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Comment · 12 days ago
If the application uses p11-kit, or a TLS library that uses p11-kit such as OpenSSL, NSS, or GnuTLS, then Flatpak should automatically give it access to the host system's CA certificates.
Comment · 15 days ago
For 2024, worldwide $6.7tn in implicit subsidies (that's the externalities) plus $725bn in explicit subsides, for all fossil fuels.
https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/12/20/und...
Comment · 16 days ago
NATO never had a combat mission in Syria or Iraq.
Russia, on the other hand, together with the Syrian government bombed so many hospitals in Syria that Doctors Without Borders stopped reporting the locations of their hospitals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/msf-will-not-s...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/15/syria/russia-strategy-ta...
Comment · 1 month ago
Because firstly, it had a broken architecture.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/406397/comments/21
https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/447654/comments/6
Secondly, Canonical required copyright assignment for any contribution to Upstart, and Lennart/Kay decided that if they basically have to substantially rewrite it to fix the broken architecture, they better do it in a new project with no copyright assignment barriers.
See the comments in this thread by Upstart author and former Canonical employee Scott James Remnant:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140928104327/https://plus.goog...
Had the CLA not been in place, the result of the LF Collab discussions would have almost certainly been contributions of patches from +Kay Sievers and Lennart (after all, we'd all worked together on things like udev, and got along) that would have fixed all those design issues, etc.
But the CLA prevented them from doing that (I won't sign the CLA myself, which is one reason I don't contribute since leaving Canonical - so I hold no grudges here), so history happened differently. After our April 2010 meeting, Lennart went away and wrote systemd, which was released in July 2010 if memory serves.
Comment · 1 month ago
> The EU price varies by renewables production.
This may be technically true at the moment, but the underlying reason for the high prices is fossil fuels: when renewable generation is low, natural gas peaker plants are generating, and these have the highest cost of any generation source, and by the merit order rules under which commodity markets such as electricity operate, the highest source price sets the price of the commodity.
The obvious and affordable mitigation for high prices is to build out massive battery storage capacities so that natural gas plants are needed far less often.
Comment · 1 month ago
China added 315 GW of solar and 120 GW of wind capacity in the year 2025.
There is a lot of hydro generation deployed (1455 GW) but only 30 GW capacity added worldwide in 2025, and 200 GW added worldwide during last 10 years.
Total geothermal capacity is 15 GW worldwide in 2025.
https://www.irena.org/Publications/2026/Mar/Renewable-capaci...
Comment · 1 month ago
Both of your statements are technically true (the cancelled pipeline was called South Stream).
Also true is that another pipeline called Balkan Stream connects to Turk Stream to transport the Russian gas into Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary, and went into operation in 2021.
https://n1info.rs/english/news/balkan-stream-gas-pipeline-op...
Comment · 1 month ago
Orange Man was elected in 2015.
Europeans decided to construct Nord Stream 2 to completion (finished 2021, but never certified for operation).
Nord Stream 1 was shut down by Russia in 2022.
Turk Stream pipeline (from Russia to Bulgaria) finished construction/began operation in 2020.
Comment · 1 month ago
Spending 19 billion € over 18 years to build 1.65GW Flamanville 3 is not quite obvious to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...
Edit: compare this with China: they added 315 GW of Solar capacity in a single year (2025; see page 34 of the PDF).
https://www.irena.org/Publications/2026/Mar/Renewable-capaci...
(You can't compare nameplate capacity directly, but it can be safely assumed that 2 orders of magnitude more is ... actually more)
Comment · 4 months ago
Congress did improve the situation with the Corporate Transparency Act in 2020, but then Trump became president again and simply announced that the law will no longer be enforced, and now what is left of the Republican party wants to repeal it altogether.
https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-wo...
Comment · 4 months ago
Russian Armed Forces have practically demonstrated a range of at least 1200 km, see this news report that was linked from Wikipedia.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-us...
There's more interesting stuff on Wikipedia; this gives the impression that both Russia and USA wanted to exit the treaty because China wasn't bound by it or any similar treaty and thus has been stockpiling exactly these kind of missiles for a long time now, so the treaty puts both Russia and USA at a disadvantage. Then follows some theatrics where Russia and USA point finger at each other while never talking about their true motivation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
What happened in Spain is that they joined the Euro currency, and this caused a massive boom from 2001-2007 where GDP more than doubled in only 6 years. This was mostly fueled by capital transfers from other Eurozone countries, seeking higher returns than in their home country.
Of course this rate of growth proved unsustainable: in 2008 the (Spanish) real estate bubble burst and this caused bank bail outs, massive unemployment (rates around 25%), and put an end to GDP growth for many years, exacerbated by the fact that Spain did no longer have its own currency to devalue in order to regain international competitiveness.
At the time the bubble burst, government debt in Spain was at a bit more than 40% GDP, with a budget surplus, far lower than for example the "responsible" Germany at more than 60%.
Now what does any of that have to do with "socialists"? If anything, it's a cautionary tale about badly designed currency zones and financial markets misallocating capital.
Comment · 6 months ago
Did that article also mention how Nuland gave cookies to the riot police on Maidan square?
https://archivist.substack.com/p/in-kyiv-nuland-handed-cooki...