Nice site you got there! Made from scratch or using some service/app?

Exactly

Or those “terraform Mars” fantasies

TERRAFORM THE DAMN EARTH FIRST

To me, there are two reasons we’re doing it too soon;

• We don’t really have technology needed to build a self-sustaining colony anywhere outside Earth; say, a colony on Mars is inherently dependent on Earth’s supplies, and will quickly die out as Earth does too; the technologies needed can largely be developed on Earth;
• The chance of some asteroid obliterating Earth in the coming millenia is so minor we might as well focus on much more real threats.

I see your position, thanks for answering in good faith.

But that’s not quite what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the way indiscriminate carpet sanctions and other imposed limitations end up fueling Putin’s war machine, and subsequently harming Ukraine.

The sanctions imposed on Russia and the common attitudes towards Russians don’t make any difference between people that are genuinely opposed to this war and could be used as a voice against oppression, and people that are totally up for the murder spree. Much of the former had pro-European values and could become instrumental to shaking Putin’s war machine from the inside. Proper asylum mechanisms and more aid with censorship acoidance would allow them to move the sentiment from the private kitchens to the public space. Inside Russia as we know it now, these people have no chance to be heard.

These people, the very people who could help make a change, see themselves neglected, hated, equalized to murderers - which lays neatly in the propaganda narrative. Some then get disillusioned in their support of Europe, take up arms and follow the Russian elite in murdering people. Others have to hide their opinion in fear of persecution. Brave souls who did say what they mean out loud are now in jail, being offered no safer way out, thrown away as if expendable. Folks who get legitimate reasons to stay somewhere outside the country face issues finding a job or any sort of stability as they often find themselves severely ostracised, and live in fear of having to go back home, where each and every of their anti-war words will add years to their future sentence.

What Europe could use to help stop the war, it just blew away, not understanding, or maybe not caring for, what it means for the actual war, and pleasing its electorate with Yet Another Big Sanctions Pack that will surely help this time. It won’t, because it misses the point.

Yep, and I understand how little this message changes in the world

But at least it’s good to highlight the basics to ensure people understand the dangers and shortcomings

As if we didn’t know this already.

Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.

We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot?

Also, massive launches such as Starlink should be approved by international bodies, not national organizations. Cool, US has greenlit the launch, but now it’s a global headache.

I like the premise behind this.

But how do we differentiate? Unless explicitly mentioned, it might be hard to tell the difference between AI and native human message.

It’s enough for the other side not to mention the message is AI-generated to fool us for quite a while.

True, but only of certain instances, and from what I’ve seen lately 99% are pure speculation written in such a definitive tone as if it was proven beyond reasonable doubt.

This casts a shadow on actual journalism, and erodes trust in many sources - sources that have real things to highlight and maintain a well-argumented opposition to Russian madness.

I’m currently living in Russia and have Russian citizenship; my father is Ukrainian, and I’ve spent a fair share of time there and I have my close people I worry about there; my mother is Russian.

Make of that how you will, I don’t pretend to be anybody.

I’m concerned about my people in Ukraine, living in Dnipro - my uncle and aunt, my cousins, all of whom I love and keep in touch with, despite not seeing them since the beginning of the war. Moreover, it’s not uncommon for people in the west of Russia to have Ukrainian roots, or to migrate/flee from Ukraine to Russia, or to gain Russian citizenship in annexed regions of Ukraine, so my situation is by no means unique.

Despite not being straight on the frontline, my Ukrainian relatives have witnessed firsthand the rocket strikes when they’ve hit the city, they are often left without electricity and other supplies, and on the other side they also know the horrors of Ukrainian mobilization (i.e. busification). You can be bombed in your house by a drone, or you can go buy groceries and be forcefully put on the bus directed straight to the frontline - even if you’re not eligible. Good luck standing for your rights from there.

I beg for the war to stop, and I see what happens around me and how one thing ties to the other. Sanctions are meant to influence political decisions made within a country - and it doesn’t happen. Instead, it aggravates many within Russia to go against “the West”, because the only people actually struck by this are everyday Russians - people who, in the huge part, didn’t support the war in the first place, and are speaking up against it as much as it’s still even legal.

Sanction military supplies - many Russians would support you. Sanction billionaires and the ruling elite - Russians were absolutely thrilled when this happened and will be again. Don’t show yourself as the enemy of the Russian people, though - because then, some of them might decide to “fuck over the West” by stamping my people with their boots, something they already do. You’ll be fine, though - it’s not that they’re gonna attack NATO - so feel free to feel righteous.

I mean ethnic Jews, not followers of Judaism - since it is ethnic Russians that are attacked and apparently constantly tied to Russia the country.

not bothering to read

Of course you aren’t. You don’t really have any stakes here, sitting in a comfortable bed in a safe country, not having to worry about how it all impacts real people. You just take a “principled stance” with 0 nuance and think you’re good now.

My people are struggling. There are rockets fired at their homes there in Ukraine, and there are armed drones flying over my head here across the border in Russia, although on the grand scale of things I got to see the latter as something minor.

I gotta tell you, one last time. Sitting here, and seeing Russians change, I can tell you this blame game is a disaster. People that just yesterday supported Europe and even felt sanctions are “deserved”, are now turning against it as its actions have mostly hurt the regular folks, and didn’t impact the elites all that much. These people go on to support, arm, and even join the Russian military forces. You can call them scum all you want, and so can I, but this could have been avoided, and that’s what I get to care about.

At the same time, news attributing every disaster ever on Russia has further deteriorated any trust in reporting on Russia, especially among Russians themselves. This further fuels the conversion of people into Kremlin’s puppets.

Whatever was done to further support the view of Russia as the enemy, and of Russians as the people who enabled it to exist this way, turned Russians to get more violent and united on the act of destruction.

There’s a constant barrage of media pieces stating Russia covertly did X or Y, but for most of them the source is just gut feeling or some weirdo in a Telegram channel claiming random things on Russia.

And suddenly Russia is a scapegoat for anything bad that happens in Europe or the US. And Russians themselves are often held responsible for it (but then Jews don’t answer for the acts of Israel?)

Don’t get me wrong, Russia is an aggressor in a brutal war, one where my actual relatives are under fire, and it deserves scrutiny for what it does in Ukraine, and also for the confirmed cases of political assassinations and espionage. This shit must be stopped.

But claiming everything on Russia without any investigation just waters down an actual journalism highlighting the real atrocities committed by Russian army and ruling elite. We need truthful stories, not propaganda, unless we want to be the same.

Besides, holding Russians accountable for what their extremely undemocratic elite is doing is playing into Putin’s deck, as claims are made in Russian propaganda that Russians are targeted just based on ethnicity - and this becomes increasingly true as they get denied entry or asylum, and as sanctions pressure everyday people over things they barely control.

Insert “Russians” instead of “Jews”, and suddenly that’s a mainstream position, not conspiracy theory.

Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it’s mostly enterprise use.

Still, I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.

Just a regular “breaking the fourth wall” tactic

Thanks!

Lol

Interesting, thanks!

Guess it’s the same kinda thing as amd64 on Intel lol

Why does default config check Mozilla specifically?

{
"name": "generic-browser",
"user_agent_regex": "Mozilla",
"action": "CHALLENGE"
}

Guess that’s why I’ve seen Anubis check screen quite a few times.

Magic is that --force flag you put into your commands (sorry).

Oh, I should make it very, very clear: Ubuntu is a mess that newbies shouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. Comparing to Ubuntu, even Arch can look appealing for lack of confusion. Nothing that I say goes to support this abomination, and I did not mention it positively.

Generally though, most distros featuring KDE/GNOME will already have everything in one place - but, ironically, not Arch, which actually features three places to look for apps: the official repos for precompiled packages, Flatpaks, or AUR. And without something like pamac - a tool made by Manjaro team available through AUR - you can’t have all three in one interface or through same commands.

If I would choose distro by how easy it is to have everything in one place, this would likely be Fedora/OpenSUSE/Debian with Discover app store from KDE suite. Everything, be it native packages or Flatpaks, is in there, and you can easily select the source for any given app.

As per compatibility, I’m a strong proponent of Flatpaks. They are not significantly harder to manage than any other apps (in most cases, they don’t require any extra configuration), but they will help you avoid dependency issues and they also won’t get full access to your entire system, which is to me a disaster waiting to happen.