Sylocule

Rugby fan, socialist, South African living in Spain, FOSS, pro EU

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2026-07-31 10:19:59 UTC

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It’s not a Spanish government official position, but the opinion of the people. Because almost 50K people storming the border is not natural and Ceuta only has a population of 80K or so
I don’t know. There’s a migrant processing centre in Ceuta but not for that many people.
Sanchez has the same issue as Burnham - the press here is 90% right wing and they’re already frothing about the blanket amnesty he pushed through for undocumented workers

2026-07-31 09:03:48 UTC

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Here in Spain, it’s seen as a Moroccan government (inspired) action. The enclave is tiny and cannot handle this influx

2026-07-14 11:20:21 UTC

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I’m 1 year older than you, and it’s the same in our friendship circle. More than one a year is no longer unusual but more becoming the norm

2026-07-03 10:13:22 UTC

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This was me, 13 years old, discovering my love for programming and computing that’s shaped my working life over the past 36 years

2026-05-26 10:57:00 UTC

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Notes was both the bane of my early life in IT and a saviour thereof. I loved the integration, but it was clunky and not the most user friendly.

2026-04-07 09:02:50 UTC

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Spain have a similar system to Switzerland. Fibre to the house and you can use any provider. Most are around 1Gb symmetrical, but 10Gb is available from 1 company.

2026-03-24 15:38:07 UTC

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My Bluetooth is solid on Mint but I can’t get the second monitor to be seen via the mini DisplayPort. Most annoying

2026-02-24 21:28:06 UTC

Currently reading ‘The Hospital at the End of the World’ by Justin C. Key on recommendation by @npub1fdr…lvhs
I read ‘The World Wasn’t Ready for You’ (a collection of short stories) by the same author but nothing could have prepared me for just how good this book is.

2026-02-22 12:47:06 UTC

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Check on the ‘Have your say’ site: https://have-your-say.ec.europa.eu/

2026-02-11 18:17:20 UTC

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Here in Spain we have Bizum which also uses phone numbers. It’s instant and free
It’s so popular, the tax office monitors self employed people for tax evasion using it. Quite recently, a lot of small businesses also accept Bizum, and some large including Amazon

2026-02-04 20:32:06 UTC

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Definitely one for my ‘to read’ list

2026-01-30 12:53:44 UTC

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My favourite punk band and favourite album of theirs.

2025-12-27 22:02:11 UTC

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In the article, this statement:
“Saving provides the funds that businesses use to invest in new equipment, technology and expansion.”
may have been true when currencies were beholden to the gold standard, but it’s not anymore. We’ve seen central banks using ‘quantitative easing’ to increase the supply of money in the economy during lean times (2007/8) to encourage businesses to loan and spend

2025-12-07 19:01:52 UTC

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Followed you on the recommendation of DAG (who I followed here from Twitter).
Absolute quality posts, IMO, especially economics