Humanius

Occasionally I’ll put on the radio either in the car or at home, but it’s not very common these days.
My boyfriend listens to the radio in the car and he regularly finds new music that way.

His name is “Octo Tentakel” in Dutch

Ranked choice voting is more relevant for elections where one winner must take all (for instance presidential elections or voting districts with only one representative) which will always suffer from not being able to represent everyone

Direct proportional representation gets around that problem by avoiding situations where one person has to “win” an election

As for the president problem, you can get around that by simply not having a president with any meaningful power. The prime minister can be appointed by the cabinet, and the head of state (be it king or president) can be a purely ceremonial role.

Direct proportional representation, like we have in the Netherlands, preferably with minimal seat threshold for a party to get into parliament.

It doesn’t have regional representation or voting districts, but I don’t think that that really matters much on the national level. Instead you get an as close to accurate as possible representation of which parties the people voted for.

The low seat threshold also allows people to vote for small parties that may be closer to their political views. And it allows people to feel confident punishing a big party by voting for a close alternative, if they fail to listen to their voters.

Dutch cities are an example of best practices, Paris is an example of how with some quick changes you can your city on the ladder to the reach the best practices.

I sadly didn’t really have a good opportunity to look around last time I was in Paris (we were visiting with people who had never been to Paris and we only had a few hours), but I did notice how many more cyclists there were compared to the car-sewer of a city I remember

From my understanding Apple has memory contracts locked in for years ahead. This is a benefit they have for being an enormous player in the consumer electronics world. They can keep their memory prices “low” (or at least what Apple normally considers low) because of that.

Other smaller manufacturers don’t have that luxury. When their current contracts run out they have to negotiate new ones, and they will be negotiated at the current market rate.

This is in no way a justification for what Google is doing, but they came to a “compromise” where you can still opt-in to being allowed to “sideload unverified apps” (read: install apps that didn’t have to get approval from Google).

You have to enable it in the settings, and then you need to wait 24 hours before the setting is enabled. After that you can continue to run “unverified” apps

I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.

Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs

And that is the tactic commonly used to slowly boil the frog.

In the Netherlands you do get taught in drivers ed to use a painted bikelane as a turn-lane if allowed (dashed line instead of solid line) and if safe (you aren’t running someone off their bike in the process)

The idea is that you use the car to block cyclists from unexpectedly overtaking you on the right, reducing the chances of hitting a cyclist accidentally. It forces cyclists to overtake you on the left instead.

Important to note that you are not allowed to stop in the bike lane while doing so, and that cyclists going straight have right of way over cars turning right.

In terms of hobbies I would say photography, videography, generally messing around with computers and other electronics.
I also enjoy casually cycling and driving, as well as traveling to see new places in general. Usually I combine that with the photography and videography.

I keep forgetting Proton has an LLM model available

The military wants the best equipment, and currently in terms of specs that is the F-35.

That comes with a dependence on the United States, which at the time of purchasing these jets was not considered to be a particular concern because America is a good ally and a part of NATO.

Following Trump’s re-election and antics over Greenland, that calculation is now different. It might not be worth it to buy new F-35s at this point (though Germany seems to be considering it still), but the Dutch army has pre-existing F-35s which we should be able to use even if America doesn’t want us to for whatever reason.

At this point for the purchase of new jets we really should be looking at the new Eurofighter though, imo

Yes, I had typing lessons for that when I was a kid. Learned on QWERTY and still use it to this day.
My form might not be completely proper (sometimes I use the “wrong” finger for a certain key), but it’s pretty close to proper.

Here in the Netherlands you can get 380V power using the same technique. Very useful for powering an induction stove, or if you want faster charging for your EV

Edit: Referring to three phase power, not two phase power. That is why we get 380V and not 460V

This sounds like a plot from a dystopic sci-fi movie from the 80s. Starring Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken

As a Dutchman, Amsterdam is fine but it is not the prime example of how to build cycling infrastructure. It’s quite busy and hectic, and there are many places around the country that simply do it better.

Groningen is usually the main example used for a great city to cycle in, and Houten is a good example of suburbia that prioritizes cycling.

I live in Eindhoven, and I’d even argue that cycling here is less hectic and stressful than cycling in Amsterdam (though Eindhoven is historically one of the more car-brained cities in the Netherlands)

Edit: Worth noting that Amsterdam isn’t bad. It’s probably still better than most cities around the world in terms of cycling infrastructure.

It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month to anyone who hasn’t provided them with a copy of their ID

Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked

Edit: I’m not completely against the idea of age checks for adult content, but it needs to be implemented in a transpatent manner, and the verification should be non-traceable.

The EU appears to be working on a pretty solid solution as part of their digital wallet.
But that is not what Discord is using.

Edit 2: Added some relevant links

Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.

These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.