Most likely is. Many open source projects have a joke as a name, often containing some form of innuendo or a double meaning. Helps in maintaining the free nature of the tool (corporations don’t want anything to do with it) as well as lower expectations on professionalism. Plus it’s funny, especially if it’s an in-joke of a niche language.

On the topic of “runk”, it’s also been loaned from Swedish to Finnish as runkata, or to runk = to jerk off. The actual act of it would be runkkaus or runkkaaminen. Can also be encountered in the form runkkari, aka a wanker (I’d assume Swedish had a matching equivalent). So the joke works in Finnish as well.

Tomorrow: Georgian script and Ogham.

Here my European brain was thinking the two sets of counting and alphabet meant two counting in two different languages and systems and listing two different alphabets like Cyrillic and Greek…

I should learn to read things through before jumping to conclusions.

True, the responsibility for safe lane change lays on the driver who is changing lanes. However, any sensible country also prohibits obstruction of a lane change, i.e. you can get fined if you don’t hold enough distance to the driver in front of you to allow merging, don’t make room for the person with the signal on in reasonable time or if you deliberately close the gap so the other person can’t change lanes.

That kind of cooperation is mandatory for good traffic flow and properly made laws try to ensure that. Turning signal should result in people noticing you, and letting you safely switch lanes. Too often people get into some vigilante-mode because they see the other driver skipping in line or something similar.

Merging is another story. Merging traffic should explicitly yield to all traffic already on the highway, similarly to how it works in a roundabout. This prevents people merging on a highway that’s over its capacity, so the traffic clears quicker. It means that traffic should queue on the ramp until it’s safe to merge, indefinitely if necessary. Mathematically it makes sense, but goes against intuition.

Some municipalities have tried out metered entry on highways, that block turning onto the on-ramp altogether if the level of congestion is too high. Some trials have already ended due to the perceived injustice as well, as people already on the highway are typically from out of the city, and thus preventing those living closer from merging onto it. Personally I think if you’re close enough to complain about that you should be in public transit range of the population center, and complaining more about the lack of alternatives to driving.

Yep, at those percentages there’s likely an amount larger of piss in every breath you take indoors. Always remember, it’s the amount that kills (or tastes like piss)

TBH, a dissertation as a suicide note sounds kinda like a power move.

Serves me right for assuming Germans had a similarly judgemental attitude to people who have ruined their finances. Thanks for the correction.

Finns often have a very puritan attitude to debt (you should fear it like the devil), and in the common discussion it’s often attributed to the ethics of the Lutheran church. That’s at least partially the reason we still don’t have a real personal bankruptcy option. Somewhat surprising to me that a country that shares that value system could be that forgiving to people – I’m a bit envious even 😅

Around here Klarna and other similar companies have long been seen as exploiting the fact that debt is really difficult to get through proper sources, and there’s a matching draconian bunch of collections agencies to support that business model. We’ve mainly been trying to tackle this by regulating the process of giving out loans, instead of giving people the necessary way out and thus giving the corporations an incentive to self-regulate.

If bad credit is actually no longer possible to collect on, it ceases to be good business. Hats off to Germany for having a proper route out of predatory loans.

I’ll try to find some and link, but I’m not sure if there are good ones.

Edit: couldn’t find one with quick googling. Guess I’ll have to write one when I have time.

Klarna 'bout to find out their business model doesn’t work as well in the US compared to the Nordic countries and EU, as

1. People are already up to their neck in debt, putting Klarna to the back of the queue in case there’s a default
2. Personal bankruptcy is a thing

Especially the Northern Europe personal bankruptcy is really not a thing, fuck up your finances and you’re never going to see a penny you make (above what you strictly need to live) until everything has been paid back. Debt that is actively being collected also never expires.

There’s a good reason Klarna’s been able to thrive in this environment – getting debt from banks is quite difficult and you have added security from the draconian collections process.

In the US a company ignores credit scores at their own peril. The bankruptcy process is one of the few things that works better in the US than in e.g. my home country Finland.

One of the main historical reasons was the Debian project’s puritan approach to open source, meaning the distro was very picky about what it could easily run on. As an example, most network drivers for Realtek nics weren’t included out of the box as they contained non-free code, there was no direct way to install Nvidia drivers instead of nouveau, a lot of the hardware didn’t work in the installer unless you sideloaded the drivers from a usb stick and so on.

There was a non-free ISO version to get around this, but you needed to know of it to use it, and it wasn’t provided anywhere by default. The download page for it was just a barebone directory listing within the mirror. No link or information was provided for it on the main project page.

Starting from version 12 or 13 (don’t remember exactly) proprietary drivers have been included in the installation images, which removed the biggest pain point (IMO) for novice users. Apart from that Debian has been one of the easier distros to install, and has things like a considerably better experience when updating to the next major release. It’s not really slower to update packages than Ubuntu, as I’d be wary of recommending the non-LTS versions to novice users. They tend to be quite unstable compared to LTS.

Personally I’ve daily driven Debian for close to five years, on all my devices except the work laptop. That one is running Ubuntu 24.04 as the employer requires either that or Fedora for Linux users.

Android Open Source Project, it’s the open base that the actual Android releases are built upon. It’s not really usable as is, since it lacks the required kernel blobs and software that people have come to expect (like Google’s proprietary stuff).

Yep – despite the death of Blockbuster et al., I still choose to 'rent my content. Pay no mind to the appearance of the apostrophe. Truth be told, I’d still be willing to pay for video rental if they didn’t choose to overcharge for HD versions. 3-4 € for a single watch of the film in blu-ray quality 4k would be perfectly reasonable, however the platform locks (no Linux etc.) due to DRM make that option not viable even if it did exist, as I don’t have any devices that could consume the content.

Precisely the location. Not getting covered by snow is another benefit, it’s nice to see the technology being used more.

That’s partly the reason, that’s why they’re used e.g. for marking bike paths. This has the added benefit of being very noticeable when you’re looking at the ground.

They did not really work for us, but purposely built a pension system where they paid in about 10-13 % of their income towards the pensions, while reaching pension age between 60-65. That, and a public health sector that prioritises urgent care over preventative, meaning there’s insane queues for anyone who can wait as their health issues pile up – since they’re not in immediate risk of death. Most urgent care gets used by pensioners, leading to the budget not being enough for anything else.

My generation pays 24 % of all income as a pension contribution before all other taxes, pension age will be between 68-70 and the system still doesn’t have enough money and there’s pressure for increasing contributions even further. Still the current retirees have the audacity to complain if someone tells them they had it easier. The pension system was designed as an insurance, instead of everyone’s payments being invested. I have practically zero trust I’ll ever see a single cent of the money I put in.

Most of the ones responsible for actually building the welfare state are already dead, or close to dying. The ones I’m talking about are their children who chose to ignore all the problems they were presented with (like the ballooning costs of pensions and healthcare, and shrinking generations), and are now whining when the next generation doesn’t want to pay for all their mistakes.

The main reason I’m so fed up with the current retirees in Finland is, that there’s been insane amounts of austerity for years now – but the austerity measures never affect pensions as they’re treated as an earned benefit. Without any thought toward the fact that the first generations to actually “save” their pension in full (i.e. contributing enough) were those born in 60’s and 70’s, not the ones who are currently retired. Also the choices etc. are already taken into account, you don’t get a new liver if you’re an alcoholic and things like that.

Precisely, additionally we’re collectively too poor for healthcare unless we do our best to reduce the need for it in the first place. That’s why many countries in the EU for example are trying to regulate people away from unhealthy behaviour. Healthcare costs are already disproportionately burdened by the workforce while those who benefit are people on their last legs, since your guaranteed necessary care (at least in the Finnish system). That’s why there have been talks to lax the guarantees of the healthcare system for e.g. people over 80, who cause almost the majority of all costs.

The society is planning on the basis that I’ll be a productive worker until 69,5 years old – that’s the recommended age for starting my government backed pension. Good luck making it that far without a rigorous focus on one’s health.

Infuriatingly that would omit things like unit test runners from the history in case they don’t pass. As a developer I tend to re-run failed commands quite often, not sure how widely that applies, though.

Yep, infuriatingly installers often default to small /boot volumes, and if you want to change that value better say goodbye to automatic partitioning. Although, after trying to make the installer behave, giving up and manually formatting the drive, I finally got the push required to set up both encrypted root and encrypted /home on separate drives.

Currently I use an 8 GiB /boot, but I really think Debian installer should start making 2 GiB or even 4 GiB /boot the default now. Dumb to have the installer shoot itself in the foot like this. Ubuntu still does the same thing for some reason, as if we don’t have room on the drives to fit a bit more futureproof /boot there.

Yep, and if you go BW there are many affordable options, like foma 100. Also many labs are still processing film if you want to try it out without developing yourself. Film has had a proper resurgence for a while now, getting a lot more traction during covid.

Ok – that works a bit differently for our code then. Standard breakers are 10 A and 16 A, which means 10 A and 16 A constant load. Load characteristics affect which profile you use, typical residential alternatives are B and C profile breakers. B trips quicker, C trips slower and is meant for circuits with more reactive load characteristics. 16 A C profile breaker can take up to an hour to trip under 18-19 A load as an example. Your standard breaker can deal with quite a lot of inrush current – even with the faster B profile.

Wiring is built to withstand approximately 15 A when using a 10 A breaker, and 20 A when using a 16 A breaker. As such, the fuses display the value for constant loads, not for the peak. The most commonly used outlets in the EU (i.e. Schuko) are rated for 8 A continuous, 16 A peak, and are typically put on a 16 A circuit. 10 A circuits are mainly used for lighting nowadays, at least in Finland – 16 A being the standard for most things.

The voltage difference might have something to do with this, as 230 V will be capable of driving much more power though a potential short. As such any actual fault condition will most likely cause the fuse to trip quite quickly. Also current code mandates GFCI on all outlets in a house, which will help with smaller faults that aren’t enough for the breaker to trip.