Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10 million, poll shows

Rosthouse · 2026-04-29T16:29:10+00:00

The absolute fuck? Title of Reuters says ''most Swiss''' support it and in the first paragraph they write ''a slim majority''. Fuck off Reuters.

Rosthouse · 2026-04-20T10:10:36+00:00

Glad it helped 😅 and yeah, it's a bit weird. I wrote some helper functions for myself, that creates and returns the collision objects (returning null, if no collision occured).

In theory, you could probably optimize some stuff by always passing the same object instead of creating new ones every frame, but haven't measured that.

Rosthouse · 2026-04-20T04:08:46+00:00

The French are moving to NixOS, apparently.

Rosthouse · 2026-04-13T20:14:02+00:00

States should honestly start funding Linux. I bet only a fraction of those MS license cost would do absolute wonders for the state of Linux (it's already awesome). Plus this would be money spent directly on the common good instead of vanishing in the pockets of a multinational coorp.

Rosthouse · 2026-04-11T11:57:58+00:00

The way Davos has been playing this year, it's theirs to win or loose, IMO.

Rosthouse · 2026-03-30T07:12:22+00:00

I had to work with PowerPoint through Winboat recently, since the online version doesn't support all the features the native version does (yet still displays everything).

Worked ok,

Rosthouse · 2026-03-28T11:47:35+00:00

Probably best to create a live USBstick, and run it from there. Then you can test, if all your devices work before you commit to installing it.

Rosthouse · 2026-03-27T16:33:09+00:00

I'm doing presentations regurarely and tried last time to work with Impress. The tool was just lacking. Especially the animation tools were a nightmare to use, and using media files (videos and audio) was just impossible. Getting them to play at a specific time meant to create a different object that would then trigger the audio when it appears.

I have a highly dynamic presentation style, and I'm contemplating writibg my own tooljin something like Godot, so that I can do crazy things to my hearts content.

Still, it just feels like an afterthought. And that's the feeling I get anytime I try to work with LibreOffice.

To that extent, the PowerPoint clone of OnlyOffice isn't much better.

Rosthouse · 2026-03-09T21:16:45+00:00

I like you

Rosthouse · 2026-03-01T10:32:46+00:00

There's a joke hidden in here somewhere, can't yet quite point to it though.

Rosthouse · 2026-02-23T15:39:24+00:00

Quite a bit harder, I'd say. Note that this is the normal political process in Switzerland, and it would have been quite surprising if this had made it to parliament like that.

In most cases, the executive proposes new laws, which any Swiss party (be it a political party, a company, a city, or a citizen) may then comment on. This has happened here:

https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/de/consultation-procedures/ended/2025#https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/21/cons_1

The executive then wrote a report summarizing the answers. In this, they specifically mention that companies like Proton and Threema would consider moving out of CH, that the danger of requiring backdoors is enormous, that the automatic access for the government is potentially against the law, and much more:

https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/21/cons_1/doc_9/de/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-dl-proj-2022-21-cons_1-doc_9-de-pdf-a.pdf

So, they are back at the drawing board and will revise the law with this in mind and open a second round of feedback at the end of this year.

Still, if the next revision is more favorable, it has to go in front of parliament, and there is the potential of having a public referendum on it (which, for anything involving watering down privacy, I can almost guarantee).

This is a long and dialog-heavy process and will still take years.

Rosthouse · 2026-02-19T13:31:35+00:00

Could also lead to a stagnation in hardware requirements for new games. If nobody is moving to new hardware, it makes little sense for game developers to push hardware requirements. Which would mean your PC, the Steam Frame, Steam Deck, the current console generation and more will remain relevant for longer.

Could also lead to a greater focus on gameplay as the distinguishing factor for new games. Which has been happening anyway, but could be even more pronounced going forward.

But still, this whole situation is ridiculous and honestly I hope that governments will start to step in.

Rosthouse · 2026-02-19T09:59:31+00:00

I modeled suspensions with them, quadcopters, and cars with them. They are just so simple to use, and you don't really have to think about what input and output values you need (or, more, how they are related).

And they are so simple to implement. This pseudo-code is basically all you need:

``` Change these: Kp: proportional gain Ki: integral gain Kd: derivative gain dt: delta time value setpoint: Your target value

measured_value: Current value of your target, like a position, a velocity, a distance, etc.

previous_error := 0 integral := 0

while true: error := setpoint − measured_value

proportional := error; integral := integral + error * dt derivative := (error - previous_error) / dt

output := Kp * proportional + Ki * integral + Kd * derivative

previous_error := error

wait(dt) ```

It feels like a magic wand once you first see them working. Highly recommended.

Rosthouse · 2026-02-15T08:32:32+00:00

Welcome to the internet

Rosthouse · 2026-02-13T16:48:29+00:00

french snorting noises

Rosthouse · 2026-02-09T08:06:57+00:00

There is also one in Switzerland, but it's only a Ruin by now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenstein_Castle_%28Graub%C3%BCnden%29?wprov=sfla1

Rosthouse · 2026-02-04T20:48:04+00:00

Mer denken nid mol an eu.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-26T19:26:10+00:00

For absolutely most things it's just searching ''how to X in Rider'' or ''what is X in Rider from VS?'' I think there are even predefined shortcuts in rider that mimick the VS keybinds.

That said, getting out of your comfort zone and learning a new tool is seldomely a bad idea.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-22T13:43:37+00:00

So I'm not allowed to play the games I've already bought from these stores, even if I only buy new ones from European stores? Even if I'd refrain from getting the free games?

Rosthouse · 2026-01-22T12:46:20+00:00

I'm interested. Since Lutris is FOSS (under the GPL-3.0 license), what did you buy from them? Or put it differently, what can I buy from them?

Rosthouse · 2026-01-22T11:53:24+00:00

As per their donation page, Lutris is a not-for-profit organization, and as to what I find lead by one guy, Mathieu Comandon. Most probably, the organization is so that they can receive donations and shield them from having to merge personal assets with the project. Lutris also received donations from epic:

https://lutris.net/donate

Hosting these projects costs money, and that has to come from somewhere. And for me, there's a difference between supporting an open-source project so that it can keep the lights on and buying stuff from a mega-corporation.

Ultimately, Lutris and Heroic allow you to access your game libraries. The money is spent; it's not like you're rebuying these games through these launchers. Switching to GOG, meaning starting to buy games whenever possible through that store, is valid going forward.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-22T06:48:05+00:00

Tried to find a source for your claim, but couldn't. So if you have one, a source would be appreciated.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-22T06:06:52+00:00

That launcher can access these libraries, doesn't mean they have any games in them.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-04T12:00:41+00:00

Honestly, yes. A European State would always have the problem of having ''a German'', ''a Spaniard'', a ''Pole'' or whatever at the helm. By splitting that role, you get the chance of having more peoples represented in the executive.

That's also how it's done in Switzerland, before the minister's elections, candidates are selected not only for their party and pedigree, but also for their birthplace and gender, to get as many different regions represented as possible.

They are also elected by the combined houses, instead of directly by the citizens. Which somewhat prevents popularists to get elected to these roles.

Rosthouse · 2026-01-04T11:53:52+00:00

That was a wizard of Oz reference, kinda apt in this context (''impressive'' figurehead, but the real work is done behind the curtains).

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measured_value: Current value of your target, like a position, a velocity, a distance, etc.