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sokolson BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration

Yes you can.

sokolson Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania

Russia voted for the resolution as well.

sokolson Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania

The sending of troops to Kosovo was done in accordance with UNSCR 1244.

Saying that Serbia was establishing order within its territory is a bit cynical take. What they did is that they systematically[1] cleansed villages and settlements in order to decrease the percentage of Albanian population in Kosovo.

In a way, they were implementing a century old policy of a guy named Vaso Cubrilovic who argued that Albanians should be expelled[2] from the lands Serbia (precursor of Yugoslavia) took in 1913.

What NATO did, is stopping exactly this from happening.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2001/10/26/under-orders/war-crime...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expulsion_of_the_Albania...

sokolson A read query can write to disk: a Postgres story

Similarly, in Oracle, Temporary Tablespaces might be utilized when a query uses sort operations for example.

sokolson Prague's Brutalist Buildings

You can be sure for Prizren yes, although there are far less brutalist buildings there :).

sokolson A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name

In Kosovo we call them “mushmulla”, they are quite common. As a kid used to eat a lot and I preferred them in their “unrotten” form since they were freely growing in the hills surrounding my town.

sokolson Albanian Civil War

"Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe" from Fred Abrahams is a good book as well.

sokolson Preliminary result of the Gangelt, Germany Covid-19 case cluster study [pdf]

He also said that "..the data on the German town are definitely not representative for the country".

https://twitter.com/c_drosten/status/1251034050883657729