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kozak··on Why Can’t the West Admit That Ukraine Is Winning?
For us Ukrainians, capitulation is not an option because Putin wants to do a "denazification". Under this word he means purging (killing or sending to a gulag) every Ukrainian who is known to be openly pro-Ukrainian (which used to be about 25% of adult population before Feb 24, and is even more now).
kozak··on Zelensky video deepfake
Voice sounds even more unrealistic than the video (source: I'm Ukrainian). No one in Ukraine would believe the audio part of this fake, even if video was perfect. This is a pathetic attempt.

Also, the script (the text that is being read) is written as if the target audience are Russian, not Ukrainian people (because it's based on propaganda narratives that people outside of Russia are not familiar with). This is such a poor fake from every standpoint.

kozak··on Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?
This "Hey, you are from Ukraine, let us switch you to the Russian language" behavior I see in some places literally causes me PTSD. I got pissed off this way by Adobe just yesterday. Please don't do it people. I don't have the Russian language configured on any of my devices and in any of my accounts (and never had), they do it purely by location.
kozak··on I would like a job writing Haskell
I bet such a job exists somewhere, because someone has to watch each episode of the soap opera as a QA check before it gets aired.
kozak··on Tensions growing between Washington and Kyiv as Russia-Ukraine crisis drags on
Ukrainian government is concerned, but it has to balance the "defense" side of the problem with the "economic impact" side of the problem (considering that this "Russia will attack at any moment" situation may last for years).
kozak··on Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons
We now call this "proof of work".
kozak··on Ukrainian! All your personal data has been uploaded onto the public internet
The only thing why it can be significant is timing.
kozak··on Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)
Are you sure this is caffeine withdrawal and not a sugar crash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_hypoglycemia)?
kozak··on Museum of Plugs and Sockets
IEC 60906-1 is great, obviously the best of them all (considering all the legacy). I see that India uses a similar standard as the old South Africa plug. Why doesn't India do the same and migrate to IEC 60906-1? If I were Indian, I'd start campaigning for that.
kozak··on High-fidelity remote communication
That thread was a life-changer for my remote working experience.
kozak··on What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share
Same thing with my Sennheiser bluetooth headphones. It may seem like no one will want to use them while connected to a wire, but sometimes having awkwardly-wired headphones is better than having no working headphones at all.
kozak··on My House
This is exactly what in post-Soviet countries is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha
kozak··on A Cartrivision Player TV
If you find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan
kozak··on Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
I don't even have an account there :)
kozak··on Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
So, there are some concept images, but no real plan of the territory yet, right? Or did I miss it?
kozak··on Bring back hydrogen lifting gas
I've been thinking of it the same way since I learned that helium is a non-renewable fossil resource. Once it's gone, it's gone.
kozak··on Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
This is so sad.
kozak··on Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
People are downvoting the above comment for some reason, but what is this Windows Defender behavior if not a form of censorship?
kozak··on Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
I renamed it into {not-keygen}.{not-exe} instead. I didn't investigate the issue in details, but I think that Microsoft expects a more enterprisey file name for a legitimate keygen. I should have called it something along the lines of CredentialManager.exe instead :)

But I wonder whether it did auto-submit these files to Microsoft together with my private keys. I'm glad that the private keys were in config files outside of the executables, and this probably saved them from being compromised.

kozak··on Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
I anticipated this question :)

No, it was just a plain Windows form, built from scratch using a then-popular Windows IDE. I think it was mostly triggered by the file name, maybe in combination with some crypto code inside.

kozak··on Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
I recently unpacked an old archive from the time I was making some shareware few decades ago. Windows Defender instantly ate all keygen.exe files from it. Those keygens were my own keygens for my own software (I wrote them myself and used them to generate keys for my customers back in the day).
kozak··on Windows Defender Update Will delete legitimate file from copyright case
I recently unpacked an old archive from the time I was making some shareware few decades ago. Windows Defender instantly ate all the keygen.exe files from it. Those keygens were my own keygens for my own software (I wrote them myself and used them to generate keys for my customers back in the day).
kozak··on Stinky Bay? Local names added to map to aid coastal rescue
In my experience, the problem with unofficial place names is that the same name gets assigned to different places by different people because there is no "single source of truth". And as soon as there is a single source of truth, the name is not unofficial anymore.
kozak··on Support for team members who are mistreated in their country
I get your point. But this is exactly what Russian information sources are trying to make everyone believe (that "it's not exactly as clearcut as that", almost a literal translation of the phrase they like to repeat so much). I can presume that your information sources got most of their information from Russia-influenced media, and this pretty much expected if they were in the East at the time everything started. But the truth is that, once you peel back the informational disguise, it actually is very clear-cut.
kozak··on Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year
If I were Asia, I would choose Type2 CCS in a combo with ChaoJi (the new version of Chademo). It's like the European CCS, but with its main flaw being resolved (namely, allowing you to plug upper and lower parts separately and not in one unwieldy piece).

Here is a picture: https://www.chademo.com/wp2016/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/co...

kozak··on Support for team members who are mistreated in their country
What happened in Ukraine in mid-2014 was not a civil war at all. One side poorly pretended to be a militia, while the other side were regular military forces of Ukraine. It's not a civil war when one country attacks another country.
kozak··on EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
Bitcoins are not really fungible. There are already services that provide "fresh, minted straight to your wallet with no history" bitcoins, which cost more than normal "used" bitcoins.
kozak··on Modular Homes for Under $50k
Yes, it is the same thing. Italian and Ukrainian belong to the same language family (Indo-European), so they are distantly related.
kozak··on Modular Homes for Under $50k
In my native language (Ukrainian), the word "person" (людина) is always feminine. Even if someone wanted to say "I'm a very masculine person", they would still need to use a feminine form of the word "masculine" to say "masculine person". And no one has ever had any issues with that, ever.
kozak··on Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake
Toyota's reluctance to accept that battery EVs are the next big thing is so strong that it can negate all these advantages.
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