Nasreddin_Hodja

Wikipedia is just someone's server. Owner may turn it down without asking authors of its content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/wikipe...

> I have to manually check for updates.

I've disabled auto upgrading for apt too. I prefer doing it manually when I need / have time for it.

> Do you have a solution for updating AppImages?

Bash.

> Distro Won’t Support Flatpak

Until they realize that users prefer not to use Ubuntu because of snap.

I think snaps future is the same as Upstart, Unity etc.

Yes, I already use Thunderbird from official tarballs and going to do so for Firefox after upgrading to 22.04.

I will just use official tarballs https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-r...

> Network activity is quite significant for battery drain

It's not activity itself but what app does in background in reaction to incoming packets. Clients I used (Bombus and Xabber) didn't support that XEP with no problem. App may just ignore some stanzas when not needed.

> which helps avoid centralization into entities with massive ASIC or GPU clusters.

What about centralization into entities with massive CPU clusters?

There was Tkabber also.

> without a push system it is useless on modern mobile operating systems.

If by "push" you mean sending notifications through 3rd party servers like google's Firebase, I'd like not to use it.

I was using XMPP on mobile for years, receiving messages in background normal way almost with no battery drain.

I also run k9mail 24/7 with my personal IMAP server, receiving messages in realtime (imap idle) with almost no battery waste.

Battery is wasted more by bloated frameworks like Electron rather than by network activity itself.

Why do you need OAuth? I still use k9mail v5.6 and Gmail still works for me.

> One day, Vladimir Putin will no longer lead Russia.

Putin isn't the first ever russian leader and is not last. Next leader may be Ramzan Kadyrov, for example.

> Features missing from Python's standard library.

PHP's base_convert() equivalent.

> If Mozilla is so awful at developing Firefox, why isn't anyone forking it?

Actually there are some forks (Waterfox, Librewolf, Torfox, etc.), but they are focused on removing anti-features rather than on developing.

I didn't upgrade yet, my Firefox version is 96.0 but Yandex has disappeared from search options. So, Mozilla can control something remotely, hm...

They should hurry while Russia is busy.

Russians are more concerned with buckwheat price now rather than VPN.

But Roskomsvoboda does it too https://telegra.ph/file/f426fb58ba4e8b5bad836.png

There is no need to block russians, Russia will block them anyway.

But who does listen to shortwaves nowadays?

> are you Russian?

What if he is? Are you nazi?

Title is OK.

> Try this on for size: “Why is <insert-your-country-name> such an economic failure?”

Which one? Poland, Romania or Turkey aren't failure.

I had to switch to docker after LXC have been snaped.

Like in case of Snowden and Assange, right?

I use Kdevelop or Kate.

> It amazes me that the Russian people seemingly have such low regard for their own system

But Navalny isn't "their own system". Vast majority of russians heard of him but he has done nothing useful. All his activity is just self-promoting. By the way, in the past there was a figure with similar views: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Limonov

> propagandist

No, it's you.

> Ukraine does not try to forbid Russian language, that's complete disinformation.

https://www.france24.com/en/20180920-ukraine-region-ban-russ... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/25/ukraine-passes-l...

Basically this is why Crimea doesn't want to be part of Ukraine anymore. And other regions may follow this way.

> Crimea has been invaded by Russian special forces and annexed by Russia, there is no ambiguity here.

You forgot to ask crimeans whether they were invaded.

Even chechens don't claim that they are invaded, despite there was real war there, unlike in Crimea.

> Your comparison with Texas is non-sensical.

You forgot to ask Chuck Norris. https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/83ln5/chuck_norri...

Your claim Ukraine been invaded by USSR is too. Ukraine have signed official agreement to be part of USSR.

> does not justify Russian invading the country.

It's better if such unstable "countries" like Ukraine, Chechnya, e.t.c. to be controlled by a strong country like Russia, USA, China, e.t.c. Letting them do whatever they want threatens the security of Europe. And it's better if Russia invades Ukraine than if somebody like ISIS takes control over them.

In the same way how Texas is a victim of USA "regime". Ukraine's claim to be victim of USSR is just a modern myth their nationalists trying to force last ten years. But it's even not widely supported there, many Ukraine people connect themselves with Russia rather than with Europe, USA or whatever. Many people there prefer speak russian despite the government trying to forbid it. This is how they lost Crimea without a fight, it just has gone and doesn't want to return back. Ever saw crimean people to protest? The same way other territories may go away to Russia.

Don't forget that Ukraine was one of the main supporters of that "regime" till the end. They weren't even the first state to secede from the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...

> US approach to Ukraine will be at best arming ukranians and providing indirect support.

Yeah, hybrid war.