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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • The decision to kick a country out of the EU needs to be unanimous with the current treaty. In the past it’s not been an option since there’s at least two rogue states that will block such moves since that will make each of them safe.

    Currently the EU is withholding EU funding to get concessions out of Orban which kinda works. Only a treaty change will fix this when they turn the unanimous voting into a qualified majority voting.

    It’s essentially like trying to change the constitution of a county except currently it’s unanimous voting of the council of countries. Switching to a 75% of countries + 2/3 of parliament would is what the EU is gravitating towards but that will involve more concessions with Hungary.





  • I stick to few sources that generally cover major without the doom and gloom. Generally YouTube channels are pretty good imo.

    • TLDR News (UK, EU and Global) is a great series of channels for that.

    • Caspian report on YouTube for some geopolitics/strategic outlook.

    • Real life lore for couple of deep dives on non-current issues.

    • Money and Macro for macro economic news.

    • Just have a think for climate science and energy transition news.

    • “Good news” is just nice feelgood news.

    Traditional media for closely following elections when they come out such as exit polls.

    For the Gaza issue I did break the cycle and check on Al Jazeera which is the best for middle East news.


  • I torrent a lot on Linux and use Qbittorrent. Surfshark has a great VPN on Linux.

    If you want to get into it then Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and nzb360 ($10) with Jellyfin is a great stack to manage your library but needs a bit of work to set up. You can then use the phone to download and search and watch it with an android TV app.

    I had some issues setting it up with a ublue fedora immutable distro which are pretty non-existent on most standard distros.







  • Maybe but probably not. People that develop applications can save a major headache by choosing flatpaks so the ecosystem will gravitate towards it.

    At some point new applications that didn’t launch a Linux version will do so but only on flatpak and older applications will start moving towards flatpaks since it’s less dev time.

    It looks to me as inevitable that the best versions of an app will be a flatpak but if you’re on Ubuntu based system you can probably get by for very long without them.