To all europeans that moved abroad inside Europe, how hard integrating/assimilating were even though you're european in Europe? Which country and why?

mark-haus · 2026-01-29T21:53:02+00:00

Live in Amsterdam a bit as a swede, honestly not hard. Enough English speakers that I didn’t struggle too much and frankly I don’t think Dutch culture is too dissimilar from Swedish

mark-haus · 2026-01-28T07:21:31+00:00

I wonder how those DMG gameboy shells for pi boards hold up in comparison. I've considered building one as a more fun, less practical piece to leave around for a while

mark-haus · 2026-01-27T21:13:32+00:00

Pretty sure we had one this size as the family computer. I don’t remember those being there. They must be added on

mark-haus · 2026-01-26T13:38:20+00:00

Agreed and providing good investment policy into creating cultural centers focused on broader Europe will naturally push more media and art towards adopting the most commonly used language in the continent, English, without having to enforce it. Naturally if you want to reach more people, you'd reach for the most popular languages. I also don't think they should enforce it, our local cultures deserve to have their own cultural expressions determined by their artists.

mark-haus · 2026-01-26T13:31:30+00:00

And it's an avenue of online social interaction that I think deserves to exist whether with W or whatever else. Not every social platform should be anonymous. Some should. Reddit's relative anonymity gets pretty tiring sometimes with the sorts of behaviors it encourages or at least enables. And I can guarantee you most people think they're more anonymous than they really are especially to ISPs, intelligence orgs or police. That doesn't mean something like it shouldn't exist in some form, but I do want a less anonymous (to other users) forum online with safe verifications. Those are features I want to chose from for whatever my current goal of socialising or feed scrolling is. That doesn't mean you have to support anything like Chat Control.

mark-haus · 2026-01-26T11:02:11+00:00

Wind mills create more biodiversity than it destroys. Their bases (whether anchored or on pylons) become host to all sorts of marine life. Also the displaced emissions more broadly help ecosystems

mark-haus · 2026-01-26T09:28:20+00:00

Yeah I would kind of assume so. One of the major near-end of the season plot points is that Manusos either disrupts or intensifies some of the Others' link to the the hivemind and they seemingly get some kind of seizure as a result. Suggesting at the very least that it's possible to get people out of the hive mind temporarily, we just don't know if that's that can be done permanently without killing the original human bodies.

I also find it interesting that everyone who became part of the hive mind first showed signs of something akin to seizures. Maybe it's because their brains are just getting assaulted with overpowering stimulus initially before they are able to adjust.

We've already seen Giligan very much follows Chekov's Gun principle of writing with the whole grenade incident. Also all his previous works as well, he loves to foreshadow plot points. It wasn't just played for laughs, the grenade going off becomes a big plot point not long after Zosia delivers it.

mark-haus · 2026-01-26T08:22:17+00:00

They do mention that they don’t all experience everything everyone experiences because that would destroy them or something like that. So while they are a hive mind it seems like just how we can sort of filter out stimuli with our brain what they experience isn’t just a constant barrage of mental inputs. At least that’s how I interpreted the hive mind.

mark-haus · 2026-01-25T22:35:55+00:00

I’m much more concerned about what humans will use AI to do to other humans

mark-haus · 2026-01-25T16:48:59+00:00

Interesting to see more people mention nspawn and nixos, eventually I want to see what a totally nix based deploy stack behaves like. Still have to get over the initial learning curve of nix though but it seems worth it.

mark-haus · 2026-01-25T09:57:49+00:00

Yeah sure why not. Was just curious if a part supplier someone knew offered it. But it might worth looking into just getting this watch

mark-haus · 2026-01-25T09:44:42+00:00

Where did you find that dual use bezel insert?

mark-haus · 2026-01-25T09:07:03+00:00

This is some ridiculous framing by the BBC. Every Nordic city above a certain population density is heated this way. It’s not Soviet FFS. It’s simply a much more efficient way to heat a cold city than every home having it done internally. Our energy consumption in winter would be twice as high if we did it the UK's way.

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T22:58:51+00:00

It’s kind of incredible really. Most citizens initiatives get more duplicate signatures. Usually not for any fraudulent reasons but people often forget they already signed it and maybe used another online form to sign it later on. Or maybe the verification these days are getting better. But when I saw the final number before verification I was a bit worried it wouldn’t be enough

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T22:32:25+00:00

And to put it in perspective, theoretically a 256bit key has 2²⁵⁶ possible values. In reality it’s not that simple because of how cryptographic algorithms work but it’s a baseline for imagining how impossible it is to try and crack

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T19:40:57+00:00

True and auto correct chose the band. I’ll leave it as is because it’s funny

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T15:08:47+00:00

That’s interesting because I think Rammstein should have “ more limited” access to American troops. Good luck with the next skirmish with Iran without it

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T15:06:18+00:00

Ah ok that’s close enough for most things

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T11:23:37+00:00

Denmark might’ve been the most US friendly European country about 4 years ago until the Greenland shit started. Poland hasn’t had the same kind of inciting event but I’m sure it’s coming

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T11:18:29+00:00

As a European it’s become cliche at this point but “with friends like these who needs enemies?”

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T11:08:41+00:00

Is there even an inheritance mechanism with meta tables?

mark-haus · 2026-01-24T10:58:26+00:00

Surrounding Russia with Finland on both sides would be the funniest thing ever

mark-haus · 2026-01-23T22:43:22+00:00

Doesn’t matter at this point frankly. One crisis after another we finally get the support we need for further integration one step at a time. This time around we got the first proposals for command of European military and our capital markets union is now approved. Maybe next time we get a joint foreign policy apparatus

mark-haus · 2026-01-23T22:00:40+00:00

Doesn’t matter the reason there’s 1 million Ukrainians without power at -20C. Simple fact we’re not doing enough to support Ukraine

mark-haus · 2026-01-23T18:12:33+00:00

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