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Weirdly, I've heard people here in Iceland (where we never had DST) who want to adopt it. It never made sense to me. If we want to shift our day around the sun, let's just agree as a society to shift business opening hours during the summer.

Let's just let people groom themselves however they prefer. We need to normalise accepting bodies of all kinds instead of pushing people to some particular ideal.

It's not gay if the balls don't touch. So they tell me. :)

Ah, fair. To me "hardline" doesn't say anything about being good at it, just that he's aggressive (which is true). But calling Trump skilled at negotiation seems wrong, or at least his skill seems to be in a very narrow type of zero-sum negotiation which is not well suited for the geopolitical level.

I don't see the words "master negotiator" anywhere in the article.

Ceph is great, we run critical infra at work on proxmox with ceph. Very reliable in my experience. It was definitely helpful for me to have ceph experience from my home cluster when starting there.

The chance of the captain and first mate just being drunk or really irresponsible ("the sea is big, what's the worst that can happen?") seems way more likely to me here than some nefarious plan. I just don't see what would be gained from it.

The various cable cuts related to russian ships are definitely suspicious though. There the motive would be clear - it sends a threatening message to other countries about how vulnerable their infrastructure is, potentially making them less likely to stand up to russian aggression. And the cost to fix the cables is much higher than the cost of a low-medium chance the (old, leaking, close to decommissioning) ship gets impounded.

Yes, I know. And my point is that the arguments used to justify how it enables compliance never held up, and now with the supervisory authority not being functional anymore it can't possibly be said to comply with the letter of the law even in the most charitable reading. The legal basis of the agreement was built on the existence of the PCLOB ensuring adequate protection of personal data. With the PCLOB being neutered and inoperable, that basis no longer holds.

The amount of mental gymnastics required to believe that an agreement with the US will prevent them from gaining access to data stored by US companies on EU soil is staggering. And it's repeatedly been shown to be fiction, as US national security laws will always supercede such an agreement.

It's even more silly now that the US has a president that's very clearly opposed to the agreement, and recently made the supervisory authority that's supposed to enforce the agreement (PCLOB) inoperable by suspending appointed members such that there aren't enough of them to make a decision.

Bert Hubert has a very good article going into this in more detail, with lots of links for further reading: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

It's time we put this fiction to rest and accept that data stored in clouds owned by US companies is available to those companies, and therefore to the US government, and will continue to be so no matter what gets written on a piece of paper.

I'm glad we're working on replacing starlink, though AFAIK IRIS² won't be ready until 2027 at the earliest.

I do think that with the increasing use of LEO satellites for drone control and the general breakdown of international agreements and institutions we're seeing, the moratorium on weapons in space will not last much longer. Every player will work on anti-satellite systems to deny command-and-control links to the enemy.

The anti-satellite weapons we have today are mostly focused on taking down single satellites, and would not be practical against these mass swarms of LEO satellites. We'll probably see a revival of ideas like EMPs in orbit to knock out large batches of satellites all at once. Obviously such a weapon would be indiscriminate and would take down everything within the blast radius.

I assume he must have gone back to his hotel room afterwards and just screamed in frustration for a solid hour. Or had a workout of with a punching bag with Trump and Vance's faces on them.

I'm truly astounded at the patience he showed during that event. It was infuriating to watch.