danielquinn

So don't break Chrome and Android out the company, just force them to harass users with another popup? I'm sure this will do wonders for choice on the web. /s

[Liz Kendall] said the cuts were about “ensuring the welfare state survives” and that the government would always seek to protect those with the greatest need.

This bullshit has got to die, and shame on the Guardian for uncritically publishing it. The choice isn't between cutting welfare or watching it die. It's between taxing the rich or not.

The problem here is that they've already made that choice and are pretending that now we only have two choices, both of which amount to "screw the poor". There are massive amounts of wealth in this country and it's all going into the pockets of the rich and into bombs.

So let's do away with this "we have to cut or lose everything" lie already.

FFS this country needs a socialist party.

I have a few interesting ones.

Download a video:

alias yt="yt-dlp -o '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' "

Execute the previous command as root:

alias please='sudo $(fc -n -l -1)'

Delete all the Docker things. I do this surprisingly often:

alias docker-nuke="docker system prune --all --volumes --force"

This is a handy one for detecting a hard link

function is-hardlink {
  count=$(stat -c %h -- "${1}")
  if [ "${count}" -gt 1 ]; then
    echo "Yes.  There are ${count} links to this file."
  else
    echo "Nope.  This file is unique."
  fi
}

I run this one pretty much every day. Regardless of the distro I'm using, it Updates All The Things:

function up {
  if [[ $(command -v yay) ]]; then
    yay -Syu --noconfirm
    yay -Yc --noconfirm
  elif [[ $(command -v apt) ]]; then
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade -y
    sudo apt autoremove -y
  fi
  flatpak update --assumeyes
  flatpak remove --unused --assumeyes
}

I maintain an aliases file in GitLab with all the stuff I have in my environment if anyone is curious.

That Varoufakis speech was excellent. Thanks so much for sharing!

The Greens, and to a lesser extent, the NDP have never had the opportunity to demonstrate the flagrant duplicity of the Liberals because they've never held power. In fact, I'd argue that the Liberal/Conservative hold on power has a great deal to do with the public's intolerance for truth tellers in politics. I'd also argue that the PPC are likely quite honest... they're just also deplorable.

My experience with the BQ is limited by my abysmal French skills, but it seems to me that they've routinely campaigned on a largely separatist, francophone, socialist platform and have delivered on those promises.

Well I can't speak for all the parties, but it follows that if both the Conservatives and the Liberals regularly lie to the public and pursue neoliberal policy that's trying to kill us all, that maybe we should try voting for literally anyone else.

It's the Liberal Party. It's what they do.

Is anyone honestly surprised by this?

Any plan that starts with "If everyone can just..." is doomed to fail. This needs legislation and at least the threat of nationalisation if not the act.

Points for the exceptional choice of name.

That's been the whole point of the focus on identity politics.

• Pros: Cheaper to install as you don't have to rip up the whole road, capable of cornering at around 15kph. Low initial cost.
• Cons: Battery powered, with a 70km range, with a max capacity of 60 people. Driven by humans.

This does not sound like something anyone needs and it appears to be designed to share the road with private vehicles (hence the focus on speed and cornering) which means it will get stuck in traffic.

When you're paying humans to drive something, the benefit comes not in how fast it corners but in how many people can be transported at once. Even if it's a straight line at 20kph, it's still better to have big LRTs hauling upwards of 2000 people, stopping at intersections to let them switch to another LRT going in another direction.

The one benefit I can see here is the low cost of installing these tracks, it could be used to trial a route served by a tram (negating the cornering feature), but even then, a bus has near zero infrastructure requirements and can move more people than this for the same price.