A new proposal from the Swedish government is to stop welfare and other social help to those convicted of severe felonies. I’m not onboard with that idea. We’re not supposed to have the death penalty in Sweden and I don’t like the “once a thief, always a thief” mentality. If they’re not in prison or in psychiatric...

Being able to quickly write replies to email, real actual email, was very valuable. That was the core of what drew me to Delta Chat. There are plenty of proprietary email apps set up around that feature but in the free world, not so much. Delta Chat was it and it was a gem because it was in many ways better than...

It’s a pet peeve of mine when people still call it Twitter (or variants like Xitter). The exact phrasing “Twitter (I refuse to call it X)” isn’t even a callout to a specific person since I’ve seen that exact text string multiple times by multiple writers. I’m not opposed to appellation activism—I try to always get...

M säger ja till att släppa in SD i regeringen om Tidöpartierna vinner valet i höst. Okej, det stinker och jag är mot det så kan oppositionen samla sig please?! Ja, jag vet att det är väldigt otäcka typer i dom andra tre oppositionspartierna och att bara just ditt oppositionsparti är bra (oavsett om det är...

Bristande finansiering tvingar Uppsala universitet att skära ned på lärarledd undervisning och laborationstimmar. Enligt rektorn har de statliga anslagen till universitetet släpat efter i flera decennier, samtidigt som lokalhyrorna blivit allt högre. Det är bra att textteve nämner lokalhyrorna och jag önskar att dom...

Probably the worst part of original GTD is having a list of calls. That just doesn’t parallelize nor serialize well since nowadays each call is a multi-hour affair if it’s a hold/wait system, or if it’s a “we’ll call you back sometime later today” it’s not great to have multiple such “calls of damocles” hanging over...

Prefixet “be-“ behövs egentligen inte på svenska, har jag hört. Så istället för bestraffa kan man säga straffa, istället för befria kan man säga fria, istället för benåda kan man säga nåda, istället för betjäna kan man säga tjäna osv osv. Att klistra på ett be- sådär kommer från en tid då svenska språket, som då...

In the Butlerian Jihad (from Dune but popularized by many smolnet posters like Alex Schroeder) we rightly hate bots and scrapers but I’m in a bit of a glass house around that, since I’ve made a few scrapers for my own personal use as a way to get RSS Atom feeds out of sites that don’t have feeds. I love scraping and...

So me and my friends started a new D&D 5.1 campaign and it’s unusual for me to be running so much homebrew. I usually run modules. It’s strange to me because I feel so much more guilty when PCs die (so far two have died across three sessions) or when I try to find the notebook where the special treasures are or when...

I actually think AI is fun and good. It’s just that if we don’t solve the problems it’s not worth it (if the problems will destroy us all). It’s like cars. I oppose cars but I actually love riding in the shotgun seat on the open road bopping to that hecking song that goes “and all that I can see is just another...

I use the word “exacerbate” way too much and unlike some of my other pet phrases (like “a li’l”, “on the cinder”, “the life-changing magic of”, and “probably better known as”) it’s starting to sound weird to me now. It’s too fancy and weird and specific of a word to be jammed three times into every essay. Normally I...

Last night as I was lying in bed I was thinking “wait, wasn’t there some book I was reading that I wanted to continue?” and that thought made me happy but then I became sad because I remembered that I already had finished it that morning. Reading this was a mistake because it was so much better than all the, I...