Well, there goes my appetite, this Dutch guy hates herring. Can’t stand the smell, taste or texture. 🤢

Oh well, I wouldn’t have been welcome anyway, seeing I’ve had the audacity to be critical of Israeli genocide defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.

Guess I’ll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.

Just as long as The Netherlands come second.

Well, I really enjoyed my two-week holiday at the start of Q2. Was nice to be at a popular location before all the big crowds come in. No complaints from my manager, only a sincere ‘enjoy your time off!’ So glad we don’t have that toxic Anglo-Saxon work culture here.

Lekker. Kan ik je er ook een Haags Hopje bij aanbieden?

Imagine you’re a GitHub employee tasked with leaving a nice message for the 1 billionth repo. Seeing that counter tick towards that joyful moment, anticipation builds.

What would it be? The next Linux display manager? Something as impactful as Docker or Kubernetes? The early beginnings of a radical new OS?

Nope, it turns out to be shit. 💩

Would be nice if they could first sort out basic stuff like keeping windows on the screen after coming out of sleep mode and connecting/disconnecting an external monitor. On X11 no issues, but with Wayland stuff always gets thrown off the screen, with just a sliver of the bottom of the window still showing. Having to move every open application back by right-clicking it in the taskbar, selecting Move and manually dragging it back gets old real fast.

For a fixed PC that’s probably not really an issue, but on a laptop that gets moved around a lot it’s really annoying.

It wouldn’t. Source: it’s my native language.

If they’ll have me.

Not with the current political climate I’m afraid. Still hoping for a shift to the left, as our right wing parties just showed they are completely incompetent. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst though.

Santa forgetting to request his working visa? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Soooo, you are saying the US (in)justice system is, at the very absolute max, going to tell him that he might end up on Santa’s naughty list for this year?

All Ghillied Up…

I’ll happily trade your razor blade slot for the crumbling linen-covered iron electrical wiring inside metal pipes in our 50’s house. Don’t worry, we are busy replacing it all. But if I’m suddenly permanently offline our house probably burned down. 😋

The Godfather. Despite several attempts I’ve never made it through, it just can’t hold my attention.

Ook getekend. Ik verwacht er niets van, maar in ieder geval is het een signaal dat niet iedere Nederlander achter dit ‘beleid’ staat.

Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.

Breaking MacOS is easy, if the fork bomb doesn’t work just create a function which recursively writes files until the disk is full. Unless they fixed it in the past 5 years, at that point even when the OS is set to delete files directly, it will still fail to delete anything. I couldn’t even remove anything with sudo rm -f, that just triggered a ‘not enough space to remove file’ error message.

Found that out the hard way when a program borked itself and filled the entire drive with log files until there was not even a single byte left. Fortunately I had a very small file in the bin, clearing that still worked and those few bytes were enough to be able to perform file deletes again. Never bothered to find out why MacOS behaved that way as I was able to ditch that OS entirely not long after, but perhaps somebody else knows.

A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.

The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢

Alternatively you could use a bodkin to puncture the sidewalls of the tire. A bodkin is a little tool used to make fishing flies.

For a moment I thought you wanted to suggest to go medieval on their asses tires.

It is Ubuntu, not my favourite distribution, but easy enough that they are able to work with it. Most software is also either available through the included repositories or has a dedicated Ubuntu executable.

It also has LTS versions, which are supported for quite some time. That way you can set up a system which they can use for years without having to deal with major changes during that period.