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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I stick to few sources that generally cover major without the doom and gloom. Generally YouTube channels are pretty good imo.

    • TLDR News (UK, EU and Global) is a great series of channels for that.

    • Caspian report on YouTube for some geopolitics/strategic outlook.

    • Real life lore for couple of deep dives on non-current issues.

    • Money and Macro for macro economic news.

    • Just have a think for climate science and energy transition news.

    • “Good news” is just nice feelgood news.

    Traditional media for closely following elections when they come out such as exit polls.

    For the Gaza issue I did break the cycle and check on Al Jazeera which is the best for middle East news.


  • I torrent a lot on Linux and use Qbittorrent. Surfshark has a great VPN on Linux.

    If you want to get into it then Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and nzb360 ($10) with Jellyfin is a great stack to manage your library but needs a bit of work to set up. You can then use the phone to download and search and watch it with an android TV app.

    I had some issues setting it up with a ublue fedora immutable distro which are pretty non-existent on most standard distros.






  • Maybe but probably not. People that develop applications can save a major headache by choosing flatpaks so the ecosystem will gravitate towards it.

    At some point new applications that didn’t launch a Linux version will do so but only on flatpak and older applications will start moving towards flatpaks since it’s less dev time.

    It looks to me as inevitable that the best versions of an app will be a flatpak but if you’re on Ubuntu based system you can probably get by for very long without them.



  • I decided to read up on it since it looks a bit mental but once you know why it makes a lot of sense.

    Plasma is charged and needs to be contained with magnets because it’ll melt anything it touches.

    To use the magnets uniformly on a donut shaped cloud of particles will cause the particles drift and hit the wall because the donut has particles traveling short distences close to the donut hole and long on the rim. The particle will eventually drift into the wall and destroy the reactor.

    So fuck it, squash the donut and twist it around and now all of parts of a cross section traveling around the donut are traveling equally long distance.