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> But I also don't think any of these things justify invading Ukraine.

Russian intervention was triggered by Kyiv botching the Minsk agreements and terminating ceasefire. That's the prime reason, since Russia is legally bound to provide military aid to Donetsk by the abovementioned agreement. Western propaganda is hard on erasing the side that never supported the coup in Kyiv.

Everything else are just additional grievances, i.e. assuming that the current Ukrainian government is crazy and non-sovereign enough to allow deployment of missiles previously forbidden by the recently dissolved INF treaty.

> looking at signatures

"Looking"? AFAIK one can't update an app that had already been installed with a different signature. Correct me if I'm wrong and that's not the current behavior on Android.

Apps are signed.

The example looks more like a traffic arbitration site, rather then something used by humans.

We are at the point where evacuating children from the warzone is worse and more "genocide" than randomly bombing them.

These propaganda slogans are long past any reason or logic and amount only to political agenda. Russia must be seen as an actor of genocide, while Israel must be seen as someone with reasonable security concerns and complicated circumstances, and that's it.

What a narrative.

> Also the Chinese economy is falling apart

Why is it supposed to fall apart exactly?

How much can they actually spend after paying all the essential and quality of life wages?

> Just like they forced visa and Mastercard to either run on India infrastructure or pull out

Nicely done. Russia did a similar thing a while back, so when visa and mastercard had to kill their business in Russia all of the credit cards inside the country remained undisrupted. I was skeptical back in the day over the whole engineering and integration of NSPK (national system for payment cards), but seeing it doing its thing was an awe.

It's bizarre because it's not a real thing. Meduza has extremely low factuality and often posts insane and literally impossible stories.

...until hastily degenerated into an ISIS-like stare and invaded Dagestan, lol.

These kind of news are typically fake twisted misrepresentations living off obscurity of the subject.

It seems like an obvious response to sanctions and denying access to lithography equipment. Let's return back to the reality where China isn't presently invading Taiwan, but is a target of containment attempts.

> The Moscow Signal was a reported microwave transmission varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz

Evil Russians using wi-fi frequencies.

> Bucha

The one where they were totally shooting themselves with artillery (according to the Guardian) and executed people who were collaborating with them (white armbands)?

Uh-huh, sure.

This is such a propaganda bullshit.

I live and work in Russia. Guess what country shines brightest in WAF logs? Guess where data encryption extorters operate from? Fucking US of A. There was even a case once, where I knew specifically the person who was harassing the service I supported and there was literally NOTHING I could legally do about that.

So stop pretending (or pushing your ignorance) as if western countries are doing any better in that regard - they just as well don't care what their hackers do in other countries. All that exceptionalism is just sad.

This happens because countries that aren't the best of friends simply don't cooperate with each other, and criminals don't shy to abuse it. So from the standpoint of the rest of the world, it's the western/nato/five-eyes countries who are "just lawless as long as they're not targeting their own". Except the rest of us just have deal with it rationally, while you pat yourselves on the back with your ignorant supremacist exceptionalism, using these situations as yet another way to brew hatered. How can you actually believe that you are the only ones who have problem with foreign hackers? This is insanely naive! It's a global issue and WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.

The only chance to trigger any legal action here is to establish legal presence. And even then there are no guarantees if there is no damage done in their jurisdiction. At least that is the experience for someone in Russia trying to deal with Western hackers. And that was before 2022. Now it's just open cyberwafare with hacktivists attacking everything in Russia and vengeful CTOs striking back.

And JFYI, proxies are also a thing. Shit load of foreign attacks are just your locals using a properly configured proxy.

Push your politicians to actually cooperate, instead of enjoying the leeway it gives to intelligence agencies. Otherwise, enjoy the treatment you give to everyone else.

I don't get it.

> mainly experts in Russia have been affected

Yet somehow this was not known beforehand for years and somehow only became "apparent" when Russia became the public enemy.

> The article makes it sound like Russia has been at war with the US since 2014, but the US hasn't realized it, yet.

This article makes it sound like military industrial complex fat cats don't get their pockets filled with tax money fast enough, so plebs need some pushing.

Retroactively changing the past to accommodate the present day narrative is a common political trick, similarly to how Radio Free Europe's reports on Ukrainian ultranationalists challenging the monopoly on violence had suddenly become "Russian propaganda".

Another tiny step closer to the hot phase of WWIII, I guess.

Ruskies under the bad, 21 century edition. I just can't with this scapegoat culture.

Havana syndrome is almost a 10 years old meme, but since we are at war with Russia, let's randomly rope in GRU, totally coincidently.

What a sad instance of pointless puritanism.

> he should turn over the repo to someone else to manage

Why can't this "someone else" just fork the repo themselves?

Obviously fork it, implement your feature, battle-test it, fix and make it more generic, battle-test it again, then ask the maintainer if they would be interested in a pull request.

I mean, implementing your fixes in the first place means you are already inherently forking it.

Developers could take advantage of the current political climate and mirror potentially endangered projects in a jurisdiction where companies like Nintendo have a limited legal reach. E.g. on a Russian GitVerse, good luck getting your DMCA processed over there.

Wait, didn't that already happen during Trumps presidency.

> If you're expecting app/FE devs to have to learn it

Why would anyone expect it? It's not their job, is it? We don't expect backend devs to know frontend and vice-versa, or any of them to have AWS certification. Why would it be different with k8s?

> Just chucking a container on a non-k8s managed platform (e.g. Cloud Run) would be much simpler, and no pile of bash scripts.

Simpler to deploy, sure, but not to actually run it seriously in the long term. Though, if we are talking about A container (as in singular), k8s would indeed be some serious over-engineering

> This overblown flexibility is what leads to most of the pain and perceived complexity, IMO.

Huh, I guess you are spot on. My first experience with kubernetes was k3s and I couldn't for a long time figure out what's all the fuss is about and where is all that complexity people talk so much about. But then I tried vanilla kubernetes.

> I want you to go down the list of points in the Minsk II agreement and explain how Russia didn't make an absolute farce out of them

And I don't want to serve your attitude and play a Russel's teapot guessing game.

I am not going to try and guess counter-arguments to something you can't even properly put in words, since it makes it easier for you to avoid thinking about it too much.

> And what's more they repeatedly engaged in massive cyber attacks against Ukraine - actual destructive attacks intended to shut down their power grid and destroy banking data amongst other things.

Poor banking data. Sucks to suck when you happen do be the one on hacktivist's receiving end, doesn't it? Kyiv is a willing and a nasty belligerent, not a victim. Try hosting and securing something in Russia and see just how much of a pain in the ass you'll get.

I know of enough literal CTOs getting so pissed about it, that they engaged in hacktivism themselves just to make a point. Obviously in each case it only made things worse and generated more mutual hatred.

And don't get me started on all those personal data repositories hacks and scamming campaigns.

> given that you think it was Ukraine doing all of the violations. Hint: it was not

You should read what was actually written. Not what you've imagined.

> There are even Russian documentaries about the war where, during the supposed ceasefire, they filmed themselves crossing over to Ukrainian trenches at night to bury mines in them.

There are documented cases of Kyiv engaging in airstrikes on Donetsk and then claiming those were merely air conditioners exploding. This lasted until Donetsk rebels started shooting down aircrafts, followed by the tragedy with the civilian plane.

Your argument boils down to "things happening during a steaming barely frozen conflict - bad". Well of-f-ing-course they are. That's why you have to tackle core issues, otherwise good luck treating symptoms by trying to contain thousands of motivated individuals each with their own petty vengeance and a tragic story behind it.

Kyiv literally didn't do shit to actually resolve it: they didn't do amnesty; they didn't do the constitutional reform; they were demanding Donetsk to surrender and give up all the leverage and a chance for defense BEFORE holding elections, denying Steinmeier formula and elections under OSCE observers.

All Kyiv did is complain how the sustainable peace didn't just appear from the thin air, without actually doing anything substantial to get there. Stupid war is literally the only possible thing one could achieve with that kind of policy.

> A very warped, and highly misleading description of events is all that time permits me to say.

Oh please, you just don't have anything substantial to say.

> Just stop pretending you haven't picked a side, please.

But I haven't.

If I did, I'd be making donations on drones and fancy equipment or volunteering my engineering skills. My current situation so far allows me not to get involved.

And I honestly find it super-weird how people here seem to push me into picking one. If I am forced to, I'll likely act the same way many ordinary Ukrainians did - naturally just pick a side closer to my family and friends.

I do sympathize the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, due to the fact that they basically get treated as an empty spot and I saw their own former compatriots being absolutely horrible and dehumanizing towards them (thanks to the power of the internet). It probably would be fair to say that it's the core reason Russia gets any support. The fact that the other side wasn't able to quickly turn tables on that matter indicates that there really is a serious problem and these are not really such good guys doing it all right.

> russians are very selective with their truth > Remember the MRP pact with Hitler?

I am always in awe by the bitter-sweet irony of this particular bit. Because Russians actually remember MRP, as well as the fact that it was a direct response to the Munich Agreement and Poland and Hungary each tearing itself a piece of Czechoslovakia (yes, with Hitler), while Europeans desperately try to forget the later and play the victim of the former, despite them literally doing the same thing first and opening this can of worms themselves. But of course its the Russians who are being selective about truth.

I honestly don't understand where did people in the west even got the idea that Russians don't know about about MRP.

> Remember Budapest Memorandum?

The one that was thrown away by US and EU when they had actively supported the coup/revolution of 2014? Sorry, you were saying something about selectively honoring agreements?

You know, you probably should try having a serious talk with real Russians instead of relying on some thirdparty to build you a strawman.

> You picked a side

Don't project your ying-yang dichotomic views on me. I'm just being objective about the cause-effect. And yeah, I do live here and this is too serious to ignore bullshit.

> I’m not sure why you are so averse to owning that you picked it.

> So yes, you are that brutal. Just own it instead of vacillating and squirming.

Because I see people who picked a side screaming "ceasefire is not an option", "they died for Democracy/Motherland", "total military victory or bust" and that's just fucking disgusting. Yet somehow I am the brutal one, awesome.

Sorry, but from where I stand, it's the sidepickers who have to squirm, shill, reinvent reality, and call things that you've acknowledged few years ago as totally non-existent and propaganda few years later.

The further you are from exploding things and death, the more heroic you feel about picking a side.

At least my views are solidly grounded in facts distilled by cross-referrensing distinct sources datasources, backed by opposing interests and a desire for a just resolution for everyone.

> describing how neutral they are but then pushing Russian talking points

Oh I am not neutral, I am pro-me! I just recognize the cause-effect and don't pretend that everything that doesn't fit my views is "talking points". Real life is a bit more complicated, you know.

> It’s very typical for their culture to rationalize as you have. So have a great day!

It's typical for any human to rationalize. Look how you rationalized dismissing my points, look how you rationalize hate and perpetuating war.

Kyiv signed peace agreement with Donetsk and Luhansk, while France and Germany acting as a guarantor to the former, and Russia being a guarantor for the later.