I checked and this does seem to fit for Switzerland.

Trade deficit of US to Switzerland: 38.5 B
Exports from Switzerland to US: 63.4 B

Ratio of the two: 61%

Half of that as “reciprocal” tariff: 31%

The page behind your link above actually solves the riddle in question:

I have a Mastodon account, @rms on mastodon.xyz, which mirrors the political notes of stallman.org. The person who set up the mirroring chose that site.

The profile picture and colour scheme fits. I’m guessing just the text is edited.

Ah yes, the good old /time set 1000

Ahhh I’m rubbing up against all this nothing so roughly it feels almost sticky

At 17, I think yes. Unless Tiffany is too young. And make sure he has condoms.

My dad who retires today and who has been a Windows user since roughly 1993 has set up multiple Pi-Holes and OpenVPN in the last few years and recently even installed Ubuntu in WSL so he can run bash scripts locally too. He’s not in a tech job, he’s a doctor.

A year ago my friend who has been using Windows for his gaming for the last 22 years asked my to help him set up a Fedora dual boot. Just to play around with, even though he doesn’t have a tech background. He didn’t really use it much. But today his work had him blocked by their own fuck-up and he decided to use the time to try it out again.

This evening he told me about how he upgraded his Fedora back to a current version using GUI tools. Then he saw that Windows wasn’t the default boot in his grub boot order anymore. He tried to find an app for editing grub, realised this was the kind of thing people do with CLI. So in the next two hours he learned enough CLI using a free beginners lesson he found online somewhere, until he found the history command, where he found the grub command we used during the original setup. He was so excited about this success!

I think the CLI criticisms are way overblown, and non-programmers can use CLIs perfectly well if they want to.

“I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars,” Trump said.

So maybe he understands what the tariffs do after all, despite all the bullshit he spouts.

My computer doesn’t really break, I’m Ship of Theseus-ing it regularly.

Apart from that, the only one among the normal window based ones that has felt like it respects my will to configure stuff in ways that feel right to me has been KDE Plasma.

I think I finally found what I was put on this earth to do: Knife goes in guts come out.

– Bart Simpson

And the old WCFAN (we couldn’t find a name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!

I used TexStudio for my Master’s thesis, it worked fine for me. I haven’t done a full survey of available LaTex distributions though :-)

I heard a few times that there is this saying in English that the tree of democracy needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants or something like that. Isn’t it about time for that? They do seem to be tearing down democracy.

Coronaviruses are not the only cause for what is considered the “common cold”. I remember that some Rhinoviruses, Adenoviruses and I think a forth family of viruses also cause symptoms that are counted as a cold. It’s kind of a catch all term.

A bit off topic but please indulge me:

“Only holders of a P.Eng. licence are legally permitted to use the title P.Eng.’ or the term ‘engineer’ in their job title, or to use any other term, title or description that may lead to the belief that they are authorized to practice professional engineering,” McCutcheon said.

That’s interesting to me. We’re looser with the term “Engineer” here in Switzerland. So I wanted to ask, do you have Network Engineers in Ontario? If not what are the people who design, plan and implement new computer networks called instead?

We still use RCS at work. For config files for our network monitoring. Works fine still.

Isn’t Voice of America like the USA’s equivalent of Deutsche Welle?

Basically a vehicle for internationally transporting news from the US American perspective?

Trump really hates any and all soft power the USA have available.

Besides them being stupid as hell to conduct this ridiculous culture war, I take issue with another thing, the name:

Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education

It’s not unlawful until you forbid it. So the title makes no sense. You’re not forbidding the unlawful. You’re forbidding the previously lawful, making it unlawful.

Stupid assholes.

I have some doubts. Only small or weird outlets have any news on this and there is no good original source linked anywhere.

The Canadian Press explains a potential path by which this claim could have arisen, namely that Slim’s company América Móvil had stated in an earnings call that they were going to invest 22 billion pesos (! not USD) in infrastructure over three years and they didn’t have plans to invest it in Starlink, instead looking more towards two other satellite companies, and only for rural backbones where laying fiber would be more expensive.

Wow that’s quite nice of them as well!

Any news about your part Sir_Kevin? I’m curious if anything has happened since Trump already backpedaled a bit.