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Volgens het oude recept. In november 2025 werd de overname bekend. Toen was het te vroeg iets te doen. Dus deed men niets. En nu zeggen ze dat het te laat is om nog iets te doen. Klassieke truc die al in Yes Minister aangeraden werd.
To nobody's surprise, they will burn all their satellites up in the atmosphere, because that's what all the cool kids do. They don't actually say their operating lifetimes anywhere. But if they're 5 years like Starlink, then that's a bit more than one satellite burned up per hour.
And will they burn up completely? Well, they say they'll use the same NASA debris model to assess that said that the SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk would burn up. So I'm not worried at all!!
Yes, we should all celebrate Orban leaving office. It is a victory in the fight against autocrats - where Orban was a weird ally of the US AND Russia AND China.
But: This has come at a huge cost for any progressive movements in Hungary. Parliament is now run EXCLUSIVELY by right-wing, anti-migration parties. Leftists voted for Magyar to get rid of Orban.
Magyar will be an easier partner for EU institutions (also increasingly anti-migration). He is no ally for the left.
Wow. One of the most relevant blog posts I've read about AI coding for a long time: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have bigger problems.
Rings quite a few bells here.
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.
Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite:
- multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns
- the US government actively supporting Fidesz
- Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers
- Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country
- many documented cases of voter suppression & paying disinfrenchised voters for support
- Fidesz pouring unprecedented $$$ into their campaign
Feeling a little proud of my country for the first time in a while 🇭🇺
U.S. and Israeli weapons are precise enough to enable the assassination of Iranian leaders—yet they are targeting hospitals and schools, This is the beginning of what will surely be extensive documentation of war crimes.
Buying less from US-owned companies can be difficult. Heinz tomato ketchup is an easy target, but the Danish app UdenUSA (non-USA) shows that good old De Ruijter chocolate sprinkles ('since 1860') are Heinz, too.
The alternatives shown are very Danish :)
As I procrastinate breaking camp. Time to talk about the item I'm really pleased I brought with me. My shade cloth.
I set it up over the side of my tent to provide shade during the hottest part of the day so that I can hide in my tent if I get overwhelmed by all the people.
Normally tents get way too hot during full sun. But this has worked brilliantly. It's sold as shade cloth for plants. The search term is "shade cloth 99%" as it comes with different levels of reflectivity.
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