I was going to say it’s a shame Europeans can’t elect EU leaders in direct, EU wide elections but then I found this poll:

https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/02/18/macron-is-the-most-popular-leader-in-the-eu-followed-by-meloni-who-appeals-to-liberals-and-the-far-right-alike/

Macros is the most popular leader among liberals… There are no solutions for human stupidity.

I’m Polish and I’m hesitating about Hwinsta.

But what about the vroom vroom noises?

Flight of the Conchords had a song about it.

Put a dust cover on my keyboard.

Adding more fantasy to the echo chamber will help for sure.

I’m looking at doing something similar and I was looking at Yunohost but I think it doesn’t use any containers, just installs all the apps straight in the system. Which I didn’t like. I like the idea of separating apps. Can anyone confirm this?

After some digging I’ve decided to use https://cosmos-cloud.io/ which supports more apps (even lemmy) and uses containers. So my plan is to have a private VM, public VM and run cosmos in each.

Does it really matter if you disable Yunohost ports that are not exposed to the internet? You expose 80, 443 and VPN on the router and that’s it. Then I’m planning to run Caddy on OpenWRT to redirect traffic to internal ports.

I think only in US which has tons of really weird propaganda (glorifying police violence, military, nationalism, capitalism and so on). In Europe I think this is mostly promoted in some corporate circles which are very “Americanized”.

Last time I tried it it was struggling with authentication and the tray icon (which was one of the features I was looking for) didn’t even show new messages.

Trump is nervous because he’s a psycho who needs constant validation and humiliation in midterms can damage his image of beloved leader.

His agenda is fine. All the institutions are already dismantled. DOGE already fired everyone that can be fired, they got the budget they wanted, billionaires got their tax cuts. What will democrats do with the majority? Republicans will filibuster everything, Trump will not sign anything they will pass. Will they provoke another shutdown? Remember how the last one ended? Democrats folded. The midterms will not change Democratic leadership. You can cling on to technicalities but the midterms will not Budapest anything because the system is completely different.

I’m kind of surprised they’re actually going through with the zero-knowledge proof setup.

We’ll see what it is when they publish the code (if they will publish it) but they claimed it will be zero-knowledge from the beginning so it’s not surprising at all that they still claim that.

They were supposed to reform the entire system to cut back on racism. Are they actually doing anything or just the books?

Good for her.

Still these votes are for Parliament/MPs on the ballot, not the prime minister directly, aren’t they. Yes, parties will campaign with a certain perdon as prime minister in mind, but that position is not directly elected, is it?

Technically yes, people vote for MPs but PM is running the government by selecting ministers and prioritizing the legislation and this is how he gets elected. There’s a great focus placed on the party leaders in the campaign and the person tagged to be the PM has huge impact on how people vote. The party can change him (and sometimes they do) but it’s still very important during the campaign.

In US on the other hand the midterms do not serve to elect on confirm party leadership in any way. Party leaders have job to do but they will not be running the government if their party wins.

Trump can only rule by executive orders because the other institutions let him and majd no fuss. Things would get a whole lot mire diffucult for him if the majority in the legislative actually did make a fuss about it.

The supreme court lets him. The legislative has nothing to do with it. Democratic leaders can make a fuss about things now but they don’t because they are useless. They will be as useless when they are majority. Of course you should vote for democrats now because humiliating Trump will be great for everyone but this will not fix the country the way elections in Hungary can. Those elections are not equivalent in any way.

I mean online banking, administration, shopping and streaming is cool but the social media part was a bad idea.

I’m very good at translating idiot speak and even I don’t get it. He’s declining fast.

So what bibliography did it provide to prove that the chats are not private?

Aisle Bail Coil Deal Eel Feel Grill Hill Ill Jail Kill Lay Mill Nil Oil Pill Quill Real Seal Till Until Veal Will Xylophone Yell Zeal

would work so much better.

I would upvote but ‘unzip’? We only ‘gunzip’ or ‘tar xz’ here.

I’m kind of starting to think the whole Internet thing was a bad idea and we actually should get rid of it. Well, maybe not all of it. Let’s go back to silly blogs and personal websites that are updated once a month.