunno what the snobbism is always about. I love it when I need to wait for a train and Subway is an option.

Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn’t meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC namcap is often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhere

There problem in Germany extends beyond health insurance.

We have a serious lack of medical professionals. I recently went to the dermatologist and from when I booked my visit first l until my issue was treated was about three months. Mind you this was a private doctor’s office that doesn’t work with public health insurance at all and I took this one because it was the quickest in the general area. My family doctor doesn’t take new patients as far as I’m aware. And yet, we put a hard limit on students for medicine - current NC is at 1.0. These are grades that were extremely rare back in my day.

In addition to that, the terms for doctors for public health insurance are… not great. You’re basically disincentivized to do it.

In addition, public health insurance is currently underfunded for reasons I’m not going into. But private health insurance also existed back when public health insurance made money (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/219867/umfrage/ueberschuss-und-defizit-der-gesetzlichen-krankenkassen-seit-2000/), so this can’t be the sole cause.

I think the best choice would be for the state to provide healthcare itself and have the cost be covered by tax; any additional services can be covered by private health insurance. Technically, this model already exists for soldiers in active service.

And if you do want to leave, perhaps because the cost is getting too much on account of developing serious issues that allow the insurance to charge serious premiums,

Private health insurance can’t increase your premiums because of issues you developed during insurance as far as I know. They can only perform an evaluation when you switch plans or the provider: https://www.privat-patienten.de/beitraege/steigt-mein-pkv-beitrag-wenn-ich-schwer-erkranke/ otherwise, everyone in a group gets the same rate hikes, with the group being determined by age, plan and I think gender.

It’s not like private health insurance is free from increaseing rates (I got about 10% this year…) it’s true that the system is heavily flawed, but it’s still far away from how it is in the US.

Who can blame them

Yes, nix complements your system’s package manager, but doesn’t replace it

They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

That’s not how amphetamine works. It’s correct for cocaine, but amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

In the end, both increase dopamine availability… but through different mechanisms and they’re chemically different as well.

healthy amphetamine breakfast

Now that’s a pleonasm

Coke isn’t an amphetamine

Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒

This is how I would read it. But if you have Mesa do it, it’s in software, and you might just be using a software coded directly then, it’s much easier.