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The Energiewende seems to be progressing okay as far as I can tell: Solar rollout is exceeding expectations; wind is lagging but still proceeding.

They seem to be struggling more in a couple of other Wende: The Wärmewende hasn't even gotten to the point where they ban fossil heating in new construction (we banned oil furnaces in existing buildings back in 2020 here in Norway).

And as for the Verkehrswende, the rule seems to be don't mention the Verbrenner. They seem to be pretty good at pulling out any excuse not to drive less, or at the very least drive electric. Meanwhile with some tax breaks on EVs and high taxes on fossil cars Norway almost has no new fossil car sales; even the buses here in Oslo are almost all electric now.

I guess at least they're paying us well for the fossil fuels we sell them. It's starting to feel a bit like being a sober drug dealer.

How do you know a post was written by a systemd hater? Easy, they'll spell it with a big D for some reason. It reminds me of how Norwegian rabid anti-cyclists are unable to spell "cyclist" for some reason.

Claiming you don't want to restart an old debate and then trying to restart it anyway is pretty funny.

You might also want to keep in mind that you can't really force an init system on Linux distros. Systemd became the norm through being preferred, as in, the people using and maintaining it think it's good. At this point you might as well be ranting about how "LinuX is evil somehow" and we should all be using GNU HURD or Minix or something.

Also: Haven't thought about suckless in well over a decade, maybe closer to two? I guess way back in the day I was kinda intrigued by their ideas and used some of their products; these days I'd rather see them as something between an art shop and people who are playing a somewhat unusual game with themselves, but not particularly relevant to mainstream software engineering.

That's what the bloatee is for

I think you'll have to look in the retirement segment for that. Us millennials had a bunch of trouble getting into the housing market but I think were eventually able to with parental help; we're likely currently managing some mortgages OK.

The generations after us seem less able to get into the housing market even with parental aid. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, it's not like a housing crisis could destabilise politics in general or anything.

But we're all happy they finally opened

[EEC] is essentially the same as joining, just worse

I tend to agree; I think the decision to not be able to vote was a bad one.

Why mix a defensive alliance with what is mutating into "United States of Europe", those are vastly different kind of deals.

Norway is a sparsely populated and poorly defended country with a lot of natural resources and a long, often strategic, coastline. We're better off being allied to countries that share our ideals, in a union that has actually brought peace to the continent, than being gobbled up by some other superpower that believes in one or another variant of ethnic supremacy.

You're not giving up any serious form of autonomy by joining NATO.

NATO is to a large degree "USA with friends". An EU defence is looking more and more needed.

1994 is not that long ago,

It's 31 years ago. The people who were of voting age at that time are 49 or older now. The average age in Norway is 41. The average Norwegian isn't old enough to have voted on the EU even once, much less twice.

and the politicians still entered EU regardless.

They did not. We are in the EEC and Schengen, but not in the EU.

Your anecdote is just that. The Finns and Swedes had a sudden change of heart about NATO after Putin invaded. Norwegians might similarly have a change of heart about NATO and the EU if NATO starts rotting at the head.

Depending on which part you asked about:

1. Yes.
2. Yes.

Also, as a non-american why would I care until Proton product is good?

Two things:

1. In the worst case, where they support fascists, they'll also likely not provide the protection from fascists that a lot of users are expecting and paying for. E.g. trans people might be using the service to protect themselves from an administration that is trying to erase them. Will the service actually be safe for them? Can people trust that fascist supporters won't break their own product to support fascism?
2. We've seen lots of cases of tech companies and CEOs having a deleterious effect on politics. Is this a sign that proton will be yet another of those companies? Swiss law seems to work in our favour here, but if the company is rotting from the head, it won't be enough.

It could be that this is just a series of clumsy actions from the CEO (including using his birth year in his new Reddit nick, when that birth year is also a well-known nazi dogwhistle (88, code for the 8th letter in the alphabet, as in HH, as in "Heil H…")), it could be him showing his true colors.

As an existing customer I've taken a sort of wait-and-see stance; I likely wouldn't become a new customer right now.

The average Norwegian has never had the chance to vote on the EU. The people who voted twice are all retired or dead.

Norway is incredibly oil-brained and quite steeped in Norwegian exceptionalism … but there's also a lot of people who love the status quo no matter what, so it's not clear what the effect of Norway joining would actually be

For context I'm a scientist doing data analysis and modeling, so my view point is potentially significantly different than most of "the industry".

Isn't most of science also rather big on types, only they use the phrase "units"? If you take an attitude of "I never bother checking my units, I just see if it works or not after the fact", that's rather different from the science I learned where checking the types of calculations was considered an important step.

At some levels it's even just like colour-coding your wires, helping you not accidentally put ground in the wrong part of the circuit.