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I would go in summer, any time really. Late June to mid July is when most Swedes have their summer vacation, so it can get a little crowded (relatively speaking, still manageable in the outer archipelago). Late summer might have the better water temperatures (for mandatory skinny dipping) but the sun is up longer in late June/early July.

Weather is a gamble, it can rain a lot but the sunny days are worth the risk and getting rained on a little (and the rainy days are not a waste either). There usually aren’t a lot of mosquitos in the archipelago, but can vary from year to year. I’d say it’s never even close to the notorious areas in the north of the country.

Stockholm also has an incredible archipelago that’s accessible by boat from the city center. Boat passes cost very little and wild camping (free!) is permitted in most places. Hard to beat value proposition.

Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.

The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative’s “obsolete” smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because “the new version’s bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more”.

Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising

But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days. Google very much included in the sucking.

In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.

Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.

Then again, people with nefarious purposes are usually highly motivated.

What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?

Germany has done a lot of good with green energy too, so it’s not all bad

Most campaigning wasn’t along party lines though.

But it’s a curious trend in Sweden, to revisit old referendums to go against the outcome.

The problem is that it isn’t clear what kinds of exposure private credit and other actors in the shadow banking space hold, because they generally operate on a model of financial obfuscation to get around banking regulation (i.e. being actual banks). What is known is that they are deeply intertwined with financing the AI bubble, even if all their exposure is through debt instruments, crypto schemes or insurance contracts (that probably is not the full scope though), they will be hit hard when their “borrowers” can’t pay back.

And possibly the most parts of shadow banking, i.e the alt accounts of major financial institutions.

Fun times ahead!

In Sweden, people – wealthy home owners – have gotten a lot of public financial assistance for mounting solar panels that would either way have paid for themselves in a matter of years, lowering electrical bills and raising house prices for the owners.

Overall that is a good thing, the pros of increased solar adoption outweigh the glaring inequity, but all the same it’s hard to feel that it’s a part of the general fuckery of governments competing on who can pamper the upper middle class the most. Sweden also subsidizes mortgage interest and has essentially abolished (hard-capped at a low.level) the property tax on private homes. And Sweden has in recent years given financial relief to households based on their electrical consumption, I.e. very little (or nothing if electric is added to the rent) to renters and most of the money going to people with big houses and year-round heated pools.

The discussion on equity needs to enter the debate on things like incentives for solar panels on private homes or grants for energy saving insulation. These are good things, but the money can’t just stack up on top of other political favors to the wealthy. Less useful subsidies need to go. They need to replace other benefits.