Andrew_nenakhov

I'm glad that you conceded that you blatantly lied about Trump having Mein Kampf on his night stand, thank you for this.

> In what world your argument is anything but clutching at straws?! Get a grip, he openly hates Black and Latino people and has never been shy about it. The fact he came to an out-of-court agreement, and immediately had to come back… It’s so beautiful that your richly referenced note forgot that point.

Yeah, right. You had to dig up a case from 50+ years ago, that concerned a policy likely was not directed from the top but was enacted by some middle managers, and which was corrected, and act like I'm grasping the straws and not you.

Then you try to strengthen your argument with a blatant claim that Trump openly hates Black and Latino people, when in fact in his public speeches he frequently says that he loves them. You will, of course, fail to provide a single quote by Trump that would prove your outlandish claim.

And also, I struggle to understand how could this horrible vile racist man significantly increase his support amond Black and Lation voters. [0]

> No, but people who threatens to napalm-bomb a major city in their own country because the mayor isn’t in their party; people who threaten to court-martial any soldier who express an opinion critical of an influencer outside of the chain of command; people who call law enforcement officers to throw political opponents in a jail without due process… Those might be fascist.

So, how many major cities were napalm-bombed?

How many soldiers were court-martialled?

How many political opponents were thrown in jail without due process?

We did, however, see one political execution this week, but the murdered man was definitely not a Democrat.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/22/nx-s1-5199119/2024-election-e...

No, thank you, but the word I needed was something that would describe a warm, loving embrace, like when you take a pet in your arms and caress it (I even pushed this metaphor further in the next comment, about loving puppies), and I believe that "cuddle" is the exact word for that.

Sure, they are in poor taste. What is telling, however, is bias: Trump gets labelled as 'fascist' for saying 'fight like hell', but Waltz just gets a pass because for the exact same words, because that was just poor taste.

It is also telling that you weren't content with just stopping after the words 'disrupt the transfer of power', but felt necessary to add smear about rape and murder. I am not willing to even verify the veracity of this claim, and will just ask you this: how many of those who took part in BLM riots were convicted for rape and murder crimes, likely quite a few, right? Should we bring that in every conversation on every action supported by the politicians that you support?

> Meanwhile Democrats prosecute their own for violence and corruption.

No, they don't. They do, however, openly prosecute their political adversaries for fabricated crimes. It was quite characteristic that democrat-friendly talking heads spent months in late 2020-early 2021 how Trump is going to issue a presidential pardon for himself and his allies, and then Biden, four years later, did just that.

I am not Trump supporter. I'm just telling you that you are extremely biased and unwilling discuss politics in good faith: you just know what truth is and consider everyone who disagrees as being wrong or stupid or evil. That is exactly kind of mindset and rhetoric that inspired someone to kill Kirk. He was such a bad fascist, after all!

Of course, the press does cuddle its darlings. Compare any first-term Trump's press conference with Biden's press conference: a pack of wolves that screamed and shouted suddenly morphed into cute fawning puppies: "what kind of ice cream do you like, mr president?"

Regarding your accusation that I work for Kremlin, you should be ashamed of yourself to say such things to a person who was literally beaten by Putin's polizai for protesting his policies. In your simplistic mindset, anyone who has a differing opinion from you surely must be a paid troll working for evil people. It is very fitting that you exhibit this attitude in a discussion about a person who was killed for his views. Should I be shot, too? I surely have it coming, right?

> it’s also disingenuous to act like trump is not the most inflammatory and devisive leader America has had in modern history.

I'm not from the US, and do not have a horse in this fight, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people in the US who believe that the most inflammatory and divisive leader America had in modern history was Obama. The main difference between Trump and Obama is that Trump is teared apart by the media, while Obama was cuddled by it.

(btw, speaking from my non-US experience, when a leader is cuddled by the press, it is a bad sign, not a good one)

See in another branch. However, regarding this:

> There are three to four orders of magnitude of difference in how inflammatory each side is.

Not really.

One can only agree with this statement if he considers that calling Trump and his supporters Nazis, fascists, racists, etc, is not an inflammatory rhetoric, but a totally acceptable objective truth that just truthfully describes them. (Btw, do Nazis deserve to be shot on sight?)

However, if one doesn't consider this an objective truth, but a violent dehumanizing rhetorics, then suddenly he finds that one side routinely smears the other in the worst ways possible, and that the total amount of such rhetoric vastly drowns the messaging from another side.

> You are wagging your finger and scream "Here’s a monster!" but what you are looking at is a mirror.

That's a nice straw man you made. Please, refrain from messaging me again, if you don't plan to argue in good faith.

Sure, in another branch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223772

Ok, since you are waiting, I'll spend a few minutes fetching you easily available quotes.

Obama:

- "If they bring a knife to the fight, we're going to bring a gun." [0]

Biden:

- "If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him" [1]

- "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye." [2]

- the whole "Darth Biden" event speech was filled with statements framing political opponents as enemies of the country, kinda sinister from the head of the most powerful state in the world, no? ("Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.", etc) [3]

Waltz:

- "When it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the shit out of him back." [4]

- "I tell you that... because we need to whip his butt and put this guy behind us." [5]

Newsome:

- "But right now, with all due respect, we’re walking down a damn different path. We’re fighting fire with fire. And we’re gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth." [6] (apologies for the Twitter link, didn't find direct video elsewhere)

Would that be enough?

[0]: https://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/obama-guns-and-the-untouch...

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/Joe-biden-donald...

[2]: https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/biden-defends-bullseye...

[3]: https://www.newsweek.com/read-everything-joe-biden-said-his-...

[4]: https://www.startribune.com/in-key-2028-state-tim-walz-says-...

[5]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/tim-walz-brea...

[6]: https://x.com/amuse/status/1958827049348407350

This is a really disingenuous and biased selection of sources. One could find systemic examples of inflammatory rethoric from almost anyone in US politics: Biden, Obama, Trump, Waltz, Harris, DeSantis, Newsome, etc.

Ironically, assassinated Charlie Kirk was one of the most reserved US public figures in this regard.

In my experience I get acceptable answers in more than 95% of questions I ask. In fact, I rarely use search engines now. (btw I jumped off Google almost a decade ago now, have been using duckduckgo as my main search driver)

Obscure problems would get no visibility though — because of their obscurity.

Chatgpt, Grok and the likes give an overall better experience than Google because they give you the answer, not links to some pages where you might find the answer. So unless I'm explicitly searching for something, like some article, asking Grok is faster and gets you an acceptable answer.

Ironically, I personally prefer good typography, but unless the editor for the desktop app is autocorrecting -- to —, I usually don't bother. But when I type on the phone with screen keyboard, I almost always do bother, even though entering text on mobile is objectively slower and more difficult and often with fewer options.

Betteridge's law still stands. That wouldn't be bad.

(If it would be bad, we wouldn't stop writing by hand)

I have used Firefox for many years now on all my devices, and I find it much better at almost anything: password management works better accross devices, history syncs better, etc. With chrome I could never really rely on saving a password on desktop, taking the phone and having a password just there.

Maybe it improved in the past few years, I didn't bother to check.

Also, Firefox is the last non-chrome-engined browser so it is worth using for that reason alone. Browser monopoly is bad and WILL be used against you, eventually.

> I think they mean incest.

Oh god they delisted Crusader Kings???!

Not true at all. I've learned one language after I hit 39 and started leaning another when I hit 45, 7 months in learning it ~15 min a day and I'm bordering B1 level.

Thing is, history has shown that nothing is reliably enough for Google, once it flags you suspicious. You've entered password and totp code? Nah, you're still suspicious. Gave one time backup-code? Hah, still suspicious. Have a hardware key? Nice, but you know you are really suspicious. How else can you prove that it's you?!

I tried really hard to use Collabora 'web' solution. It is unusable.

For those who don't know: it renders the whole LibreOffice interface on server and passes it to you. Lots of issues with hotkeys on non-standard layouts (I use Dvorak), with language switching, with mouse behavior, with clipboard, ugh. Of course it is hungry for resources. No. This isn't the way.

I loved OpenOffice.org back in the day, but in today's world with no modern web collaboration option it is dead. I'm aware of the attempts to make it run via browser, and no, they aren't really there, not even close.

What we need today is a web-first suite of apps that does everything Google Docs/Spreadsheets/Slides do, but uses OpenDocument family of standards as their native file format.

It's a bit of an off-topic, but traditional settlement hierarchy was this:

The settlement only has houses - it's a hamlet.

The settlement has a church - it's a village.

The settlement has a market - it's a town.

The settlement has a cathedral - it's a city.

I don't really think hardware keys (which I have a few, btw) really improve security:

I use a seriously backed up password manager that I have means to access from anywhere, and the only thing I have to worry is that I'd forget my really complex password to access it, because it is unfeasible that I'll lose all my devices where it is backed up and also an off-site backup of it.

With hardware keys, however, I constantly have to worry to keep them with me or in a safe place and not to lose them.

(my position is partially rooted in the fact that I happen to live in a country where you can easily have all your material possessions forcibly taken from you)

That was on my company office network that had a stable IP address for I think a decade. Thing is, Google is now known to randomly become very paranoid and protects you from yourself, and, coupled, with complete absence of any support, often results in full account loss: you have better chances of speaking with the Prime minister of Estonia by calling their office than reach someone from Google.

I did it on the account mentioned in post (didn't set TOTP though), and Google locked me out saying "You're entering correct password but we're not sure it is you. Try again later". And I tried and tried and tried, for a few weeks.

Then, after 2 months, I tried logging in and suddenly it worked.

To be specific, I use it for a separate Google Play developer account, which Google refused to create on my Workspace account, saying it must be a regular Gmail account. (They also restrict Workspace accounts from some Google Play functions like rating the apps and leaving reviews).

I try to always log in to Gmail via VPN that uses the same IP address from any location.

it's a simple gmail.com account, not a workspace one.

Google Authenticator is a TOTP client as far as I know, and it can transfer codes to third party clients without problems.

The point of my rant was that with modern day Google, TOTP authentication is not enough.

That's actually how I use that account, but this time I decided to check how it works with the iOS mail app on new iOS beta with that liquid glass interface.

I even dug out my computer that was logged in to this account in desktop browser, and it too blocks access. Crazy.

I wonder if there is a way to disable this SMS 'security' antifeature once and for all? I imagine it is a constant nightmare for people who travel abroad and do not always have connection on their number registered in their 'home' country.