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it may as well be a system managed folder at that point.

In a way it is. But user-level system, as opposed to root-level system.

I’m not sure why you’re bringing the XDG or systemd “standard” into this.

Probably because in their "basedir" specification they do recommend ~/.local/bin to be in $PATH. I'm sure there's more than one distro following that spec, whether we'd want to consider it standard or not. I also believe there's some software (like flatpak) that may place scripts there too, when configured to offer commands for user-level instalations.

Here's a quote from the spec:

User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.

Ok, there are no numbers from 2024 yet in the source.

I think the solar capacity in 2023 for China was 525GW.

So a 277 GW increase in solar means it increased by (277 / 525) 52.76% (that's great!)

That same percentage increase over the current value in terms of production would not make it rise past Australia per capita yet, but nobody can deny that's an impressive pace.

Also, considering that the trend in population numbers for China is slowly starting to decrease, that could also contribute to an increase in the per capita numbers in the future.

Doesn't that table show Australia has double the consumption? also that consumption number is in total primary energy, regardless if the energy comes from solar or not.

I believe that to see how much of the TPES for each country comes from solar we would need to divide the solar production per capita by the total consumption per capita:

- Australia: 1774 kWh / 63257 kWh = 2.80%
- China:      410 kWh / 33267 kWh = 1.23%

Sources: the 2023 numbers from his link, and the 2023 numbers from the source in your wikipedia link.

The article is talking about storage space, not about access to files in any particular filesystem.

Previous versions of Android 15 Terminal app only allowed 16GB of space to be used by the guest system. The article mentions it.

So even if you had 128GB in your phone, previously you could only use 16GB of them in the environment Google set up for the Linux Terminal subsystem, which made it very limiting. What the article says is that now they are removing that limitation.

Wait, there's a "rise out of water" stage already??

I thought it was all still in the cellular stage, without even having a macroscopic "fish"-like creature yet.

Yes, that's essentially what many philosophers call "the hard problem" of consciousness.

You can describe things using referential abstractions that are socially agreed upon between individuals in some sort of social contract.

However, we will never know if what you experience when you see the color we both call "red" is the same that I experience when I see the color we both call "red". It could be that what I experience with "red" is what you experience with "blue" and vice-versa, but we still would agree when we both point a color, since the words we use to explain each of our experiences would still be consistent with the reference we have agreed on.

We agree on what words mean based on what references we make, but you cannot really ever be sure that we are both truly understanding each other in a subjective level. Each subjective experience is personal and nontransferable, you'd need to BE "me" to know what it's like to BE "me". And if you did, then you would no longer be "you" anyway.. so that makes it literally impossible.

True, but then you have bigger problems than just the journal.

Then simply write it in a text editor without saving it into a file, it'll be lost after closing the program.

I've been advocating protectionism in EU, even before Trump did it first.

The EU is way behind when it comes to very important strategic markets in relation to digital services... I feel import taxes in those sectors would make the EU stronger. EU might be good with cars and vehicles, but imho that's a legacy market that's not really fitting for the EU anyway, we are a dense enough area to be able to work pretty well without the need of cars (pushing for public transport + bicycles is another thing I've been advocating for ages).

The problem is that the existing exporters in the EU didn't want to get shot in the foot.. so I was very happy when I heard Trump would apply these tariffs, because it could finally be the push for the shift we needed.

leaving host countries to decide whether to wind down these protections, push for integration, or nudge refugees back home

It could also be a mix of all of the above. I think determining the optimal approach depends on way too many factors (many of which are unknown yet) and it makes sense to let each country decide. To me it would be surprising if the EU already had a (public and agreed upon) plan, specially considering how heterogeneous of a group the EU is and all the burocracy when taking decisions (which isn't necessarily a good/bad thing).

Utimately, after the war, it's also up to each Ukranian to decide whether to integrate or return. I think most (if not all) EU members would welcome anyone who legally integrates and support anyone who wants to go back.

This does not make the (hypothetical) ceasefire a bad thing, it makes the war a bad thing.

Can you point to a specific law that the EU has passed in this direction?

Cos according to the article all attempts to pass something like this that have been presented in the EU have been blocked. By the EU.

An alternative title could have been: "EU Possibly The Only One Who Has Been Explicitly Rejecting Backdoor Mandates Until Now"

Sure, proposals keep being presented.. but I feel it's kind of a bit early to call the EU "greatest threat" just because yet another attempt has been made. Specially when you compare it with many other places where they apply things like this without batting an eye.

I'm not saying we (Europeans) shouldn't push (yet again) to make sure this also fails... but the title of the article is a bit misplaced, and after a history of successful rejections I feel a lot more optimistic.