The Sam+Amy montage was really funny and well edited.

Wow! Thanks for such a great reply!

I used to have stomach issues in uni when I was eating a lot more bread. I never really did anything about it, but it seems to have died down now as my diet naturally changed. I’d never heard of an elimination diet before so that makes sense to narrow down exactly what’s causing it.

It’s really fascinating how the same combinations of food can affect people in such different ways.

Do you have any tips for handling both stomach and exit pain? I always find that to be the tricky part.

That whole section had me cracking up, especially when the boat actually appeared round the corner.

And it gave us a very specific thing, it was like, “Yep.”

It even shows a little picture of a boat! It says, “that’s your boat!”

Wonderful storytelling and buildup to that happening and the jeopardy of maybe needing to leave the state challenge-less.

Yeah, I can’t see how any of this setup makes any sense. Even if she’s paid hourly, it must be absolutely mind-numbing. Do you just have to sit next to the boat, waiting for a call at all times that might never come?

Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It’s been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.

I’m pretty good at Mario Kart. I hadn’t played it for about 10 years, but I beat all my friends when I played Mario Kart World for the first time with them recently.

It’s no problem for the Ben Man

I’ll represent the Linux contingent of Lemmy with my Librem 5, running Mobian

The main part is the party’s support for so-called “remigration”, which is

ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry

About the immigration policy of the party:

Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is “the land for/belongs to the Swedes” and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: “why won’t the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?” and in the same debate said that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.” [45]

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that “They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.” [46]

About the foreign policy of the party:

In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

Seconding this. For anyone interested in wider discussion of the difference in attitude between whether it was a mistake at the time, vs what we should do now, this was discussed in more detail on the opinion brief podcast by the polling org more in common.

Direct podcast link. Brexit discussion starts at 34:31 and ends at 1:01:43.

Some notes:

• Support for the status quo when it comes to our relationship with the EU is highly correlated with how the economy is doing
  • When we were in the EU, support for membership was high when the economy was doing well, and low when the economy was doing badly
  • Now that we are out, it’s flipped: support for membership is lower when the economy is doing better, and higher when the economy is doing badly
• There’s a similar correlation between how insecure the world feels / how scared the public feels and our positive attitudes towards membership of the EU
• Rejoin / stay out is ~2:1 in favour of rejoin. However, this probably wouldn’t be robust if another referendum actually happened:
  • “applicant status is supplicant status”. By rejoining, EU would give a list of requirements and then say “call us once these are done”.
  • It’s very one-sided, would make the leaving process look like a battle between equals in comparison
  • This would be quite politically toxic. So, public opinion would likely shift in a sceptical direction in any debate.
  • This eurosceptic shift is seen in most countries that join the EU, so you need a massive level of support to begin with
• Although the UK could use the same Euro trick as Poland and Sweden, where they say: “yes, we’ll definitely take the Euro at some point, just not for the forseeable future”, this argument could only come after the negotiations - everyone would have to pretend that we’re really serious about taking the Euro while negotiating, which would be politically toxic
• No politician is going to start negotiations with the EU. Negotiations take 5+ years - any significant economic benefits would come after 10+ years. In the meantime you cost yourself significant political capital pushing it through

Some other interesting discussions:

• Rise in populist parties is because UK politicians no longer have an easy group to blame whatever goes wrong on. UK voters are voting against the status quo as a protest vote because they’re still unhappy
• Leave campaign’s success came from tying membership in the EU (which no-one really cared about) to immigration (which many voters cared about). Now, that same tying of immigration to a relatively settled topic on the right is happening with the ECHR
  • If we leave the ECHR, we effectively get a no deal brexit. The EU would be at liberty to rip up all our trading agreements, because they’re contingent on membership of the ECHR
• The Remain campaign really badly interpreted the results from the Scottish referendum. Yes, they won the referendum, but during the process, support for leaving the UK went from 25% to 45%. Euroscepticism started almost neck-and-neck before the referendum campaigning began

Hi, I’m choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there’s a lot of overlap in the comments.

I’m sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I’ve updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it’s ok but if there are any problems I’m happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.

I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn’t even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn’t state I wasn’t the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn’t build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.

I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the “why” they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.

I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here! Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I’m available for the next few hours.

No, I won’t. If it was cheaper, I’d consider it.

My partner plays games on steam and uses my old gaming PC, running Bazzite and unfortunately with an nvidia GPU. Some games like The Last of Us II has lots of graphical glitches and we have to play around with the steam launch settings a lot.

It’d be awesome to buy a plug-and-play solution as I never know when there are issues with our PC whether it’s to do with our specific setup, or the game’s linux support in general.

As it stands we’ll probably look to get an AMD GPU when we can afford it. Which I think will be in quite a while.

I’m actually ok with this, if it only applies to the biggest social media companies (10million+ UK users) who have algorithmically ranked content. And it should apply to what gets weighted in the feeds, not whether the content exists on the site at all.

I think big tech companies shouldn’t be held responsible for all user generated content on their site, but they should be held responsible for the content they actively promote via the feeds, if they do so algorithmically. I think this article (from a US perspective) presents a good framework for moderation. The more you are a “dumb pipe”, the less moderation you should have, and the more you actively make user-facing decisions about content, the more oversight and moderation you should have. And, if you are a small provider (like the fediverse 😜) then you should be exempt from these regulations to encourage competition.

We have public service broadcasters who are regulated by Ofcom. It’s not perfect - Ofcom should be strengthened, made more politically independent and should have much more teeth, and they’ve been woeful in dealing with GBeebies - but the regulated public service broadcasters are among the most trusted news providers in the UK.

I’m sympathetic to the idea that any kind of restriction is a slippery slope. And I know the public service broadcasters are not perfect, there are problems of political interference that need to be dealt with, and of course they don’t appeal to everyone. But they are also among the most trusted news outlets?

I’m also sympathetic to the idea that the government is solving this the wrong way round. That they are trying to fix this on the supply side when really it’s a demand problem - people just don’t like the regulated news providers enough so they don’t get promoted by the feeds on social media. But that argument presumes that the tech companies’ feeds are purely responding to consumer demand; social media companies are now mostly owned by people who want to, or are careless about, interfering with our democracy and promoting particular ideologies. So I think the era of trusting that whatever the algorithms promote is just based on what we want is over.

For me it comes down to trust, since the distro maintainers have root on your system. You’d better trust their competence and alignment with your values!

If you were Starmer, and wanted to keep any chance to hold onto power but also not completely tarnish your legacy, what would you do?

I reckon I’d set out a timetable for departure, with a default of Andy Burnham, say “I won’t start a contest, but if anyone else does, I’ll put myself forward” and then wait to see what Streeting does.

That way, if Streeting (or anyone else) does challenge, you can stay in with a shot while also not being the person who caused all the chaos.

It’s cool on a technical level, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. The end goal is to get people cycling. As soon as politicians caught wind of this happening, it would then discredit all the numbers that were collected.

I’d use that effort to bug some friends to go on a ride with me instead!

I think they can use remote attestation on the mobile device to prove that it’s a physical device. They do that through Google Play Services or whatever the equivalent is on iOS. So, for instance, scanning the QR code on a custom ROM like lineage or GrapheneOS doesn’t work.

Whether or not it’s optional it’s still pretty dystopian. And I think we’ve seen the path before where something optional but “more secure” becomes mandatory and everything else gets shut off.

I agree with your re-licensing analogy, with one caveat, which is that the existence of a rug-pull project might encourage people who would otherwise contribute to more firm-footed, community-driven projects to essentially waste their time on a dead-end project that won’t last. Since every time a project dies, there’s wasted effort that could have gone into building something long-lasting, I think our collective time is limited and we should be building up projects that last so that we can move onto freeing up other bits of the stack.

That said, I recognise this is a relatively weak argument, because there’s so much duplication of effort anyway - everyone wants something slightly different so there are many duplicated projects, there’s benefit to exploring all sorts of different avenues even if they don’t work out, and ultimately this is a hobby and people have to work on whatever they want.

I also agree that a license assignment CLA is not necessarily indicative of a rug pull by itself (although it can warrant further investigation, and there is a pattern of people using it in this negative way, against the wishes of the community). I guess it comes down to people’s intentions and trust at the end of the day. A project I work on recently also switched license. For us it was permissive to GPL - there was no requirement for them to ask permission - but they still did check with everyone with more than a couple of lines of contributions because it was important for them to get consent. I know SFC for instance lets you assign your copyright to them to help with enforcement, but in a revocable way, so if you don’t like what they’re doing, you can always take it back.

I think to some degree I’m quite jaded and cynical, because I’ve seen this happen so many times, especially with more glossy and centrally driven projects. I’m drawn to free software because I don’t like abuse of power and to me this is a solution to that in the tech world. So whenever I see a power imbalance here, I react strongly against it even if in some circumstances it wouldn’t be abused.