Ideally arguments for who should be allowed to vote are independent of what they vote for. If you just want to ensure a specific outcome, there are far more efficient means than elections.

I can imagine part of the reasoning there being that we need to keep a clean slate there to be able to raise levies on state-subsidised products coming from (mostly) China without attracting massive counter-levies.

No browser uses a different engine yet (presumably because Apple only allows them to offer this in the EU, under draconian conditions).

Well, as long as voters think they’re all the same (and thus they might as well not vote, or vote for the ones who’ve actually done the lying), then yes, they will have zero consequences.

Hmm yeah, I guess the question is: is it overly complex if I do want to store my backup of my Nix config online, version-controlled, preferably publicly?

That’s neat!

Is that just because your four servers aren’t used for anything that need a secret? e.g. I wanted to put my wifi password in there, and the password for my user account.

How do you access the private Git repo then? Don’t you need a secret to access it?

Copy one file over and it’s set up for you.

So, I’ve only played around with NixOS on a Raspberry Pi, but… Don’t people usually split their config up in multiple files, and then store than in a Git repository?

The process then still is: check out that Git repository, except there’s another step: copy over your private key so that you can decrypt your secrets.

Is that correct? Or did I make things needlessly complex for myself?

Yeah, but that just means that we might be able to avoid stalemates - not necessarily that we’ll get a government that’s better than usual 😅

On the one hand I’m not sure if that’s such good news (I don’t like the PVV, but I do think it’s important that citizens are involved in how the country is governed), and on the other hand I’m not even sure that it’s true. They’re still polling strong.

They won’t rule any more, that’s true, but they’ll make it harder to former a stable government, and still have strong influence on the policy that does get enacted. Compared to e.g. any election before the last one, I see no signs that make me particularly hopeful.

It was as mandatory as the 5% will be now, right?

Sure, there are options, but they’re not terribly different from last time. It’s always possible to get something great, but I don’t see how hopes are particularly higher now than they were e.g. at the last elections.

We have good hopes the next government is gonna get it right.

Wait what? Where do those hopes come from?

It costs nothing* to kiss some ass, it buys the US nothing, and yet it can get Trump (and thus the US) to support you. To do anything else would be irresponsible, TBH.

*Not even your pride, in this case, because everyone can see that Trump is the baby for needing it, and everyone knows you don’t need to mean it.

Oh yeah I’m with you there. I think the project kinda grew beyond its initial goals, and now it’s hard to rename. Made more complex by GSConnect being by an independent developer from the KDE Connect team, I think. But the naming is confusing for sure.

Founder is on Mastodon too: @stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social

Where are you installing KDE Connect? You only need it on your Android phone. On your computer, you only need the GSConnect extension.

Yeah but I don’t think anyone was referring to Israel’s actions as the US doing “preventative bombing”?

So far I don’t think the US strikes specifically on Iran are known to have killed or even wounded anyone, let alone civilians, nor hit hospitals or schools, right?