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Eh, it wasn't as much a jab against France or Macron in particular, as just an example of the general policy. Pretty much all of Europe (and US, and Canada) behave in a similar way and see us as a well of natural resources to be scooped out dry and then thrown aside. Some people here call it a new form of colonialism. Every country follows their interests and that's fine, as long as we don't hear lectures about this or that thing while those same lecturers behave in a hypocritical way contrary to what they're saying.

Edit: as opposed to China and Russia that pour serious money into large infrastructure projects like the new Silk Road. Russia has only started doing this recently, though. People have their reservations about those countries, but can't help but see the difference between e.g. China that builds railroads and power plants, and Western countries that only suck out money, paying tiny salaries to local workers and circumventing things like air pollution regulations.

> supporting countries or democratic, pro-Western parties/groups that are threatened by an aggressor (e.g. every former Soviet state)

Every one? I am from one of those states, and most of them are even worse democracy-wise than Russia.

The only thing we have over Russia is not going after neighbors' territories, and even that's debatable (see conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan vs Tajikistan).

Your governments do overlook serious human rights violations, though, when it suits them. We had widespread protests in January 2022 that were brutally suppressed by the government, which ended up killing more than 300 protesters (that's according to official figures that are thought to be undercounted).

No fucks given by Western propaganda or government talking heads because several European, US, and Canadian companies have massive investments in our oil, gas, and minerals industry.

About six months ago Macron visited Astana to beg for uranium fuel after France got kicked off from Niger, and a group of political activists tried to seize the rare moment and did everything they could to meet him for a few minutes and talk about human rights violations in our country. You can probably guess the result of that endeavor.

One of the major gas projects (managed by Shell IIRC) ends in 2030, and I have a strong suspicion "human rights violations" will become a permanent theme in our relations right after that moment.

Well, the EU could have put a ban on selling riot control gear to Putin's forces back in 2012 when he used it to suppress massive pro-democracy protests in Moscow, not in October of 2022 like they actually did. This set the tone for everything that happened afterwards.

I said this already under a (now flagged and dead) comment, but it's worth repeating — "your" (not your personally) one-sided propaganda and continuing support for Putin (if indirect) have made "you" lose whatever anti-war and pro-West opposition there was in Russia. I only wish we'd seen how convenient Putin is for "the West" a decade earlier. This was particularly obvious in June 2023 during the short and failed putsch of Wagner PMC. If you care at all, you can dig into my comment history from the beginning of 2022 and see how my own opinion has changed. It's a pretty typical example, I think.

https://russiafossiltracker.com

Maybe hcaptcha, I've never run into captcha hell with it, unlike Cloudflare and recaptcha. If those two decide you're a bot, you're done, better go change that IP and reset cookies.

> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

All chat platforms (that I can remember) that were popular around that time used proprietary protocols, including ICQ. Everyone I knew preferred third-party clients to the official one, and these clients would sometimes break because ICQ kept changing tiny details in the protocol to try to force users to use the official client. It never worked, of course, because updates that fixed compatibility would usually come within a couple of hours.

Not from Russia, but pretty close in all senses of the word. It was heavily used in my circles up to about 2010-2011, then started losing market share to other messengers (one¹ of the popular messengers was from the same company that now owns ICQ), and then Telegram came and buried it completely in no time at all.

1: https://agent.mail.ru

Certificates are created regardless of whether you ask for them by using features like proxying traffic through CF. Just using them as a DNS service provider is enough for certs to be issued (with "proxy=off" or no A/CNAME records at all, it doesn't matter).

Lots of people use CloudFlare purely as a registar and DNS hoster because they sell domains at cost. Domains are quite expensive already for what they are. This is enough to trigger certificate issuance on your behalf. You don't have to use any add-on features. Maybe even just registering a domain is enough, I'm not sure. I certainly didn't "give them" any certificates, I don't have A/AAAA/CNAME records on several of my domains, and never enabled proxying traffic through the rest of them. The certs have been issued regardless.

I don't see this as a conspiracy theory, though. They want to sell you the whole package and don't want to support freeloaders like me who are only there for the "cheap" domains. That's reasonable, if unfortunate.

I would personally avoid namecheap if you're not based in the US. Back at the beginning of 2022 they cut off all clients from Russia without prior notice, giving everybody a couple of weeks to migrate to another registrar and/or hoster. This created quite a problem and added more work for oppositional news outlets and sites like ovdinfo that were helping people who got locked up for protesting against what was happening. Both groups had enough problems already. Fuck them; once bitten, twice shy.

I checked two domains registered through Cloudflare about a week ago and both have 1-year certificates issued by Sectigo, valid until May 2025. Never enabled DDoS protection or any other features besides editing DNS records.

Xiaomi claims five years of security updates for upper range models that came out last year. Specifically I am thinking about Xiaomi 13T which a couple of my friends use. Their newer phones no longer allow unlocking the bootloader, though.

I've been using a five year old hand-me-down 9T and it was recently updated to Android 14 with security patch from May this year. (Thanks to Lineage, of course — the official support ended in 2021).

Do they care? The mob will shout for a week or two and then turn their attention somewhere else. spez (the reddit chief) said something like that about their users, and he was absolutely right. A few days ago I was re-reading some of those threads about reddit API changes from ten months back where so many users claimed it was their last message and they were leaving for good. Almost none of them did. I checked two dozen profiles and all but one of them had fresh comments posted within that same day.

LTSC IoT will get you to 2032, and something is likely to change by that date. Of course, if you absolutely insist on using a "genuine" license (even though we're taking about a company that has zero respect for its users — eye for an eye IMHO is a suitable option), there is no choice but listen to the overlord.

Getting your doors kicked in because you posted "disinformation" on the internet, or said something "unpatriotic" to a rando on the street and got reported to the cops. You won't have time to lock your computer, or if you do, the password will be pulled out of you with pliers, along with a couple of teeth. It's a daily reality in some parts of the world, including my own country and another one where I have many friends.

I like these kinds of statements, they let you know right off the bat that your time is better spent elsewhere. People who see this as normal will screw you over sooner or later in other ways, e.g. by changing licenses or needless rewriting over and over and over again. At least that's been my experience.

Most are documented by shellcheck.

https://gist.github.com/nicerobot/53cee11ee0abbdc997661e65b3...

But you don't really need to spend any time learning them, just plug shellcheck itself into your editor and go write some scripts. I've written don't know how many thousands of lines of bash (and sh, depending on the task at hand) that work across five operating systems, and it's honestly a non-issue if you follow the warnings.

Nothing can be done about variable names, but format inconsistencies can be autofixed with shfmt. I've been using it for years and it's been solid.

https://github.com/mvdan/sh

In some ways current PHP has much stricter typing than TS as it's actually checked at runtime.

If you can get through this, I highly recommend it.

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty

I only really notice it when accidentally catting a really large file. Although I prefer kitty, any of these modern terminal emulators just rip through megabytes of text in less than a second, while in older ones you have to wait for half a minute or just sigkill them.

I don't know about North Korea, but in my part of the former USSR housing was very much attainable for normal people. Much more so than today, actually. You didn't have to wait in the queue for more than 3-5 years to get one, and you definitely didn't have to get a mortgage and then part with most of your salary for the next 20 years. Pretty much everybody I know got 1-3 room apartments for free, including my parents.

My friend picked up a 3.84 TB Kingston SEDC600M with 7 PB of write endurance on sale for $180 a couple of months ago. That same place now sells them for around $360. Definitely an original drive. Maybe you just have to be on the lookout for one for when they go on sale.

This project was picked up (and forked) by Rosatom for its internal Jira replacement after they got cut off from Jira in spring of 2022. No idea how many changes they introduced, but I guess OpenProject should be powerful enough (or at least provide a powerful enough base to build upon) to handle giant projects at their scale. The fork is not publicly accessible, although they do conform to the GPL and provide the source code to their clients.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/greenatom/articles/814589

"You" are still doing it, your Western governments looked the other way at killing of more than 300+ pro-democracy protesters by our government forces at the beginning of 2022 because it was convenient for them to do so. Half of worldwide supply of uranium fuel and all that. These things will be remembered for decades.

I've never heard a single bad word about Romania or its people, and I definitely have a lot more ties to Russia than you do. No idea where you read shit like this, but you should probably avoid those places from now on to keep your sanity.

I just don't use rm directly, unless it's something very trivial and non-recursive. Start with ls, write out your path, execute it and check the results. If it looks fine, Ctrl+P → Ctrl+A → Alt+D → rm → Enter. Takes maybe two seconds more than just using rm, and definitely saved me more time over the years.

And that's good, that's their strength. I use it to read information from all sides of the conflict and decide for myself what's "disinformation" and what's not. A grown person doesn't need a gatekeeper that pushes their own interests and shuts up anyone daring to contradict them.

Whom should we trust then? Have we already forgotten about Snowden?