Turns out it’s from an old translation of James 4:15, here formulated as: “[If] so the Lord wills and we live”

The English equivalent would be “God willing” and in Dutch, a lovely archaic phrase: “Zo de Heere wil en wij leven”

I started the Witcher 3 and immediately the world feels like a checklist and for some reason I can’t take Gerald seriously. He looks comical, like a teen’s drawing, and the movement feels completely ungrounded.

• Circut Superstars. I’ll never become good at this but close to finishing it on Amateur
• Diablo 4. I dislike the MMOification and despite Blizzard, but got it with the Xbox so might as we’ll play it. The campaign and monster bashing are fine
• Sound Shapes. Sweet game, taking it one album at a time
• Trials Rising. Cleaning up the Hard tracks and that ain’t no lie
• Dirt 2.0 demo. I’m OK at CMR 2 and 05 but I have no idea how to control my car in this one. It’ll come with time

Programming. I don’t like where it’s heading and I don’t like the culture

I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.

Now I’m making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!

I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.

Netherlands: successive governments have been putting off actually addressing issues causing them to become a pile of confounding crises, such as nitrogen emissions and housing, which complicates migration, etc.

Note that ProtonMail actually supports automatic encryption to email accounts that publish their public keys in a Web Key Directory, which I’ve set up for mine. When you type such an email address in the To field, it’ll turn into a special color with a lock symbol.

Likewise, ProtonMail also exposed a WKD so people can send encrypted emails to ProtonMail accounts. I don’t know of any mail clients that support this though (I used the command line to pull keys)

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

No it isn’t, just checked my copy to be sure. I played it on my regular 3DS XL.

What a beast of a trailer. There seems to be so much in this game - deliveries, mecha-like stuff, really excited!

I did get the M30. It’s delightful but there’s one problem - it looks like The Lion King is one of the few games the Retro Receiver has a problem with. Any button presses while holding a direction on the D-pad interrupt the direction on the D-pad. So a roll becomes a crouch and a running jump becomes a standing jump. I’ve reached out to support, hopefully they can help, otherwise I’ll have to return it.

That looks interesting and worth trying. I’ll have a look to see if I can find anything like that locally

Is buying a used controller out of the question?

The backup plan is to do either that or get an 8bitdo M30 with a retro receiver!

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn’t go places with their cars… not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say “Those are not the same!” and that’s true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.